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Thu, 07/15/2010 - 06:46 — Chris McCarthy

I thought I'd write another letter to you guys to get you practising your grammar. This is quite a difficult lesson. There are some verbs missing in the text. Can you put them in the correct tense? I’d love to hear back from you all.

Me and my friend Philippa at Thorpe Park, feeling frightened!

Dear students,

This week has been very busy! I _1_ working at a Summer school teaching English and it is fun, exciting and exhausting. On Monday, we _2_ all the students and put them into their different groups. Then we _3_ a disco in the evening, but all the students were quite shy. On Tuesday real lessons started. I _4_ the intermediate classes and I _5_ to keep the lessons exciting by using songs, videos and games. Yesterday I _6_ a group of students shopping. I panicked for a little while because I thought I _7_ them! Luckily, they were all in KFC getting some ‘wonderful’ English food. I think the students are enjoying their time in the UK, but some of them _8_ quite homesick. Tomorrow I _9_. to Thorpe Park for the day with a group of them! I love roller-coasters so I can't wait! I will probably go on most of the rides, but not the water rides. I’ve always been frightened of water rides, I don't know why! So it was a tiring week but a wonderful one. I _10_ so much and really enjoying the challenges of teaching younger learners. I still have three more weeks, do you think I will still be alive at the end?

Take care,

Caroline

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Thu, 07/15/2010 - 09:26 — ThaiNguyen1

Dear Ms Caroline

thainguyen1: Thanks very much for your interresting letter and that is my useful lesson about grammar for me and every student love English, too. My grammar in English is very very bad, I know. So I always try hard to improve it. I have my own family with one boy and my husdband. He likes English, too  and really knows that English could help him much in job and live. But he can't learn. He has no time and no suite condition to do. He's working in a far provine where internet not  fluent. I can't help him because we don't near another. we often meet each other at weekend  and my husdband must drive 80kms to come home. I love him much. And it the same for my son. I hope I learn English well to teach my son this language mysefl.

Don't laugh me yet.

Thanks very much.

Thu, 07/15/2010 - 09:51 — mona77

 the bright side of

 the bright side of teaching....riding roller-coaster!

if there is no student ,,,did you enjoy it alone?

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 05:58 — altaf

pl.comment

 really thank for the lesson.

Though Iam not cent percent confident, i got almost right.

while choosing the tense, it took a lot of thinking before i decide

In sentence 'yesterday i used 'had taken' instead of 'took'

could you please explain why we should use simple past'took'in thqat sentence

 

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 07:28 — Chris McCarthy

past perfect tense

"Yesterday I took a group of students shopping", is correct because there is no other clause in the sentence which shows a time-line so we don't need to use 'had'. The sentence states one event that happened in the past (yesterday) and so the simple past tense is used.

 

'Had taken' is the past perfect tense. The past perfect tense describes an action that took place in the past before another past action. Example: "By the time you arrived, he had taken all the food away."

Hope that helps?

Chris

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 08:28 — mandakh

I hope that you can alive still end of the lesson

I hope that you can alive still end of the lesson. Good Luck! and thank you very much good lessons

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:16 — altaf

Thanks Chris

Iam really thankful for th explanation.

Whenever I had doubts, You were kind enough to clear it

almost immediately. With your help, Iam sure togain more knowledgr in language

that i love thank YOu

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 15:10 — Ozi_Hibz

Had/Have

Thanks Caroline for this letter. Indeed, it is a very good practise.

I got them all correct, except the first question. I always get confused of when to use have/had.

I knew 'have' will make sense more than had, thus I thought 'had' is more appropriate because the sentence is in past tense.

Another lesson I recommend is when to apply a full stop or comma. I always get confused when to write a full stop or comma.

Hope you will enjoy your Summer school!

Many Thanks,

Hiba

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 19:24 — khoukha

thanks caroline but i still

thanks caroline but i still have problemes with the past and present perfect

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 10:45 — Natalysmart

I did all correctly,

I did all correctly, interesting lesson, exciting life, thank you very  much, Caroline

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 18:39 — CarolineD

Hello!

Hi  everyone! It's Caroline here.

Thank you for all your comments and thanks to Chris for giving you such excellent explanations. Fortunately, I went on the roller coasters with another member of staff so it wasn't too scary.

I have just written a lesson on commas and full stops which should be online next week!

Take care,

Caroline

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 19:12 — CarolineD

PS

I have also just written a past simple/present perfect lesson for you Khoukha! It should also be online next week.

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 14:30 — Pegah

Re test

Sorry it was excelent but it wasn't so chalenging because I can guess some question from my choice because some of them were wrong for example have learn was wrong and I choose another answer.

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 18:38 — anasha

Thank You for the lesson.

Hi, Two answers wrong 1& 6. Could you please explain  the answer for the first question, please?

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 14:42 — Yura

Dear Caroline, I read your

Dear Caroline,

I read your Letter with great pleasure and I didn't made any mistake.  The wrong form of verbs helped me to do this exersice correct.

What is it a roller-coaster? Is it a ride behind your backs in the foto? It is really scary!

I'm glad that you like your teaching and I think that everything will be OK. You try your best and you will get good results!

I'm looking forward to your new Letter!

Bye,

Marina

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 03:44 — djodonnell4059

Who Wrote the Caption for That Picture?

djodonnell4059

 

If this site is supposed to teach English grammar, it's not doing a good job of it.  "Me and my friend Philippa..." is incorrect.  It should read "My friend Philippa and I ..."  Does anyone edit these "lesson pages"?

Wed, 08/04/2010 - 07:52 — ekatherine

grammar

two mistakes I had.

 

Sun, 11/14/2010 - 18:29 — LISSY

THANKS

 THANKS FOR THE LETTER CAROLINE!, IT WAS  VERY USEFUL FOR ME.

I DONT HAVE ANY MISTAKE.

Thu, 06/02/2011 - 06:37 — nanth

thank you

This is very useful lesson.i know well about grammer, but when i speak, write, that i will get confused  about what tense i have to use to here like that.i am expecting this type of lesson in future