Easter Traditions in England
Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6 Easter is almost here everyone! Download Exercise I’m going to take myself on a trip down memory lane and let you discover what growing up was like for a child in the English countryside. I also realize that I now have the urge to learn more …
Els Articles en Inglés
Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Aquesta setmana anem a donar un repàs a una matèria bàsica: l’article gramatical en anglès, un element essencial en la construcció del llenguatge. Els articles es classifiquen en definits (“the”) i indefinits (“a”/”an”), però a diferència del castellà, en anglès no tenen ni gènere (masculí/femení) ni nombre (singular/plural). …
False Friends
Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 This week we are going to look at some false friends between English and Spanish. False friends are what we call words that look very similar but the actual meanings of the words are very different. It is very common to see a word and try to equate it …
“Punctuation”
Stage4 Stage 5 Stage 6 An often overlooked part of English and language in general is punctuation. Not only is punctuation important for making your writing look nice and neat, it can also dramatically change the meaning of a sentence if it is used incorrectly. So, let’s have a look at making your writing look …
“The Difference Between Two, To and Too”
Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6 For many students, one of the most difficult parts of learning English is the pronunciation. It is not a phonetic language, which means we can’t simply look at a word we’ve never seen before and know how to pronounce it. This becomes especially complicated when it comes to homophones, …
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an adverb!”
When readers analyse a new text, they sometimes try to determine which lexical category particular words correctly belong to. Adverbs are usually considered as a last resort in this endeavour; only once the more glamorous categories of nouns, verbs and adjectives have been eliminated do lowly adverbs get their fifteen minutes of fame. This may …
“There, They’re and Their”
As we saw in this week’s Tip of the Week, we’re discussing the word “there” and how it sounds like other words with different meanings. What part of speech is “there”? How do we pronounce it and use it in a sentence? Well, the difficulty comes from the fact that the word “there” is a …
“Present Perfect vs. Past Simple”
Stage 4 Stage 5 This week we’ll be looking at a part of English grammar that many students find confusing. At a certain stage of our English studies, we start learning a variety of verb tenses to talk about actions related to time. We use them for the past, present and future. Today we’ll go …
The Present Perfect Tense
Stage 4 Stage 5 El Present Perfect es una combinación de presente y pasado, es decir, expresa acciones ocurridas en el pasado que continúan teniendo relevancia en el presente. Su estructura es sencilla, como ejemplo citamos tres piezas musicales que utilizan este tiempo verbal en su letra:
“Confusing Words: Uses of ‘Get'”
Stage 4 Stage 5 Today I am going to talk about the verb ‘get’ and explain some of its meanings and give you some examples of each, thus making it easier for you to understand. The general meanings of the verb ‘get’ are ‘become’ and ‘obtain’. However, it has several other meanings too. When we …
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- The difference between No and Not in English
- La diferencia entre el ‘Present Simple’ y el ‘Present Continuous’ inglés
- Expressions de l’idioma en anglès: Food Idioms
- “Adverbs in English”
- The Preposition ‘By’ Used for Time
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