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> Starter English topics for grades 1–11: vocabulary, verb forms and sentence patterns. Three original examples with clear explanations.

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Look at words in context and explain your choice of form. Starter lessons introduce selected vocabulary and grammar patterns.

The starter bank has 33 lessons and 99 tasks: one lesson per subject for each of grades 1–11. This is an introductory set of topics.

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## Starter lesson topics

- Grade 1: Colours, animals and greetings
- Grade 2: Numbers, am and classroom objects
- Grade 3: Is, plurals and can
- Grade 4: Irregular plurals, questions and prepositions
- Grade 5: Present Simple, Present Continuous and articles
- Grade 6: Past Simple forms and negatives
- Grade 7: Future forms, conditionals and comparisons
- Grade 8: Comparisons, since and modal verbs
- Grade 9: Perfect forms, passive voice and reported speech
- Grade 10: Conditionals, Future Perfect and -ing forms
- Grade 11: Advanced sentence patterns and prepositions

## Worked examples

### Grade 3

Complete the phrase: two … (book).

**Answer:** books

Two refers to more than one object, so use the plural. Add -s to book: two books.

### Grade 7

What is the comparative form of bad in «This result is … than yesterday’s»?

**Answer:** worse

Bad has the irregular comparative form worse. Than signals a comparison between two results.

### Grade 10

Complete: She avoided … (interrupt) her friend.

**Answer:** interrupting

After avoid, the next verb takes the -ing form: avoided interrupting. This is the pattern used with avoid.

## Sources and limitations

[Federal work programmes — topic references](https://edsoo.ru/rabochie-programmy/)

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[British Council: verbs followed by the -ing form](https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/free-resources/grammar/english-grammar-reference/verbs-followed-ing-form)

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