More practice on making superlatives. Today's lesson continues where yesterday's left off.
Complete these sentences using the correct comparative. Be careful with your spelling.
Today's lesson comes from Nasreen Narkedien, EC Cape Town English school
Superlatives are the best! Or the worst…or the most confusing…or the easiest…you decide! Take the quiz and let’s see if you can solve it!
1 syllable adjectives. Add the /adj./ est.
Eg: cool = the coolest
2+ syllable adjectives. Add the most to the adjective
Eg: powerful = the most powerful
1 syllable adjectives. Add –er
Eg: cool = cooler
2+ syllable adjectives. Add more to the adjective
Eg: powerful = more powerful
Adjectives ending in –y. Remove –y and add –ier.
Eg: funny = funnier
This one's for all you sporty people who need to brush up on your running jargon! Have a look at the vocabulary and match the words to their definitions...
1) Novice
2) Marathon
3) Hamstring
4) Warm-up
5) Treadmill
6) Peak Performance
7) Cramp
8) Quads / quadriceps
9) Dehydration
10) Endorphins
This one's for all you sporty people who need to brush up on your running jargon! Have a look at the vocabulary and match the words to their definitions...
1) Novice
2) Marathon
3) Hamstring
4) Warm-up
5) Treadmill
6) Peak Performance
7) Cramp
8) Quads / quadriceps
9) Dehydration
10) Endorphins
Today's lesson is from Amy Whiting, EC Cape Town English language school.
Present Simple is used to talk about routines and habits, it uses the form Subject + Verb
Example: We eat turkey at Christmas time
Today's lesson comes from Deborah Jane Cairns, EC Cape Town English language school:
Have you ever been to New York?
Phrasal Verbs have a way of worming their way into our everyday English. Many have more than one meaning so they can be quite confusing.
In this exercise you must read the sentence and the clue in brackets and try to put an appropriate phrasal verb in the correct tense in the gaps. The missing phrasal verbs are popular.
Level: Elementary
Ordinal numbers are easy to learn but also, easy to forget.
When objects are placed in order, we use ordinal numbers to tell their position. If ten people ran a race, we would say that the person that ran the fastest was in first place, the next student was in second place, and so on.
Remember, ordinals are numbers we use when we want to put things in order. We normally ad 'th' to the numbers, but also sometimes 'nd' or 'st'. In the following sentences, do we need an ordinal number?
