GRAMMAR 1 Past Progressive 1. What were you doing yesterday at 6:00 PM? 2. What were you doing on Saturday at 9:00 AM? 3. What were you doing on Sunday around 3:00 PM? 4. What were you doing yesterday at 7:00 AM? 5. What were you doing on Saturday around 11:00 PM? His name is Bob. He is an ecologist. He studies ecology every day because that's his job and that's what he does. He's studied thousands of plants and animals. He would rather study animals than plants because plants are crazy boring.
GRAMMAR 2 Prepositions 1. Who do you like to spend time with? 2. When were you born? 3. What are most of your clothes made of? 4. Where do you keep your keys? 5. How do you usually go to work? Have you ever played the game Monopoly? It's a pretty cool game. You go around the board and buy property and then charge people money when they land on your property. The winner of the game is the person with all the money, just like in life.
GRAMMAR 3 When 1. What did you do when you were in elementary school? 2. What did you do when you a junior high school student? 3. What did you do when you were in high school? 4. What did you when you graduated from high school? 5. What do you do when you forget your cell phone at home? Baseball is an interesting sport. In baseball players throw balls at each other and run around a square. The team that has the most players who run around the square wins the game. You only get to run if you hit a ball someone throws at you with a stick.
GRAMMAR 4 Feeling / Thing Adjectives 1. What do you think is amusing? 2. When was the last time you were bored? Why were you bored? 3. When was the last time you were surprised? What was surprising? 4. What is relaxing to do? 5. What is funny? When was the last time you saw something funny? Clyde is a thespian. Thespians are actors who really get into their roles. Clyde has never been in a movie but he's been in several very bad plays. Clyde has never been on Broadway because he's not a very good actor even though he's a great thespian.
GRAMMAR 5 Indefinite Pronouns (use the words in parenthesis) 1. What don't you need to do? (anything) 2. What do you have to do tomorrow? (something) 3. Who do you want have lunch with? (someone) 4. Where do you want to go shopping? (somewhere) 5. Where would you want to live if you could live anywhere? (somewhere) Vipers are snakes. Vipers have venom. Venom is poison but it's actually not poison. Animals make venom and plants and chemicals make poison. So when you say an animal is poisonous you're wrong. You should say that particular animal is venomous.
GRAMMAR 6 Frequency 1. How often do you lie? What do you lie about? 2. How often do you take a bus? 3. How often do you buy vegetables? 4. How often do you get bored? 5. How often do you eat oysters? Barry is nearly blind. That means he isn't blind but he can't see very well at all. Barry has to wear very strong glasses because he's nearly blind. The glasses are really heavy and kind of hurt his nose. Barry can barely see because he is nearly blind and doesn't like it.
GRAMMAR 7 Comparatives 1. Which is better; MOS Burger or McDonald's? 2. Which is worse; rain or snow? 3. Who is richer; you or your best friend? 4. Who is more fun; your mother or father? 5. Which is more boring; documentaries or newspapers? Pluto used to be a planet but it isn't a planet any more. It's a dwarf planet now. It's not a meteor because it doesn't enter the Earth's atmosphere and it's too big to be an asteroid. A lot of people were angry when Pluto became a dwarf planet.
GRAMMAR 8 Superlatives 1. What is the best place in the prefecture that you live in? 2. What is the worst thing you've drunk? 3. Who is the scariest thing that has happened to you? 4. What is the funniest movie you've seen? 5. What is the most amazing thing that happened to you last year? Cakes are difficult to make. Actually they're not that difficult to make. Sushi is kind of hard to make but it's really only because getting the rice just right is kind of difficult. Anyone can cut the fish but you've got to have a really sharp knife.
GRAMMAR 9 Auxiliary Verbs 1. What can you do? 2. What should you do? 3. What must you do? 4. What will you do? 5. What can your favorite person do? Women and men are fairly different. In general a woman has a smaller build than a man. A man cannot have babies but a woman can. It's kind of weird that a woman's body is smaller and generally more fragile but only a woman can grow a baby inside of her.
GRAMMAR 10 Relative Pronouns 1. What kind of drinks do you like? 2. What kind of music don't you like? 3. What kind of sport would you love to try? 4. What kind of country would you like to live in? 5. What kind of shoes do you want? Football is a very dangerous sport. Professional athletes often have injuries that persist until their death. Even playing football in high school causes one or two deaths every year. It all makes sense really. It's a stupid game where all you do is hit the other player.
GRAMMAR 11 Gerunds and Infinitives 1. What is something you love doing? 2. What do you need to do next month? 3. What do you regret doing in high school? 4. What do you have to do every day? 5. What shouldn't you do but you really want to do it? Frogs live in lakes, rivers, streams and bogs. Really frogs live just about anywhere with water. They live in water because they are amphibians. Frogs lay eggs everywhere and then the eggs hatch and become tadpoles. Some frogs are delicious.