REVISION OF BASIC VOCABULARY

There's no excuse, if you feel you are short of words, that means you need to improve your vocabulary. So,  from A to Z, learn or revise your vocabulary, with lots of different entertaining activities.

BASIC VOCABULARY FOR EVERYBODY

IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS!

If you want to improve your reading skills, the British Council has an excellent website, choose your level from A! to C1 for lots of interesting texts with varied exercises and go up, the sky's your limit!
And please don't forget to write a list of the new words you meet to improve your vocabulary at the same time and record their meaning and pronunciation.
 

IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH EVERY DAY WITH GEM ENGLISH!

If you are lucky (like me) to be on holiday, English can become a daily pastime. Here are a few ideas from Gem English that you will enjoy and will improve your skills, you just have to follow them every single day, just choose your level and one of the activities every day. One hour will be enough.
MONDAY: LISTENING AND REVISION ACTIVITIES
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
 TUESDAY: GRAMMAR DAY
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
WEDNESDAY: PRONUNCIATION AND VOCABULARY
Levels 1, 2 and 3
THURSDAY: READING
Levels 1, 2 and 3
FRIDAY: LEARNING ENGLISH IS FUN!
SATURDAY: KARAOKE
This activity can be done alone or with friends!
Choose your favourite song  with lyrics on youtube, and after singing it a few times, feel like a music star and try singing the karaoke version!

SUNDAY: MOVIE DAY! Choose your favourite films and watch them in English, subscribe to a website, I recommend "Ororo tv, and be brave, watch at least five minutes without subtitles!! 

                                                    

IN SUMMER, A POEM A DAY...

Congratulations to all my followers who, like me, have been looking forward to the summer as the beginning of their holiday period.Yes, it's near. I wish you a great summer!
And don't forget poetry, for example, let's enjoy Emily Dickinson's poem about summer, taken from poemhunter, where you can find a poem a day, and the end of this poem....

It will be Summer—eventually.

Ladies—with parasols—

Sauntering Gentlemen—with Canes—

And little Girls—with Dolls—

Will tint the pallid landscape—

As 'twere a bright Bouquet—

Thro' drifted deep, in Parian—

The Village lies—today—

The Lilacs—bending many a year—

Will sway with purple load—

The Bees—will not despise the tune—

Their Forefathers—have hummed—

WAYS OF FORMING THE FEMININE GENDER IN ENGLISH

Did you know that the feminine of "conductor" is "conductress"? 
And did you know that the word "poet" has a feminine form too ?

Here is the explanation to clarify how the feminine is formed in English

And now try this exercise.

Finally, I'm including this video after having listened to this interesting speech with a C2 level student, which we both agreed gave good examples of how words and labels can affect the way all of us, men and women, judge people and stop us from seeing them in a more neutral, human way or even stops us from expressing ourselves freely.  

SECOND OR THIRD CONDITIONAL?

The structure and use of the Second and Third conditional sentences are totally difficult, that's why you need a lot of practice until you can actually use them in writing or speaking.
Here are a few exercises to revise the differences between Second and Third conditional type sentences.

SECOND CONDITIONAL

THIRD CONDITIONAL

SECOND OR THIRD CONDITIONAL?