Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Word building


I suggest you read the information in the link below so that you will find out a few more things about word building. I know you were all ears when we saw this in the classroom, but in case you still have some questions...
http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/webesl.htm (things you should know about word building)
Now you can do as many exercises as you want, there´s plenty of them!
Don´t tell me you are tired! I still have a box full of links to help you improve your vocabulary in English :)

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000469.shtml
(link incuding different sites with interactive games with prefixes and suffixes)

http://www.grainvalley.k12.mo.us/gvsd/dreamweaver2/prefix.htm

Perfect Modals



There isn´t much left but a few lessons together. I´ll try to give you all the links you may need to help you prepare your third term exam and your final one as well. A first link to read and understand Perfect modals (modal+have+past participle)




And now a few more links where you can practise with them



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Thursday, April 10, 2008

I wish you were here



 Grammar topic? "wish". Get ready to practise...
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/wish1.htm

http://www.wordpower.ws/grammar/gramex09.html

http://www.smccd.net/accounts/sevastopoulos/esl/gramcheck/az20_17-33.html





Determiners



I often notice that, both in writing and speaking, you tend to use few determiners. I have also noticed that most of the times you tend to use them in exactly the same way you use them in your mother tongue. Perhaps it´s time we paid a little attention to them in English. The first link will lead you to a very good grammar page. Read everything carefully, you´ll certainly be surprised at the amount of things you already know. But I´m sure others will be completely new for you. Once you have understood the grammar, have a go at the exercises... Make sure you learn well those cases in which you omit the determiner or how many different types of determiners there are!

http://www.wordpower.ws/grammar/gramex20.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/exlist/list.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/possessive_determiners.htm

http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/grammar/05_determiners_articles/index.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/grammar/somany.htm

http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=33460

http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/grammar/06_determiners_both_all_none/index.htm

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Subject-verb inversion

2nd. Batx. beware!

Last year those pupils taking Selectividad in June had a reading comprehension text called "British pupils among the rudest" in which they had a couple of sentences with subject - verb inversion. As our textbook does not include this grammar point, I have decided to include it here so that you can become familiar with it. I´ll cater for a link with all possible inversion types and some more with exercises.


http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/inversion.htm


In case I can´t find any other links, you may start practising with these sentences:

Now you complete the following sentences with inversions.

1. Not only ……………………..but …………………………………………..as well
2. Nowhere ……………………………………………………………………………
3. Not even once ………………………………………………………………………
4. In no circumstances …………………………………………………………………
5. Seldom ………………………………………………………………………………
6. On no occasion ……………………………………………………………………..
7. So badly ……………………………………………………………………………..
8. Only by (+ gerund) ………………………………………………………………….
9. On no account ……………………………………………………………………….

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