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Pre-intermediate A1/A2: Present simple for routine and days of the week

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What do you do during the weekdays and the weekend? Here’s a slide with some examples of positive and negative statements using the present simple. You have two different links. The first is for the grammar and the second is to do an activity. Click for grammar Activity Sentence completion

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To be or not to be contracted? This is the question

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Concerning contracting ‘be’ with ‘not’ there are two forms available where  generally one form is preferred over the other depending on whether the word that comes before is a noun or a pronoun. For the purpose of an A1 level, this slide is only going to show how both forms are possible. Click for slide

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Present simple ‘be’ in negative sentences

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This one (and many to come) is for my very, very special bunch of students from 2 which I already miss very much because I’m stuck in the house with my leg up in bandage. First click on the presentation and after on the activity. Click for slides Click for grammar activity

A1 · A2 · Grammar

The present simple of ‘be’ positive statements

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  For the very first English lesson, here's a video on the present simple of the verb 'be'. After you can click on the activity to check what you know. Click for activity  

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Vocabulary: Job occupations

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What do you do? or… What do you do for a living? Here’s a little quiz on job occupations for beginners.

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/id/ /d/ or /t/ in regular past verbs?

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One of the typical problems learners of English frequently come across is how to pronounce the endings in regular past English verbs. When I mean regular I mean all the ones that end in -ed/d like ‘walk>walked’, ‘study>studied’. There are actually some simple rules that  will help students get this right almost all the times.…… Continue reading /id/ /d/ or /t/ in regular past verbs?