Grammar Revision: Expressions with GET

These exercises will help you to remember expressions with get.

Activity One: choose the best option. Click HERE

Activity Two: Match the items on the right with the items on the left.

Click  HERE

Activity Three: This is a printable activity with answers. You can do them at the computer room in this way: click HERE to see the activity, write the answers in a sheet of paper, and then check your responses with the KEY answers in the last page.

Grammar Revision: Past Perfect

Revise your knowledge about the use of Past Perfect Tenes by clicking HERE

Exercise One: Put in the verbs in brackets into the gaps and form sentences in the Past Perfect. Use contracted forms only when there are personal pronouns. Click HERE

Exercise Two: Questions in Past Perfect Simple. Complete the questions in Past Perfect Simple and then check your answers. Click HERE

Exercise Three: Simple Past or Past Perfect? Using the words in parentheses, complete the text with the appropriate tenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Click HERE 

Exercise Four:  Simple Past, Present  or Past Perfect? Using the words in parentheses, complete the text with the appropriate tenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Click HERE

Module 11

Hello, everybody:

We are going to practise the following topics in this post:

• Obligation and permission

Activity one:  "can, could, to be able to" Click HERE

Activity two: talking about what is necessary / not necessary. Click HERE

Activity three: " might     must     should" Click HERE

Miscellaneous. Rearrange the lines. Click HERE 

• Linking words:

1-This quiz will help you practice using contrasting conjunctions, HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH, WHEREAS, ALSO, DESPITE, IN SPITE OF. Click HERE

•  Wordspot: 

1.  Improve your vocabulary by studying the most common uses of the verb "do" .Click HERE
2.  Learn how words associate with the verb "do". Click HERE
3.  Online game to revise the use of the verbs "make" and "do"

Let's play a game to check what you remember about  the common uses of do and make. Read the instructions carefully. Click HERE to start.

• In a previous post (Module9) , I asked you to write predictions in an online tool called "Wallwisher". Here is the result:

• Video: John Lennon Tribute. 

9th Oct, 2010 would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday.

The future

Let's practise the use of t Simple future and future "going to"








Online Practice

• Grammar Exercises   
  
• Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future? Answer the online questionaire
• Listening comprehension (Going to Future)

Reading for pleasure:  
21 Things that will become obsolete in Education 
Do you agree with these predictions? Write your opinion in comments . Due date: September 29th

Interesting Free Online Course

Hello, everybody:

While I was multitasking on the net and came across this interesting website which offers a free online course consisting of a comprehensive revision of English grammar.

It is designed for those already fluent in English, but who want to improve their writing. It covers punctuation and grammar, from commas and colons to adverbs and prepositions.

It says that by completing this course, you will see a marked improvement in your written English!!

Each section breaks down the rules into easily assimilated explanations. There is a section on spelling. This course is ideal for anyone looking to improve their written and indeed spoken English.

It also contains audio, so ensure that you have speakers or headphones ready. A text transcript is also available. Isn´t is promising? 

Are you interested? Here is the link

Best, Nelba 

An Amazing Story Module 10

Hello everybody,

Here we are in a new module.

You have studied Past Perfect.Let's revise a bit of grammar. Read the material by clicking on:

• Summary
• Use
• Signal words
• Form of affirmative, negative sentences and questions
• Spelling
• Special verbs
• Diagram
• Long forms and short forms

Now let's do some interactive exercises:

1. Exercise 
2. Execise
3. Exercise
4. Exercise 
5. Past Simple or Past Perfect? Exercise
6. Put the verbs of this paragraph in the correct tense. Exercise 

You have also analized the differences between the reporting verbs:

"say" and "tell". Let's study these explanations: Click HERE

And now do this exercise to test your knowledge. 

Exercise One

Exercise Two

Exercise Three

Say, Speak, Talk or tell?????

This module presented elements to tell a story. To make a story more vivid, you use adverbs of manner to describe the action in detail. Let's see this power point presentation to revise this grammar point and do some activities. Important: Do the activities on a sheet of paper, then check your answers with the KEY at the end of the slideshow.

Adverbs of Manner - spellings

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Module 6

Hello, students!

Welcome to this new post where we are going to begin revising and practising a grammar point:
 -ed/-ing adjectives.

As we did in the previous module, I want you to revise this topic in your book on page 148. Now you are going to check if you  really know which form is the most suitable in the following online exercise. Click HERE

You have also studied Extreme Adjectives Let´s read a blog post and do this fill in the gaps exercise.Click HERE 

I was surfing the net looking for listening activities about movie reviews and came across this interesting website: http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/subject/Listening

You cannot complain! There is a varied list of videos (some of them are movie trailers!) with online activities (click on "Read more").

Oh, by the way Héctor from Adults 5A asked me for online classical short stories and here is the link! 

http://www.classicshorts.com/abc.html

I hope you will enjoy these activities and online resources. 
See you next month,
Nelba  :-)

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