Gerunds & Infinitives II

I'll just leave here a couple of links more, so can have as much practice as you can take!!! Just click on the exercise number to give it a try. The more you practise, the higher probability of remembering when to use either a gerund or an infinitive (with or without to) when it comes to real communication.

PRACTICE 1             PRACTICE 2          

If you remember, we also mentioned, though just briefly, that we usually place a gerund after prepositions, except in a few cases. This is an exercise to practise which prepositions go after certain verbs. Enjoy!

PRACTICE 3

A letter to a penfriend

Correct the sentences, or even rewrite them if it sounds better to you. Just follow your instinct, and see if it works for English. 

1. According to my future, I hope to finish my degree soon. 

2. I feel a lot like to know you.

3. I studied biology at the University. 

4. Now I work like a teacher. 

5. I'd like to be a penfriend of you. 

6. In this area is situated a beautuful natural park. 

7. As well as, I really like go out. 

8. I quite have a good fun going to the movies and going out for the weekend. 

9. But I'm totally sure about we'll click inmediately. 

10. I don't say you anymore so you should know it when you come here. 

11. So you have plenty time during the year to going out or doing sport. 

These are from other writings you've handed in voluntarily. 

12. After he was talking and explaining to the taxi driver the situation.

13. The most important appealing is that the weather is very soft.

Watch or See

A link to revise the use of these verbs, as well as look. At the bottom of the page there's an exercise to practise.

SEE, LOOK or WATCH

To & For

Just a couple of links here to help you understand their use better.

BBC Learning English        and       What is "for" for?

Air B&B Writing

After marking all your writings, what took me a long while as you could see, I've decided to give you a few sentences with mistakes so you can correct them. Here they are:

1. Also has a mall so near with shops where you´ll can find everything.
2. Maybe you want to stay in despite og go to the beach. Here you'll can do.
3. It's fantastic and is a pleasure for me, share it with other people.
4. I'd love to meet another people.
5. Really, is a quiet and safe place.
6. The place is quite safe because the security staff.
7. We have very experience with tourists. 
8. It's situated nearby the coast.
9. The house has a long balcony, you can stay outside during the summer so the weather is really good.
10. We also give the mains characteristics.
11. I recommend my house because is fantastic and is a pleasure for me, share it with other people.
12. I have a flat in Madrid, it's in the city center, it's not very big but it has a fantastic location when you'll have dinner.

Super -S

Listening to you in class I noticed that you still find it hard at times to pronounce the final -s, and it is of outmost importance that you get it right for good. So here we go with a whole lesson on its pronunciation. Click on the icon to Zac's web. Although explanations are written in Spanish, the audios are recorded in English. So just sit back and listen to his explanations. Then, of course, practise saying the examples. You can even record yourself and then listen to it.

Other and Another

A video explaining how to use OTHER & ANOTHER properly

And here you have a couple of exercises to practise:

Exercise 1       Exercise 2

Make & Do

Hi everyone!

I see you still find it difficult sometimes to make the right choice when using MAKE and DO. So as to make it a bit easier, here you can read about when to use one or the other. 

Make & Do

And here is a video with a few of those expressions 

How to serve in tennis

This is a step by step tutorial on how to serve when you play tennis. We will work on this video in class. We'll revise vocabulary of the parts of the body plus other useful words to describe sports, movements and actions.

Modern Family-The Series

This is a very popular comedy that centres around three families. Here you have the first chapter, and below is the link if you want to watch more! There are four seasons already.

The whole series

Pumpkin pie recipe

Halloween pumpkin cake recipe

After our food tasting - which was very nice indeed - I'd like to share the recipe I prepared for you, so you can give it a try at home, and surprise your family and friends. I think that what really makes a difference is the spice mix. I used ALLSPICE, a blend of different spice that you can easily find in Great Britain, but not so easily here. To make your own mixture, wikipedia is very helpful. Click the names for the ingredients of MIXED SPICE, aka ALLSPICE. It may seem a bit confusing at first, but just read on.

Well, THANKS so much to those of you who devoted your time to cooking for class or brought sweets and chocolates (yummy!), I really appreciate it and enjoyed tasting your cakes!! I'd love it if you could share your recipes with us. I encourage you to write a comment with the link, or you could send it to me and I'll link the document.

Here goes mine:

Halloween pumpkin cake recipe

Sports Vocabulary

INTERESTS AND SPORTS

This is our new topic. We are going to talk about thigs you fancy doing, how we practise different sports, their rules and vocabulary related to equipment.

TYPES OF SPORTS  In this site you can find various sports names, descriptions of how to play or do them, sample enquiries on this topic, and a conversation model.

And here you have places where we do sports. 

Spelling Rules Revision

When you've been learning a language for a few years, at some point you start having doubts on how to write things, when to double consonants, and things that you were supposed to know. Don't worry! You just need to go over the spelling rules again. So here you have both the rules and some practice in the following cases:

Spelling rules for GERUNDS (-ing)          practice 1   practice 2  practice 3

Spelling rules for REGULAR PAST (-ed)  practice 1   practice 2  practice 3

Spelling rules for PLURALS (-s/ -es)        practice 1   practice 2

And this is a Summary of Basic Spelling Rules