Conjunctions are words that connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences.
For example:
"I bought him a jacket but he hates it!"
In the following sentences, can you decide which conjunction completes the gap? Think very carefully about the meaning of the sentence. Can you remember any other conjunctions?
Can you remember the rules for comparative and superlative adjectives? Here’s a quick exercise to help you find out. Is the sentence correct or incorrect? If it is incorrect, what should the sentence say? Good luck!
Lesson by Caroline
A while ago I posted an exercise to help you increase your vocabulary. That lesson focussed on verbs A to H, so now we are going to look at some verbs from I to P, some of which you may know and some of which you might not. Each sentence needs one of the verbs below Find the meaning of the verb and match it to the correct sentence. Then, from memory, try to write your own list of verbs from I-P. Good luck!
Here's an exercise to help you increase your vocabulary! Below are 8 verbs, some of which you may know, and some of which might be new to you.
Each sentence needs one of these verbs. Find the meaning of the verb and match it to the correct sentence.
I recommend reading all the sentences before making your choice.
Then, from memory, try to write your own list of verbs from A to H.
Lesson by Caroline Devane
An idiom is a phrase (a group of words) which means something different from the meanings of the separate words. "Sally let the cat out of the bag" does not mean that Sally took a real cat out of a real bag. It means that she told a secret by mistake.
How well do you know the folllowing idioms?
How well do you remember this modal verb which expresses ability? Can you remember everything or can't you remember anything?!
Try this exercise to find out! In each sentence choose which answer is needed to make the sentence work.
Note: Sometimes we replace 'can't' with 'cannot'. They have exactly the same meaning but can't is much more common.
Lesson by Caroline
Choose the correct combination in the following sentences:
This song describes the difficulty of finding yourself single after an important relationship. Do you usually read through the lyrics and guess which words fit the gaps before you listen to the song? I’d like you to try that today, you may be surprised at how well you can understand the context! As always, please let me know if you have any requests for songs or artists in the future!
Do you remember what these places are for?
Read the sentences below and then decide where each person needs to go. For example:
'I need a flight to Paris.'
This person needs to go to the airport.
Good luck!
Lesson by Caroline
Have you ever given a presentation or made a speech to a group of people? Did you feel nervous? Did the people enjoy what you said?
Take a look at this paragraph and pay special attention to the 5 idioms in orange:
Quantifiers are used to express quantity i.e. the amount of something; how many/much.
With countable nouns like apples, for example, we can ask and answer:
How many apples do you want?
I want four apples.
Notice we use many with countable nouns.
Now let's take a look at a non-countable noun: wine.
