TIME and PLACE: Prepositions AT, IN, ON

 

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This, That, These and Those

Have you ever been to London?

Watch this video and contrast the use of the Present Perfect tense and the Simple Past.



What questions were they asked? Have you noticed the difference?


You can revise and check the use of the Present Perfect tense in the following slideshow.

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Now you can do these exercises:

Exercise One. Present Perfect exercises.

Exercise Two. Present Perfect exercises.

Exercise Three. Present Perfect: Simple or Progressive?


Exercise Four. Present Perfect or Past Tense?

Exercise Five. Using FOR or SINCE

Exercise Six. Using FOR or SINCE

Some other exercises using ALREADY, STILL and YET
Click here.

Introducing Myself

Interesting book written by learners, introducing themselves.

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Connectors 1: Being a trapeze artist.

Have you ever been to a circus? Have you seen the trapeze artists? Have you seen them flying on the air? Isn't it amazing?
They can do that because they train for long hours every day and because when they are "flying", they are all connected with their arms and hands. Otherwise they may fall onto the floor and be injured.

Connectors are things that connect with others.

In English a connector is a special word that connects a sentence with another sentence or a word with another word. For example: so, because, and, although, ... They are special words that connect one sentence or word with another.

Example:
She stayed at home because she was very tired.
Although we wanted to see the film, we didn't go.
It was very late to go out so I watched TV.


Remember: "Practice makes excellence" So, here you have some exercises to help you

Click here to practice SO and BECAUSE
Click here for AND, BUT, SO

WH-QUESTIONS Exercises

Rudyard Kipling, the writer of "The book of the jungle", wrote a short poem about asking questions. This is the poem:

I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

From it , we learn that if you want to know something, the best is to ask questions. The more questions you ask, the more information you get.

What questions do you ask yourself every day?

Am I a happy person?

What can I do to be a happier man/woman?

What other questions can you ask yourself?

Take a moment to think about them, Write them on a piece of paper and think about the possible answers.

Also, some people like questioning things about their past actions. For expample, if you want to find a reason you ask: "Why did I react like that? Why did I give that anwer?

What other questions can you ask about a personal past action or event?

To help you practice with the use of WH-Questions, here you have some exercises.

WH Questions - WH WORDS
Questions exercises in English Exercises .org

More more exercises with WH-Questions using the past, click here.

Superman CAN do it!

Superman is a fictional character. He comes from planet Kripton. He is adopted by a family from Kansas (USA) and named Clark Kent. He works as a reporter for a newspaper The Daily Star Very early he started to show superhuman abilities that he used for the benefit of humanity. These are some of his wonderful abilities:

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  Strengh. He can lift tons of weight.


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  Flight. He can fly and jump long distances.


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  X-ray vision. He can see through solid objects.


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  Super hearing. He can hear more sounds than any other human being.


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  Invulnerability. He can protect his body from any form of harm.


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  Heat vision. He can emit heat energy from his eyes.

And ... what about you? Of course, you are not a superman but you have a lot of wonderful abilities. What are they?

If you want to do some interesting grammar exercises about CAN / CAN'T click on the following links,

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   Exercise ONE


2. 
   
   Exercise TWO


3. 
   
   Exercise THREE


4. 
   
   Exercise FOUR


5. 
   
   Exercise FIVE

Now... insert a comment and write down your super abilities...

Adjectives

Having fun with adjectives!



Have a look at this mindmap. It will help you to see the different types of adjectives.

In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main function is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent.
Not all languages have adjectives, but most, including English, do. (English adjectives include big, old, and tired, among many others.) Examples:


That is a big building.
I met a very old man.
The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
That's a very nice dress.

Now, have a look at this video and repeat the adjectives you see to get familiar with them

Now, Click here and enjoy doing these exercises. If you want to go to the BBC and do some other interesting activities, click here. However, if you would like to have fun using adjectives, this is the place to go. Click here.

They will help you to master this grammar aspect of the language.

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done in the first place.

Now, if you want to have fun and enjoy with Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody (to love. Click on the video:



Everybody Nobody

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Getting into GET

One of the funny things in Englsih is that some verbs can have different uses / meanings. The vernb GET is an example of it.
Here you have a mindmap to help you remember the uses of Get. Are you ready to GET into GET ?????

The uses of "Will" -

Sometimes you have heard that the idea of future is expressed in English with "will". This is not entirely correct. "Will" have some other uses -secrets, as I like to call them.

WILL


5 SECRETS

Have a look at these exercises. They will help you to use "will" in the different contexts.

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5

And with these ones you will practice "will" vs. "going to"

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Countable or uncountable?

Cuntable nouns

Countable nouns are individual objects, people, places, etc. which can be counted. For example: books, Italians, pictures, stations, men, etc.

A countable noun can be both singular - a friend, a house, etc. - or plural - a few apples, lots of trees, etc.

You use the singular form of the verb with a singular countable noun. For exmaple: There is an appple on the table. This book is very funny!

You also use the plural form of the verb with a countable noun in the plural. For example: There are some chairs in the classroom. Those apples are very big.

Uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns are materials, concepts, information, etc. which are not individual objects and can not be counted. For example: information, water, wood, cheese, moeny, etc.
Uncountable nouns are always singular. We use the singular form of the verb with uncountable nouns: For example: There is some milk in the fridge . I need some wood for the fire.

Practice

This exercise gives you more practice with countable or uncountable nouns. To to it, click here.