Mètode Callan

Contingut dels cursos

A continuació mostrem els punts més importants de la gramàtica en els llibres del Mètode Callan. Aquests continguts seran apresos a clase sense que l’alumnat ho percebi.

Stage 1

• Cardinal Numbers. p7, p9, p17, p22, p26
• Prepositions. p7, p11, p23
• Colours. p8, p20
• The verb “To Be” First, Second and Third Person Singular – Positive Forms. p10
• The verb “To Be” First, Second and Third Person Singular – Negative Forms. p11
• Present Progressive. p13-15
• This and That. p17
• Regular Plurals. p18
• These and Those. p20
• Irregular Plurals. p21, p43
• Clothes. p22, p34
• The Alphabet. p23
• Us and Them. p24
• Addition. p27
• There is / There are – Positive Forms. p28
• There is / There are – Negative Forms. p29
• Neither … Nor. p30
• Imperative Form. p31
• Here & There. p32
• Countries & Capitals. p33
• Continents. p35
• Ordinal Numbers. p36
• Nationalities. p39
• Possessive Forms : My & Your (singular). p39
• Possessive Forms : His & Her. p40
• Possessive Forms : Our, Your (pl) & Their. p41
• Parts of the Body. p42, p51
• Punctuation Marks. p46
• Definite & Indefinite Article. p48/li>
• The Verb “To Have” and Contractions. p58
• The Difference Between Any & Some. p60

Stage 2

• Present Progressive & Present Simple. p64
• Present Third Person Singular. p66
• Present Third Person Singular – Negative Form of Present Simple. p68
• The Uses of the Auxiliary Verb "Do". p64, 66, 68
• Can. p69, p83
• Like & Dislike. p70
• Right & Left. p71
• Moving & Still. p71
• “To wear”. p72
• Half. p73
• “To prefer”. p74
• Both. p74
• The verb “To have” – Negative Forms and Contractions. p76
• Indefinite Pronouns: Anybody, Somebody, Nobody. p78
• The same … as & Different from. p80
• The "Saxon Genitive" (i.e. Mr Brown’s suit vs. the suit of Mr Brown). p81
• Stand up & Sit down. p82
• Quarter. p84
• Teach & Learn. p84
• Easy & Difficult. p85
• The preposition “by”. p86
• Married & Single. p86
• Husband & Wife. p86
• Mother, Father, Chidren. p87
• One … The other. p88
• Pronouns. p89
• Cardinal Points. p90
• “Some of”. p91
• The Difference Between a Verb and a  Noun. p92
• “Some … some”. p93
• Anything, Something, Nothing. p94
• Front, Back, Top, Bottom, Side. p96
• Many & Few. p98
• Into & In. p99
• “Like” (similar) . p99
• Why & Because. p100
• Second, Minute, Hour. p101
• Adjective. p1010
• Members of the Family etc. p103
• More … Than. p104
• “Out of”. p105
• Good & Bad. p106
• “To carry”. p108
• “Have” & “Have got”. p108
• Fewer … than. p110
• Watch & Clock. p111
• Telling the time. p113
• Day, week, month, year. p113
• Counting. p114
• Possessive Adjectives & Possessive Pronouns. p115
• The verb “to do”. p118
• “The most”. p119
• Beautiful & Ugly. p120
• The names of four metals. p121
• Cost. p122
• Days of the week. p122
• Today, yesterday, tomorrow. p123
• “To want”. p124
• Begin & End. p124
• Cheap & Expensive. p125
• The fewest. p125
• Inside & Outside. p126
• A & Some. p127
• Whose. p129
• Love & Hate. p129
• Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. p130
• Many, more than, the most ; few, fewer than, the fewest etc. p131
• Countable & Uncountable Adjectives : Fewer … than & Less than. p134
• The fewest & The least. p135
• Opposites. p137
• Glass, wood, paper, stone. p138
• Enough. p138
• That one. p140
• Cheaper than & More expensive than. p142
• The cheapest & The most expensive. p142

Stage 3

• Forming Comparatives and Superlatives. p145
• Above & Below. p146
• The Months of the Year. p146
• Last & Next. p147
• A.M & P.M. p147
• A lot of. p148
• Both … and. p148
• A lot. p149
• Either … or. p149
• “To play”. p151
• Morning, afternoon, evening and night. p151
• A country & the country. p153
• “To live”. p153
• Pleasant & Unpleasant. p154
• Comparatives. p154
• Superlatives. p155
• Date. p156
• Light & Heavy. p156
• Each. p158
• Arrive & Leave. p160
• By the sea & Inland. p162
• Once, twice, three times. p162
• As … as / Not as … as / Not so … as. p164
• The four seasons of the year. p165
• Precede & follow. p165
• Old & New. p167
• Old & Young. p168
• Put … on & Take … off. p168
• Important holidays of the year. p169
• Full & Empty. p170
• Subjects Children study at school. p171
• Wash & dress. p171
• Hot, warm, cool and cold. p172
• As many … as & As much … as. p173
• House & Flat. p175
• Near & Far from. p176
• At the beginning of & At the end of. p177
• Early & Late. p178
• Very. p181
• Merry & Happy. p181
• Better … than & Worse … than. p182
• Games. p184
• Look at & watch. p184
• Beside & Besides. p186
• Very many & Very much. p188
• “To hold”. p191
• Quick & Slow. p192
• Every, everybody, everything, everywhere. p193
• Always. p194
• Past Tense. p195
• Together & Apart. p196
• Road & Street. p196
• Straight & Crooked. p197
• Ever & Never. p200
• Circle & Square. p201
• More or less. p203
• Remember & Forget. p204
• Nearly. p205
• Wasn’t & Weren’t. p206
• Wife-wives. p206
• Sometimes. p207
• Quickly & Slowly. p207
• Over & On. p209
• Often & Seldom. p211
• The Past Tense of the Verb “To Do”. p212
• Past Tense of Regular Verbs. p212
• Along. p215
• Way. p216
• How often. p216
• Agree. p218
• Add. p218

Stage 4

• Bring & Take. p222
• The word “quite”. p225
• The Past Tense of Irregular Verbs. p230, 242
• 11 meanings of the word "Get". p235, 249
• There was / There were. p236
• “Away”. p248
• “Worth” / To be worth. p252
• 3 Meanings of the Word “Hard”. p253
• Use of shall and will. p255, 258
• Uses of “get” in the Past Tense. p262
• Until. p263
• There will be / There’ll be. p265
• Quiet &Noisy. p268
• Sorry & Pleased. p268
• Had. p269
• Could. p270
• When to use contractions. p271
• Pronunciation & fast speaking. p273
• Hadn’t. p275
• 3 ways of asking questions with “have”. p275
• Use (verb) & Use (noun). p276
• Succeed & "-ing" construction. p277
• Have to = Must. p278
• Forming a Noun from a Verb by Adding the Letters “-er” to the Verb. p279
• Past Simple & Present Perfect. p282
• Too many & Too much. p284
• Thick & Thin. p286
• Big & Little. p287
• Three Parts of an English verb. p288
• 4 kinds of paradigms. p289
• Four Meanings of the Verb “Keep”. p292
• "One", "you", "we" and "they". p294
• Present Perfect: 3 uses of. p296
• Been. p298
• Interest & Bore. p299
• Between & Among. p300
• Future Intention. p301
• Paradigms of To Be & To Go. p304
• Has been & Has Gone. p305
• Fat & Thin. p306
• Each Other & One Another. p307
• Use of can / To be able. p309
• Paradigms of a Few Important Verbs. p312
• Whether & If. p313
• Great. p317
• Else. p319
• Fast & Quick. p319
• Just. p320
• Conditional Tense. p321
• Subjunctive Tense. p321
• Open Conditional Construction. p322
• Subjunctive Construction. 322

Stage 5

• Must & Ought to. p342
• Still & Yet. p347
• Subjunctives of the verb “To be”. p351
• Contraction of the Conditional. p354
• Contraction of the Conditional with Other Words. p355
• For & Since. p360
• Past Progressive p366
• 3 uses of the Past Progressive. p367
• Active Voice. p370
• Passive Voice. p370
• The verb “to be” : Contracted Forms. p374
• Seven Uses of the Future. p377
• Sir, Madam, Gentleman, Lady etc. p379
• “In spite of” & Despite. p380
• Wet & Dry. p383
• Reflexive Pronouns. p384
• Own. p388, p414
• Could = Was able & Could = Would be able. p390
• “In order to”. p393
• Point at & Point out. p394
• May & Might. p396
• Verb + Back. p398
• The Three Meanings of the Word “Mad”. p399
• “It takes”. p402
• Further. p403
• Past Perfect Tense. p404
• Already. p409
• The Suffix “-ness”. p410
• “Would you say?” / “I would say …”. p411
• Anyone, Someone, No-one. p412
• Future Progressive Tense. p415
• Inch, Foot, Yard. p416
• The Suffix “-ly” Meaning Every. p418
• Anywhere, Somewhere, Nowhere. p420
• May, Can + Permission. p423
• “To catch”. p423
• Stranger & Foreigner. p425
• “Look like”. p425
• Travel & Journey. p426
• Remember & Remind. p428
• Even / Not even / Even though. p429
• To & At. p431
• Verb “to need”. p432
• Composite Word. p434
• Much better, much more. p434
• Past Subjunctive Conditional. p438
• Life – lives. p441
• Adverb Formed from Adjective. p443
• Sheep. p443
• Possessive Case of Plural Nouns Ending in “S”. p444

Stage 6

• The verb “Suppose”. p447
• “Hotter and hotter”. p447
• Also, As well & Too. p448
• Who & Whom. p449
• As soon as. p450
• Shut. p451
• Rather. p452
• Preposition + Gerund. p453
• Use of the emphatic "do". p456
• Fair. p459
• In / Within. p462
• Future Perfect Tense. p465
• E.g. exempli gratia = for example. p469
• Here I am. p469
• “State”. p471
• Mind & Brain. p472
• Short Answers. p474
• “How high?” etc. p476
• Direct & Indirect Speech. p479
• Shall & Will. p481
• Future In The Past  p482
• What & Whatever. p485
• Whoever & Whomever. p485
• “To miss”. p488
• The Suffix “-en” Used to Form Verbs. p490
• Ache. p493
• Should & Ought to. p494
• Rough & Smooth. p495
• Imperative. p498
• The Negative of the Imperative. p499
• The Prefix “over-“. p499
• “Charge”. p501
• Perfect Progressive Tenses. p506
• Earth & World. p509
• “By means of”. p510
• “Figure”. p511
• “To grow”. p512
• “Matter”. p514
• Tail Questions. p514
• “Onto”. p517
• “To Have Something Done”. p519
• Four Meanings of the Verb “To save”. p521
• “Trade”. p522
• Three Meanings of the Verb “To tell”. p524
• When we use “to say” and when we use “to tell”. p526
• “To gain”. p527
• “Mark”. p529
• “There I am”. p532
• “Plan”. p534
• “Set”. p534
• “Duty”. p535
• “By the time” / “By this time”. p537
• “As well as”. p538
• Older & Elder. p539
• Let & Rent. p539
• Such. p541
• Appear & Disappear. p544
• Change of Spelling with Final Consonant of Adjectives. p548
• Across. p548

Stage 7

• The Pronunciation of “-ed” in the Past Tense of Regular Verbs. p567
• “To lead”. p569
• “Eventually”. p569
• Few & A Few. p573
• Little & A Little. p573
• “Used to”. p576
• B.C. and A.D. p578
• “To bear”. p579
• Possessive Case For Shops. p581
• The Twelve Special Verbs. p586
• Special Verbs: 9 Differences from Normal Verbs. p587, p617, p642
• “Matter” (2). p589
• Right. p590
• “Not any books”. p593
• Finally / Lastly. p594
• “Claim”. p595
• Simple Sentences. p596
• Compound Sentences. p597
• Subordinate Clauses. p598
• Principal Clauses. p598
• “Lay-laid-laid”. p601
• Verb + Object + Adjective. p602
• Far & “A long way”. p604
• Far & Distant. p605
• The Suffix “-wards”. p609
• Use of the “To” Infinitve. p612
• “Waste”. p613
• Use of Contractions. p614
• “Wonder”. p616
• End Constructions. p619
• Phrase. p621
• “Mind”. p622
• Preparatory "It". p624
• Seat (n & v). p629
• “I think so” / “I hope not” etc. p630
• Bright & Dull. p633
• “Had better”. p636
• “Fit”. p636
• “So ... that”. p637
• Use of the Past Simple in Place of the Present Perfect. p640
• Special Verbs Used When We Wish To Be Emphatic. p642
• “Lack”. p646
• Direct & Indirect Speech (2) : Questions, Commands & Requests. p650
• “Plain”. p652
• “Ring-rang-rung”. p654
• House & Home. p655
• “Hardly”. p656
• Four Ways In Which We Can Make A Suggestion. p659
• Race. p659
• Unless = If ... not. p660
• Rock & Roll. p661
• A Tea-Cup and a Cup of Tea. p663
• Deal. p664
• Emphasising Pronouns. p666
• “Settle” (1). p669
• Defining & Non-Defining Clauses. p674
• Use of Comma. p675
• Wound & Injure. p678
• To Make A Person Or Thing Do Something. p679
• Separate (v & adj). p679
• A Business Letter. p680

Stage 8

• A Letter To A Friend. p686
• So = Very. p687
• Discuss, Argue & Quarrel. p692
• Regular. p694
• Dust & Powder. p695
• Plural of Nouns and the Third Person Singular of Verbs. p698
• Plural of Nouns Ending in “-F” or “-FE”. p703
• Board. p706
• Account. p708
• Relative Pronoun & Antecedent. p709
• Uses of Relative Pronouns. p712
• When the Relative Pronoun Can Be Dropped From a Sentence. p712
• Raise. p718
• Transitive & Intransitive Verbs. p719
• Different Forms of Plural. p722
• Rail. p725
• Mass. p725
• Harbour & Port. p726
• Gender of Nouns. p728
• The Indefinite Article : Exceptions of Use. p732
• Subjunctive. p738
• Use of the Verb “To be”. p738
• Settle (cont). p740
• “Could” and “Was able”. p744
• “Ought to” – And How It Is Used. p74
• Would = Polite Request. p752
• Need – As A Defective Verb. p753
• Spirit. p758
• Dare. p760
• Fix. p761
• Yard. p762
• Amuse. p763
• The Definite Article. p766
• Sensitive & Sensible. p769
• Would like. p770
• Bind. p771
• Note. p772
• “I used to” & “I am used to” . p775
• Master. p779
• So – And Its Many Uses. p781
• Conscious. p785
• Present. p786
• Negative of “Must”. p787
• Idle & Lazy. p789
• No Two Futures Together. p792
• Thus. p793
• Trust. p794
• Wish + Subjunctive. p769

Stage 9

• Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives, Adverbs and Participles. p816
• Agree about / that / to / with. p822
• “I dare say” = It is probable. p824
• Afraid of / that / to + Afraid Used in an Apology. p827
• Compound Words  Formed by Using an Adjective and Noun Together. p828
• Compound Words Formed by Using an Adverb and a Participle Together. p828
• Hall. p829
• Pool. p830
• Adjective + Infinitive. p831
• Make + Somebody or Something + Adjective or Infinitive. p831
• Hyphened (Or Hyphenated) Compounds. p835
• The English Monetary System. p836
• Doubling Consonants. p837
• Either of Them / Neither of Them. p839
• Unfinished Sentences Ending with “To” pg 841 (e.g. ought to, have to, used to,  want to, be able to, allow/permit to, hope to, be going to etc)
• Take. p841
• How do you do?. p845
• Underneath. p846
• “Still” Giving a Feeling of Surprise or Annoyance. p846
• “Still” Used with Comparatives. p847
• According To. p848
• About. p849
• The Difference in Sentence Construction When Using the Verbs “Steal” and “Rob”. p854
• Handle. p856
• Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives Ending in “-Y”. p859
• May As Well … As. p861
• Account. p862
• Wooden, Woolen, Silken, Golden etc. p865
• Pairs of Verbs and Nouns with “-SE” (v) and “-CE” (n) In British English. p867
• Record (n) and Record (v). p1015
• Was + Infinitive  This use of the verb “To Be” is for things which were “hidden in the future”, fated to happen e.g. I didn’t think I would ever meet her again, but I was to meet her again many years later.” . p872
• What and Which. p874
• Faint. p875
• Lean. p876
• Couple & Mate. p877
• “So” and Its Many Uses (Cont.). p879
• Nothing to do with it / What’s that got to do with it?. p880
• Go right /wrong + Temper. p882
• Four Ways of Forming the Future. p883
• “Go Back”, “Come Back”, “Go In”, “Come In” etc. p888
• “Get” (i.e. REACH, BUY, ARRIVE, BECOME, HAVE, PERSUADE, BRING, TAKE, OBTAIN, RECEIVE, EARN). p890
• Content (n) and Content (v or adj). p894
• “Do” with “Who”. p896
• Adding the Word “Up” to a Verb to Give the Meaning of Doing Something More Completely. p899
• The … The (e.g. the more … the happier, the older … the richer, the taller … the heavier etc). p901
• The Sooner … The Better. p901
•  The Suffix “-Ish” Meaning “Rather” or “More or Less”. p904
• “Some” in Interrogative Sentences. p906
• Double Contractions. p909
• Eliminating the Need for the Words “Of The” e.g. “Garden Gate = Gate of the Garden”. p912
• The Three Meanings of the Word “Then”. p917. e.g. A political refugee who was then living in the United States (at that time) ; He glanced quickly at Sally and then looked away again (next) ; If no one else is willing, then I will have to do the job myself (in that case)
• “Whether” Used to Express a Doubt. p919
• The Difference between “Last” and “Latest”. p920
• “By” and Its Many Uses. p932
• Verb + And + Verb. p939
• Bath and Bathe. p940
• The Use of the Apostrophe “S”. p942
• Mills and Millers. p946
• Lie-Lay-Lain ; Lie-Lied-Lied and Lay-Laid-Laid. p950
• Phrasal Verbs (Appendix)

Stage 10

• Shade/Shadow. p955
• Direct. p957
• Fellow. p959
• Will and Would. p959
• Alone and lonely . p962
• By and its many uses. p963
• Make the best of. p964
• Set. p966
• Package, Packet etc. p967
• The four meanings of the word Fine. p970
• The two meanings of hollow. p971
• They = he or she. p972
• Three meanings of represent. p973
• Shame. p974
• It is time + past tense. p976
• Treat. p976
• Beg. p978
• Sharp. p980
• Turn to. p983
• Beyond. p984
• Confidence. p989
• Drag. p990
• Onomatopoeia. p992
• The many uses of As. p994
• Annoy and bore. p996
• Any and some. p997
• Four meanings of blade. p998
• Sorrow. p999
• Carpet, mat, rug. p1000
• At last and in the end. p1003
• Spare. p1004
• Former and latter. p1005
• Forth. p1008
• Vessel. p1009
• Spring-Sprang-Sprung. p1011
• Bold and its different uses. p1013
• Stain. p1013
• Creep – Crept – Crept. p1014
• Steps & Stairs. p1014
• Passage. p1015
• Aside. p1015
• Stick – Stuck – Stuck. p1016
• Stiff. p1019
• Store. p1021
• Bow (n) & Bow (v). p1022
• Stretch. p1023
• Awkward. p1024
• Propose. p1026
• Swing – Swung – Swung. p1027
• Fun and funny. p1028
• Puzzle. p1028
• Swear – Swore – Sworn. p1029
• Breath and breathe. p1030
• Strip & Stripe. p1030
• Swell – Swelled – Swelled (Swollen). p1031
• Pastry pg 1035
• Strict. p1035
• Committee. p1036
• Coat of Arms. p1040
• Bleed – Bled – Bled. p1040
• Stuff. p1042
• Trunk. p1043
• Stock. p1046
• Anyhow and its different uses. p1050
• Strap / Strip. p1052
• Fate & Destiny. p1052
• Patriotism & Nationalism. p1062
• Permit (v) & Permit (n). p1064
• Fresh. p1071
• Phrasal Verbs (Appendix)

Stage 11 and 12

• 1326 new words
• Additional Vocabulary
• Phrasal Verbs: how to use them

Stage 13 and 14

• High level vocabulary
• Every day English
• Business english