Always wanted to make a movie? Now you can. On the website of Go Animate (goanimate.com) it will only take you a few minutes to make your own animated movie. In English, of course. All you need to do is write the dialogues. You don’t need to draw a thing. The programme converts your text… Continue reading The Easy Way to Make Your Own Movie in English
Image taken from Eviltwinbooking.com We’re going to start simple. Simple future is future with “will” + the first (basic) form of the verb. If you don’t know what the basic form of the verb is, go here: https://englishwithasmile.org/2013/06/04/how-to-recognize-the-basic-form-of-a-verb/ Use future when you talk about something that somebody is going to do in the future (not… Continue reading More Easy Grammar – Future
Photo by Russell James Smith You already know that you can ask questions in Present Simple with “do” and “does.” An article with exercises is here: https://englishwithasmile.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=586&action=edit Or freshen up your knowledge of Present Simple here: https://englishwithasmile.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=363&action=edit However, questions with “who” are different. If you ask a question with who, you don’t use “do” or… Continue reading Easy Grammar – The Question of Who
By Olga Koliichuk Learning the hard way, by Ludovic Bertron The ing- form is an impersonal verb form (You may sometimes find it’s called a verbal). An impersonal verb form means that it doesn’t refer to a person. When we add ING to an infinitive, we don’t add TO. Here is an example: I… Continue reading I Feel Like Learning Something New – Which Verbs Take Ing-form? Here Are Some Tricks.
The word “project” can be a noun and it can be a verb. But did you know that they are pronounced differently? Now you do. Project (noun) has the stress on the first syllable (“pro”). Project (verb) has the stress on the second syllable (“ject”). (If you don’t know what a noun or a verb… Continue reading Pronunciation Tricks: Stress Differences in Nouns and Verbs
Rasmos Olsen Two related problems that are often seen, and not only in texts written by learners of English. Here’s how to correct them. What do you think of this sentence: 1 He’s a doctor he loves his job. Does it look perfectly okay to you? If yes, you may be writing many more… Continue reading A Bad Case of the Runs – Run-on Sentences and Comma Splice
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
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