Passages 1 - Unit 12

 Words of Encouragement

                      Future perfect and future perfect continuous

Passages 1 - Unit 11

How honest are we?

English Grammar - UNLESS & IF NOT - negative conditional

Passages 1 - Unit 10

50 daily annoyances

Following on from my random website ideas list and my reality rules of the road list, here’s a daily annoyances list which i’ve put together.. enjoy 

• People who fail to hold on to bars when they get on trains/trams/buses and fall backwards when it starts moving – WTF? you know it’s going to happen 

• People who talk loudly on public transport

• People who play ringtones / play videos on max volumes on public transport

• People who play music loudly on their mp3/ipod so all you can hear is hissing

• .............

Passages 1 - Unit 9

Clauses and phrases showing contrast and exception 

Expressions with keep and stay 

Past habitual

                                 

I'm not used to it ~English lesson on skype

                   used to

Passages 1 - Unit 8

              reduced relative clauses

Non-defining relative clauses as sentence modifiers 

Passages 1 - Unit 7

Technology buzzwords 

1-c

2-h

3-f

4-j

5-a

6-i

7-b

8-g

9-e

10- d

                           Present Perfect Passive


                   Connecting Ideas with.......

 
What is a blog?
A blog, short for Web log, is an internet journal or newsletter.

What is a Podcast?
A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the iPod, as audio podcasts are often listened to on portable media players

 
 Question Tag 
      

Passages 1 - Unit 6

Simple Past	Present Perfect Simple
certain time in the past Example: I phoned Mary 2 minutes ago.	just / already / not yet Example: I have just phoned Mary.

Certain event in the past or how often so far?

Do you want to express when a certain action took place or whether / how often an action has happened till now?

Simple Past	Present Perfect Simple
certain event in the past Example: He went to Canada last summer.	whether / how often till now Example: Have you ever been to Canada? / I have been to Canada twice.

Emphasis on action or result?

Do you just want to express what happened in the past? Or do you want to emphasise the result (a past action's consequence in the present)?

Simple Past	Present Perfect Simple
Emphasis on action Example: I bought a new bike. (just telling what I did in the past.)	Emphasis on result Example: I have bought a new bike. (With this sentence I actually want to express that I have a new bike now.)

Signal Words

Simple Past	Present Perfect Simple
yesterday ... ago in 1990 the other day last ...	just already up to now until now / till now ever (not) yet so far lately / recently

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English Grammar Lesson: Present perfect continuous