Grammar

Websites with practice exercises

Here are some websites where you can search for practice exercises:

• BBC Learning English - basic grammar

• BBC Learning English - intermediate grammar

• Englisch Hilfen

• Perfect English Grammar

• Learn English Teens - British Council: Grammr

• Learn English - British Council: Grammar

Overview of grammar topics by year

The following progression of grammar topics follows the Bavarian Lehrplan PLUS for Gymnasium (erste Fremdsprache):

ISB. LehrplanPLUS - Gymnasium—Fachlehrpläne. Retrieved 17 June 2023, from https://www.lehrplanplus.bayern.de/schulart/gymnasium/inhalt/fachlehrplaene

Year 5

• Nouns in the singular and (regular/irregular) plural

• ’s and of genitive

• Personal pronouns

• Quantifiers: Much, many, a lot of, lots of

  • much, many:

    • Questions

    • Negations

  • much, many, a lot of, a few

  • a few, a little

• Demonstrative pronouns

• Possessive determiners

• Indefinite pronouns and determiners: some, any; somebody, nobody; someone, anyone, no one; something, anything, nothing

  • some or any: exercise 1, exercise 2

  • Something, someone, somewhere, anything, anyone, anywhere

• Word order: place before time; S-V-O in the declarative sentence

• Subordinate clauses (esp. temporal and causal); that-clause as the direct object

• Negation

• Imperatives

• Interrogative pronouns

• Auxiliary verbs (Part I): be, have (got), do

• Auxiliary verbs (Part II): can

  • can or can’t

  • can and can’t in questions

  • can in sentences, questions and negations

• Auxiliary verbs (Part III): must, needn’t, mustn’t

  • mustn’t or needn’t

Tenses

• Present tense simple / present tense progressive

• Simple past

  • Regular forms

  • Regular forms exercise 2

  • Regular forms of verbs ending in -y

  • Regular verbs (cloze)

  • was or were

  • Regular and irregular verbs (cloze)

Year 6

• Indefinite determiner and pronouns

• Adjectives: comparative, superlative

• Relative pronouns and relative clauses: defining; contact clauses

• More subordinate clauses and conjunctions, esp. although, so that, while

• Modal verbs: could, may, might, should; substitute forms

• Question tags

• Questions with prepostions

Tenses

• Present perfect simple: resultative use

• Past tense progressive

• Future: going-to future, will future, timetable future

• Conditional type I sentences: present tense - will future / can / imperative; present tense - present tense

  • exercise 1

  • exercise 2

Year 7

• Adverbs: comparative, superlative; word order

• Adjectives and adverbs: difference; adjectives after state verbs

• Reflexive pronouns, reciprocal pronouns (each other), reflexive Verbs

• Pro-Form one(s)

• Possessive pronouns

Tenses

• present perfect simple / present perfect progressive

• past perfect simple

• Temporal clause: time sequence

• Conditional / conditional perfect

• Conditional sentence type II

  • Only type II: exercise 1, exercise 2

  • Type I and II

• Conditional sentence type III

  • Only type III: exercise 1, exercise 2

  • Type I - III: exercise 1, exercise 2, exercise 3

• Mixed conditionals: exercise 1, exercise 2 (go to Grammar test 2 at the end of the page), exercise 3

Year 8

• Nouns:articles; nominalized adjective; agreement

• Adverbs: word order, use

• Gerund as subject; infinitive and gerund after certain prepositions, expressions and verbs (including where there is a change in meaning), esp. in order to, it’s X (for sb.) to, the first to do sth., capapble of doing sth., look forward to doing sth., it’s no use doing sth. avoid doing sth., stop doing / to do sth., remember doing / to do sth.

• Verbs with two objects

• Passive in different tenses

Year 9

• Relative clauses: non-defining; relative clauses which refer to a whole clause

• Modal verbs: would, used to

• Participle constructions, esp. as a means to connect or shorten clauses

• ing-forms and contrast to infinitive contstructions (overview)

• Emphasis, esp. with do

• Indirect speech

Tenses

• Time sequence: overview of tense and aspect; overview of tenses express