What are stative verbs? This is important for learners that are now being introduced to the present continuous (I’m writing right now), and need to learn why they can’t say things like ‘I’m loving you’ when a famous fast food chain uses this as a slogan and a famous rock band from the 80s even…… Continue reading A1/A2 Stative verbs
Here’s a video for beginners of English. Watch the video, take notes (if you need to) and after do the quizzes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vgTyJLeuLk Click for positive statements
Hello! For today’s class we plan to introduce questions using wh-words. As I explained in our classes, wh-questions are different from yes/no questions because they don’t need a yes or no for an answer. These questions ask for some missing information (time, place, reason, etc). Can you imagine that somebody asks you the time and…… Continue reading A1/A2 Wh-questions in the past simple
Image from Wikipedia I admire many, many people. Some for their bravery, some for their talent, honesty and intelligence… A long list of names comes to my mind when I think of them. It’s so difficult to choose. As I asked my students to write a short composition about a person they admire, here’s an…… Continue reading A1/A1 Open Cloze ‘A person I admire’
Hi again! Here’s an open cloze for an email. It’s a practical activity for the past simple and an open cloze to practise the past simple.
Here’s a quick video I created with Bitable with some grammar on how to make yes/no questions in the past simple, when we use a verb that is not ‘be’. Remember that ‘be’ does not have an auxiliary and that to make yes/no questions, we use a subeject- verb order inversion. Here’s an example: She…… Continue reading A1 Grammar video Past simple for yes/no questions
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