Comparatives and Superlatives- The best explanation (At least, from my point of view... ;)

Click on the link below, take your time, breath deep, read carefully, study and practise doing the exercises.
It is really worth it:

Comparatives and Superlatives

Behaviour Vocabulary

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/word-lists/list-of-words-that-describe-behavior.html

The Ten Most Common Addictions/ Reading

 

 

The 10 Most Common Addictions

 

 

 

Future Forms Review

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/allFuture.htm

Review Activities for Christmas/ Ejercicios de Repaso para Navidad

• Basic Verb Tenses
• First Conditional
• Question Words
• Question Words (II)
• Listening: Christmas Market 
• Hangman Game for Nationalities:
  • Click on the British flag, click on 'enter code' and paste the password  hpxfbebfdgic
  
  
  
  

Expresando obligación y prohibición en inglés/ Expressing obligation and prohibition in English: 'must' and 'mustn't'

Must is a word that is used to talk about an obligation, something you have to do, like following a law or a rule.
Mustn't is a word that is used to talk about a prohibition, about something that is forbidden.

Please remember that mustn't is NOT the negative form of must.

STRUCTURE	must / mustn't + verb
Positive sentences	I must do my homework. She must wear a uniform.
Negative sentences	We mustn't talk in here! You mustn't steal.
Interrogative sentences	Must I go out now? Mummy, must we brush our teeth after dinner?
All pronouns take must/mustn't	I You She He It We They	must / mustn't	have a visa. buy a ticket. smoke in here. have long hair.

Do some exercises and improve your knowledge clicking here:

Fill the blans with must or mustn't

Social Issues Exercises

http://www.ihbristol.com/free-english-exercises/test/esol-smc-social-issues

How to give opinions in English/ Cómo expresar opiones en inglés.

Vocabulary for First Certificate

Click on the link below to improve your vocabulary. I find this exercise awesome because if you fail an explanation is given:

First Certificate Vocabulary

Long list of 'stupid' euphemisms

 

Insulting as an art, insults as micro literature pieces... Enjoy!!  ;)

About as bright as a burnt out 20 watt light bulb.

About as useful as a chocolate fireguard.

An experiment in Artificial Stupidity.

As much use as a one legged person at an ass kicking contest.

As much use as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

As much use as Stevie Wonder at a beauty contest.

As useful as a wooden frying pan.

Body by God, Mind by Mattel.

Forgot to pay his/her brain bill.

Goes surfing in Nebraska.

Has two brains, one's lost and the other is out looking for it.

Having an intelligence rivalled only by garden tools.

She/he fell out of the Stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

He/she played too much without a helmet.

She’s/ He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

If brains were chocolate – he/she wouldn't have enough to fill an M&M.

If she/ he were any more stupid, he’d have to be watered twice a week.

If stupid were a talent, he/she would be considered gifted.

If you gave him/her  a penny for his/her thoughts, you'd get change back.

A photographic memory, but forgot to load the film.

 

Grammar general review exercises/ Ejercicios para repasar gramática en general

 click on the link below:

http://www.learnenglish.be/

More on flatmates

 Click on the link:




 Who'd live in a house like this?

Word order in affirmative sentences/ El orden en las frases afirmativas

Click on the sentence below to know more about this topic:



Word order in sentences (subject - verb - object)

Word Order in Positive Sentences

Exercises to review Verb Tenses/ Ejercicios para repasar tiempos verbales

Click on the links below/ Pulsad sobre los enlaces de abajo:

  Quiz: Present Simple or Progressive

(please, always remember thar progressive= continuous)

 Simple Past or Present Perfect - Exercise

Will-future or going to-future - Exercise

 Future ' will ' and ' be going to '

 Should / must

Use should / shouldn't / mustn't

 

My parents are coming today, can you please wear pants?

 Please, click below to have fun:

 

The hilarious notes left for annoying roommates

Read Texts/ Textos Leídos

Pulsa en el enlace para disfrutar de un montón de textos sencillos y largos, leídos muy, muy despacio. Los archivos de sonido son descargables, e incluso algunos tienen ejercicios/ Click on link to enjoy simple, nice texts galore, read very, very slowly. The sound files are downloadable and even some of them have worksheets

Listen to English- Learn English!

Indirect Questions exercise

Click on the link below:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/indirectques.html

Young and jobless/Jóvenes y sin empleo

A look to the current situation of the young generations all over the world/ Una mirada a la situación de las generaciones de jóvenes en todo el mundo.


Young and jobless

BBC World News/Las noticias del mundo en la BBC

An interesting link;  spend just one minute on the BBC to improve your English/Un enlace interesante; pasa tan sólo un minuto en la BBC para mejorar tu inglés.

BBC One-minute World News

Present Perfect with 'for' and 'since'

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1394

Exercises to practise comparatives and superlatives/Ejercicios para practicar los comparativos y los superlativos

Click on the links/Pulsa en los enlaces:

Comparatives

Superlatives

Comparative or Superlative

Comparing tennis players

World Records

Regular verbs Past Simple Pronunciation

Some interesting videos that will help us to manage this question:

Pronunciation of the Past Simple verbs with 'ed' endings

Link to the BBC exercises:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/

My daily routine/ Mi rutina diaria

Here we have a collection of videos that can help us to prepare our composition 'My daily routine'/ Aquí tenemos una colección de vídeos que pueden ayudarnos a preparar nuestra redacción 'Mi rutina diaria'
Pay attention to the vocabulary, structures (Present Simple) and way of telling the time/Presta atención al vocabulario, estructura (Presente Simple) y a la forma de decir la hora.

 

Present Perfect or Past Simple?

http://www.learnenglish-online.com/grammar/tests/presentperfectsimplepast2.html

False friends/ Falsos amigos

Una lista bastante grande/ An extensive list:

False friends

'Do' or 'Make'?

A good exercise to learn those confusing verbs/ Un buen ejercicio para aprender esos verbos confusos.

Present Simple or Continuous?

Do this exercise and decide!!

What's the time?/ ¿Qué hora es?

Click on the title below/ Pulsar en el título de debajo

An exercise online

And a good video, too:

Present Continuous

Some Present Continuous exercises online.

Present Simple

Some online exercises

Will or going to?

Ejercicios online para aprender a usarlos correctamente/An exercise online to learn to use them properly.

Recuerda: 'be going to' para planes, 'will' para decisiones en el momento/ Remember: 'be going to' for plans, 'will' for decisions

Click on the titles below/ Pulsar en los títulos de debajo

  

How techie are you?

 

 The future with will / going to

Big numbers in English/Los grandes números en inglés

A good link to practise them online/ Un buen enlace para practicarlos en línea.

Click on the title below/ Pulsar en el título de debajo

Big Numbers in English

 

 

Los números del 1 al 100/Numbers from one to one hundred

Comparatives and Superlatives

BBC Quiz on comparatives and superlatives

Exercise on English adjectives comparison

A quiz for fun

Pronouns/ Pronombres

Good exercises  to improve our knowledge about  pronouns (subject, object, possessive)/ Buenos ejercicios para mejorar nuestro conocimiento sobre los pronombres (sujeto, complemento, posesivo)


Object Pronouns

Pronouns Quiz

Pronouns Quiz (level A)

Will and Won't (Future Predictions, etc)

Interesting exercise to practise 'will' and 'won't'. Click on the link to do the exercises, or on the video to simply listen to the song.

'Will you still love me tomorrow?' by Carol King

The Seasons Song/ La canción de las estaciones

SEASONS SONG

There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter
There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
SPRING
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
SUMMER
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
AUTUMN
Can you tell me what season it is?
Let's take a look
WINTER
There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter
There are four seasons that happen in a year
spring, summer, autumn, winter
spring, summer, autumn, winter

What's she doing? What's he doing?/ ¿Qué esta haciendo ella? ¿Qué está haciendo él?

Unas cuantas canciones para aprender el presente continuo./ some songs to learn the Present Continuous.

It's raining, it's pouring (Weather song with lyrics)/ Está lloviendo, está diluviando (Canción del tiempo con letra)

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed

And he bumped his head

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day.

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed

And he bumped his head

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day

Rain, rain, go away

Come again some other day.

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed

And he bumped his head

And he couldn't get up in the morning

Health Vocabulary/ Vocabulario de la salud

The Balloon Song/ La canción del globo

What about reviewing the colours with such a funny song?/ ¿Qué tal si repasamos los colores con esta canción tan divertida?

Los animales y sus crías/ Animals and their youngs

¡¡Vamos a movernos como los animales!!/ Let's move like the animals!!

Animals, animals!!

¿Repasamos un poquito el vocabulario de los animales? Shall we check a bit the animals vocabulary?

How many...? Counting countables/¿Cuántos...? Contando contables.

Si, puede parecer una redundancia... pero ya sabéis que en inglés hay sustantivos contables (un dedo, dos dedos, tres dedos...) y sustantivos que no los son (los 'incontables') Aquí tenemos un par de vídeos para iniciar a los niños en este concepto./Yes, it could seem redundant... but you already know that, in English, there are countable nouns (one finger, two fingers, three fingers...) and nouns that are not (the 'uncountable' ones) Here we have a couple of videos to start children into this concept:

Listenings/Ejercicios de comprensión oral

Interesting link with listenings and exercises. Un link interesante con textos leídos y ejercicios de comprensión oral.

http://listenaminute.com/

Lo que hago todos los días/Daily routines

Canciones para l@s m@s pequeñ@s/Nursery Rhymes

London Bridge is Falling Down

Seven Steps

Hickory Dickory

Baaa Baaa Black Sheep

No, Yes, Please...

I'm a Little Teapot

 Ten in the bed

Otra canción del alfabeto/ British Council Alphabet Song

¡¡Pincha aquí... y canta la canción!! /Click here... and sing the song!!

Mi familia/My family

Texto/Lyrics:

MY FAMILY SONG

Mummy and Daddy

sister and brother

Grandma and Grandpa

My family

Mummy and me

Daddy and me

My family

I love my family

sister and me

brother and me

My family

I love my family

Grandma and me

Grandpa and me

My family

I love my family

I love my family

I love my family

And my family loves me.

Verb 'to be' Past Simple exercise

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?03

Sé correr/ I can run

La canción de las cosas que sabemos hacer/The 'Things that we can do' song

THE BEST WAY TO LEARN ENGLISH

A very interesting link with audios, scripts and exercises

The best way to learn English

Desayuno, almuerzo y cena/Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Biografía de Mozart (Pasado Simple)/ Mozart's Biography (Past Simple)

COMPLETE THE BIOGRAPHY WITH THE PAST SIMPLE FORM OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart _________ (be) born on January 27, in Salzburg (Austria). Mozart ___________ (be) a musical prodigy. He ______________ (begin) playing the piano when he ____________ (be) only three years old. At five he ________________ (write) his own music.

Mozart _______________ (play) for the kings and rich people. When he ___________ (be) a teenager he ___________________ (write) and ______________________ (complete) his first opera. He _________________________ (continue) to write great songs as an adult, but he ___________________________  (not/become) famous.

Mozart ___________ (get) married when he ___________________ (be) 26 years old and he ___________ (have) two sons. He ___________________________ (not/make) much money from  his compositions. Mozart _________________ (get)  ill and ___________ (die) on December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria. Mozart ________________________ (give) one of his students instructions on how to complete his last work, the ‘Requiem’ mass.

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:

1. What was his name?

____________________________________________________________________________________

2. When was he born?

____________________________________________________________________________________

3. Where was he born?

____________________________________________________________________________________

4. When did he begin playing the piano?

____________________________________________________________________________________

5. When did he write and complete his first opera?

____________________________________________________________________________________

6. When did he get married?

____________________________________________________________________________________

7. Where did he die?

____________________________________________________________________________________

El Pasado Simple -verbos regulares /Past Simple (regular verbs)

PAST SIMPLE

We use the Past Simple to talk about finished actions in the past.

- With regular verbs, we usually add 'ed' to the verb.

Examples: talk: talked  watch: watched wait: waited

- If the verbs ends in 'e' (for example, live), we add 'd' to the verb.

Examples: use:used like: liked celebrate: celebrated

- If a short verb ends in a vowel + consonant (for example, plan), we double the consonant and add 'ed'.

Examples: stop:stopped admit: admitted travel: travelled

- If the verb ends in consonant + 'y' (for example, try), we change the 'y' to 'i'and add 'ed'.

Examples: study: studied carry: carried marry: married

Signal words: 'yesterday', '2 minutes ago', 'in 1990', 'the other day', 'last Friday'…

Affirmative	Interrogative	Negative
I walked	Did I walk?	I didn’t walk
You walked	Did you walk?	You didn’t walk
She/he/it walked	Did she/he/it walk?	She/he/it didn’t walk
We walked	Did we walk?	We didn’t walk
You walked	Did you walk?	You didn’t walk
They walked	Did they walk?	They didn’t walk

Attention to this:

I was born in 1966.

When were you born?

A video about the Past Simple:

Ropa (Vocabulario) Clothes (Vocabulary)

Pronunciación del pasado regular/ Regular Past Simple pronunciation rules

Un vídeo que puede ayudarnos (y mucho) a comprender esta pronunciación. A video that can help us (and a lot) to understand this pronunciation.

Eyeries, Keswick and Auckland

En la escuela/School Vocabulary

Preposiciones de lugar/Place prepositions in-on-under

Presente Continuo/Present Continuous

Preposiciones de lugar/Prepositions of Place

Las habitaciones de la casa/Rooms in the house