Some extra work on CLEFT SENTENCES (IT/WHAT CLAUSES)

   BBC Ask about English  (A more detailed explanation  of cleft sentences)
Exercise 1  Exercise 2 Exercise 3

Unit 5A: PERMISSION, OBLIGATION AND NECESSITY( grammar)

Hi guys,

Here's a new worksheet to get a bit of more practice in the use of the grammar items that we are dealing with in this unit.

Permission, Obligation and necessity
Remember NOT to do the activation section below.
Answer key

Unit 5C: Grammar on Gerund-Infinitve

 Hi guys,

A bit of extra practice on verbs and expressions that take gerund or infinitive(to).
Just do the first two activities. You don't have to do the matching exercise under "ACTIVATION" if you don't want to.

Worksheet
Answer Key

Extra practice on MIXED CONDITIONALS

Hi everyone,
here's a couple of  worksheets to get a bit of more practice on MIXED CONDITIONALS.
Hope it can be of great help to you all.

extra practice 1
(  short explanation + answer key)

extra practice 2


         

4B: INFINITIVE or GERUND? ANSWER KEY

Hi guys,

  This is the ANSWER KEY for the worksheet on INFINITIVE  or GERUND I posted a couple of days ago.

a) 

2 to take   3 to be offended  4 Correct   5  for Jack to attend
6  you to feel  7 Correct  8 for our children to go  9 Correct

b)

2 to retake   3 do   4 taking  5 being able   6  stopping   7 using
8 to leave   9 not to arrive 10 to get

4B: A bit of grammar to brush up on!!

Hi guys,

Here's a  worksheet     for you to get some extra practice on the Grammar point seen in class this week. ( Gerund/ Infinitive).
the last bit at the bottom of the worksheet(Activation section), don't do it please.

Movie segment from the film "THE OMEN"

Hi guys,

Here's a short  segment from the film "THE OMEN".

Watch it   first, and then do the  grammar activity on INVERSION.

Finally, I would like you to  reflect on  the questions at the bottom of the worksheet  to hold a debate next day in class.






Worksheet

3A: Grammar exercises: Speculation and deduction

 1 Quiz on verbs of speculation and deduction ( and adverbs and adjectives for speculation)


  2  Brain Teasers ( funny scenarios where you have to use your imagination to come up with the real answer) You have to make use of  speculation and deduction expressions in the present and in the past. Just speculate by using some of the expressions  used in the book for each situation.
Example:
A man lived on the twelfth floor of a building. Every day he took the elevator to got to the ground floor to go to work or  to go shopping. when he returned he took the elevator to the eighth floor and walked  up the stairs to reach his apartment. he hated walking, why did he do that, then?

Possible answers:
" he could have forgotten.... "
"He can't possibly have had...."

3B: Some explanations,examples and quizzes on INVERSION

Inversion of subject and verb, Inversion of particles and prepositions.

Some more examples of inversion

A useful explanation on INVERSION through a pps

18 different types of Subject/Verb inversion (very interesting!!)

short quiz on inversion

Some more stuff on inversion ( with an online quiz at the bottom of the page.)

ANSWER KEY for GRAMMAR activities from unit 2

 Hi everybody,
here's the answer KEY to the activities on the previous post I made on GRAMMAR activities for CONSOLIDATION.


ANSWER KEY to activities from UNIT 2

Grammar activities from UNIT 2 for consolidation.

 Hi guys!

Here's some hand-outs to work on grammar for Unit 2.
DO NOT do activities under  "ACTIVATION" tag.
I'll post the  KEY with the answers in  a couple of days.

Narrative tenses, USED TO, WOULD

Expression of distance

Uses of GET

bye for now
JL

KEY to Grammar activities:( HAVE & PRONOUNS)

 Hi guys,

Here's the key to the grammar hand-outs I emailed you and posted on the blog.

Key to Grammar activities on HAVE and PRONOUNS