Vocabulary about animals

Animals vocabulary from Ana Arias Castro

Basic comparatives

Comparison pairs from Ana Arias Castro

EXERCISES

• Englisch-Hilfen 1-forms (comparatives and superlatives)
• Englisch-Hilfen 2-forms (more difficult comparatives and superlatives)
• Englisch-Hilfen 3-forms (different adjectives)
• Englisch-Hilfen 4-forms (different adjectives 2)
• Englisch-Hilfen: crosswords 1
• Englisch-Hilfen: crosswords 2
• Agendaweb: comparatives
• EFL net: comparatives

Food

EXERCISES:

• Match the food: fruit
• Vegetables vocabulary
• Match the food: vegetables
• Fast food vocabulary
• Questions about British food
• Exercises: adjectives for food
• Multiple choice: food
• GAME about food

can / must / should

MODAL VERBS
Modal verbs are commonly used verbs with some special characteristics:

1. Modal verbs do not take "-s" in the third person.
• I can play football.
• My brother should go with you.
• She can't be serious about that.
2. They have their own negative and do not need "do".
• I shouldn't be late
• They can't drive.
• You couldn't swim when you were 3.
3. The don't have all the tenses other verbs have.
1. I will can go.- INCORRECT
2. They shoulded speak to her. - INCORRECT
4. They are always followed by another verb (bare infinitive)

WHICH VERBS ARE MODAL?:

• CAN / CAN'T
• MUST / MUSTN'T
• SHOULD / SHOULDN'T
• NEED / NEEDN'T
• SHALL / SHAN'T
• COULD / COULDN'T
• MAY / MAY NOT
• MIGHT / MIGHTN'T
• WILL / WON'T
• OUGHT TO

EXERCISES:

• Englisch Hilfen: can - can't
• Englisch Hilfen :  can (affirmative/negative/question)
• Englisch Hilfen : must - mustn't
• can - could - be able to
• Exercise: can - must - should
• Exercise: all modals: difficult
• To Learn English: must / can / should
• Learn English Feel Good: can / must / should
• Learn English Feel Good-2: can / must / should 

types of vehicules

Basic past simple exercises

past simple boy- from Isabel Pérez's site

• English Exercises: rewrite affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences
• Ego4you: Write the negatives
• My English Pages: Several exercises about past simple tense
• Englisch Hilfen: positive statements
• Englisch Hilfen: positive statements 2
• Englisch Hilfen: past simple questions
• Englisch Hilfen: past simple negatives
• Isabel Pérez: many exercises

Free time activities

Present simple and present continuous (basic)

PRESENT SIMPLE

GRAMMAR:

• Isabel Pérez
• Englisch Hilfen

EXERCISES:

• Isabel Pérez-affirmative1
• Isabel Pérez-affirmative2-word order
• Englisch Hilfen-affirmatives1
• Englisxh Hilfen-affirmatives2
• Ego4you affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives2
• Really Learn English-affirmatives3
• Really Learn English-affirmatives4
• Really LEarn English-affirmatives5

READING COMPREHENSION TEXTS:

• Tim's day text & questions
• My name is Ben
• Simple present stories from The ESL Times

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

 


EXERCISES:

• Englisch Hilfen-present progressive 1
• Englisch Hilfen-present progressive 2
• Englisch Hilfen-present progressive 3-contracted forms
• Englisch Hilfen-present progressive 4-contracted forms
• Englisch Hilfen-negatives 5
• Englisch Hilfen-contracted negatives 6
• Englisch Hilfen-questions7
• Englisch Hilfen-mixed 8
• Englisch Hilfen-mixed 9

DIFFERENCE: PRESENT SIMPLE & PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Eso 3-present simple and present continuous (1) from Ana Arias Castro

PRESENT SIMPLE

form

• affirmative: subject + infinitive (+3^rd p –(e)s)
• negative: subject + don’t/doesn’t + infinitive
• question: do/does + subject + infinitive

Remember that we only add the –(e)s in the 3^rd person affirmative form and that be is an exception: am / is / are

use

• facts and permanent states.
• habits and routines
• 1^st type conditional sentences
• stative verbs that are not used in the pres. cont. (see, hear, believe, want, know, understand, think, like, love...)

Key words: how often / always / sometimes / often / never / usually / every day / once a week / twice a month... / if (in conditional sentences)

examples

• Snow melts at 0ºC.
• Harry lives in Liverpool.
• My dog plays football with us.
• Daniel washes his jacket every week.
• We don’t like football.
• She doesn’t understand baseball.
• Do you enjoy dining out?
• Does Rafael Nadal train in the morning?
• If you drink too much you’ll have to go to the toilet.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

form

subject + am / is / are + (not) + -ing

Remember the rules for -ing

use

• actions happening at the moment of speaking
• Key words: now / at the moment

examples

• My sister is watching TV now.
• They aren’t listening to me.
•  I’m not sleeping now.
• He’s setting the washing machine.

INTERESTING LINKS:

In this unit we are revising the form and uses of two very common tenses: present simple and present continuous. These links will lead you to useful materials for you:

• Summary of tenses
• Tenses in detail
• Worksheet: unit 1
• Revision test for unit 1: Unit 1
• Isabel Pérez:
• Present simple: explanations and exercises
• Present continuous: explanations and exercises
• Englisch-hilfen:
• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• Execise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10

Present simple and present continuous from Cynthia Maurizzio

present simple and present continuous from jesusmarcos42

Jobs and professions in English

mechanic- by Lewis Hine, 1920

Have a look at our previous post about jobs and professions and then try these exercises:

• Agendaweb1
• Agendaweb2
• Agendaweb3
• Game: match these jobs
• Choose the right job 1
• Choose the right job 2
• Choose the right job 3
• Jobs and definitions-INTERLEX
• Match descriptions and jobs

Revision for unit 6- 3º PDC

TELLING THE TIME

Telling the time, tell the time esl efl from Irenya S

EXERCISES:

• ESOL courses tell the time 1
• ESOL courses tell the time
• EGO 4 You

PRESENT SIMPLE AND ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

PRESENT SIMPLE

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3 (Isabel Pérez)

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

• exercise 1
• exercise 2

Present simple from MonaAlMenhali

WRITING TOPICS

• What you do every day
• What somebody does every day
• Describe a picture in which you see somebody doing daily activities

Present simple

PRESENT SIMPLE AND ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

PRESENT SIMPLE

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3 (Isabel Pérez)

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

• exercise 1
• exercise 2

Present simple from MonaAlMenhali

WRITING TOPICS

• What you do every day
• What somebody does every day
• Describe a picture in which you see somebody doing daily activities

Presentation about Perth and Houston

These are the latest presentations made for our project on English-speaking cities:

Telling the time in English

Telling the time, tell the time esl efl from Irenya S

EXERCISES:

• ESOL courses tell the time 1
• ESOL courses tell the time
• EGO 4 You

Revision of present simple

GRAMMAR:

• Isabel Pérez
• Englisch Hilfen

EXERCISES:

• Isabel Pérez-affirmative1
• Isabel Pérez-affirmative2-word order
• Isabel Pérez-negative1
• Isabel Pérez-questions
• This Hot Potatoes exercise from our Aula Virtual
• Englisch Hilfen-affirmatives1
• Englisxh Hilfen-affirmatives2
• Englisch Hilfen-long negative 1
• Englisch Hilfen-long negative 2
• Englisch Hilfen-contracted negative 1
• Englisch Hilfen-contracted negative 2
• Ego4you affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives2
• Really Learn English-affirmatives3
• Really Learn English-affirmatives4
• Really LEarn English-affirmatives5

READING COMPREHENSION TEXTS:

• Tim's day text & questions
• My name is Ben
• Simple present stories from The ESL Times

Some / any

Try these exercises to practise the use of some and any:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• a /an / some
• some / any (Isabel Pérez)
• some / any / no
• some / any (English test)
• a / an / some / any (Bradley's)

Revision of have got

HAVE GOT (AFFIRMATIVE)      

• I have got
• you have got
• he has got
• she has got
• it has got
• we have got
• you have got
• they have got

HAVE GOT (NEGATIVE)

• I haven't got
• you haven't got
• he hasn't got
• she hasn't got
• it hasn't got
• we haven't got
• you haven't got
• they haven't got

HAVE GOT (QUESTIONS)

• have I got...?
• have you got...?
• has he got...?
• has she got...?
• has it got...?
• have we got...?
• have you got...?
• have they got...?

EXERCISES

• exercise 0 - have or has
• exercise 1 -Isabel Pérez
• exercise 2- negatives - Isabel Pérez
• exercise 3 - (have got or has got) Englisch Hilfen
• exercise 4 - (have got or has got) Englisch Hilfen
• exercise 5 - (haven't got or hasn't got) - Englisch Hilfen
• exercise 6 - (haven't got or hasn't got: correct spelling) - Englisch Hilfen