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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

Is done was done (passive 1)


Voice

  • You either have the active voice or passive voice.
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  • The active voice is the most common. It expresses the action of a verb directly linking it to the person or thing carrying out the action.
     
    E.g The police hit the rioter. (=ACTIVE)
     
    police = thing carrying out the action/subject
     
    hit = action/verb
     
    rioter = object
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  • The passive voice changes the focus of the sentence by re-ordering the elements.
     
    The subject is acted upon the verb.
     
    E.g The rioter was hit by the police. (=PASSIVE)
     
    rioter = in the active voice this is the object, but in the passive voice this becomes the subject and is emphasised more
     
    hit = passive verb
     
    by the police = thing doing the action
     

Comparisons of active and passive

     

  • Mum cleans my bedroom every day. (=ACTIVE)
  • My bedroom is cleaned by mum every day. (=PASSIVE)
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  • Thomas ate fish and chips for dinner. (=ACTIVE)
  • At dinner, fish and chips were eaten by Thomas. (=PASSIVE)
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  • My brother washed the dishes. (=ACTIVE)
  • The dishes were washed by my brother. (=PASSIVE)
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  • Dad won the swimming competition. (=ACTIVE)
  • The swimming competition was won by dad. (=PASSIVE)
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  • Susan read all the Harry Potter books in one day. (=ACTIVE)
  • The Harry Potter books were read by Susan in one day. (=PASSIVE)
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  • Dina Tokio posted a video on YouTube. (=ACTIVE)
  • The video was posted on Youtube by Dina Tokio. (=PASSIVE)
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  • My sister emailed the homework to my teacher. (=ACTIVE)
  • The homework was emailed to my teacher by my sister. (=PASSIVE)
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  • The teacher teaches the student. (=ACTIVE)
  • The students are taught by the teacher (=PASSIVE)

 

The passive is –

 

Present simple Am/is/are (not) Past participle
Past simple Was/were (not) Past participle

 
Most of the time you can identify the passive because it is followed with ‘by’
Passive + by
 
E.g The dress was made by Alexander McQueen.
 
She was pushed off her bike by a stranger.
 
The picture was drawn by my little sister.
 

 
Examples:

  • Lemonade is made from lemons.
  • I am invited to George’s house.
  • She is scared of her teacher.
  • My bedroom is cleaned by a cleaner.
  • My car is broken.
  • They are never invited to parties.
  • We aren’t allowed to eat sweets during the week.
  • She was lost.
  • The house was built 3 years ago.
  • The food was ordered by Brian.
  • The cake was not made by me.

 

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Is done, was done (passive 1) Exercises


 

Change the following active sentences into passive sentences.
It is snowing.
I will clean my bedroom on Friday night.
My sister painted a picture of a flower.
The teachers enjoyed the cake I made.
No one listened to the plan that I suggested.
The science class found the lesson boring

 
 

2. Label which of the following sentences are present simple or past simple.

They are never invited to parties.
Lemonade is made from lemons.
The house was built 3 years ago.
We aren’t allowed to eat sweets during the week.
I am invited to George’s house.
The cake was not made by me.
She is scared of her teacher.
She was lost.
My bedroom is cleaned by a cleaner.
My car is broken.
The food was ordered by Brian.

 
 

 
3. Use the appropriate words in the missing gaps.

ACTIVE:
PASSIVE:
ACTIVE:
PASSIVE:
ACTIVE:
PASSIVE:

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