29 August, 2012

Movie trailer exercises for learning English

Go to the this page. You will find a movie trailer, in this case, The Return of the King, and follow the instructions on the page.

1. Click on the player to start the video.

2. Type complete words in the box below the video.

3. You can type several words before you click on "Check" to see if your answers are correct.

  • When you have finished, practice reading the text aloud with the video.
  • Do not "repeat afterwards" because it brings in an element of memorisation.
  • Let your voice be guided naturally by the voices in the video - just as if you were learning a song.

13 August, 2012

Some more practice to expand your grammar:

Opposites: verbs

You'll find a funny game to practice opposites HERE

Academic writing

Here's some homework for the following long holiday weekend:

Watch the following video. Once you've finished, test your understanding by doing the exercise below.




Passive Voice

PRESENT PASSIVE VOICE

PRESENT PASSIVE VOICE

PAST PASSIVE VOICE

PAST PASSIVE VOICE

PRESENT & PAST PASSIVE

Tenses, Writing, Vocabulary

 GRAMMAR

PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR AND SINCE

PRESENT PERFECT WITH JUST, YET & ALREADY
PRESENT PERFECT: PUT THE WORDS IN ORDER
PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE?
PREDICTIONS
WILL FOR PROMISES & OFFERS
WILL FOR PROMISES & OFFERS

FUTURE CONDITIONAL
FIRST CONDITIONAL
FIRST CONDITIONAL
PRESENT PASSIVE
PRESENT PASSIVE

PAST PASSIVE

RELATIVE WORDS: WHO, WHICH OR WHERE?
RELATIVE WORDS


WRITING:

REWRITING TEXTS (DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEXTS)

VOCABULARY:
TRANSPORT, JOBS, ETC.
FILMS
PERSONALITY & FEELINGS 




Punctuation

The power of punctuation is better explained by examples. Then you need some general rules. Above all, you need exercises!
The Purdue University website has a good menu to cover the punctuation you need to know.
If you find that too much, you may wish to do a quick quiz instead.
In the middle of your writing, you may need to consult a guide about specific punctuation marks. This one is quite comprehensive. This one is faster and has exercises.
A quick cheat-sheet to have near you while you write could be this Oxford site.
Last, but not least...