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)

GENERAL GRAMMAR REVISION

If you are a level 2 student, this web is great for general grammar revision!
It has interesting explanations about each topic and really good exercises.
Highly recommended!
                                     perfect-english-grammar.com

Remember: practice makes perfection!

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

CURIOSITY.......... KILLED THE CAT BUT CAN IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH!

This really curious web, called "curiosity", may help you practice your reading and listening skills with its articles about incredibly interesting topics, its videos and podcasts, don't miss it!
For example, if you are interested in, let's say science, here's an interesting article to read or, if you are interested in listening, you may listen to this podcast on the SETI project
You might even download the mobile application to learn English anywhere and at any time!

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!

MODAL VERBS FOR LEVELS 2 and 3

Modal verbs are very very special, both in form, use and meaning. Therefore, revising them is always a must (a must: idiom- necessary, indispensable)!
Thanks to this wonderful website, on modal verbs , here's some good theory which includes the general rules, and a really useful summary of their functions.
In case you want more details, examples and exercises for the different groups of modal verbs:
-obligation and necessity
-ability and premission
-certainty, probability and possibility
-speculation and deduction
And now, it's practice time to check your knowledge with a test!

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