Hi! Here’s a listening activity for the topic of holidays. When do you go on holiday? Who do you go with? What type of holidays do you like? Here’s something to get you started. Good luck! If you like the activity, don’t forget to leave a little feedback (right now I’m only getting hundreds and…… Continue reading Listening Intermediate B1: Holidays in Britain
What do you like doing in your free time? How do you unwind? I like going out on my mountain bike, but unfortunately, I don’t have as much time available as I would like. Another thing I’m getting more and more enthusiastic about is DIY. Yes, I really love changing tacky old furniture into something…… Continue reading B1/B2 Flipping cards vocabulary quiz on hobbies and free time
Think or thinking ? Have or having? When dealing with stative verbs, we basically mean those verbs that describe a state instead of an action, but this can be a tricky thing and sometimes a verb belongs to both categories depending on context. When can we use these verbs in the progressive form? Here are…… Continue reading Stative verbs
Appointment/date In Spanish and Catalan we usually use ‘cita’ for when we have arranged to meet somebody for professional advice and for when we when we have arranged to meet somebody for leisure. However, these two words are very different in English. Appointment is the word we should use for professional advice like when we…… Continue reading Confusing words: appointment – date
ADJECTIVES THAT GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT A NOUN (NOUN MODIFIERS) We can give information about something by using adjectives. An Italian car.Dark hair. These adjectives can come before a noun although they can also come after a verb. Here we are going to see them in front of a noun. (predicative position). Look at the boxes…… Continue reading Word order for adjectives
Hello! Here’s a bit of grammar on word order in questions for basic levels. Here are two golden rules to help you remember. Rule number one for word order in questions:  Auxiliary, Subject and Infinitive for questions like: Do you like coffee? Did he enjoy the film? Rule number two for word order in questions is Question…… Continue reading Word order in questions
When learning a language we frequently translate from our own native tongue. This can be helpful on some occasions, but on many others it can lead us to make mistakes. One of the most typical mistakes made by Spanish speakers is to use Spanish structures like ‘Tengo veinte años’ instead of the English ‘to be…… Continue reading Confusing words: be or have?
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Hi! Trying not to be too boring although we need to go over some grammar. Here’s a short presentation and some interactive activities for this tense. Serena’s blog Statements Negative sentences
