Friday, November 18, 2011

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

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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!