Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A simple guide to the parts of speech -- 1 Verbs -- 1.1 Verbs: talking about what you do -- 1.1.1 What is the infinitive? -- 1.1.2 Groups of verbs -- 1.1.3 Irregular verbs -- 1.1.4 The 'persons' of the verb -- 1.1.5 Fast track: verbs -- 1.2 Talking about what you are doing now: the present tense -- 1.2.1 Talking about what you are doing at this moment: the present continuous tense -- 1.2.2 Talking about yourself: yo -- 1.2.3 Talking to someone younger or someone you know well: tú -- 1.2.4 Talking about someone or something else: él/ella and usted -- 1.2.5 Talking about yourself and someone else: nosotros/as -- 1.2.6 Talking to more than one person you know well: vosotros/as -- 1.2.7 Talking about other people and things: ellos/ellas and ustedes -- 1.2.8 Fast track: present tense -- 1.3 Saying 'no', asking questions and telling someone what to do: negatives, interrogatives and imperatives -- 1.3.1 Negatives: how to say what you don't do -- 1.3.2 Interrogatives: asking questions -- 1.3.3 Imperatives: giving orders, directions or instructions -- 1.3.4 Fast track: negatives, interrogatives and imperatives -- 1.4 Talking about what has already happened : the past tenses -- 1.4.1 The perfect tense -- 1.4.2 How to form the past participle -- 1.4.3 Reflexive verbs in the perfect tense -- 1.4.4 When to use the imperfect tense -- 1.4.5 How to form the imperfect tense -- 1.4.6 Checklist: imperfect tense -- 1.4.7 The preterite tense -- 1.4.8 Checklist: preterite tense -- 1.4.9 Preterite or imperfect? -- 1.4.10 Fast track: the past tenses -- 1.5 Talking about what will happen : the future tenses and the conditional -- 1.5.1 The near future/immediate future: I am going to ... -- 1.5.2 The future simple tense: I will ... -- 1.5.3 The conditional - how to say: I would ...