Past participle – divided according to the pronunciation ,ENGAMES Last week I taught passive and present perfect tense. I thought that I was well prepared but in both cases we encountered one big problem. The students could not form the past participles correctly. So they fought with the past participles and completely ignored the grammar taught. So now I know that we have to deal with past participles before we return to the two grammatical points again. Past participles – mind map Here I try to track some regularities in forming the past participles in English. Past participles are not as difficult as they seem. In this section of the post you can practise the 40 past participles in different games. The second game is called En Garde. Click Here to play the game The third game has already been presented on our site.
fleex Future – will or going to There are many ways to speak about future in English. We have already dealt with two ways here. In the first blog we tried to distinguish between Will and MAY and Might on the basis of certainty that an event will happen. ADVERT: In this post I would like to demonstrate the difference between WILL and BE GOING TO. To give you a better chance to understand the difference between the two tenses there is an interactive video (based on BBC Grammar challenge), a mind map and two games. Future tenses – interactive video I have used the BBC Grammar challenge twice before (Definite Articles and in ED and ING Adjectives) and in both cases I turned the original radio recording into a video. The first game is the easier one. Future tenses in English – share If you do not have an internet connection at school, you can download the video and online quiz here. Future – all games and activities
Indirect questions: explanation of English grammar When students hear the phrase indirect questions, they get scared. But actually this is one of the easiest grammar points in English. The only thing you have to watch out for is that if a sentence starts with a certain phrase (Do you know or Could you tell me etc.) you have to use the word order for an affirmative sentence. To put it simply, after the aforementioned phrases do not make questions. To help you master this grammar there is a mind map, a video and several games in this post. Indirect questions – video The following video is based upon BBC learning English recording. We recommend that you watch the video and stop the recording every time there is a task and answer the task before MASA does. If you want to watch it full screen, click here: Indirect questions video Indirect questions – mind map The following mind map tries to show the rules for indirect questions in a graphical form. Indirect questions – games Now it is time to practise what you have learnt in the following games.
AT THE DOCTOR Dialogues and Vocabulary List Image Source You can jump to any section of this article: Health, Illness and Disease Vocabulary painfeeling in your body when you have been hurt or when you are ill,sick Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her neck, shoulder, waist, arm, leg, stomach.Take an aspirin to relieve the pain. achecontinuous pain; feel a continuous pain I can’t sleep because my head aches too bad.I have a terrible headache, backache, stomach-ache. illsuffering from an illness or disease; not feeling well; sick My elder sister is seriously ill in St John’s hospital.The children started to feel ill an hour after the meal. sick physically or mentally ill; wanting to vomit I feel very sick, I don’t think I can work today.Be careful with the cake, too much of it can make you sick. sore painful (and often red) because of infection or because a muscle has been used too much I have a sore throat, I mustn’t take that cold drink.She says her stomach is still sore after the operation.His feet were sore after the bicycle trip.
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There are nine parts of speech ThePartsofSpeech A review for ESOL students There are nine parts of speech. They are articles, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. Nouns A noun is a word used to name something: a person/animal, a place, a thing, or an idea. Leah, Ignacio, Lan, Marek Japan, Venezuela, Atlanta, Kroger, the Gap pencil, store, music, air biology, theory of Relativity, Pythagorean theory Hint: They are sometimes preceded by noun markers. &Nouns are classified in several ways… Nouns can be singular or plural. Singular nouns name only one person, place, thing or idea. One apple, a pencil, the book Plural nouns name two or more persons, places, things or ideas. Exception #1: If a noun ends with the –s, sh, ch, or x like the words, kiss, church, ash or box, then they are made plural by adding –es (kisses, churches, ashes, and boxes). Exception #2:There are also irregular nouns that do not follow any rules. Nouns can be Proper Nouns or Common Nouns A. 5. 3.
English Grammar lessons There is no one 'future tense' in English. There are 4 future forms. The one which is used most often in spoken English is 'going to', not 'will'. We use 'going to' when we want to talk about a plan for the future. I'm going to see him later today. Notice that this plan does not have to be for the near future. When I retire I'm going to go back to Barbados to live. We use 'going to' when we want to make a prediction based on evidence we can see now. Look out! We can replace 'going to go' by 'going'. I'm going out later. Return to List of Grammar Lessons
In the end vs. at the end, in time vs. on time | Games to learn english I have already dealt with the usage of prepositions in the posts Prepositions AT, IN and ON for time and Adjectives with prepositions. However, this post is different because it concentrates only on the phrases IN THE END, AT THE END, IN TIME and ON TIME which are frequently used incorrectly by students of English. In this post I would like to explain the usage and meaning of the phrases. To achieve this I have created a mind map, an interactive video and two quiz games. In this mind map I try to explain the meaning and the usage of the phrases IN THE END, AT THE END, IN TIME and ON TIME. If you feel that this explanation is not clear enough, there is a video explanation which can help you. Set phrases – interactive video In this interactive video you can see and here the explanation of the usage of the phrases. The second game will play only on your desktop.