Revision Booklet:

Grade 6
Block Three Revision

Tense

Simple Present

Affirmative / Negative /
Question

A: He speaks.
N: He does not speak.
Q: Does he speak?

Present Progressive A: He is speaking.

N: He is not speaking.
Q: Is he speaking?

Use

action in the present taking place

once, never or several times
facts

action taking place in the moment

of speaking
temporary actions

Signal Words

always, every ,
never, normally,
often, seldom,
sometimes, usually

at the moment, just,

just now, Listen!,
Look!, now, right now

action arranged for the future

Simple Past

Past Progressive

A: He spoke.
N: He did not speak.
Q: Did he speak?

Past actions
actions taking place one after
another

yesterday, 2 minutes
ago, in 1990, the
other day, last

A: He was speaking.
N: He was not speaking.
Q: Was he speaking?

action going on at a certain time in

the past

when, while, as long

as

actions taking place at the same

time
action in the past that is interrupted
by another action

Present Perfect
Simple

A: He has spoken.
N: He has not spoken.
Q: Has he spoken?

action that is still going on

Past Perfect Simple

A: He had spoken.
N: He had not spoken.
Q: Had he spoken?

action taking place before a certain

time in the past

already, just, never,

not yet, once, until
that day

Future I Simple

A: He will speak.
N: He will not speak.
Q: Will he speak?

action in the future that cannot be

influenced

in a year, next ,
tomorrow
assumption: I think,
probably, we
might , perhaps

action that stopped recently

finished action that has an influence
on the present

spontaneous decision
assumption with regard to the
future

Future I Simple
(going to)

A: He is going to speak.
N: He is not going to speak.
Q: Is he going to speak?

decision made for the future

already, ever, just,

never, not yet, so far,
till now, up to now

in one year, next

week, tomorrow

Revision
Do as shown between brackets:
1. Mum ( go ) . walking every morning.
2. Mum is making lemon juice in the kitchen.

[ correct the verb ]

[ negate ]

.
3. Sam is ( fat ) .. than me. [ correct the adjective ]
4. David ( go ) to Carrefour yesterday.

[ correct the verb ]

5. She wont travel to Alex tomorrow. [ Use: yet ]

.
6. Is Meg going to play the violin? [ chop the potatoes ]

[answer ]

..
7. While she (watch) ...T.V, her brother (play) ........in the garden.[correct ]
8. Mary is ( beautiful) ..than Sara. [ correct the adjective ]
9. ( Yesterday Today ) the children won the football match.
10. Ive got the ( good ) handwriting.
11. He (travel) to London next week.

[ choose ]
[ correct the adjective ]
[ correct]

12. I bought the (expensive more expensive most expensive) ring in the shop. [ choose ]
13. Look! Many birds ( fly ) .. over our house.
14. We will go the farm tomorrow.

[ correct the verb ]

[ Begin with Yesterday ]

.
15. I ( travel ) . to America two years ago.

[ correct the verb ]

16. Sam ( watch ) .. Harry Potter last summer.

17. They played tennis at the club.

[ correct the verb ]

[ ask about the underlined part ]

18. Dad ( go ) .. to his office on foot everyday.

19. Pam watches T.V. in the evening.

[ correct the verb ]

( negate )

20. The children are ( happy ) . than yesterday.

[ correct the adjective ]

Parts of Speech
In grammar, a part of speech is a linguistic category of words. In English there are eight parts
of speech.
A list of parts of speech
A list of parts of speech in English grammar include the following:
1. Verb
A verb is used to show an action or a state of being
go, write, exist, be
2. Noun
A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events, ideas
and feelings. A noun functions as a subject or object of a verb and can be modified by an
adjective.
John, lion, table, freedom, love ...
3. Adjec ve
Adjectives are used to describe or specify a noun or pronoun
good, beautiful, nice,...
4. Adverb
An adverb is used to modify a verb, adjective and other adverbs.
completely, never, there, where ...
5. Pronoun
A pronoun is used in the place of a noun or phrase.
I, you, he, she, it ...
6. Preposition
Prepositions are used before nouns to form a phrase that shows where, when, how and why
in, above, to, for, at ...
7. Conjunction
Conjunctions join clauses or sentences or words
and, but, when, or ...

8. Interjection
Interjections are used to show surprise or emotion or rejection.
Oh!, Good Lord , No.
Examples of parts of speech
Here are some examples of parts of speech:

My (pronoun) friend (noun) speaks (verb) English (noun) fluently (adverb).

Oh! (interjection) I ( pronoun) went (verb) to (preposition) school (noun)
(conjunction) I ( pronoun) met (verb) Fred (noun)
He ( pronoun) is ( verb) a clever ( adjective) boy ( noun )

1) Decide which parts of speech are the underlined words:

1- You have to believe in yourself if you ever expect to be successful at something. ( ...... )
2- We left for the mountain just before six in the morning. ( ...... )
3- We first went to the store to buy a few things. ( ...... )
4- We had a breakfast at a caf near the rail station. ( ...... )
5- My friend wasn't strong enough to lift his heavy suitcase. ( ...... )
6- I helped him carry it. ( ...... )
7- The weather was very cold.

( ...... )

8- My friend said, "Oh! What a cold weather!"

9-We didn't spend the night there.

( ...... )

( ...... )

10- We got back home late at night but we didn't go to sleep immediately. We were very hungry. ( )

1. Today, I will wear my yellow skirt.

a. noun b. adjective

2. No, you may not climb onto the roof.

a. interjection b. pronoun

3. This warm bath will feel good on my legs.

a. verb b. adverb

4. This is a good movie.

a. adverb b. adjective

and

5. Throw the ball as hard as you can.

a. verb b. noun

6. I am extremely excited for our trip to Costa Rica.

a. adjective b. adverb

7. Should be stay in a hotel or in a youth hostel?

a. interjection b. conjunction

8. Where is my suitcase?

a. verb b. adverb

9. Your suitcase is in the closet.

a. preposition b. adjective

10. Let's make cookies!

a. noun b. preposition

Common and Proper Nouns

Common nouns name a person, place, or thing. They do not begin with a capital letter.
Proper nouns name a specific person, place, or thing. They always begin with a capital letter.

Write a proper noun for each common noun.

Common Noun

Proper Noun

Truck
restaurant
park
girl
teacher
truck Ford
school
store
movie
boy
dog
river
cartoon

Ford

Nouns
A noun names a person, place, or thing.

Underline the nouns in the following sentences.

1. The plane landed safely at the airport.
2. The girl dropped the glass on the table.
3. My cat likes to play with string and yarn.
4. I saw my teacher at the store.
5. Is there a dime in the bank?
6. There was a huge spider crawling across the floor.
7. Is that child waiting to get on the bus?

8. A monkey jumped down and grabbed the banana.

9. The book must be returned to the library soon.
10. My stuffed bear fell in the mud.
Antonyms
Antonyms are words that are opposites.
example: hot and cold are antonyms
Write each word next to its antonym.
dry

Pretty

messy

Hard

right
asleep

bad
fast

Small
Night

big
clean
enemy
slow
good
difficult
day
wet

icy
easy

noisy

friend

angry

rich

happy
ugly
quiet
wrong
soft
hot
awake
poor

Synonyms
Synonyms are words that mean almost the same thing.
example: sad and gloomy are synonyms
Write each word next to its synonym.
leap
messy
right
stone

handsome
hard
small
friend

bad
fast

icy
easy

noisy

present

angry

toss

Quick

loud

Mad

rock

Buddy

throw

Dirty

awful

simple

tiny

Correct

cute

Difficult

cold

Gift

jump

We use the Past Simple to talk about:

actions that started and finished in the past.
o I lost my purse yesterday.
o She didnt sleep well last night.
actions that happened on after the other in the past.
o He woke up, got out of bed and had a shower.
o I put on my coat, picked up my bag and left the house.
actions that were repeated or were habits in the past.
o Her grandfather made wooden toys.
*Time Markers:
ago last in 1999 ( or any previous date ) the day before yesterday yesterday
the other day when I was five years when I was young this morning
once upon a time the previous.

Form

*Past Simple [ Regular Verbs ]

1) Add (d) to verbs that end in (e)

Ex:

like liked

smoke smoked

2) Add (ed) to regular verbs.

Ex:

look looked

walk walked

3) Cross(Y) and add ( ied) to verbs that end with( consonant + Y)

Ex:

carry carried

study studied

But (vowel +y)Keep the (y) and add (ed)

Ex:
play played
stay stayed
4) Double the last consonant if there is one vowel before the last consonant.
Ex:

chop chopped -

stop stopped
* Negative + Question

Negative: subject + did + not + infinitive

Ex: She played tennis yesterday.

She didn't play tennis yesterday.
Question: Did + subject + infinitive ?
Ex: He woke up at six o'clock this morning.
Did he wake up at six o'clock this morning?
*Irregular Verbs: ( see the beginning of the booklet )

Exercises on Past Simple

1) Correct the verb between brackets:

1. The man ( post ) the letter last week.

2. She ( stay ) in a hotel yesterday.
3. The beggar ( tap ) on the window yesterday, but no one ( answer )
him.
4. Last Sunday, I ( talk ) to Jerry over the phone for one hour.
5. Jack ( step ) out of bed a minute ago.
6. Jane ( have ) a bad fall yesterday evening.
7. Yesterday, Mum ( go ) shopping.
8. Yesterday, I ( buy ) a new dress.
9. Sally ( find ) the missing ring and hour ago.
10.Greg ( meet ) . Don at the airport two days ago.

2) Correct the mistakes:

1. Did Jim had a bath this morning?

..
2. There was a telephone call for me?
..
3. She writes a letter last Monday.
..

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb:

1. I your brother last Friday. ( see )
2. Meg to the park an hour ago. (go )
3. The children football at home this morning. ( play )
4. Don .. a letter to Uncle Ben last week. ( not write )
5. Yesterday very hot. ( be )
6. My parents a new car a year ago. ( buy )
7. Larry and Ben this film last week. [ watch ]
8. She . on a banana skin and her arm last week. ( step hurt )
9. you .. English stories before you sleep last night? ( read )
10. I .. take my vitamin a minute ago.

( not take )

We form the degree of comparison of most adjectives by adding ( -er ) or ( -est )

to the positive degree.

Regular Adjectives
er + than

Adjectives ending in y =
drop the y and add ier +
than

one vowel + one

constant = double
constant + er

old

older

pretty

prettier

fat

fatter

tall

taller

noisy

noisier

big

bigger

cheap

cheaper

easy

easier

thin

thinner

long

longer

tricky

trickier

hot

hotter

Long adjectives ( more than two syllables )

( ex: interesting wonderful expensive )
More (long adj.) than
English is more interesting than Maths.

Regular Adjectives
the + est

Adjectives ending in y =
drop the y and the + est

one vowel + one

constant = the + double
constant + est

old

the oldest

pretty

the prettiest

fat

tall

the tallest

noisy

the noisiest

big

cheap

the cheapest

easy

the easiest

thin

long

the longest

tricky

the trickiest

hot

the fattest
the biggest
the
thinnest
the hottest

Long adjectives (more than two syllables)

( ex: interesting wonderful expensive)
The most + (long adj.)
English is the most interesting subject.
Irregular adjectives:
1- good better than the best
2- bad worse than the worst
3- far farther than the farthest
4- little less than the least
5- much/ many more than the most

further than the furthest

1) Choose the correct answer.

1. Persil is the ( expensive more expensive most expensive ) soap powder in market.
2. Sonia is ( fat fatter the fattest ) than her sister.
3. Chicken soup is as ( good better the best ) as tomato soup.
4. His wife is the ( good better best ) cook in the world.
5. A train is ( as fast as not as fast as faster than ) a plane.
6. Health is ( important more important the most important ) than wealth.
7. Running is ( tiring more tiring the most tiring ) than walking.
8. A lion is ( strong stronger the strongest ) animal.
9. This is the ( pretty prettier the prettiest ) picture Ive ever seen.
10. She looks ( happy happier the happiest ) than yesterday.
2) Write the correct form of the adjectives between brackets.
1. Mona is ( young ) than Leila.
2. English is . ( interesting ) than science.
3. Kamal is the . ( old ) boy in the class.
4. She is the ( beautiful ) girl in town.

Equality is expressed by ( as . adjective as )

Negative by ( not so .. adjective as ) ( not as adjective as )
Manal is as old as her brother.
French isnt as difficult as Italian.

5. Oranges are . ( sweet ) than lemon.

6. Cairo is the .. ( large ) city in Egypt.
7. August is the .. ( hot ) month of the year.
8. Len is . ( lazy ) than Lilli.
9. Your pronunciation is . ( good ) than Alis.
10. February is the ( short ) month of the year.
3) Complete with the correct form of the adjectives in brackets.
1- The blue bike is .. ( nice ) than the red one
2- The red bike isnt as ... ( expensive ) as the blue one.
3- I think hes . ( shy ) than Kenny.
4- Kenny is . ( outgoing ) than his brother.
5- Hes probably the .. ( active ) of all friends.
6- This is the ( bad ) day of my life.

Butterflies
Collecting butterflies is a hobby. Where can you see butterflies? Butterflies are living
insects. There are about 17.000 kinds of bu eries. They live in most parts of the world, even
as far north as the Arctic Circle.
Butterflies have many colours and sizes. One of the smallest, the dwarf blue of South Africa
has a wing span of only 14 mm. The largest, the Queen Alexandria bird wing, has a wing span
of 28 cm.
All butterflies begin their lives as caterpillars which hatch from eggs. The caterpillars spend
their lives eating the plant they were hatched on. They change their skin several times as they
grow. When a caterpillar is fully grown it changes into chrysalis ( cocoon ) with a hard skin.
Inside this the chrysalis changes into an adult butterfly. When it is ready, the butterfly breaks
out and flies away to find a mate and lay eggs of its own.
Some butterflies migrate. They fly from one part of the world to another at certain times
of the year. One of the most famous migrating butterflies is the Monarch butterfly in North
America. In the summer it lives all over the United States, Canada and Alaska. In the autumn,
the butterflies gather together in groups. They fly south to Mexico, Florida and southern
California for the winter.
A) Answer the following questions:
1) How many kinds of living bu eries are there?

2) How do bu eries begin their lives?

3) What does a caterpillar do?

B) Put ( ) or ( x ):
1) Bu eries are harmful insects.
2) All bu eries migrate.

3) Queen Alexandra has a wing span of 28 cm. (

Marathon
What do you know about races? Can you run fast?
The Marathon is a very hard long - distance race of 42 19 km ( 26 miles 385 yards ). It
has been run in the Olympic Games since 1896. It was named a er a Greek soldier who ran
from the town of Marathon to Athens in 490 BC to bring news of a Greek Victory over the
Persians.
In 1908 there was a famous nish to the Olympic Marathon. At the end of the race a small
Italian, Dorando Pietri, staggered into the stadium in the lead. He collapsed twice in the last
100 meters and had to be helped over the nishing line. He was disqualied because of this,
but everyone remembers this as Dorando's Marathon.
The ocial distance for the Marathon is 26 miles 385 yards. The reason for this strange
distance is that Bri sh Olympic commi ee decided in 1908 to start the race from the royal
castle of Windsor and finish in front of the royal box in the stadium in London. This was
measured 26 miles 385 yards, a distance that has remained standard ever since. The world
record me for men over the distance is 2 hours 4 minutes and 55 seconds set in the Berlin
Marathon by Paul Tergat on 28th September, 2003. The world record for women was set by
Paula Radcli in London Marathon on 13th April, 2003 in 2 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds.
A) Answer the following questions:
1) How long is the Marathon race?

2) What are the world records for the Marathon for both men and women?

3) What did the Bri sh Olympic commi ee decide? Why?

B) Put ( ) or ( x ):
1) The marathon race is included in the Olympic Games. (
2) Marathon racing is easy and short. (
3) Anyone can win the Marathon race.

)
(