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What's the best question?

Here's another chance to make sure you know how to correctly form questions. All you have to do is choose the correct question for each given answer. We had a similar exercise last month called ' Which question is best ?' - when lots of you said you ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 09:29 - 22 comments

Can you guess the tenses?

Let's review some present and past verb tenses . Here you can see eight tenses; read through them to remind yourself of how they are used and then match the tenses to the sentences. The example sentences use the verb eat : eat ...

Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/10/2012 - 13:12 - 47 comments

Why do we say 'Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining'?

.orange { color: #F60; } "Don't be unhappy that your boyfriend broke up with you - every cloud has a silver lining ".  What does this idiom mean? Meaning: Every cloud has a silver lining means that you should n ...

Plain Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 02/19/2013 - 15:48 - 22 comments

Review Verb Tenses

Everyone loves English grammar...right? I know you think grammar is confusing and probably pretty boring, but understanding the basics is important. The following ten questions all use simple (as in 'easy') grammar structures.  Take a few m ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/14/2012 - 14:03 - 33 comments

Choose the correct forms of the verb

... verbs. There are four choices for each sentence, but only one is correct. This exercise is intermediate level. Let's see how ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 10/01/2013 - 06:40 - 19 comments

General Quiz - Time to review!

Here's a quiz to test your general knowledge of English. If you get any of these questions wrong, let us know which ones and we'll explain the answers. Don't be shy, leave your comments below: Link: 10 vocabulary questions ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/04/2013 - 05:58 - 20 comments

Phrasal Verb - Stay

... in , over , up , away , out or on . Only use each word once. Link: Phrasal Verb - Move ...

Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/11/2012 - 07:39 - 16 comments

Education vocabulary

When I was a kid the expression that I hated the most was 'back to school.' At the end of the summer, shops that sold children's shoes or school bags would advertise to parents in their shops  'back to school' products. ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/10/2012 - 09:12 - 16 comments

Using Question Tags

This is your chance to practice question tags, isn't it? Questions tags are a common way to make questions, aren't they? You know how to use them, don't you? You can't get all 11 correct, can you? Chris thinks you will ma ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/14/2012 - 12:13 - 30 comments

Vocabulary Exercise - How well can you do?

Todays's exercise is a what we call a 'mixed bag' . That means it has a bit of everything.  Let's begin. OK, so you think you're good at English? Well, today we have ten tricky words and phrases that I think you've heard before. They're all ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 10/22/2012 - 13:54 - 40 comments