AEIS English Lesson 1 — Diagnostic & Tenses

What's inside

Lesson 1 of the LearnUp AEIS English series — a complete 90-minute lesson pitched at Secondary 1 entry (content at the Primary 6 level, as the AEIS content rule requires). It opens with a 24-item diagnostic, then gives clear notes on the four present-time tenses (Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous), stative versus dynamic verbs, and the difference between 'since' and 'for'. A six-exercise worksheet builds from single sentences up to a full editing passage, followed by three cloze passages — including one written in the exact AEIS multiple-choice format. The homework mirrors the AEIS Part 2 paper: grammar multiple-choice questions, a comprehension cloze, an editing task and a short writing task. All material is original LearnUp content. The student booklet runs to 12 pages; a separate answer key is available as a download below.

How to use it

Follow the method in the workbook — read aloud, cover-and-recite, check, sleep on it, recite again the next morning. One paragraph per day, six days a week, finishes the workbook in under a month. On exam day, pick the paragraph that matches the prompt's emotion, swap the marked words, add a sentence either side. Done in under a minute.