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  • Present Simple: Daily Routines (PDF)

    Present Simple: Daily Routines (PDF)

    The Present Simple is the first tense most learners meet, and daily routines are where it earns its name: I get up at 7 a.m., She works in a hospital, They live in Madrid. Three rules govern almost every sentence at A1 — the third-person -s (she works, not she work), the auxiliary do/does for negatives and questions (Do you speak Spanish?, He doesn’t play tennis), and the set of frequency adverbs (always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never) that anchor each statement in habit.

    This worksheet builds the foundations of the Present Simple in the context of daily routines. Students work through affirmative, negative, and question forms; practise the third-person -s and the do/does split; and produce their own sentences using frequency adverbs and time expressions (every morning, on weekdays, at the weekend, after work).

    What’s inside:

    • Grammar Box with affirmative, negative, and question forms, plus the full list of A1 time expressions
    • Gap-fill (10 items): correct form of the verb in brackets, including two-gap question items (auxiliary + base form)
    • Personalised production: write six sentences about your own routine and the people around you
    • Error correction (6 items): fix the missing third-person -s, do/does misuse, and word order in questions
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with timing, common A1 mistakes, and a pair-work extension activity

    Common mistakes addressed: the missing -s in third person (she work), do/does with -s on the main verb (does she works?), question word order (where lives she?), and over-applying -s to I/you/we/they (I goes).

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge A2 Key (KET) preparation, where daily-routine prompts and habit descriptions are core Speaking and Writing tasks. Part of the Present Tenses collection — the natural next step is Present Simple vs Present Continuous, which adds the contrast with actions happening right now.

  • Present Simple: Daily Routines (PDF)

    Present Simple: Daily Routines (PDF)

    The Present Simple is the first tense most learners meet, and daily routines are where it earns its name: I get up at 7 a.m., She works in a hospital, They live in Madrid. Three rules govern almost every sentence at A1 — the third-person -s (she works, not she work), the auxiliary do/does for negatives and questions (Do you speak Spanish?, He doesn’t play tennis), and the set of frequency adverbs (always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never) that anchor each statement in habit.

    This worksheet builds the foundations of the Present Simple in the context of daily routines. Students work through affirmative, negative, and question forms; practise the third-person -s and the do/does split; and produce their own sentences using frequency adverbs and time expressions (every morning, on weekdays, at the weekend, after work).

    What’s inside:

    • Grammar Box with affirmative, negative, and question forms, plus the full list of A1 time expressions
    • Gap-fill (10 items): correct form of the verb in brackets, including two-gap question items (auxiliary + base form)
    • Personalised production: write six sentences about your own routine and the people around you
    • Error correction (6 items): fix the missing third-person -s, do/does misuse, and word order in questions
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with timing, common A1 mistakes, and a pair-work extension activity

    Common mistakes addressed: the missing -s in third person (she work), do/does with -s on the main verb (does she works?), question word order (where lives she?), and over-applying -s to I/you/we/they (I goes).

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge A2 Key (KET) preparation, where daily-routine prompts and habit descriptions are core Speaking and Writing tasks. Part of the Present Tenses collection — the natural next step is Present Simple vs Present Continuous, which adds the contrast with actions happening right now.

  • Writing: Filling in Forms and Short Messages (PDF)

    Writing: Filling in Forms and Short Messages (PDF)

    Filling in forms and short messages is the foundational A1 writing genre. The format covers personal-information forms (name, date of birth, address, contact details), short message types (text, postcard, simple note), and basic register choice between formal and informal. Learners build the productive writing skill every survival-English user needs.

    This worksheet builds A1 writing fluency with form-filling and short-message format.

    What’s inside:

    • A model completed form and several short messages with annotated structure
    • Personal-information vocabulary box
    • Form-completion drill: fill in three different forms (registration, application, contact)
    • Short-message practice: write a postcard, text, and note
    • Original-writing task: complete a sample form and write three short messages
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes

    Common challenges: Form-specific vocabulary at A1 — surname, given name, date of birth, postcode, occupation, marital status. Date formats: 15 March 2026 vs 15/03/2026 vs March 15, 2026. Address conventions vary by country. Capitalisation: proper nouns and the start of each sentence.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Writing Part 1. Part of the Reports, Articles & Reviews collection — the natural next step is A Blog Post, which extends practical writing into the personal-voice genre.

  • Numbers, Dates and Prices (PDF)

    Numbers, Dates and Prices (PDF)

    Numbers, dates, and prices are the most consequential everyday-English skill below word level. Mistakes here aren’t grammar errors — they’re missed appointments, wrong addresses, and overpayments. One, two… twenty… thirty… one hundred… one thousand… a million for cardinal numbers. First, second, third… twenty-first for ordinals (used for dates). Monday, Tuesday… March, April… 2026, 2030 for days, months, years. £12.50, $99.99, €15 for prices with currency. Combined, this is the productive base every A1 learner needs to handle shops, bookings, addresses, and dates.

    This worksheet builds A1 confidence with numbers, dates, and prices in transactional contexts.

    What’s inside:

    • Reference table with cardinals, ordinals, days, months, and price formats
    • Listening-style dictation: write the numbers, prices, and dates you hear
    • Gap-fill in shop dialogues, booking confirmations, and date-of-birth forms
    • Personalised production: write today’s date, your birthday, and a price for three items you own
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with dictation extension

    Common challenges: 13, 14, 15 vs 30, 40, 50 sound similar at speed — the central A1 listening trap. Date conventions differ: British 14 March 2026, American March 14, 2026 — both common in international English. Price conventions: £12.50 read as twelve pounds fifty (no and); $99.99 as ninety-nine ninety-nine or ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Phone numbers read digit by digit: 020-7946-0182 as oh two oh, seven nine four six, oh one eight two.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Numbers, dates, and prices are tested in Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Listening Parts 1–2 and embedded across Speaking. Part of the Work & Money collection — the natural next step is Jobs and Occupations Vocabulary, which extends number-and-money basics into employment vocabulary.

  • Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary (PDF)

    Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary (PDF)

    Fruits and vegetables vocabulary is the A1 lexical foundation that anchors every other food worksheet. Apple, banana, orange, strawberry, grape, peach, pear, lemon, lime, mango, pineapple for fruits; potato, carrot, onion, tomato, cucumber, lettuce, broccoli, mushroom, pepper, garlic for vegetables. Beyond the items themselves, the worksheet covers high-frequency collocations (fresh fruit, frozen vegetables, ripe banana, green pepper, red pepper) and the countable / uncountable split that distinguishes most fruits and vegetables (countable) from quantities (a bunch of grapes, a head of lettuce, a clove of garlic).

    This worksheet builds A1 confidence with the fruits-and-vegetables core lexis and food-shopping vocabulary.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 30+ items organised by category (fruits, vegetables, herbs)
    • Picture matching and labelling tasks for visual anchoring
    • Gap-fill in shopping-and-recipe contexts
    • Sorting task: classify as fruit / vegetable / herb
    • Personalised production: write a shopping list for a simple meal plus full Answer Key and Teacher Notes

    Common challenges: False friends are common — German Pfirsich is peach, not peach-and-something-else; Italian pomodoro is tomato, predictably; but Italian peperoni are bell peppers, not pepperoni sausage. Tomato classification is the recurring trick question: botanically a fruit, culinarily a vegetable — English uses the culinary classification. Vegetable vs vegetarian: easy to confuse for A1 learners.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. The foundational food lexis is core to Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Speaking Part 1 and everyday-survival English. Part of the Food & Cooking collection — the natural next step is Food and Drink Basic Vocabulary, which extends the food-item vocabulary into the broader meal-and-drink range.

  • Daily Routines Vocabulary (PDF)

    Daily Routines Vocabulary (PDF)

    Daily routines vocabulary anchors the lexicon every learner uses in their first month of class: wake up, get up, have breakfast, brush my teeth, get dressed, leave the house, take the bus, start work, finish work, get home, watch TV, go to bed. Combined with time expressions (at seven o’clock, in the morning, around midday, at the weekend, every day) and frequency adverbs (always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never), this is the productive base that lets A1 learners describe their lives.

    This worksheet builds A1 confidence with daily-routines vocabulary in the present simple, with focus on time-of-day expressions and frequency adverbs.

    What’s inside:

    • Vocabulary box with 25+ routine verb phrases, organised by time of day
    • Picture sequencing: order the activities chronologically
    • Gap-fill in routine descriptions with verb-and-time-expression slots
    • Personalised production: write six sentences about your weekday and your weekend routine
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with pair-interview extension

    Common challenges: Verb-phrase memory is the central A1 challenge — have breakfast / take a shower / make the bed are unit phrases that need to be learned whole, not assembled from parts. Get up vs wake up is the recurring distinction: wake up (eyes open), get up (leave the bed). Frequency-adverb word order traps: I always work (before main verb), I am always tired (after be).

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1, in beginner classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. The routines lexis maps directly onto Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Speaking Part 1 and informal-writing tasks. Part of the Everyday Life & People collection — the natural next step is Family and Relationships Vocabulary, which extends the daily setting into people-and-relationships vocabulary.