VOCABULARY
GRAMMAR
VACATIONS
PREPOSITIONS
TIME SEQUENCE
AND CONNECTORS
RULES
TENSES
100

YOU WILL NEED A PASSPORT IN ORDER TO GET TO YOUR DESTINATION.

GO ABROAD

100

THEY\ ARGUE\ WAITER\ BRING\ THE CHECK

:USE SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS

THEY WERE ARGUING WHEN THE WAITER BROUGHT THE CHECK

100

THE RERULTS OF THE ELECTION WERE ANNOUNCED at\in\on\ 11:00PM

AT

100

: USE THIS TO TALK ABOUT  FINISHED ACTIONS IN THER PAST

SIMPLE PAST

100

YOU WERE LAUGHING WHEN I TOOK A PHOTO

PAST CONTINUOUS

200

ALTHOUGH ITS PRICELESS, YOU'D BUY IT AS A KEEPSAKE FOR REMEMBERING THE GOOD TIMES.

SOUVENIR

200

WHY\CRY\AT THE PARTY?

: USE PAST CONTINUOUS

WHY WERE YOU CRYING AT THE PARTY

200

IN MOST COUNTRIES BANKS AND OFFICES ARE CLOSED in\at\on\ NEW YEARS DAY AND OPEN in\at\on\  MORNING in\at\on\ THE FOLLOWING BUSINESS DAY.

ON

IN THE

ON

200

: USE BASE FORM AFTER DIDN'T FOR ?

: USE BASE FORM AFTER DID FOR ?

NEGATIVES


QUESTIONS OR INTERROGATIVES

200

THEY LIVED IN BRAZIL WHEN THEIR FIRST CHILD WAS BORN

: 2 TENSES

SIMPLE PAST X 2

300
AFTER YOU FINISHED A WONDERFUL MEAL, SOMEONE ASKS, "WHAT WAS THE FOOD LIKE?" AND YOU'D RESEPOND, IT WAS ...

DELICIOUS

300

LINDA RAN TO THE STATION because\so\although\ SHE WAS VERY LATE

LINDA WAS VERY LATE, because\so\although\ SHE RAN TO THE STATION.

because\so\although\ LINDA RAN TO THE STATION, SHE WAS TOO LATE AND MISSED THE TRAIN.

BECAUSE

SO

ALTHOUGH

300

OUR FLIGHT IS LEAVING in\at\on\ WEDNESDAY in\at\on\ 9:30 in\at\on\ EVENING AND ARRIVING in\at\on\  12 O'CLOCK in\at\on\  THURSDAY.

ON

AT

IN

AT

ON

300

WE OFTEN USE THIS TO DESCRIBE THE SITUATION AT THE BEGINNING OF A STORY OR NARRATIVE.

PAST CONTINUOUS

300

WHY ARE YOU LOOKING SO HAPPY? SHE ASKED. I HAD MY PHOTO TAKEN WITH JOHNNY DEPP. HE'S SITTING OVER THERE LOOK!

: 4 TENSES

PAST CONT..

SIMPLE PAST

SIMPLE PAST

PAST CONTIN..

400

YOU RENT AN AIRPLANE ONLINE

BOOK A FLIGHT

400

IT \SNOW\OUR PLAN LANDED

: USE SIMPLE PAST AND A TIME SEQUENCE

IT SNOWED AFTER OUR PLAN LANDED

400

WE WENT TO FLORIDA LAST WINTER, AND WE'RE GOING AGAIN in\at\on\ SUMMER. PROBABLYTHE LAST TWO WEEKS in\at\on\ JULY (TIME SEQUENCE) INDEPENDENCE DAY.

IN THE

IN

AFTER

400

: USE THIS TO EXPRESS A REASON

: USE THIS TO EXPRESS A RESULT

: USE THIS AND THIS TO SHOW CONTRAST

BECAUSE

SO 

BUT AND ALTHOUGH

400

WE WERE HAVING LUNCH IN A NICE RESTAURANT WHEN MY COUSIN GOT A CALL ON HER CELL PHONE AND WENT OUTSIDE TO TALK. WHILE SHE WAS SPEAKING TO A FRIEND, I (time sequence) NOTICED A MAN IN BLACK.

HOW MANY TENSES? NAME THEM. TIME SEQUENCER BOUNUS (double points)

5 TENSES

PAST CONTIN

SIMPLE PAST

SIMPLE PAST

PAST CONTIN

SIMPLE PAST

BONUS: SUDDENLY

500

YOU DO THIS WITH MONEY AND TIME

SPEND

500

I\FINISH\MY REPORT\MY COMPUTER\ CRASH

:USE SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS AND A TIME SEQUENCE

WHEN I FINISHED MY REPORT MY COMPUTER CRASHED

500

I ____ ON THE BUS WHEN I SAW MY BOSS

I ________ ON THE BUS WHEN I SAW MY BOSS

________ I SAW MY BOSS, I WAS _____ ON THE BUS

: USE SIMPLE PAST THEN USE PAST CONTINUOUS THEN USE A TIME SEQUENCE AND PAST CONTINUOUS VERB   :VERB: (SIT)

SAT

SITTING

WHEN

SITTING

500

WE USE THIS TO SAY WHEN OR IN WHAT ORDER THINGS HAPPEN

TIME SEQUENCERS

500

:HE TOLD ME HE WAS A POLICE OFFICER AND THAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A THEIF.

:THEN ANOTHER MAN TRIED TO DO THE SAME

:ONE DAY IN 2011 I WAS STANDING IN LINE FOR A BUS

:THE NEXT DAY I READ THE STORY IN A NEWSPAPER

:WHEN THE SECOND MAN WENT IN FRONT OF ME, I TOLD HIM TO GO AND STAND IN LINE

:A FEW SECONDS LATER THE FIRST POLICE OFFICER GOT OFF THE BUS  WITH A MAN

:SUDDENLY A MAN RAN IN FRONT OF ME AND GOT ON THE BUS

:AFTER THAT A POLICE CAR CAME AND TOOK THE MEN AWAY

PUT THE SENTENCES IN THE CORRECT ORDER, NAME THE TENSES PREPOSITIONS AND THE TIME SEQUENCERS

BONUS (double points)

5, 3, 8, 4, 6, 2, 7

SP,PC

THEN - SP

ONE DAY - IN - PC

THE NEXT DAY - SP

WHEN - SP- SP

A FEW SECONDS LATER- SP

SUDDENLY - SP

AFTER THAT - SP - SP



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