In this blog you can practise English and ask for any extra practice you need

Tenses Practice

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grammar, simple past, emailing, present perfect

Merry Christmas :-)

Tell us

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free writing

Connectors

And for those of you that were looking for some connectors to improve their writing, here's a glossary on that:




You can also practice completing this email with the right connector. You check it on line

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glossaries, connectors

Present Perfect practice

Hi! Here are some guidelines and practice about when to use simple past, and when present perfect.

You can also post here any question for the rest to talk about, for example: Have you ever been abroad?

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grammar, simple past, present perfect

Improve your pronunciation

This page has some activities and games to help you improve your pronuciation.


http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus

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pronunciation

Songs to practice the simple past

If you like Iron Maiden:





If you prefer Pink Floyd:




You can also post here any phrase from any song that helps you remember the simple past:
E.G.  woke up this morning ... (Bob Marley - Three Little Birds)

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simple past

emailing games

These are two activities I've designed to go over some phrases to write emails. I hope you like them!



And remember that the best way to remember new vocabulary and phrases is by using them! so you can post here an email using as many phrases as you can  from the glossary and from these activites

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free writing, emailing

More simple past practice

The best way of remembering the simple past is using it!

You can post a comment here telling us about any of these topics:

• You best / worst vacation.
• What you did yesterday.
• What you did last weekend.
• What you did when you were ten years younger.
• The history of your company.
• Your previous jobs.
  
• Or any topic you want to share!

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simple past, free writing

Email Phrases

This glossary has a lot of useful expressions that you can use when writing emails.




Remember it's a good idea to have your own glossary, copying and classifying the good expressions you see in the emails you get

Posted by: Carina at 16:39 | link | comments (8)
skills, glossaries, emailing

Simple Past

Here's the typical list with the verbs in the infinitive, in the past and in the participle (coming soon...)

How can we remember them? could you post different ways? (you can classify them, write real examples, find examples in songs...)

In case you want some practice on line:

perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.pastsim.i.htm

perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/cros2.htm

perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/cros1.htm

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links, grammar, simple past, glossaries