In this post, learners will find a short and simple explanation of how to use these three modal forms. Flip through the slides, and then do the grammar activity to make sure you have these structures under your belt. Activity: Guess the Stories Look at the cartoon panels and guess what happened in each one.Use…… Continue reading B1/B2 Modal verbs: can, could & to be able to for ability
Do you like going shopping? Do you like going to the sales to look for bargains? I bet you do! In this post you are going to hear somebody talking about something she bought at the sales. But guess what? Something went wrong. The woman in the pictures below went to the sales. She wanted…… Continue reading A2 Connecting sentences, Speaking, writing and Listening: A Woman Went to The Sales
In Spain we have a saying that says ”Ver la botella medio llena o medio vacia” when we refer to how different people see aspects of life differently. In this I’m going to teach ‘will’ for predictions to my As and for this I have set up some new contents and I will also use…… Continue reading A2 Are you an Optimist or a Pessimist?
In this post my students will do a fun activity revising vocabulary , collocations and verb tenses. They will have to add up their results and at the end of the game, they will get ‘paper money’ to spend on a holiday trip. You will find downloadable score lists at the end of this post.…… Continue reading 🌍 A2 Holiday Challenge: Win Money & Plan Your Trip!
Hi there! Here you have a cheat sheet related to how to use the Present Simple for speaking about descriptions and personality. In this document you will see some typical mistakes that students often make at this level – like saying I have 30 years old -. Look at the cheat sheet and after, take…… Continue reading A1/A2 Cheat Sheet:Present simple for personality and physical description
Whether you’re talking about a crime scene, a witness, or the moment something happened, relative clauses help add detail and make your English more precise. This cheat sheet and interactive quiz will guide you through the most common types, including defining and non-defining clauses, as well as useful relative adverbs like where, when, why—and even…… Continue reading 🕵B1/B2 Relative Clauses Cheat Sheet – Grammar for Crime & Beyond!
I asked Chat to create a joke about passives, and this is the result. I think it’s brilliant and couldn’t stop rolling around in laughter. What do you think? Here’s a handy new cheat sheet to help you get a solid grasp of passive structures at a glance.This guide has been carefully crafted to summarise…… Continue reading B1-B2 Passive cheat sheet!
In this post, my students are going to practise the third conditional. They’ll listen to one of those delightfully tasteless radio contests where three speakers share their worst holiday disasters – I’m sure some of you can relate to. At the end of each story, there’s a moral… wrapped neatly in a third conditional sentence.…… Continue reading B2 Travel Mishaps & 3rd Conditional
Are your students tired of grammar gap-fills? Mine too. So I created a dramatic survival activity to practise the second conditional in a way they’ll never forget… unless they get eaten by a tiger first. The Setup The topic was “Survival” and the target grammar was the second conditional. I prepared six short, horrible anecdotes…… Continue reading B2 Survival English: Second Conditionals gone wild
Yesterday, I wrote a short grammar post related to all-clefts, so today we’ll be dealing with another similar content that we also use for emphasis. But first, let’s listen to this song from times when my mum would have been jiving on a dance floor, enjoying the time of her life. 😁😁😁 Like mother like…… Continue reading B2/C1 ‘What’ clefts Listening to The Romantics What I Like About You
