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
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
Hi there! Here’s a really super ‘cutre video’ I managed to make without using ‘the proper stuff’. Please, don’t comment (I know you won’t, but just in case). It’s an emergency video for my A1 students who now don’t have classes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGjxtkY1A8
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Here we revise questions forms to find out basic information about people. This activity is to revise the question forms that we learnt in units 1,2,3 and 4.
Here’s a quick activity for advanced learners to help you learn, brush up and think about some expressions and ways in which we can talk about the future. .
Among some of the problems students come across when learning English, are those verbs that have more than one verb pattern with a change of meaning and ‘stop’ happens to be one of them. Here you’ll find a short presentation on ways to use ‘stop’. Afterwards, you can practise with the two different activities, one…… Continue reading Different ways to use the verb Stop
