Perfect tenses

Perfect tenses are also one of the items you should learn this year. I´d like to remind you that perfect tenses need participles and that you´ll have no trouble with them if the verb is a regular one, but irregular verbs have irregular past participles. Now you are in trouble if you haven´t learnt them so far!

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/pspp1.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/upperf2.htm
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/presentp_exc.htm
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/grammar/tense/3.1.xml
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/past_perfect_simple_past.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple/exercises
http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=2441

Past Simple and Continuous

Students´ faces

I know teaching can sometimes have a soporific effect on students, don´t you agree? Believe me if I tell you it has that effect on me, too; but, what can we do? Syllabuses are syllabuses. And then, there are those days, aren´t there? Days on which you would like to be somewhere else with somebody else doing something different - good weather doesn´t help school-. Unfortunately, you´ll have to wait till June to carry out plans other than studying. Meanwhile, I´m sure that sometimes you would like to have a teacher like the one on this video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1029270572519565699&q=gomaespuminglis&total=85&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

And, in case you found it funny, once you´ve stopped laughing you can continue clicking on new grammar links which will pull you through the past simple and continuous

http://ro.zrsss.si/~viljenka/ex_pastcontc.htm
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/exercises/pastsimple_conti_2.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro/exercises
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpas-paspro
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pastpastcont.html
http://assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/une.education.pour.demain/rodsex/pastcontspast/01.htm
http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz%20center/sppp1.htmhttp://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_past-continuous-quiz.htm

Present Tenses

Some more grammar to enjoy

Have you ever experienced this feeling before a new structure you have to learn or work with? I advise yo to start little by little so as not to be buried under a pile of execises and I think Present Tenses are a good way to start. Have a go at these links and see how you manage! Good luck!

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/simcon1.htm
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/contenidotematico.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/simpre_prepro.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/simple_present_present_progressive.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/sp_or_pc.html
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/simcon2.htm
http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/presprog.php

Modals

I know you can, but I´m not sure you will although you certainly must

Hurray! We understand modal verbs!

I am aware that modals are one of those parts you dislike most. I realize that they are completely different from the usage they have in your mother tongue, but I´m also conscious of the benefits of steady work to achieve aims. Here you are provided with plenty of opportunities to click on links to surf on modals steadily so that you your goal -mastering modals- will easily reached.

http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html
http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalforms.html
http://eslprograms.vcc.ca/ESLWEB/ESL_Sites/CALL_ONLINE_CENTRE/GramMultiLevel/Modals/modals.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/0101/ig-modals.html
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/Modals.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/auxiliary-verbs/exercises
http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/modalex.html
http://joaojardim.no.sapo.pt/the_grammar_corner.htm

Relative clauses? What the hell are you talking about?

Are they the ones with "who", "which", "whose", etc?. Yes, indeed! And , in case they are not among your favourite ones because there´s always something you can´t manage, here you have plenty of links, enough to become an expert on relative clauses and whatever their secrets may have been so far. Have a go and see what score you get!



http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses/exercises
http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/relativex.htm
http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/relativex02.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adj1.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.relative.i.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.nonrelat.i.htm

Passive Voice

Grammar is killing me!

Don´t worry! Whether you are in 1st or 2nd Batx. you´ll surely find a useful link where you can practise that structure you can´t master or that one you are not very confident of. Breathe deeply and start clicking on the links, they´ll take you to web pages where you´ll be able to do exercises of almost all kinds. If you can´t find what you need, let me know!

Passive :) I was told the curtain had been broken and I can´t stop wondering who it was broken by

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/reading/exercises/dogqz.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/passive/menu.php

http://www.eflnet.com/tutorials/passivevoice.php

http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-exercises.html

welcome

Welcome and feel free to use this blog as a tool to show all that English I know you know. I do hope you will find the links helpful and I also hope that you will use them again and again until those grammar structures you are not familiar with will no longer keep secrets for you...

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"Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Cruella de Ville". She will come along with us on this blog every now and then. I love this character and, if something goes wrong and you can´t blame on mambo, you can always put the blame on her, don´t you think?

See if you enjoy the video with her song

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=MHmrxZMVhfU

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