GETTING READY FOR EXAMS?

Charlie Chaplin said: "A day without laughter is a day wasted", so let's fill our day with laughter, even when we are studying!

BEAUTIFUL LITERATURE FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR: THOREAU'S WALDEN POND

A lot of people have been on holiday recently, so it's been a wonderful time to be in close contact with Nature or relax and listen to beautiful literature from the Romantic period, which focused on mother Nature too. (This is an excellent listening exercise for advanced students!)

Here is a beautiful example, the book Walden, written by Trascendentalist Henry David Thoreau, who had a deep influence on later thought: he is said to have initiated the American tradition of Environmental philosophy. Enjoy this beautiful poetic prose!

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Continuous practice to learn the Present continuous buildling sentences:

Affirmative

Negative

Interrogative

Spelling

And now tests:

Test 1

Test 2

and last but not least Test 3

Congratulations, now you know the Present Continuous/ progressive quite well!

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

Practice with this exercise

And after that, test yourself with Bart Simpson!

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS FOR LEVEL 2

Good grammar explanation and exercises

BASIC GRAMMAR REVISION WITH SPANISH COMMENTS

Thanks to "blueblocnotes" you can revise the basic grammar for beginners!

LITTLE BRITAIN AND ELTON JOHN!

A hilarious interview!

ROMANTIC AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE XIXth CENTURY: EMERSON

Emerson's poems are a must-read for anyone who is interested in literature in general or in poetry in particular. Here is a web where you'll find his short poems, really inspiring!

Give all to love;

Obey thy heart;

Friends, kindred, days,

Estate, good fame,

Plans, credit, and the muse;

Nothing refuse.

'Tis a brave master,

Let it have scope,

Follow it utterly,

Hope beyond hope;

ROMANTICISM!

It's autumn, the day is shorter and we have more time for instrospection and access to our deep source of knowledge. To connect with it, a good start are Ralph Waldo Emerson's wise words in these quotes

TOO VERSUS ENOUGH

The use of TOO and ENOUGH in English may be confusiong because the order is different from Spanish.

Try this exercise!

And now this one!

DO FOR EMPHASIS.......

When you are an advanced student you come across sentences which you think are wrong, for example, you see the auxiliary do in an affirmative sentence and think it's a mistake but it isn't, for example, in the sentence "I do like him", it's just that you are learning more grammar...

Try this exercise ,enjoy being an advanced student and be proud of yourself: you already know a lot of English!