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Another way to learn irregular verbs

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One way to learn irregular verbs is to divide them into groups. According to some grammar books, irrregular English verbs DO seem to have some type of regularity.  Here are some tips along with a couple of activities. CLASS 1 In this group, verbs remain nearly the same and change final -d for -t. For…… Continue reading Another way to learn irregular verbs

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Irregular verbs in past simple

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Feel like pulling your hair out with English irregular verbs? Well, for God’s sake don’t pull them out with irregular verbs it may be painful! (That was a translation from Spanish.  You should pull them out due to/because of irregular verbs).  Maybe the best way to deal with them is to learn them by heart…… Continue reading Irregular verbs in past simple

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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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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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Past tenses How Did You Meet Your Best Friend?

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After having bent my mum’s ear for about an hour moaning because I had fallen out with a close friend , she turned around and wisely said, ‘People enter your life, for a reason, for a season or for a lifetime.’ Which quite is true, isn’t it? But even if we quarrel with a mate or…… Continue reading Past tenses How Did You Meet Your Best Friend?

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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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Silent letters in English words

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Serena When you have a phonetic language like Spanish, for instance, it is quite easy to say the words you have learned from a book or  a dictionary because if you know the sounds of each letter you can do quite well when speaking the language and everybody will understand you. But this is not…… Continue reading Silent letters in English words