Archiving some old stuff again: Hush, Don’t Tell Anyone about This Site Here’s a link to a website where you can download English (learning) books for free: http://englishtips.org. As with all things that are for free, not everything is as wonderful as it sounds. The links don’t always work. That’s because the book publishers often… Continue reading How to Download Reading Material, Workbooks and Learning CDs
What are some activities that you can do in the summer? You will find out in the following presentation, which will help you talk about your or your friends’ holidays confidently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH95T-ZZ-PM This link takes you to YouTube. Important note for when you watch/read the presentation. Um, notes. In English you say: I go swimming.… Continue reading Eating Watermelon Again! – Summer Activities
This subject is on request: Let’s practise making sentences with “whose.” Whose is a relative pronoun. Other relative pronouns are: who, which, and that. by Leonard Bentley You need a relative pronoun if you want to combine two sentences. For instance: Suppose you have the two following sentences: 1 The boy won the poetry contest.… Continue reading Relative Clauses with Whose
This article is to clear up about “have” and “had.” I’ve had a number of people telling me they don’t understand where to use it. So here is a review of the main tenses with have. Have Present Simple In present simple, “have” means you are the owner of something. Or it is something that… Continue reading Easy Grammar Have and had
There’s a difference between the two! “A little” is a little bit of something. In the Beatle song “With a Little Help from my Friends” that was made famous by Joe Cocker, life would be so much more easier with a little love. You can drink your tea or coffee with a little sugar. You… Continue reading With a Little Help from my Friends – A Little and Little.
At, in, on for Time At Use at for specific times. Examples: at 4 o’clock at 7:15 at night at noon In Use in when you want to talk about a longer period. Examples: in the winter in 1999 in the morning in September On Use on when you’re talking about a certain… Continue reading How to remember what to put: at, in, or on — Part 2 Time
Are you always saying things such as “at the morning” and “in the beach?” Well, hate to tell you, but that’s incorrect. Although they’re not watertight, it helps if you know these easy rules. At, in, on for Place At Use at when you mean that a person or a thing is at a certain… Continue reading How to remember what to put: at, in, or on — Part 1 Place
While most students are eating watermelon on the beach or near the swimming pool, others are sweating on an exam or need to catch up on schoolwork during the summer. Life is hard. What are some typical exam terms and phrases? You will find the same words in almost any exam. First a little test:… Continue reading Some Common Words that You Need for Exams
This week I sat with a student and she was really struggling to puzzle together questions in past simple. So I’ve made a presentation about it, which you can watch here: How To Make Questions in Past Simple http://knov.io/12PxmUn It has an exercise at the end of it. Sorry about the lousy video quality; it… Continue reading What Did You Do There? – Questions in Past Simple
I read an interesting question on a teacher’s forum on LinkedIn. A teacher asked the following: The sentence “I’d rather I didn’t have to work next weekend, but I do.” How to explain why it is ‘I didn’t’ and not ‘I do’. Conditional? Several teachers chipped in, and the conclusion was that you need… Continue reading I Wish I Didn’t Have to Work Next Weekend – Hypothetical Situations with Past Simple
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