MY PRECIOUS! POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS

MY PRECIOUS

MY, MINE, HIS OR HER, OR HERS?????

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES OR PRONOUNS?

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

BOTH

ORDERS IN ENGLISH ARE VERY VERY SIMPLE!

OPEN THE DOOR!:

ORDERS IN ENGLISH ARE VERY VERY SIMPLE!

JUST USE THE VERB WHEN IT IS AFFIRMATIVE AND WRITE "DON'T" WHEN IT IS NEGATIVE

HERE ARE SOME EXERCICES FOR PRACTICE OF THE IMPERATIVE. DON'T FORGET! DO THEM!

THE IMPERATIVE 1

THE IMPERATIVE 2

PLURAL OF NOUNS

The plural in English may seem strange to Spanish speakers!

Step 1: revision of the theory and examples

Step 2: study 

Step 3: revise and exercise

Step 4: Test yourself!

TESTING YOUR ENGLISH: GRAMMAR FOR A1-A2

Congratulations! You've studied a lot and have done a good joB! Now, it's time for you to test your grammar in order to check your strenghts and weaknesses. Here are some interesting websites:

1-test-english

2-englishtestonline

3-speakspeak


Are you ready?

steady? Just choose your grammar topic and

go- if you still fail too much revise your grammar topic with web number 1,  test-english and start again!

Good luck!

FOCUS ON YOUR GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

If you need Grammar or Vocabulary practice, here's a web that might help you with lots of great exercises: FOCUS
Highly recommended!!!!

SENTENCE CONNECTORS: LINKING IDEAS IN TEXTS

It is essential to use sentence connectors correctly to express what you really mean and avoid misunderstandings, of course!

Here's a simple, good explanation 

And some practice:

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

WORD CLASSES

Words which belong to the same class function in much the same way, so, identifying the word class is really useful in English: i.e,  is the word "fly" and adjective, a noun, a verb, an adverb? can it belong to more than one word class? In English yes, it can. Look at the definition of "fly" from word reference and notice how a different word class makes such a big difference! And when you finish, check if you remember the word classes in English with this exercise.

For the verb: "to fly"

Simple Past:	flew
Past Participle:	flown

wordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2018

fly¹ /flaɪ/  v.,  flew /flu/  or, for 11., flied, flown/floʊn/,  fly•ing, n., pl.  flies. v.

1. to move through the air using wings:[no object]Outside the birds were flying.

fly² /flaɪ/  n.[countable], pl.  flies. 

1. Insectsa two-winged insect, such as the common housefly.a fishing lure dressed to resemble an insect or small fish.

WORD ORDER IN ENGLISH

Sentence structure. Words, words, words. What's the correct order?

Let's start with affirmative sentences

Now, negative sentences

Study this chart from ego:

interrogative	auxiliary verb	subject	other verb(s)	indirect object	direct object	place	time
What	would	you	like to tell	me
	Did	you	have		a party	in your flat	yesterday?
When	were	you				here?

and finally, interrogative sentences

For more exercises....

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN OR WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?

When studying the present perfect we study the fact that the verb "go" has to past participles: gone and been. Oh my God: more rules to learn! True, but the good news is that the rules are easy to learn.
Click on this link to learn the differences and so some practice.
If you are young at heart like me but your ID proves you're a bit older, you'll remember this beautiful song: Where have all the flowers gone? Listen with the lyrics, sing along and practice the present perfect and enjoy the moving feelings that Joan Baez communicates!

NEVER AND EVER: NEVER SAY NEVER

The adverbs "never" and "ever" are extremely common and useful; however, we usually need practice to use them correctly. 
Therefore,  to check the details and do some more work on this issue, here's an interesting explanation with an exercise

Finally, you might want to remember the meaning of the famous idiom "Never say never" :)
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary this idiom is used:
to say that a person should not say that he or she will never do something because people change their minds 

• "Would you ever go there again?" "Well, (I'll) never say never, but I'm certainly not planning to go there anytime soon!" (from the Merriam-Webster dictionary)

THE PAST PERFECT: THE PAST OF ANOTHER PAST!

The PAST PERFECT tense in English is very useful because it helps you to improve your level given that you practice the past participle of regular and irregular verbs, but you need a lot of practice!
After that, your English will sound much better!
Thanks to perfectenglishgrammar.com we have an interesing explanation that includes the details of the use of this tense in English and some practice.

Exercise 1: affirmative and negative

Exercise 2: interrogative

ONCE UPON A TIME...... THERE WAS OR THERE WERE?

Remember that there was/were are the past forms of there is/are;

Now, do this first exercise to choose between past and present

and after that do a few more exercises from agendaweb!

TELLING THE TIME

If you click on the link below, there are lots of exercises to learn to tell THE TIME in English, a difficult point because it is soooooooooooooooo

different to Spanish!

                                                 

                                                                         THE TIME

PREPOSITIONAL VERB OR PHRASAL VERB?

What do Phrasal and Prepositional Verbs have in common and what are the differences?

Good question!  Read the differences

Read the following explanation

This is  a list of verbs and their correponding prepositions in alphabetical order: 

Examples of common phrasal verbs

Examples of more phrasal verbs

And now do as many exercises as you want from the list!

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE OF ADVERBS

A lot of students find it difficult to form the comparative and superlative of adverbs, here are some activities for revision and practice:

Step 1: read the explanation

Step 2: knowing the difference between adjectives and adverbs is essential to progress, so now, do the following exercise

Step 3: and another exercise

Step 4: now play the following game!

VERBS WITH TWO OBJECTS FOR LEVEL 1

😀In English, some verbs can take two objects, for example: "He gave it to her", this usually sounds strange to Spanish speakers, but don't worry, here is some help:

Step 1: Read the theory and do the exercise

Step 2: Do more practice



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POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS: WHOSE IS THIS? IS IT YOURS OR HERS?

Ready?

Let's do this simple exercise

Exercise 2 

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5



                                              Well done!

THERE IS OR IT IS, THERE WAS OR IT WAS???????? DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THERE AND IT/THEY

This post is dedicated to my niece. She has problems with these words. Why? Because the pronunciation is similar and because the use of "it" can be problematic for Spanish speakers, so you need a lot of practice:
1.Here is a good explanation and a first exercise

2.after reading it, you can do the following exercise

3.and after that, the next one

4.and finally, the last one

5.if you want to do more practice, there are lots of exercises on agendaweb


                                                                    THE END

PAST PARTICIPLES FOR LEVEL 1

You need to study the past participles and know them really well in order to build different tenses, such as  the present or past perfect and the passive tenses, so here are some exercises:

My favourite way of learning the English irregular verbs is by making different groups according to the different forms, read this interesting grammar explanation. 

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE: "AT" "IN" AND "ON", DIFFERENCES AND PRACTICE!

Do you know the difference between: "She's in the library and she's at the library?"
The difference between use of these prepositions can be difficult to understand, but, to help you, here's a great explanation, followed by an exercise.

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE: "AT" "IN" AND "ON", DIFFERENCES AND PRACTICE!