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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

Adjective + preposition
Preposition + -ing


Adjective + prepositions

Adjective + of :

We use an adjective followed by the preposition of when referring to someone or something

Adjective + preposition-example1

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Adjective + preposition-example3

 

Adjective + to:

We use an adjective followed by the preposition to when referring to someone

Adjective + preposition-example4

Adjective + preposition-example5

Adjective + preposition-example6

 

Adjective + about:

We use an adjective followed by the preposition about when referring to something

Adjective + preposition-example7

 

Adjective + for:

We use an adjective followed by the preposition for when referring to something

Adjective + preposition-example8

 

Adjective + by:

We use an adjective followed by the preposition by when referring to something

Adjective + preposition-example9

 

Adjective + at:

We use an adjective followed by the preposition at when referring to doing something

Adjective + preposition-example10

 

Adjective + with:

We use an adjective followed by the preposition with when referring to someone or something

Adjective + preposition-example11

Adjective + preposition-example12

 

Others:

Adjective + preposition-example13

 

Preposition + -ing

When a preposition is followed by a verb, the verb must end in -ing

Example:

  • I’m not very good at remembering
  • I’m bad at directing
  • Emma is really good at telling interesting stories.
  • Sorry for calling you so late but I need your help.
  • Thanks for helping me with my homework.
  • We are thinking of going out for dinner.
  • Dad is thinking of buying me a car.
  • She was talking about having a party.

 

Adjective + preposition
Preposition + -ing Exercises


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1. Use the adjective + preposition give to create your own sentences

• Afraid of

• Fed up with

• Angry about

• Different from

• Good at

• Interested in

• Married to

• Nice of

• Kind of

• Sorry for

 

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2. Fill in the missing gap with either of/to/about/with/for/at/by

• Tom is interested Pharmacy.

• My teacher is married a footballer.

• My little sister is afraid dogs.

• Samantha is very good speaking French.

• My dad is fed up the weather.

• That’s very kind you.

• It’s stupid her to play in rain.

• Mum is furious me.

• I was amazed my brother’s painting.

• I’m excited Josh’s birthday party.

• She’s very proud me.

• I’m sorry the noise last night.

• Who is responsible this mess?

• The essay was full mistakes.

• Her dress is similar mine.

• She was frightened getting into trouble.

 

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3. Choose an adjective to go before the following prepositions. Then use the adjective + preposition to create your own sentence

of


to


about


with


for


at


by


on


in


 

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Challenge: Use the adjectives given followed by a preposition to write sentences about yourself

• (interested)

• (afraid)

• (scared)

• (fed up)

• (amazed)

• (bored)

• (nice)

 

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