Sources and original illustrations

Primary references and the limits of this educational collection.

Primary references

• British Council: Present simple, to be — Present forms of be, negatives, contractions and questions.
• British Council: Present simple — Habits, third-person forms, do and does, short answers.
• British Council: Question forms — Question-word placement, inversion, auxiliaries and subject-question exception.
• British Council: Articles a, an and the — Indefinite and definite articles in elementary noun phrases.
• British Council: Countable and uncountable nouns — Noun countability, containers, some, any, much and many.
• British Council: There is and there are — Existence, singular and plural agreement, negatives and questions.
• British Council: Prepositions of time — At, in and on with clock times, dates and broader periods; weekend variation.
• British Council: Prepositions of place — In, on and at in elementary location descriptions.
• British Council: Comparative adjectives — Comparative formation, irregular forms and than.
• British Council: A1 speaking — Contextual speaking practice, introductions, suggestions and checking understanding.
• British Council: A1 listening — Elementary listening situations including cafés, directions, work and booking.
• British Council: A1 writing — Short messages, invitations, forms, instructions and simple emails.
• British Council: Checking understanding — Requests for repetition and checks of understood information.
• British Council: Appointment confirmation email — Clear basic appointment confirmation and relevant details.
• British Council: A message to say you are late — Short delay messages with relevant timing information.
• British Council: Shopping for clothes — Elementary shop interaction, clothing requests and follow-up details.

Original visual material

The diagrams in this edition are original SVG illustrations explaining the sequence or decisions in each guide. They do not show a laboratory experiment, a personal trip or a tested product result. No photographs from the linked sources are reproduced.

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References were consulted during preparation of this edition. A source may cover a broader or narrower question than a particular guide; the support notes above explain why it is listed. Read the original for methodology, exceptions and updates.