Thursday, 31 March 2016

ENGLISH IDIOMS: ARE YOU PULLING MY LEG?

While it is obviously impossible to know all the idioms in English, the following webs might help you if your are an English student who wants to translate idioms or simply if you are curious about them,

1.usingenglish, offers idioms organized in topics.

2.idioMeaning, has a good online idiom dictionary, did you know what "a 10" is?

and finally, 3.the Spanishlearningcorner might be really useful if you are a student who is practicing translation from English to Spanish!

Friday, 18 March 2016

IMPROVE YOUR GRAMMAR WITH GAMES

"Woodward English" offers lots of games for practice of different grammar points.
For example, let's practice the past simple of the verb to be and enjoy it!


Tuesday, 15 March 2016

STATIVE OR ACTION VERBS?

We all know that stative verbs are not used with continuous tenses but sometimes it is hard to know if a verb is a stative verb or an action verb given that some verbs can perform both roles at the same time. So this is my suggestion: read the instructions and do the following exercises.



Revision:
Read the information and finally do:


Friday, 11 March 2016

PRACTICE IS SUCH A GOOD WAY OF LEARNING!

Yes, practice is so good! Both "so" and "such a" are a little bit confusing if you don't remember the rules to use them correctly:

"so+ adjective/ much-many"
"such+ (a) (adjective) noun"

Do the following exercise

And now this last one to test you!