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)
Was/Were
- In the present tense we use ‘am/is’. In the past tense we use ‘was’.
Example: I am happy. She is happy = present tense
I was happy. = past tense
- In the present tense we use ‘are’. In the past tense we use ‘were’.
Example: You are early. = present tense
You were early. = past tense
Short answers:
- For I/he/she/it – Yes, ____ was or No, _______ wasn’t.
Example:
Yes, I was. No, I wasn’t.
Yes, she was. No, she wasn’t.
- For we/you/they – Yes, _____ were or No, _______ weren’t
Example:
Yes, they were. No, they weren’t.
Yes, we were. No, we weren’t.
Was/were Exercises
1. Write either was/were next to the pronoun
- I _______
- He ______
- She ______
- It _______
- We ______
- You _______
- They ______
2. Next to each sentence write whether it is in the present tense or past tense.
- I am happy. __________________________________
- She was not upset. ____________________________
- He was angry. ________________________________
- They are crying. ______________________________
- We were late to school. _______________________
- You are late to school. ________________________
- I was not feeling well. ________________________
- My mum was tired. __________________________
3. Write the either was/were in the gap. Change the following sentences into negative sentences.
- I ___ hungry. ______________________________________________________________________
- He ___ excited to go on holiday. _______________________________________________________
- She ___ scared of her teacher. _________________________________________________________
- It ___ raining all morning. _____________________________________________________________
- We ___ happy because we have school tomorrow _________________________________________
- You ___ crying because mum shouted at you. ____________________________________________
- They ___ early. ____________________________________________________________________
Challenge: Create an interview for someone in your family, a friend or a neighbour.
Begin by writing 10 questions of your choice. (You can write more questions if you want)
You should have at least 6 questions starting with were/was.
Remember you can use where/why/who/how/when/what before were/was to form questions.
Some examples:
Where were you born?
Do you have a sister?
If the person replies ‘yes’, you could ask ‘Was she naughty as baby?’