After the success of last week's love idioms exercise, I decided to write another idioms lesson for you based on expressions that contain the verb 'to work'.
I have written the meanings of the expressions at the top and then created some sentences that include the idioms. Can you work out which idiom belongs to each sentence?
I found this fascinating article about white children being born to black parents and decided to use it for one of my lessons. This is a surprisingly common phenomenon. I have taken out some of the words and challenge you to put the vocabulary in the correct gaps! Good luck! Caroline.
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I have written ten descriptions of jobs bellow but I have scrambled up the letters of the job titles. Can you rewrite them correctly? What job would you like to do? Or what job are you doing at the moment? Here's another question for you, what job do you think is the best job in the world? Take care! Caroline
This lesson was requested by khoukha and is a quick review of how we use the present perfect and the past simple.
We use this tense for things that happened at a definite time in the past.
E.g. "I met my best friend when I was fifteen."
It is formed by adding '-ed' to regular verbs.
Anyone else feel like relaxing on a beautiful beach for a few weeks? Well if you're going to, why not take a look at these beaches, voted the top in the world by 'The Guardian newspaper'. Read through the article, adding the missing words as you go along.
Read the full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/feb/16/beach.top10?page=all
Here's some collocations with take and have.
The best way to learn collocations is through practice because there are no clear rule. The more you look at them, the more familiar they will become. We recommend writing some example sentences below.
Did anyone get 10/10? Which ones did you get wrong?
Hi everyone, here's some sports collocations for you!
Go is generally used for sports and activities ending in –ing (but not always).
"Let's go skiing this winter."
Do is generally used for individual sports and fighting sports.
"My son can do Judo."
Dating and relationships are an extremely popular topic for most students! So here's some idioms about them so you can talk about it even more! The idioms are written at the top. Which expression do you think goes in which sentence?
Hi everyone! It's time for collocations today.
Remember:
Make is generally used for when we create something new.
"When it snows we make a snowman."
Do is generally used for activities.
"I do my homework when I get home."
Choose the correct option and good luck!
