Callan Method

Content of course

Then select the most important points of grammar on the books of the Callan Method. This content will be learned in class without the students perceive it.

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