Thursday 19 January 2017

PREPOSITIONS OF MOVEMENT

If your native language is Spanish you might find prepositions difficult so you'll need a lot of patience when you make mistakes but, believe me, with time and practice you'll get better!

Read the explanation
First watch the video and do the exercises


Exercise 1 

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Tuesday 17 January 2017

THE BENEFITS OF A BILINGUAL BRAIN

LEARN LANGUAGES, IT'S REALLY WORTH IT AND....... IT'S HEALTHY!

FOCUS ON THIS GREAT WEBSITE FOR PRACTICE

Focusing on English grammar and vocabulary, this excellent web, whose name is "Focus" provides really good practice  from level 1 to advanced. If you are a committed student of English, don't miss it!

REVISION OF TIME EXPRESSIONS

Some time expressions have specific uses so it's sometimes difficult to remember them, here you are a lot of exercises for practice.

Exercise 1 

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

CNN FOR STUDENTS!

This great website, called CNN student News, is extraordinary for advanced students of English, to know the news and to practice their listening and reading skills.
You can read the news while you are listening and sometimes you even have activities, like in this example about the drought in California.

Just choose the piece of news you're more interested in and learn a lot!

Wednesday 11 January 2017

PROBLEMS WITH OTHER OR OTHERS?

What's the difference between other and others?  Sometimes it's difficult to remeber, specially if you are Spanish, so here are a few exercises that might help you but first read this information:



BE GOOD AT ADJECTIVE AND PREPOSITION COMBINATIONS!

Remembering the correct preposition after a specific adjective can be confusing, that's the reason why you need to have clear information and do lots of practice.
Step 1: Read the following information about the most common adjective and preposition combinations and do the exercises.
Step 2: Do another exercise
Step 3: Test yourself with another exercise!

Wednesday 4 January 2017

LANGUAGE IN ACTION: SPEECH ACTS

The study of language is fascinating, most of us  have never thought that by the act of speaking we are also performing actions! Here is a clear explanation of how this happens: