REVISION OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME AND PLACE

PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

QUESTIONS WITH AND WITHOUT AUXILIARIES

FIRST TERM

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

IN Countries and Cities: In France, in NY

Buildings: In a shop, in a supermarket

Rooms: In the living room

Closed spaces: In a garden, in a car

ON A Surface: On a shelf, on the wall

On a plate, on the table

On a balcony

Transport: On a bike, on a bus, on a plane

AT At the bus station, at home, at the door, at the top

At work, at school, at university

At the end of

At a party

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

IN Months: In March, in August

Years: In 1978, in 1066, in 2009

Seasons: In spring, in summer

Times of day: In the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening

ON Dates: On July 4th

Days: On Monday,

On Christmas Day, on Valentine’s Day

AT Times: At half past ten, at 8:40

Festival periods: At Christmas, Easter

At night

At the weekend

PAST CONTINUOUS

The past continuous tense is used to describe an action in progress at a specific moment in the past.

Subject WAS / WERE

-ING FORM

I was singing

He

She

It

was singing

We

You

They

were singing

PAST CONTINUOUS

AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVEYES/NO

QUESTIONS

I was dancing I wasn’t dancing Was I dancing?

You were eating You weren’t eating Were you eating?

He was sleeping He wasn’t sleeping Was he sleeping?

She was reading She wasn’t reading Was she reading?

It was running It wasn’t running Was it running?

We were walking We weren’t walking Were we walking?

They were studying They weren’t studying Were they studying?

RULES

Verb ending in...How to make the -ING

form Examples

consonant + vowel +

consonant

Double the consonant, then add –ING

swim - swimminghit - hitting

get – getting

vowel + consonant + E

Remove E, then add –ING come- cominglose - losinglive – living

[anything else] Add –ING say - sayinggo - going

walk - walking

PAST SIMPLE We use the past

simple to talk about finished actions in the past.

The past simple is the same for all persons.

Use the infinitive after Did and didn’t for negatives.

I stayed in a hotel

He

She

went to the beach

We

You

They

didn’t do our homework

Did you go on holiday?

PAST SIMPLE OR CONTINOUS?

• Use the past simple for a completed action.

• Use the past continuous for an action in progress.

I was sitting at home when the phone rang.

When I took the photo, the man was cooking some fish.

QUESTIONS WITH OR WITHOUT AUXILIARIES

QUESTION AUXILIARY SUBJECT INFINITIVE

What music

Who

do

did

you

he

listen to?

go with?

QUESTIONS WITH AN AUXILIARY

• To make questions in the past and present simple, we normally use the auxiliary verbs do / does / did + the infinitive.

• The normal order for questions in the present and past is QUASI.

QUESTIONS WITH OR WITHOUT AUXILIARIES

QUESTIONS WITHOUT AN AUXILIARY

SUBJECT VERB

What

Who

happened

wrote

at the weekend?

Romeo and Juliet?

• When the question word (Who, What, Which, How many?) is the subject of the verb in the question, we do not use an auxiliary (do, does, did) and the verb is in the third person.