There / their / they're

Differences in spelling between British and American English

British vs. American English

When to double the final consonant

Mistakes in your exam papers

3º ESO:

• She is deportist. ⇨ She is a sportswoman.
• She is a very pretty. ⇨ She is very pretty.
• In the last month.  ⇨ Last month.
• Then went to had lunch. ⇨ Then we went to have lunch.
• A movie horror. ⇨ A horror movie.
• He has about 50 years old. ⇨ He is about 50 years old.
• After he works. ⇨ After that he works.
• He went to home.⇨  He went home.
• your family ⇨ his family / her family / their family
• She is wearing black T-shirt. ⇨ She is wearing a black T-shirt.
• His about 20. ⇨  He is about 20. / He's about 20.
• He is slept. ⇨ He goes to bed. / He goes to sleep.
• wrong spellings: an (=and), puppys, old (=all), hear (=hair), an (=and), sleeped
• false friends: bland, stamped, periodic

4º ESO:

• She's wearing a blue trousers and brown. ⇨ She's wearing blue and brown trousers.
• Next Christmas probably I'll be travelling... ⇨ Next Christmas I'll probably travel to...
• In next Christmas ⇨ next Christmas
• He has a brown eyes.⇨ He has got brown eyes. / He has brown eyes.
• He has where a brown jacket. ⇨ He is wearing a brown jacket.
• Is fantastic. ⇨ It's fantastic.
• She is young women. ⇨ She is a young woman.
• He does homework. ⇨ He does his homework.
• He goes to home. ⇨ He goes home.
• He wears. ⇨ He gets dressed.
• She is lunch in the school. ⇨ She has lunch at (in the) school.
• (I) is goint to be a London whit my family. ⇨ I'm going to be in London with my family.
• wrong spellings: ecsam, old (=all), famou, pail
• false friends: suspend

Basic tenses for ESO-4

Tenses for ESO-4 from Ana Arias Castro

Basic tenses for ESO-3

Basic tenses: form and use from Ana Arias Castro

Past simple tense

When is the past simple tense used?

• For completed action in the past (We saw your sister yesterday.)
• For a series of completed actions (I woke up, had a shower, had breakfast and went to school.)
• For longer actions that start and stop in the past; time expressions usually go with it (My sister lived in London for years.)
• For talking about habits which stopped in the past (She studied Japanese when she was in high school.)
• For past facts or generalizations (Old people never played football.)

How is it made?

• Positive sentence → Subject + verb+ ed or irregular form (I played with her.- She came with us.)
• Questions → Auxiliary verb + subject +verb (Did they read the story?)
• Negative sentence → Subject + auxiliary verb + verb ( I didn’t like it.) 

 More practice

•  Irregular verb forms (translations are in French)
• Isabel Perez - grammar and practice
• Verb tense quizz
• Writing sentences in order (Isabel Pérez)
• Fernando Alonso text (Isabel Pérez)
• Shakira's life (Isabel Pérez)
• Thanksgiving day (Isabel Pérez)

The apostrophe

Homophones in English

Use of apostrophes

Some common misspelt words

Revision of tenses: 3º ESO

English tenses-form and use from Ana Arias Castro

Difficult words to spell

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How to spell numbers

These exercises will help you practise spelling and writing numbers:

• spelling numbers 0-19
• spelling numbers 1-99
• numbers 1-12
• numbers 10-20
• numbers 10-90