Your writing is a skill that you can only develop by… -guess!- writing. Writing is a rich and complex exercise in that it makes it possible, and necessary, to combine the knowledge about many different aspects of the language in one single activity.… CONTINUE READING
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Grammar Gym: Transforming phrases
This is a reminder and an EXAMPLE of something you can set yourselves to experiment with. It is one of the possible ways you can try to revise what you know about grammar.… CONTINUE READING
The present continuous tense, an introduction
The present continuous tense will be presented in this TUTORIAL. The good news is that you have this tense also in English. So it will be somehow a familiar topic. For example when you say he is eating or they are drinking you are using the present continuous tense in English.… CONTINUE READING
Shops
These activities will be helpful to expand your vocabulary on this topic and to test yourselves, once you have learnt it. Check HERE for the answers to the first one.
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One more chance to test out how far you can go without dictionaries (perhaps, hopefully…), but also to see how the different bits of grammar and vocabulary integrate and turn up in all sorts of combinations.… CONTINUE READING
Vocabulary building (daily routines & time references)
As extra practice to keep up with your vocabulary learning, try this activity. Answers for the first part are here.
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Here is another opportunity to test what you have been learning recently. You could try to see how far you get without using a dictionary and your notes, and then use those to finish off or double-check wherever needed.… CONTINUE READING
