Simple Past Tense

In English, there are regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are those to which you add "ed" to form the past and past participle: walk-walked; try-tried; play-played; watch-watched.
Irregular verbs may have no changes: hit-hit; set-set; let-let; spread-spread; bet-bet, etc.
one change: buy-bought-bought; bring-brought-brought; catch-caught-caught; think-thought-thought; sleep-slept-slept, etc.
two changes: speak-spoke-spoken; write-wrote-written; drive-drove-driven; drink-drank-drunk, etc.

At: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh7dyQB5SRk

You can watch several videos that will help you practice learning them.

To get a complete list of irregular verbs and exercises to check your learning, you may try:

http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html

A good practice exercise is at:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irpast1.htm

Also, take a look at the entries of October 2010, for other activities.

Here is a listening concentration game- listen and try to match the cards with same family member words! Enjoy.

http://www.manythings.org/ac/family.html

Extra Practice

Hello everyone,

For those who want more challenging activities, here is a very good link I found which a variety of possibilities: You can watch videos on different topics, practice grammar, read articles, etc.

I suggest you visit it. There is also a section for "slang" and other interesting cultural issues.

The link is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/

I hope you enjoy it!

For vocabulary practice, here is an excellent link which has lots of exercises to practice vocabulary use. I recommend it to make your vocabulary grow, you can do them little by little. I think you might them challenging and useful.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_words.htm

Practice, practice, practice!
Have fun!

Rooms in a house vocabulary

Here is a page with vocabulary related to houses and their rooms. There are also games.

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/rooms.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-housing.htm

Clothes Vocabulary Practice

Hello!

I hope you are enjoying your English classes and you are practicing a lot! Here are three links for you to practice "clothes" vocabulary. I hope you like them and find them useful. Good luck!

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/clothes.htm

http://englishvocabularylists.blogspot.com/2008/09/clothes-vocabulary-list.html

http://englishflashgames.blogspot.com/2008/08/clothes-game.html

Also, please click on the October 2010 activities. There's a lot of chances to practice using simple present tense, try it!

More Options to Practice four skills

I almost forget, here is an excellent link where you can practice all the skills and there is something for everyone, visit the site, try the games and activities, don't be afraid, you can really have fun and find that you can learn and practice...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english

Easy Reading Selections

Dear students,

As promised, here is a link for you to practice reading aloud, at least 10 minutes every day, click on the link below, I hope you will find something that you like:

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/stories/stories.html

Also, here is the link to the dictionary I told you about. It would be excellent if you use it to find the meaning and pronunciation of words you do not know from your reading:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/essential-american-english/cut_1?q=cut

Why don't you try finding the meaning of 10 words from your book?

Here is an excercise for you to practice. Try to classify the following words in five different groups: words with short "a", short "e", short "i", short "o" and short "u" vowel sounds. For example, "jam" is a short "a" vowel word. Can you organize the rest?


Finally, to practice your speaking a listening, here is a link to a beautiful song, I hope you enjoy it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxzEeKfpyIg

Family Members

Hi everyone!

I found a good exercise to practice family members vocabulary. Please click on the link below and try to do it:

http://www.prof2000.pt/users/tereza_n/family.htm

You can also try this one:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/family/exercises?02


Practice using the correct form of simple present going to the following pages:

http://elt.oup.com/student/project3rdedition/level1/unit4/grammar/exercise2;jsessionid=6FA1A4635852E734AB9DD2BF18CCFE89?cc=global&selLanguage=en

http://elt.oup.com/student/project3rdedition/level2/unit1/grammar/exercise1?cc=global&selLanguage=en

For number practice....try
http://www.vocabulary.cl/Games/Numbers_1-100.htm

And a song to sing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuSwSxFbfd0&feature=fvsr

Practice Using Prepositions in, on, at and Numbers

For students in Level 2, following are some links to practice the use of prepositions:

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_prep3.htm

http://www.world-english.org/prepositions2.htm

Also, the link to get in the book's website for internet homework is....

http://wps.pearsonlongman.com/topnotch1/


Practice the numbers in English!

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4865

VOCABULARY PRACTICE OCCUPATIONS

Hi everyone,

Following is a link to practice vocabulary on occupations. You can double click on each word, a new window will open showing you the word, you can click on it to listen to the pronunciation, the syllable division and the meaning. Go down to find other expressions, descriptions and activities to practice this vocabulary. I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to register it on your "Homework" page!

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/jobs.htm

You can also practice singing Mr. Postman - You're getting the lyrics by e-mail. Click the link to listen the song - sing along!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfddvbKb4w

Welcome CEPHCIS students!

Practice using the simple present form of verb to be, click on the link below and do the exercise. Check your inventory page.

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentSimpleToBe1A.html

Now, to practice using possessive adjectives, click on the following link, don't forget to check your inventory page:

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-possessive-adjectives.php

Watch a video with suggestions of information you should mention when introducing yourself, prepare an introduction about yourself including the information mentioned. You can e-mail your work to the teacher for correction and read it to your class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFWRNZ9ZbzM