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Wednesday, 15 December 2010

PRESENT PERFECT - SIMPLE PAST


Although it is not very difficult to understand the difference between the Present Perfect and the Simple Past, students often have problems. So, the best way to study and understand this difference is doing a lot of ejercises.

If you want to practice the use of different particles used with these tenses you can try these exercises.

Monday, 29 November 2010

Polar Bears and Global Warming

If you are interested in polar bears, why don't you have a look at this video?



Do you like polar bears? You will find a very interesting article about polar bears in the BBC learning english webpage. You will be able to read  and listen to it at the same time. Have a try, you will only need 5 minutes.

FACE UP TO PHRASALS

For those of you interested in learning or reviewing Phrasal Verbs, the BBC Learning English web may be helpful.
Have a look at this link and start working on ...

Thursday, 25 November 2010

THANKSGIVING

As you already know Thanksgiving is celebrated the last Thursdy in November, so this year thanksgiving is celebrated today.
If you want to know anything more about thanksgiving you can watch these videos.

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

VERB TENSE TUTORIAL

Here you have a very interesting webpage to practice verb tenses.


Here you will find explanations in English, and what is more important many exercises for you to practice. 

Sunday, 21 November 2010

MAFALDA

I have always liked Mafalda, I hope you like it too.


Thursday, 18 November 2010

MODAL VERBS

Modal verbs are a very important aspect in English, that is why it is so important to use them correctly.
This is an exercise with general aspects of some of the most commonly used modal verbs.
You can work on the difference between MUST and MUSTN'T doing these 2 exercises:

In this exercise you can practice giving advice, using SHOULD, OUGHT TO and HAD BETTER.

If you have problems when using SHOULD, SHOULDN'T or MUSTN'T, this is the exercise for you.

This is a very good exercise to practice modal verbs to express deduction.

If you still need more practice, here you have different exercises.





PAST CONTINUOUS

Before anything else, have a look at the story of Lady Past Continuous.

Then you are ready to do the following exercises:

These other exercises are very useful to practice the difference between the Past Simple and the Past continuous.



POSSESSIVES

Possessives is an aspect that students sometimes forget, so here you have some exercises to review this topic.


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The Flatmates episode 1, from BBC Learning English

This is the first entry of this blog and since I want it to be interesting, here you have a nice video from the BBC learning English section. It is the first chapter of a series. I hope you enjoy it.

If you like the flatmates, you can watch more episodes on the BBC website. You can find the link on the right column in this blog.