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
Image from Wikipedia I admire many, many people. Some for their bravery, some for their talent, honesty and intelligence… A long list of names comes to my mind when I think of them. It’s so difficult to choose. As I asked my students to write a short composition about a person they admire, here’s an…… Continue reading A1/A1 Open Cloze ‘A person I admire’
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
On the buttons below you will find different activities related to the past simple. Word order activities and changing sentences to question, positive and negative forms. Click for changing sentences to different forms The yellow button is for word order in questions. Click for word order in questions The red button is for changing sentences…… Continue reading A1 Activities for past simple
A bolt from the blue Serena Here are some activities to help you practise vocabulary and structures for speaking about the weather. >
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This is a fill in the gaps for some of the most common verbs in English. In this activity you must change the verb in bold that appears in a present simple to a past simple in the next sentence. click here for activity
Was or were? Uf…! Here’s a grammar activity for real beginners.
Was or were? Here’s a word order activity with ‘be’ in the simple past tense.
