Luna's Time Travel Grammar

P2-EP01 B1-B2

I’m Always Losing Things

Present Continuous (irritation/habit)

Albert Einstein · 1920s: Einstein's absent-mindedness

P1-EP01 A1-A2

The First Hello

am/is/are + questions

Alexander Graham Bell · 1876: First telephone call

P2-EP02 B1-B2

I Think vs I’m Thinking

Stative verbs (exceptions)

René Descartes · 1637: Descartes writing 'I think, therefore I am'

P1-EP02 A1-A2

The Room with Yellow Light

There is / There are

Vincent van Gogh · 1889: Van Gogh's bedroom

P2-EP03 B1-B2

I’ve Been Working All Night

Present Perfect Continuous

Marie Curie · 1902: Marie Curie's radium research

P1-EP03 A1-A2

This Moment, That Dream

this/that/these/those

Martin Luther King Jr. · 1963: I Have a Dream speech

P2-EP04 B1-B2

How Long Have You Been Waiting?

Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect Simple

Mahatma Gandhi · 1940s: Gandhi's patient resistance

P1-EP04 A1-A2

It’s Cold at the Top

It is (time/weather)

Edmund Hillary · 1953: Everest summit

P2-EP05 B1-B2

Before That Moment

Past Perfect

Abraham Lincoln · 1863: Hours before Gettysburg Address

P1-EP05 A1-A2

What Do You Have?

have/has, have got

Wright Brothers · 1900: Wright workshop

P1-EP06 A1-A2

Whose Dream Is This?

Possessives ('s, mine, my)

Walt Disney · 1955: Disneyland opens

P2-EP06 B1-B2

I Had Been Waiting for Years

Past Perfect Continuous

Howard Carter · 1922: Before discovering Tutankhamun's tomb

P1-EP07 A2-B1

Every Day, He Walks

Present Simple (habits)

Gandhi · 1930: Salt March

P2-EP07 B1-B2

I’ll Be Working Tomorrow

Future Continuous

Thomas Edison · 1880s: Edison's relentless work ethic

P1-EP08 A2-B1

What Do You Do?

Present Simple (questions & negatives)

Charlie Chaplin · 1920s: Chaplin interview