Talking about the future: going to – present continuous – will
Here’s a short video explaining the use of ‘going to, the present continuous and will.
Tag: Grammar
Indirect questions
Here’s yet another one of those kitsch videos that I have the awful habit of producing every now and then. This one’s for indirect questions. As a reminder, indrect questions are the type of questions we ask when we don’t want to be too direct; maybe because we don’t know the person very well, or simply because we’re asking for personal details.
Here’s an example:
DIRECT: Where do you live? > DIRECT: Can/Could you tell me where you live?
Participial adjectives a quick lesson
Here’s a quick, quick, quick lesson for these types of adjectives.
See the cards and after do the grammar activity.
Have or be?
Have (got) and ‘be’ are frequently confused by beginners. Here are two (cutre) videos and a short grammar activity to help students with these two verbs.
A1/A2 Present continuous for questions
Here’s another quick video. This one covers the present continuous for questions. Watch the video and after you can do the activities.
A1/A2 Stative verbs
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 said ‘I’m Still Loving You’ in one of their most popular hits. By tackling the ‘stative verb’ issue from an early stage, we’ll probably avoid learners making funny structures that are later on very difficult to get rid of because they have become a habit, and although I’m not really sure if this will be effective or not, I’m going to try it out anyway. Here’s a short video that introduces the very basics and after there’s an activity that focuses on some very typical mistakes that we need to avoid.
After, you may want to do the activities that I have attached below.
A1 Present continuous
Here’s a video for beginners of English. Watch the video, take notes (if you need to) and after do the quizzes.
A1/A2 Wh-questions in the past simple
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 you answer ‘yes’? This sounds quite funny because you should give the person the time (hour and minutes).
Another thing to notice in wh-questions is that we use wh-words at the beginning of the question. Here’s an example:
Did you like the film?
Why did you like the film?
Here’s a short video that explains the basics for wh-questions in the past simple. After watching the video, you can click on the quiz button to see how much you learnt.
I hope you find it useful!
A1 Grammar video Past simple for yes/no questions
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 was happy> Was she happy?
But other verbs like: eat, drink, buy, etc. use an auxiliary ‘did’ and for yes/no questions the word order is the same but the verb is in the infinitive.
Example: She worked yesterday > Did she work yesterday?
Watch the video and notice the examples. After, do the activities that will tell you how many correct answers you got.
Good luck and don’t forget to learn a lot of English now that we can’t leave our houses. If you do a bit every day, you will soon improve a lot.
Hugs!!!!
Serena
A1 Grammar video: Past simple in negative sentences
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.
