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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

Worked/ Got/ Went Etc ( Past Simple)


  1. They jump on the trampoline every day. (= present simple)

 

  1. They jumped on the trampoline yesterday. (= past simple)

 

  1. When using the past simple, the spelling of the verb does not change whether you use I/we/you/they/he/she/it
  • I jumped
  • We jumped
  • You jumped
  • They jumped
  • He jumped
  • She jumped
  • It jumped

 

For regular verbs to convert it from the present tense to the past tense you add -ed

  • rain – rained
  • work – worked
  • stay – stayed
  • shower – showered
  • remember – remembered
  • promise – promised

 

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With some verbs, you cannot add -ed to make them past tense verbs. These verbs are known as irregular verbs.

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The past simple of ‘to read’ is ‘read’ however it is pronounced as ‘red’ in the past simple.

I read a book every morning. (=present simple)

I read a book yesterday. (= past simple, read is pronounced as red)

Examples of past simple sentences:

  • I woke up late yesterday.
  • I forgot to wake up Toby for school.
  • She caught the ball.
  • He led us to the park.
  • They vtrong>copied their homework.
  • I studied really hard for my exams.
  • You lost the tennis racket.
  • They spelt the word wrong.
  • The teacher taught me how to paint.
  • My brother heard mum shouting at my sister.
  • She got new shoes.
  • It stank in the school toilets.
  • it snowed yesterday

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Worked/got/went etc Exercises:

1. Change the following regular verbs into past simple

  • visit __________
  • target __________
  • treat __________
  • pour __________
  • jump __________
  • rain __________
  • snow __________
  • walk _________
  • wait _________

 

2. Change following irregular verbs into past simple

  • stand _________
  • feel _________
  • try _________
  • study _________
  • ran _________
  • stop _________
  • admit _________
  • catch _________
  • threw _________
  • hear _________

 

3. Create past simple sentences using the verb given.

  • enjoy _____________________________________________________________
  • wake _____________________________________________________________
  • build _____________________________________________________________
  • clean _____________________________________________________________
  • drink _____________________________________________________________
  • tell ______________________________________________________________
  • watch ____________________________________________________________
  • spell _____________________________________________________________

 

Challenge: Find the past simple for the following irregular verbs:

withdraw, understand, take, sting, spend, shoot, learn, feed, dig, arise

 

 

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