All Things Grammar - Home Forum | ________ Learn English | Fluent LandPrepositions Made Easy: Preposition for Location and Movement Do you struggle with the prepositions? Do the various prepositions in English confuse you? Well have no fear. In this article, you’re going to easily learn the definitions for the various prepositions related to movement and location. Because prepositions don’t literally translate from one language to another, they can be one of the most difficult things for non-native English speakers to master. But it doesn’t have to be difficult. One reason prepositions can be difficult to wrap your head around [understand] is because it’s hard to visualize what they look like in your head. However, prepositions related to direction CAN be demonstrated with images. Preposition Definitions 1. I’m in my car. The time is right for dancing in the street. 2. I prefer to sit on the floor. I just can’t wait to get on the road again. 3. She’s at the door. Where are you at? 4. Do you live near here? The restaurant is near the bakery. 5. The cat is under the table. Under the bridge downtown I gave my life away. 6. 7. 8. 9.
English Grammar Tests for ESL Students - English Grammar Practice Quizzes Welcome to our English grammar training section, a good place to practice and improve your knowledge of English grammar. The quizzes come in three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The topics covered include verb tenses, phrasal verbs, articles, prepositions, noun clauses, and much more. Start practicing English right now! (B) = Beginner; (I) = Intermediate; (A) = Advanced VERB TENSES (Tests/Quizzes): Commands (Imperative) 1 (B/I)Commands (Imperative) 2 (B/I)Commands (Imperative) 3 (B/I)The Present Continuous 1 (B)Simple Past/Past Continuous? EXERCISES TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS (ADVANCED) Whether you're a native speaker of English or an advanced ESL student, these practice tests will help you to recognize and eliminate common grammar errors. COUNTABLE (COUNT) or UNCOUNTABLE (NONCOUNT) NOUNS: USED TO, BE USED TO, WOULD 1 (B/I)WOULD YOU LIKE or DO YOU LIKE?
Grammar Exercise: Using prepositions - english-at-home.com One of the most difficult things about learning English is using the correct preposition in set phrases. Choose the correct preposition in the following sentences. Level: Elementary and above Get a FREE English Short Story! Like to learn English? 123.7Klikes52.9Kfollowers1.6Kfollowers All material on this site is © 2016 english-at-home.com | ContactPrivacy Quiz Challenge: 30 Common Phrasal Verbs that you Really Need to Know Can we still be friends if today’s post is on phrasal verbs? I know, I know, I’ve been a student, too. I know what you’re thinking. How, for goodness sake, one is supposed to learn that a car pulls in/off/over/out/up/away and into something and be expected not to make a mistake? When I was a student at university, they made us learn like two thousand phrasal verbs or maybe more. Anyway, I am not planning to ask my students to memorise long lists of phrasal verbs out of context. This quiz below is a good example of that. Do you have any others to add to the list? This is how I suggest you work with the quiz: Do the quizOnce you have finished doing it, try to remember which phrasal verbs were tested and write them down on a piece of paper together with their meaning.Do the quiz once again and compare your written answers with the ones given in the quiz.Write down the ones you didn’t know. Thanks for reading.
Irregular Verbs? Yes,Please! My son Lucas was complaining he was going to have a permanent crick in his neck from spending hourrrrrs (or words to that effect) trying to learn irregular verbs in English when it occurred to me there might be plenty of sites on the Internet to help students, and my own son in this case, with this seemingly daunting task. And just as I predicted there are some cool sites that offer a nice alternative to the traditional pen-and-paper method of learning irregular verbs. Hard to believe me? Jeopardy Quiz Game Fun activity to teach action verbs in the irregular past simple tense. Irregular Verb Wheel Game An enjoyable game where irregular verbs are chosen at random from a spinning wheel. Hangman Game From eslgamesplus.com, the always entertaining hangman game; in this case, with irregular verbs. Irregular Verbs Walk the Plank A fun activity where the teacher is presented as an animated character on a pirate ship about to be eaten by sharks. Create your own. Who said learning English is boring?
Introducing Reported Speech Statements,Questions and Orders in a Different Way This week’s post was not supposed to be a grammar post, it just so happened to turn out like that. Come to think of it, I have been teaching lots of grammar lately so I shouldn’t be surprised if my brain is filled with ideas for grammar teaching. If I want my classes to be different from the ones I had when I was studying English at school (teacher-centred and book-centred), I cannot introduce all those digital tools I’m so keen on using and then go and spoil it all by asking students to read straight from a photocopy when it comes to grammar. I’m not saying it’s the wrong way to go about it, I’m just saying it’s not the way I teach or the way I’d like to be taught. Admittedly, grammar is grammar, but can we make it a bit more appealing to our students? Reported speech is probably one of my favourite grammar points and this is how I have introduced reported speech statements, questions and orders in my classes this week. To introduce statements I often use quotes from famous people.