What's your favourite colour?


COLOURS

Read the following list of words.  Say the color of the word instead of the word itself.



RED   GREEN   YELLOW   BLACK   BLUE   RED   BLACK

GREEN   RED    PURPLE   GREEN   BLUE   YELLOW

BLACK   PURPLE   RED   GREEN   BLUE   YELLOW

PURPLE   YELLOW   GREEN   BLACK   RED   BLUE




What you just experienced was left-brain / right-brain conflict.  Your right brain saw the color but your left brain insisted that you say the word.  The conflict made this activity  slow and often frustrating.  You have been forced to be this way because it is how you learned how to read.  You have read this way for many years and it is ingrained in you.  Your left brain first wanted to say the word, but then it analyzed the color.  Meanwhile, your right brain knew all along the colour, but was dominated the whole time by the left brain trying to do a simple right brain job. 

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.




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.