Habitual actions - present simple (1)

The typical or habitual actions are with present simple. You need the auxiliary DO/DOES for negative or interrogative sentences. These are some examples:

• I study English  ---   I don't study Japanese   ---  Do you study French? No, I don't / Yes, I do

On the Internet you can find some videos with some verbs about daily routines: 

• these are videos for children and they are very easy: click here, here or here
• this video is with the 1st person in singular and the 3rd person in singular: click here
• This is the video we'll see in class in which Fred talks about his routine: click here

Now do these exercises to practise with present simple or habitual:

• The Queen's routine: click here
• A video with grammar explanation: click here
• a video to practise pronunciation: click here

Grammar exercises:     exercise 1    exercise 2    exercise 3    exercise 4    exercise 5    exercise 6

See you in class!

Adjectives - A2

Adjectives are words to describe charcteristics. Let's see the most typical ones:

• Colours: here you are a link and watch this video with the pronunciation
• Opposites: exercise 1       exercise 2        exercise 3        exercise 4       exercise 5       exercise 6    exercise 7     exercise 8
• Opposite adjectives: this video is very easy. Here you are a video and here you are another video .
• There are very useful adjectives: nice, lovely, good, awful

How to learn vocabulary:

• Think of one thing to describe and try to say its characteristics: a Mercedes (big, expensive, fast, strong, luxury, German, good...) Do the same with a ring, an elephant, a coffee table, a pencil, a computer...
• Write a chart with different adjectives: in green the positive and in red the negative or the opposite.
• Think of an adjective and use it in different contexts: lovely; e.g. a lovely story, a lovely baby, a lovely picture, a lovely sandwich...