Table of Contents
Week 1 | English Grammar
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 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 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?
Week 6| English Grammar
Day 2 |Must, mustn't, don't, need to
Day 6 |Do this! Don't do that! Let's do that
Week 7| English Grammar
Day 2 |There is... There are...
Day 3 |There was/were... There has/have been... There will be...
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 4 |I/me He/him They/them etc
Day 6 |Whose is this? It's mine/yours/hers etc
Week 11| English Grammar
Day 1 |Myself/yourself/themselves etc
Week 12| English Grammar
Day 2 |All/most/some/any/no/none etc
Week 13| English Grammar
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)
And But Or So Because
- These words are known as connectives or conjunctions.
- We use these words to join sentences together.
Example:
Tom went to the shop. He bought some sweets. (2 short sentences)
Tom went to the shop and he bought some sweets. (2 short sentences added together by a conjunction to form 1 longer sentence)
And:
- We brushed our teeth. We ate breakfast.
- We brushed our teeth and ate breakfast. (don’t have to say ‘and we…’)
- My brother is 19. He is studying at Manchester university.
- My brother is 19 and is studying at Manchester university. (don’t have to say ‘and he…’)
- Tom has forgotten his PE kit. Tom has forgotten his pencil case.
- Tom has forgotten his PE kit and his pencil case.
- Mum bought a new car. She loves it.
- Mum bought a new car and she loves it.
In lists we don’t keep repeating ‘and’. We use commas (,). Before the last item of the list we use ‘and’.
Example:
- I went to shop at I bought apples, bananas, bread, milk, juiceand
- I am going on holiday with mum, dad, sister, brother and
- Mum has gone to the supermarket, dad has gone to work and Emma has gone to her friend’s house.
- For breakfast I ate eggs, toast, beans and hash browns.
But
- Louisa wanted to play outside but it was raining.
- Josh lives in Scotland but he doesn’t like it.
- I bought a new dress but I don’t like it.
- I like this housebut it only has 2 bedrooms.
- We were going to go to Blackpool but it started raining.
Or
- Do you want to stay at grandma’s house or Emma’s house this weekend?
- Do you want to go bowling or to the cinema?
- Do you want to go the supermarket or are you too tired?
- Have a cup of tea or a coffee.
- We’re going to order Chinese food or Italian food.
- We want to go on holiday to Portugal or
So
When we use the conjunction ‘so’ we use it to show the result of something.
Example: It was raining so I closed the window. (As a result of it being rainy, I closed the window)
- I was so thirsty so I drank a glass of cold water.
- She was hungry so she ordered food.
- The dishwasher was full so I turned it on.
- I missed the bus so dad dropped me to school.
- Kevin’s phone got stolen so he bought a new one.
- He’s always going out so he doesn’t have a lot of money.
Because
When we use the conjunction ‘because’ we use it to show the reason for something.
Example: She was crying because mum shouted at her. (The reason for her crying was because of mum)
- Kate was late to school because she missed the bus.
- Phil’s knee was grazed because he fell down.
- He got in trouble because he didn’t do his homework.
- Mum didn’t cook dinner because she was busy working.
- Saarah felt sick because she ate too much chocolate
Some sentences can have more than one conjunction.
- It was late and I was hungry so I drove to the supermarket to buy ice cream.
- I love London but I wouldn’t like to live there because of the travelling.
- I want to go on holiday in Summer to Malaysia or Thailand because I’ve heard it’s very nice there.
- She woke up late so she had no time to have breakfast and she was late to school.
- Mum was bored and wanted to do something so she decided to cook pasta.
- Sue made a cake and went to the shop to buy a gift because it was her brother’s birthday.
And But Or So Because Exercises
1. Complete the following sentences
• I went to grandma’s house and
• Emma invited me to her house and
• I was going to go on holiday this year but
• Josh was suppose to come to my house but
• She was either going to go on holiday abroad or
• We’re going to watch a movie or
• We were all hungry so
• Tim was late to school so
• I cooked dinner because
• I didn’t want to go to the wedding because
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2.Look at the sentences below. Then think of a way to join them together using the conjunction ‘and’
Example: I went to the shop. Mum told me to buy a loaf of bread.. = I went to the shop and I bought a loaf of bread.
• Tom woke up early. Dad made him a big breakfast.
• Emma baked a chocolate cake. Josh baked a carrot cake.
• I went shopping with Lola. I had to buy a dress for my sister’s wedding.
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3. Fill in the missing gap with the appropriate conjunction (and, but, or, so, because)
• Do you want to go on holiday abroad do you just want to go somewhere local?
• My sister is married she lives in Spain her husband has a well paid job there.
• Susan has a very nice house she has no garden.
• Emma wants me to go with her shopping she needs my help picking a dress for the party.
• I want to live in London when I’m older there’s so many things to do there.
• Me my brother stay at my grandma’s house every weekend my parents can have some peace without us.
• We were tired we went to sleep early.
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