Tenses Time!
Complete: She usually ___ (to read) a book before bed.
What is 'reads'? (Present Simple for routines)
Complete: My cat is hiding ___ the sofa.
What is 'under'? (Position)
Complete: This bag is very ___ (heavy). I can't lift it.
What is 'heavy'? (Adjective)
Transform into passive: Someone cleans this room every day.
What is 'This room is cleaned every day'? (Present Simple Passive)
Form a question: you / like / ice cream?
What is 'Do you like ice cream?'? (General question with auxiliary 'do')
Find the error: "I am going to visit my grandparents tomorrow. I will help them in the garden."
What is "The use of 'will'"? (It should be "I am going to help them" because it's a plan/intention based on a prior decision).
Find the error: "The picture is above on the wall."
What is "Remove 'on'"? (It should be "The picture is on the wall" or "above the wall". You cannot use both).
Transform: He is a careful driver. He drives ___.
What is 'carefully'? (Transforming an adjective to an adverb of manner)
Complete: The first telephone ___ (invent) by Alexander Graham Bell.
What is 'was invented'? (Past Simple Passive)
Form a question: When / she / arrive / yesterday?
What is 'When did she arrive yesterday?'? (Special question with past simple)
Transform: (Plans) I plan to see a film tonight. → I ___ see a film tonight.
What is 'am going to'? (Expressing a plan)
Complete: The bank is ___ the post office and the library.
What is 'between'? (Position relative to two other things)
Choose: There are too (many/much) people in this lift.
What is 'many'? (Used with countable nouns - 'people')
Find the error: "The window was broke by the ball."
What is "Change 'broke' to 'broken'"? (Past participle required for passive voice: was/were + past participle)
Find the error: "Where you bought that dress?"
What is "Add the auxiliary 'did'"? (It should be "Where did you buy that dress?")
Complete: While I ___ (to walk) home, it started to rain.
What is 'was walking'? (Past Continuous for an action in progress interrupted by another event - 'it started')
Complete: We usually go skiing ___ winter.
What is 'in'? (Seasons and longer periods)
Transform: Mount Everest is high. It is ___ mountain in the world.
What is 'the highest'? (Superlative adjective)
Transform into passive: They built this house in 1890.
What is 'This house was built in 1890'? (Past Simple Passive)
Form a question: How long / she / live / in London?
What is 'How long has she lived in London?'? (Present Perfect for duration)
Twist: I can't come in. I (loose) my keys!
What is 'have lost' ? (Context suggests Present Perfect Simple for an action taking place in the past, and the result of this action is important in the present)
Twist: The book is __ the table. School starts __ 1st September.
What is 'on' ? (The book is on the table. School starts on 1st September.).
Twist: This coffee is (bad) than the coffee I had yesterday.
What is 'worse'? (Comparative form of the irregular adjective 'bad').
Twist: The treasure (hide) by pirates centuries ago.
What is 'was hidden'? (Past Simple Passive)
Twist: Ask me if I have ever been to Paris.
What is 'Have you ever been to Paris?'? (Forming a present perfect question with 'ever')