Grammar

Ability/ Inability (can/ i can’t) Frequency adverbs

Rule:
- I can play piano talk about things can do
Ability • Frequency adverb after (to be)
- I can’t play piano talk about things can’t to be + frequency adverb
do Inability
Eg: Maria is always respectful.
Strong and Weak form (can/ i can’t)
• I write the frequency adverb before the others
- “Can” in a question is Weak form Eg: verbs frequency adverb + verb
Can you swim? Weak form
Eg: Adam never gets bored of watching birds.
- “Can” in answer yes/no question is
• Other frequency adverbs:
Strong form Eg: yes, I can Strong
form Always I always pray my prayers
- “Can’t” is Strong form, it has no weak Usually I usually go to the restaurant on
form. Eg: I can’t swim. Saturdays
- The interests (I like / I don’t like) Generally I generally go to the sea for our
- - I like: I’m fond of/ I’m keen on/ I’m holiday
interested in. ‫مهتم‬ Often I often go to visit my grand parents
- - I don’t like: I’m not fond of/ I’m not
Sometimes I sometimes, I just need
keen on/ I’m not interested in ‫غير مهتم‬
someone to talk to.
- Eg:
Occasionally I occasionally visit my cousins
- - I like music.
Rarely She is old and rarely goes out.
- - I don’t like dogs.
Never I never talk to strangers.
- • Questions you ask to know the
interests of someone: Past simple with regular and irregular

- What are you interested in? / What Regular verbs:

are your interests?
Verb+ ed eg: watch watch+
- • If you want to know how many ed
times the person practices an
activity:
- - Question: How often do you Irregular verbs:
practice Football?
Take different form eg: go went
- - Answer: I always play piano
See saw
- I never play piano
 How long ago + did + S + V + rest of the
statement
Regular verb:
• Question: How long ago did you come to
Spelling rules Examples
London, grandma?
Base form+ ed Walk walked
Play played • Answer: I came to London about fifty years
Verbs ending in “e” + Like liked ago.
d Move moved
Verbs ending in a Carry carried Past simple with model “used to”
consonant + y Study studied
• To talk about repeated actions/ activities
Change y i + ed
Some verbs ending Plan planned or events that happened in the past but are
A single consonant + Stop stopped no longer true in the present.
the second last letter
is a vowel Rule:
double the last We use the semi model verb: used to+ verb
letter + ed
Eg: we used to take bath once a week. (but
today this is no longer true).
Interrogative form:
• Interrogative form:
Did + subject + verb eg: Did you watch Tv ?
Did + S + use + to + V + rest of the statement

Eg: Did you use to play games grandma?

Negative form:
• Negative form:
Did not + verb eg: I didn’t go to school.
Did not /(didn’t) + use + to + V = (in
long answer)
Time Markers past simple: yesterday weeks
Didn’t =(in short answer)
ago in 2015 last week
Eg: • No, I didn’t
Past simple with “Ago”
• I didn’t use to play games at that time.
Use the past time marker “Ago” precede by
word indicating a period of time. • Affirmative form:

Eg: • I went to elementary school Did = (in short answer)

seventy years ago.
• Lina cooked a cake 10 days ago.
• I visited turkey two years ago.
Time marker “ago” (Question):
• Ask a question with time marker “ago”, I use
the question word: How long ago?
Used to + V= (in long answer)
Eg: • yes, I did.
• I used to play a lot of games in my
childhood.
• When you ask question with “who”:
I say Who + use to + V + ……?
Eg: Who use to be your math teacher at primary • I use “was” (the past simple from “be”) with
school? the pronouns: I, he, she, it.

“Made of” – “Made in” • I use “were” (the past simple from “be”) with
the pronouns: we, they, you.
• To talk about the material (cotton, wool, glass,
plastic) is formed from use: The Past continuous tense (forms):

Made of + the name of material
• Eg: Our clothes were made of wool or
cotton…..
• To talk about a place (country, city) where
something is made, produced or manufactured
use:
Made in+ the name of the place
• Interrogative form: Was/ were + S+ V-ing+ the
rest of the statement.
Eg: Were you sleeping all morning? I phoned
you three times!
• Negative form:
Wasn’t/ weren’t (short answer)/ Wasn’t/
weren’t + V-ing (long answer).

Eg: These jeans are made in Turkey. Eg: No, I wasn’t/ I wasn’t sleeping all morning.

• Question material use: What is it made of?
• Question material use: Where is it made in?
Eg: what’s your scarf made of? = it’s made of
silk
Eg: where’s your scarf made in? = it’s made in
India
• Affirmative form: Was/ were (short answer)/
Was/ were+ V-ing (Long answer)
Eg: Yes, I was/ I was sleeping all
morning.
• Short form of “be” in the past simple:
Wasn’t is short form for “was not”.

• Made with talk about food ingredients. weren’t is short form for “were not”.

Eg: The soup is made with vegetables and “Verb+ ing “

chicken.
Spelling rules examples
The Past continuous tense Drop final “e” in most Writeing –
verbs makeing-
•To talk about single, longer actions/ activities liveing
or events happening at a particular time in the Do not change final Play= playing
past, the past continuous tense: “y” into “i” Carry= carrying
Try= trying
Was/were + (V+ ing).
Double the final Sit=sitting
Eg: We were working on the miniaturization of consonant(b, d, g, l, Stop= stopping
cameras. m, n, p, r, t) if the Rub=rubbing
consonant is
(we spent long period of time working on the preceded by a one
miniaturization of cameras). "‫عملنا "لفترة طويلة‬ letter vowel
‫في تصغير الكاميرات‬
The Past continuous tense and simultaneous
actions:

•To talk about two longer actions/ activities or

events happening at the same
time(simultaneous) in the past, I can use the
past continuous tense and the connector
“While” to combine them.

‫للحديث عن عمل نشاطين في نفس الوقت متزامنين في‬

‫الماضي نستخدم الماضي المستمر مع "في حين" للربط‬
.‫بينهما‬
Eg: We were doing other things while we were
working on the miniaturization of mobile phone.

Vocabulary

Silent letter “w” and “t”

Silent letter “w” Silent letter “t”

Wrong Listen
Write Castle
Who Fasten
Whole Whistle
answer