IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING GRAMMAR
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Wishing
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- Participle, present
- Partitive articles
- Passive
- Past (habitual past)
- Past conditional
- Past participles (irregular)
- Past progressive
- Perfect (future)
- Perfect (present)
- Plural of adjectives
- Plural of nouns
- Pluperfect
- Possession
- Present perfect
- Present participle
- Preterit
- Prepositions
- Prepositions (verbal)
- Prepositions & verbs
- Present perfect
- Present perfect progressive
- Present progressive
- Present
- Preterit (irregular forms)
- Preterit
- Progressive, future
- Progressive, past
- Progressive, present
- Progressive, present perfect
- Pronouns, demonstratives
- Pronouns, interrogatives
- Pronouns, possessives
- Pronouns, reciprocal
- Pronouns, reflexive
- Pronouns, relative
- Pronouns, subject / object
Introducing the Eight Parts of Speech
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- Make and let
- Adjectives
- Frequency
- Articles
- Comparisons
- Some and Any
- Few
- Using Lots of
- Linking words
- Like and As
- "If" sentences
- Passives
- Prepositions and adjectives
- Prepositions of time
- Prepositions and verbs
- Questions
- Question Tags
- Reported Speech
- Using Wish
- How to choose your English tenses
- Present tenses in English
- Past tenses in English
- How to use the present perfect tenses in English
- Using "had done" in English
- Using future forms
- Using the imperative form
- How to use "used to" in English
- How to use gerunds
- Changing the mood of a sentence (modals)
Past Progressive/Present Continuous - Questions
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We have a special table with all English tenses.
Here you find detailed explanations:
Simple Present
Present Progressive
Simple Past
Past Progressive
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
going to-future
will-future
| Less versus Fewer |
| When making a comparison between quantities we often have to make a choice between the words fewer and less. Generally, when we're talking about countable things, we use the word fewer; when we're talking about measurable quantities that we cannot count, we use the word less. "She had fewer chores, but she also had less energy." The managers at our local Stop & Shop seem to have mastered this: they've changed the signs at the so-called express lanes from "Twelve Items or Less" to "Twelve Items or Fewer." Whether that's an actual improvement, we'll leave up to you.
We do, however, definitely use less when referring to statistical or numerical expressions:
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TH, as in THINK, BATHROOM, and TEETH.
- Watch this QuickTime movie on the word 'Thought' to see how to correctly make the 'TH' sound (894k).
- Minimal Pairs (178k) In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound. In this case, TH is being compared to other similar sounds. Listen and compare.
- Try this Dictation to practice the differences between TH and other sounds.
- Here is the complete lesson from our workbook in MP3 audio , as well as the PDF version.
- Here's a video of Brian explaining the differences between the voiceless and voiced TH. (7.8mb)
- Listen, practice, and record your voice to have a conversation with a native speaker (microphone required).
- Practice these tongue twisters to improve your TH (microphone required).
The Linking Verb
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Since or for?
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Like
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Adjectives
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A, An, The, or (Nothing)
Click the answer button to see the correct answer.
Which of the following sentences is wrong?
(1) I'm going to see her tomorrow.
(2) I'll see her tomorrow.
(3) I'll be seeing her tomorrow.
(4) I go see her tomorrow.
(5) I'll be going to see her tomorrow.
(6) I'll go and see her tomorrow.
(7) I'm seeing her tomorrow.
Answer: sentence (4). Its meaning is clear, but it is not correct English.
So you see: meaning isn't everything. There are various ways of speaking English, but native English speakers would say that sentence (4) is, grammatically, wrong.
Here's your first verb table, the Present Tense:
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I walk to the pub |
We walk to the pub |
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You (singular) walk to the pub |
You (plural) walk to the pub |
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He, she, it walks to the pub |
They walk to the pub |
Easy, isn't it? they're all the same, except for “he, she, it”, where the verb ends with an “s”.
The Future Tense is even easier:
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I'll walk to the pub |
We'll walk to the pub |
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You'll walk to the pub |
You'll walk to the pub |
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He, she, it'll walk to the pub |
They'll walk to the pub |
Not difficult, is it? They're all the same!! Written form: “I will walk; You will walk…..”
The Simple Past Tense is also always the same:
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I walked to the pub |
We walked to the pub |
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You walked to the pub |
You walked to the pub |
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He, she, it walked to the pub |
They walked to the pub |
Most of the tenses are very simple in Regular Verbs. The troubles begin when you use Irregular Verbs, of which there are many.
Here are two very common Irregular Verbs:
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I'm Chinese |
We're Chinese |
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You're Chinese |
You're Chinese |
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He, she, it is Chinese |
They're Chinese |
Not too difficult. The written forms are: “I am Chinese; You are Chinese…”
And now for the Future Tense:
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I'll be rich |
We'll be rich |
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You'll be rich |
You'll be rich |
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He, she, it'll be rich |
They'll be rich |
And the Simple Past:
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I was poor |
I was poor |
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You were poor |
You were poor |
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He, she, it was poor |
They were poor |
Again, it's not too difficult.
Here is another very common Irregular Verb:
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I have a television |
We have a television |
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You have a television |
You have a television |
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He, she, it has a television |
They have a television |
The Future:
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I'll have a computer |
We'll have a computer |
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You'll have a computer |
You'll have a computer |
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He, she, it'll have a computer |
They'll have a computer |
And the Past:
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I had a car |
We had a car |
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You had a car |
You had a car |
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He, she, it had a car |
They had a car |
