http://englishallyear.com Enjoyable Ways to Improve Your Grammar, Vocabulary and Listening Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:34:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello again. The poor summer weather here continues. I love watching the Tour de France cycle race on my television but it's frustrating to see how much better the weather is in France. Today's exercise is about the zero conditional. http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/type0/exercise5.html Many people wrote to me thanking me for the links to Canterbury Cathedral. Others have written ... http://englishallyear.com/2008/07/23/zero-conditional-and-leeds-castle/ This week's exercise gives you revision of variations on the second conditional. I think it's quite challenging. http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/secondconditional/exercise7.html Hope you enjoy it. Pearson http://englishallyear.com/2008/07/01/second-conditional/ Hello again, This week's revision exercise is on 'used to' and can be found here: http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/usedto/exercise5.html Pearson http://englishallyear.com/2008/02/22/used-to/ I am now an expert on cold remedies from around the world. Thank you so much to everybody who sent me a remedy or good wishes. I am now feeling much better. Here is this week's listening practice on the past simple/present perfect. http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/presentperfectorpastsimple/exercise5.html I also need some help from people who would be interested ... http://englishallyear.com/2007/10/22/listening-practice-for-past-simple-and-present-perfect-2/ Hello again, I've got a bad cold but then everybody that I know here in England has got a bad cold ;) We're all surviving on hot lemon drinks. Hope it is warmer where you are. We've had quite a lot of demand for further listening practice. I hope you enjoy this activity, which ... http://englishallyear.com/2007/10/11/listening-practice-for-past-simple-and-present-perfect/ For today's bonus lesson, we have added an exercise and a listening exercise to the grammar lesson on irregular verbs. Here is the link: http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/irregularverbs/menu.php Are you a member of Facebook? Pearson has just joined. So, if you want to be his friend, do a search for Pearson Brown. You'll see a photo of him ... http://englishallyear.com/2007/09/26/irregular-verbs-listening-exercise/ Today's lesson looks at how we use articles; a, an or the. This is one of those areas of English grammar that looks quite simple but where even many advanced students continue to make mistakes. Here is the link: http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/aoran/menu.php http://englishallyear.com/2007/09/19/a-an-and-the/ Today's lesson continues to look at the verb 'to fall' combined with particles. Here is the link: http://www.carolinebrownenglishlessons.com/fallphrasals2/menu.php http://englishallyear.com/2007/09/03/phrasal-verbs-fall/ Today's lesson looks at phrasal verbs - those very common English verbs that have two parts: the verb plus a particle. This lesson is about the verb 'to do'. Here is the link: http://www.carolinebrownenglishlessons.com/dophrasals/menu.php http://englishallyear.com/2007/08/09/phrasal-verbs-do/ We're writing to you from Oxford where the River Thames has been flooded for several days after terrible rain storms. It is supposed to be summer! Here is the link to today's lesson. http://www.effective-public-speaking.com/causeandeffect/menu.php Have a good day, Caroline and Pearson http://englishallyear.com/2007/07/28/presentations-cause-and-effect/