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)
When we say we have done an action with a finished time we use the past tense.
Past tense + finished time.
Example: I ate dinner at 3 o’ clock. (past tense = ate, finished time = 3 o’ clock)
We never use the present perfect + finished time.
Examples:
- I ate fish and chips for lunch yesterday.
- The last time I saw my best friend Katie was 3 days ago.
- The last time I went swimming was 2 months ago.
- I slept at my sister’s house last weekend.
- We went to Italy in 2001.
- My grandparents arrived at the airport at 2 o’ clock.
- Where were you last Saturday?
- What did you do yesterday evening.
- When did you come to my house?
- What time did you come to my house?
Using the present perfect shows that the action has taken place in the past until now.
Using the past shows that the action has already taken place and it has finished
| Present perfect | Past |
|---|---|
| I have eaten breakfast. | I ate breakfast at 7am. |
| I have had a shower. | I showered last night. |
| He has lost his car keys. | He lost his car keys yesterday. |
| Katie has gone to Rosie’s house. | Katie went to Rosie’s house two hours ago. |
| Have you seen Bethany? | Did you see Bethany on Friday? |
| Have you ever been on holiday? | Did you go on holiday last year? |
| Amy has writtena poem. | Amy wrote a poem last Sunday |
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Change the following present perfect into past. Remember to add finished times at the end.| I have lost my shoes |
| Susan has gone to her grandma’s house |
| Have you seen my car keys? |
| Have you seen Louisa’s new handbag? |
| Have you ever been to New York? |
| Have you ever been on the London eye? |
| She has done her homework. |
| He has written his homework in his planner. |
| I haven’t received any post. |
| They have been to Australia. |
4. Challenge: Create 10 sentences using past tense + finished time. Use the verbs given
ate, lost, see, wrote, fell, drank, forgot, paid, sold, made
