I found this news quite surprising, as I have always thought that sending a child to boarding school would be much more expensive than other alternatives.
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live away from their family.
Would you describe yourself as a shopaholic or do you hate shopping? Do you like to go window shopping on the weekends, even when you have no money. When you want to buy something, do you shop around for the best price or are you an impulse shopper?
What can you remember about using past continuous to describe interrupted time? Here's a little refresher:
When you want to talk about two actions in the past, it is often the case that one is past continuous and the other past simple.
The long action is past continuous and the short one, or the one that interrupts it is past simple.
For example:
"I was walking to school when I heard a loud crash."
Before you begin your English class, you will need to understand some classroom vocabulary! In the next ten sentences are ten words that you will probably hear every day in the classroom. Change the order of the letters to find the 'classroom vocabulary'.
Good luck!
Lesson by Caroline Devane
Rearrange the letters in orange to make the correct word:
I kind of like this song...but don't tell anyone! Why? Because it's a guilty pleasure, something we like even though we know we shouldn't. A guilty pleasure will usually cause your friends to laugh at you and remind you of how silly you are constantly. Listen to this song by young boy-band One Direction (oh the shame) and fill the gaps with the missing words. Then let me know your guilty pleasures, if you dare!
Lesson by Caroline Devane
Used to is commonly applied to either speak of a past habit or a situation we are accustomed to. However, the structure that follows 'used to' will be determined by the intended meaning.
For example: used to + infinitive = past habit. For example: I used to smoke but not now.
Verb to be + used to + gerund = an accustomed situation. For example: I am used to smoking; I smoke a packet a day.
In USA schools, pizza is now a vegetable!
What did you eat for lunch when you were in school? Could you buy something _1_ to eat in the school cafeteria?
Friends are so important and we often find friends in the unlikeliest places! For example, look at this gorilla and tiny duckling who got close at a zoo in New York!
Read through the article and try to decide which word fits in each gap. Then why don’t you call a friend who is also learning English and tell them the story.
Lesson by Caroline
Hello All!
Please read this letter from me to you and try to answer the true or false questions below. There is one phrase at the end of the letter that I'd like you to try to explain...is it really to do with meat?
Take care!
Caroline Devane
Here's an example of a real conversation at the train station.
Read through the dialogue and see if you can unscramble the orange words, all of them are words related to train stations and journeys.
Let me know how you get on. When you're finished, role play the situation with a friend.
Lesson by Caroline Devane
