English Grammar Level 3 - Traditional Grammar Spine
An upper-intermediate English grammar course that continues the Traditional Grammar Spine from Level 2. Lessons, explanations, examples, vocabulary, guided practice, independent activities, assessments, and homework build toward confident, accurate B2-level grammar.
📚 Course Curriculum
Welcome to Level 3. In this lesson, you will meet the Present Perfect, one of the most important tenses for talking about your life, your …
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Now that you can form the Present Perfect, this lesson focuses on the most common source of confusion for upper-intermediate learners: choosing between the Present …
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This lesson focuses on two small but important words: for and since. Both are used with the Present Perfect to talk about how long a …
Open trial session →This lesson introduces the Present Perfect Continuous, a tense that emphasizes the duration and continuity of an activity, rather than simply the fact that it …
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This lesson moves away from tenses to look at modal verbs of obligation, prohibition, and advice: verbs like must, have to, should, and their negative …
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Welcome to Lesson 6, the first Level 3 review. You will combine the grammar from Lessons 1-5 instead of practicing each one separately. Learning objective. …
Open trial session →This lesson opens Cycle 2 by looking at two common ways to talk about the future: will and be going to. Although both refer to …
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This lesson looks at a third way to talk about the future: the Present Continuous, used for arrangements that are already fixed and organized. Learning …
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This lesson introduces the Past Continuous, used to describe an action that was in progress at a particular moment in the past. Learning objective. By …
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This lesson brings together the Past Continuous and the Past Simple, the classic combination for describing an action that was interrupted by another event. Learning …
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This lesson introduces the First Conditional, used to talk about real and likely future possibilities and their results. Learning objective. By the end of this …
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Welcome to Lesson 12, the second Level 3 review. You will combine the future forms, the Past Continuous, and the First Conditional from Lessons 7-11. …
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This lesson opens Cycle 3 with the passive voice, a structure that shifts the focus from who does an action to what happens to something …
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This lesson extends the passive voice into the past, using the Past Simple passive to describe completed actions where the focus is on what happened, …
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This lesson introduces defining relative clauses, which add essential information about a noun using who, which, or that. Learning objective. By the end of this …
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This lesson completes your introduction to defining relative clauses by adding whose (possession) and where (place), and reviewing how they combine with who, which, and …
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This lesson looks at modal verbs used for possibility and deduction: how to guess or reason about something you are not completely certain of. Learning …
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Welcome to Lesson 18, the third Level 3 review. You will combine the passive voice, relative clauses, and modals of possibility from Lessons 13-17. Learning …
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This lesson opens the final cycle with reported speech, used to tell someone what another person said, without quoting their exact words. Learning objective. By …
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This lesson continues reported speech by covering reported questions and reported commands, both of which follow different word order rules from direct speech. Learning objective. …
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This lesson introduces the Second Conditional, used to talk about imaginary or unlikely present and future situations and their imagined results. Learning objective. By the …
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This lesson introduces phrasal verbs, combinations of a verb and one or more particles that are extremely common in everyday spoken and written English. Learning …
Open trial session →This lesson focuses on linking words, the connectors that hold ideas together and make speech and writing flow logically instead of sounding like a list …
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Welcome to Lesson 24, the final Level 3 review. You will combine reported speech, the Second Conditional, phrasal verbs, and linking words from Lessons 19-23, …
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Course Syllabus
Course Structure
English Grammar Level 3 continues the Traditional Grammar Spine into upper-intermediate territory, building on the Past Simple mastery achieved in Level 2 and moving through the Present Perfect, future forms, the passive voice, relative clauses, conditionals, reported speech, and everyday phrasal verbs.
Each lesson is organized into:
- Grammar focus
- Technical learning outcome
- Vocabulary
- Guided speaking and listening
- Controlled practice
- Independent practice
- Assessment check
- Homework
A separate cumulative final exam is added after the full Level 3 lesson sequence is complete.
Course Outcomes
By the end of Level 3, learners will be able to:
- Use the Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, and Past Simple accurately and know when each is required.
- Talk about future plans, arrangements, and predictions using the correct future form.
- Form and use the passive voice, defining relative clauses, and first and second conditionals.
- Report what other people said using correct reported speech patterns.
- Use common phrasal verbs and linking words to connect ideas clearly in speech and writing.
- Demonstrate cumulative mastery in a separate final course exam.
📝 Practice Questions
408 interactive questions with instant feedback and explanations.
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