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.

Past Times

The Simple Past is used to describe a complete action. To form past tenses, it’s helpful to remember this:

• Although most past tense verbs end in -ed, certain verbs have irregular past tense forms that do not follow this rule.

Be, have, and do are the most commonly used irregular verbs. Unfortunately, memorizing these irregular verbs is the only way to completely master the past tense.

Remember, practice makes excellence.

If you want to have fun and learn the pronunciation of irregular verbs, click here.

Some interesting exercises about the Simple Past. Click here or here

Past Tense Ending -ed

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And if you want some more practice about the -ed of regular verbs. Click here. It's a wonderful exercise from the British Council.


Now, have a look at this video and do the exercise.

How to improve your Listening SKill

When we are learning a language it is necessary to improve all the skills. Here you have some exercises to help to get that. Click on the links and follow these tips.

First Listening. Mike talks about his daily routine

Second Listening. Introductions

1) Listen to the exercise just to have an idea of what you have
2) Read the questions.
3) Listen again and answer the questions.
4) Listen again if necessary.
5) Read the script. Listen to the recording if you like.

Countries and nationalities

Can you name all the countries in the world in less than two minutes?

Is it difficult, eh? Don't worry, you don't have to learn all the countries, just watch this video for fun as an introduction.

Warning: some of the countries named on this video don't exist anymore or have changed names, but most of them are still around.

You can choose what countries and nationalities are important for you to learn, but I'll suggest a list of the basic ones most people learn at the beginning, and then, apart from these, you can learn any others you like

COUNTRY - NATIONALITY

Europe - European
The European Union / The EU - Communitarian / European
The United Kingdom / The UK - British
England - English
Spain - Spanish
France - French
Italy - Italian
Germany - German
Russia - Russian

America - American
The United States / The USA / The US / The States - American
Canada - Canadian
Mexico - Mexican
Argentina - Argentinean
Brazil - Brazilian

Africa - African
Egypt - Egyptian
South-Africa - South-African
Congo - Congolese

Asia - Asian
China - Chinese
Japan - Japanese
India - Indian

Oceania - Oceanian
Australia - Australian

Now, if you want to have a longer list of countries and nationalities, click here. Notice that you also listen to the pronunciation of the countries and nationalities.

At a Hotel

Giving directions with subtitles

Listen to the song and answer the questions.

Please don't stop the music!

Prepositions of location

Ten Sunny Ways to Make Your Day A Good One

Ten Sunny Ways to Make Your Day A Good One

• A good day is when I wake up remembering that a good day happens by CHOICE not chance!
• A good day is when I live the day in the present, being grateful for the little things in life.
• A good day is a day that I look back on and smile, because I allowed myself to be open to something new without realizing it at the time.
• A good day is when I can feel anger, pain, sadness, etc. but not let it take over.
• A good day is when I relax and go with the flow.
  A good day is drama free. (My choice, again.)
• A good day is when I'm aware that I'm a kind and compassionate person and treat myself that way.
• A good day is when I don't use excuses to paralyze my thoughts and dreams or allow fear to keep me from stepping out and doing something I believe in.
• A good day is connecting with people who are on the same self exploration journey as I am.
• A good day is the realization that EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY no matter what happens!
  

An interesting exercise from the BBC.

To do this exercise, click here.

A video about directions.

Watch this video about directions. Let it download it first.