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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

Waves


What are Waves?

Waves are a very special natural phenomenon as they require a

Medium to travel through.

Waves will travel through a medium by transferring energy

between particles but won’t permanently displace the particles.

 

Let’s say we have a bucket of water

  1. We notice the water is calm and

 

  1. You drop a pebble into the middle of a bucket of water, as the pebble sunk you notice there are ripples forming in the water. These ripples are caused by waves.

The wave travels outwards towards the edge and water molecules get displaced in the process.

While the molecules get displaced they don’t get moved as they return to their original locations once the wave passes.

 

  1. Once the wave has passed the water level returns to its normal level.

Properties of Waves

  1. Peak/Crest – Highest point of a
  2. Amplitude – Height of the wave in
  3. Trough – Lowest
  1. Wavelength – How Long a wave is in meters. This is measured from peak to peak or trough to trough in meters. Represented by ? (lambda).
  1. Frequency – How often the wave repeats. Frequency has units of Herts (Hz) or one per second (S-1) and the symbol f. This can be calculated from the wavelength using the formulas:

5.1      where v is the speed of the wave

5.2    where T is the time period, how long it takes a wave to complete a cycle/repeat in seconds.

 

  1. Waves come in two very different types, transverse and longitudinal.

 

Longitudinal waves

Longitudinal waves move matter along the waves direction of movement. These waves are transmitted through particle collisions along the waves direction.

These waves move as regions of compression and expanded pockets of matter.

For example, seismic waves, vibrations, and sound waves.

Transverse waves

Transverse waves move differently. Transverse waves have their

displacement at 90˚ to the direction the wave moves in.

In the case of water waves they pass through particle collisions along the direction of the wave too. A good example of this is taking a string and whipping it, you should form a moving wave along the string.

Most transverse waves however are light or electromagnetic waves. These waves don’t need a medium to travel through.

 

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