LEARNING ENGLISH ONLINE GAMES

Do you like learning English and having fun? In this section you can play games and practise your speaking with our fun tongue twisters. There are funny jokes in English to learn and tell your friends. Try any of these games and enjoy your class!!

To go to the site click on this link: BritishCouncilGames

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Some people think the present perfect continuous is difficult to use, but really it's not very complicated, and it sounds very impressive when you use it correctly. 

As I told you in class, here you have the cartoon strips where you have to come up with the sentences. Remember, make a sentence in Present Perfect Simple and another sentence in Present Perfect Continous, applying the rules we have seen in the Power Point. I also leave the slides we have been working with in class for you to download. CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO MAKE IT BIGGER!!

Download the Power Point: Present Perfect Continous

For reviewing the uses of Present Perfect Continuous you can also go to this site and practice with some exercises online: Perfect English Grammar
And this other one: English Grammar Online

PAST SIMPLE RULES AND PRACTICE

By just a click you  will find the rules for the Siple Past we have been dealing with in class. Regular and Irregular verbs, formation, pronunciation... and some practice too. This is a great way to revise it and have a go to check your progress. In case you have doubts don't hesitate and bring them to next class. Come on! Have a try!!

To download the doc in your computer, click on this link: Past Simple Rules and practice.

For online practice, try this site:
1. Change Verbs into Past

2. Past simple: Affirmative, Negative or Questions

3. Last Holiday

PRESENT SIMPLE WEBS

For refreshing the Present Simple forms online here you can find sme worthwhile online resources you can go through for some practice.
You also can use these websites for when the exam comes and check your progress.
Click on the following webs:


Liveworksheet 1

Liveworksheet 2

Liveworksheet 3

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE VS. CONTINUOUS

The past perfect tense is often used in English when we are relating two events which happened in the past. It helps to show which event happened first. This page will explain the rules for forming and using the tense.

Forming the past perfect tense: This tense is formed using two components: the verb HAVE (in the past tense), and the past participle form of a verb. With a regular verb the past participle ends with -ED (just like the simple past). Irregular verbs have a special past participle form that you have to learn. 

Example: I wanted to live in a foreign country, so I applied for a job in Japan. Judy had lived in Japan, so I called her to find out more about the culture and lifestyle there. (Judy no longer lived in Japan — she returned from there before I applied for the job.)

Click on the link to download the homework: English Homework

For more explanations and activities online: British council, Englishpage

For lots of graded activities online: Agendaweb, e-grammar

VERB TO BE & HAVE GOT (REVISION GRAMMAR UNIT 1)

Practice the verb forms TO BE & HAVE GOT with this wonderful wewbsite where you can find tons of graded exercises of these verbs in all their forms. This is great to refresh and to check your progress once you have completed the unit becuase you can correct yourselves when an exercise is done. HAVE A TRY!!
Click on the following links:
agendaweb verb To Be
agendaweb Have Got

USED TO STRUCTURE AND LESSON PLAN

Used to" expresses the idea that something was an old habit that stopped in the past. It indicates that something was often repeated in the past, but it is not usually done now. Use to + verb is a regular verb and it uses -ed to show past tense. But since it always means something that happened in the past, it should always use past tense. For example- I used to go to school in Paris. (I went to school there before, but now I don't.) Or, When Josh was a child, he used to climb trees. (Now he doesn't climb trees.)

• For practising through a video go to the following link: British Council - learn English teens
• For grammar practise online: Perfect English Grammar 
• For downloadable lesson plan for students/teachers: Lesson plan

FUTURE CONTINUOUS & FUTURE PERFECT

The future continuous (will be + ‘ing’ form) and the future perfect (will have + past participle) tenses are used to talk about events in the future. We use the future continuous to talk about something that will be in progress at or around a time in the future.

We use the future perfect to say that something will be finished by a particular time in the future. We often use the future perfect with ‘by’ or ‘in’. ‘By’ means ‘not later than a particular time’ and ‘in’ means 'within a period of time’. We don’t know exactly when something will finish.

To download the class Power Point: Class Power Point
For further practice: Future Power Point

Oxford University: Future continuous and future perfect

English Page: 

Future Continuous

Future Perfect

Future Perfect Continuous

INCREASING AND DOUBLE COMPARATIVE

Comparison and contrast are expressed by the use of the…the… with comparative adjectives in parallel clauses. This structure is used to show proportionate increase or decrease.
The more adventurous it is, the more I like it. (NOT The more it is adventurous, the more I like it.)

A short form of this structure is used in the expressions

‘the more the merrier’

‘How do you like your coffee?’ ‘The stronger the better.’

We also use expressions like easier and easier and more and more to show gradual increase. It's important to say that something is increasing all the time. 

He was driving faster and faster.
It kept raining harder and harder
As he was explaining it I got angrier and angrier

If you want to practice with online activities:
Double comparatives: ESLlounge or Oxford University
Increasing comparatives: TolearnEnglish or agendaweb

TO download the PPT about comparatives and superlatives: Power Point