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Window on Britain School. British school rules. Present Yourself 1 Unit 2 Clip 11. Moments. This EFL lesson is designed around a beautiful short film called Momentos by Nuno Rocha and the theme of homelessness.

Moments

Students use vocabulary to describe appearance, character and feelings, write a story, watch a short film and speak about homelessness. I would ask all teachers who use Film English to consider buying my book Film in Action as the royalties which I receive from sales help to keep the website completely free. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Advanced (C1) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Writing a story, watching a short film and speaking Topic: Homelessness Language: Vocabulary to describe appearance, character and feelings, and narrative tenses Materials: Short film and discussion questions Downloadable materials: moments lesson instructions moments photos homelessness discussion questions Support Film English Film English remains ad-free and takes many hours a month to research and write, and hundreds of dollars to sustain.

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4. Verb Tense Tutorial. Verb tenses are verb forms (went, go, will go) which English speakers use to talk about the past, present, and future in their language.

Verb Tense Tutorial

There are twelve verb tense forms in English as well as other time expressions such as used to. For English learners, knowing how to use English tenses can be quite a challenge. Never fear. Englishpage.com's verb tense tutorial will teach you to think like a native speaker. Let's get started! Simple Present and Present continuous. Modal Verbs. Learning modal verbs can be difficult for some learners of the English language.

Modal Verbs

Of course, it helps to know what they are, and how they are used, but it's just as important to know the phrase combinations you'll find them in at the advanced level of the English language. As an introduction to modal verbs, please look through the following information. It will help you to get the most out of the modal verb pages on this site.

First off, there are a few things worthy to note concerning these types of verbs. Typically, the following apply to all modals. A. A. I should go visit them.I think it will be rather boring.Things could have been so different. Modal verbs exercises - advanced level. Modal verbs: presentation. Modal verbs: theory. Used to or usually. Exercícios de Inglês. RELATIVE PRONOUNS. Relative Clauses Exercise 1. Relative Pronoun Gap Fill. Read this letter from Ben to his friend Sheila.

Relative Pronoun Gap Fill

For each space, put a relative pronoun: whose - where - when - who - which - that Where it is possible to leave the empty space without a relative pronoun, write 0 (zero) in the box. Where both which and that can be used, use that. The English Learning Lounge - Our great English learning app available in both Android and Apple. The History of English (BBC animation) - LinkEngPark. Anglo-Saxon The English language begins with the phrase ‘Up Yours Caesar!’

The History of English (BBC animation) - LinkEngPark

As the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes start flooding in, tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons – who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon, and the Jutes – who didn’t. The Romans left some very straight roads behind, but not much of their Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon vocab was much more useful as it was mainly words for simple everyday things like ‘house’, ‘woman’, ‘loaf’ and ‘werewolf’. Four of our days of the week – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods, but they didn’t bother with Saturday, Sunday and Monday as they had all gone off for a long weekend.

The Norman Conquest Click for the transcript Shakespeare Click for the transcript The History of English 2 The History of English 3 The History of English 4 Source: BBC More Series for You: 2 Exercises/59 examples of Past Simple. English Grammar - Negative Forms of MUST & HAVE TO. FCE Listening: free practice test.