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Table of Contents

Week 1 | English Grammar

Day 1| Auxiliary verbs

Day 2 |Am/is/are

Day 3 |Am/is/are Questions

Day 4 |I am doing (present continuous)

Day 5 |Are you doing? (present continuous questions)

Day 6 |I do/work/like (present simple)(present continuous questions)

Week 2 | English Grammar

Day 1 |I don't... (present simple negative)

Day 2 |Do you...? (present simple questions)

Day 3 |I am doing (present continuous) I do (present simple)

Day 4 |I have... and I've got...

Day 5 |Was/were

Day 6 |Worked/got/went etc (past simple)

Week 3 | English Grammar

Day 1 |I didn't... did you...? (past simple negative and questions)

Day 2 |I was doing (past continuous)

Day 3 |I was doing (past continuous) and I did (past simple)

Day 4 |I have done (present perfect 1)

Day 5 |I've just... I've already... I haven't...yet (present perfect 2)

Day 6 |Have you ever...? (present perfect 3)

Week 4| English Grammar

Day 1 |How long have you...? (present perfect 4)

Day 2 |For, since, ago

Day 3 |I have done (present perfect) and I did (past)

Day 4 |Is done, was done (passive 1)

Day 5 |Is being done, has been done (passive 2)

Day 6 |Be/have/do in present and past tenses

Week 5| English Grammar

Day 1 |Regular and irregular verbs

Day 2 |What are you doing tomorrow?

Day 3 |I'm going to...

Day 4 |Will/shall (1)

Day 5 |Will/shall (2)

Day 6 |Might

Week 6| English Grammar

Day 1 |Can and could

Day 2 |Must, mustn't, don't, need to

Day 3 |Should

Day 4 |I have to

Day 5 |Would you like...?

Day 6 |Do this! Don't do that! Let's do that

Week 7| English Grammar

Day 1 |I used to...

Day 2 |There is... There are...

Day 3 |There was/were... There has/have been... There will be...

Day 4 |It...

Day 5 |I am, I don't

Day 6 |Have you? Are you? Don't you? etc

Week 8| English Grammar

Day 1 |Too/either/so am I/neither do I etc

Day 2 |Isn't/haven't/don't etc (negatives)

Day 3 |Do they? Is it? Have you?

Day 4 |Forming questions (who/what/why/where/when/which)

Day 5 |What...? Which...? How...?

Day 6 |How long does it take...?

Week 9| English Grammar

Day 1 |Do you know where...? I don't know what... etc

Day 2 |He/she said that... He/she told me that...

Day 3 |Work/working Go/going Do/doing

Day 4 |I want you to... I told you to...

Day 5 |I went to the shop to...

Day 6 |Go to... Go on... Go for... Go -ing... Get…

Week 10| English Grammar

Day 1 |Get...

Day 2 |Do and make

Day 3 |Have...

Day 4 |I/me He/him They/them etc

Day 5 |My/his/their etc

Day 6 |Whose is this? It's mine/yours/hers etc

Week 11| English Grammar

Day 1 |Myself/yourself/themselves etc

Day 2 |A/an...

Day 3 |Singular & plural

Day 4 |The...

Day 5 |Go to...

Day 6 |This/that/these/those

Week 12| English Grammar

Day 1 |Some & any

Day 2 |All/most/some/any/no/none etc

Day 3 |Adjectives

Day 4 |Adverbs

Day 5 |Imperatives

Day 6 |And but or so because

Week 13| English Grammar

Day 1 |When...

Day 2 |If we go... if you see... etc

Day 3 |If I had... If we went... etc

Day 4 |A person who... A thing that/which (relative clauses 1)

Day 5 |How long have you…?(present perfect 4)

Day 6 |For since ago

Am/Is/Are


Example :

  • I am going to bed.
  • She is very happy.
  • We are going to the shop.

These auxiliary verbs can form contractions which can be positive or negative.

Contractions – A contraction is when two words join together to become one and a few letters are removed and is replaced with an apostrophe to form a shorter form.

Examples:

can’t is the contraction of cannot. She’s is the contraction of she is.

Positive :

Negative :

Example :

Contractions of – is

  • that’s – that is
  • there’s – there is
  • here’s – here is

Example :

Am/Is/Are Exercises


 

 

Complete the following table
Pronoun Auxiliary Verb Short form/Contraction
I Am
He Is
She Is
It Is
We Are
You Are
They Are
I I’m not         or
He He isn’t      or
She She isn’t     or
It It isn’t         or
We We’re not     or
You You’re not    or
They They’re not   or

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2.Fill in the missing gaps by writing am, is or are.

1. It cold today.

2. The watermelons heavy.

3. I going to town.

4. She very happy today.

5. They good at swimming.

6. My mum a teacher.

 

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3.Complete the sentences by using the contractions/short forms.

1. Toby is very tired. going to sleep early today.

2. very sunny today. I want to go to the park for ice cream.

3. happy about Lucy’s report from school.

4. Susan is coming to our house to borrow a top. coming at 8 o’ clock.

5. proud of you for winning the competition.

 

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4. What are the longer forms for

1. There is =

2. Here is =

3. That is =

 

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Challenge: Use the correct forms of am/is/are to complete the paragraph.

1. Yesterday I went to town. I told Sarah to come but she said no. always too busy. So I rang Tom and asked him to come. He said, ” very nice of you to ask me but not feeling well. Who are you going with?” I replied saying, ” going with my daughter. three years old. going to town and then going to the park.

 

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