Level: Pre-Intermediate +
Here's some interesting news about adult learners in the UK. Read the article then copy and paste the key words into the correct gap.
There has been a slight rise in the number of adults in the UK taking part in learning, a survey suggests.
A _A_ of 5,000 adults by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education found 21% were involved in learning, up from a low in 2009 of 18%.
Today's lesson comes from Danica at EC Cape Town English Language School
A lesson on phrasal verbs for pre-intermediate students
Read the following text about Danica and her family and answer the following questions about phrasal verbs.
Today's lesson comes from Danica at EC Cape Town English Language School
Some basic guidelines:
Have you ever described yourself in one word? What word would you use to describe yourself? Personality adjectives are useful for talking about our characters or the characters of people we know.
Here are seven personality adjectives for you to learn. Do any of these describe you?
A person who has a strong wish to be successful, powerful or rich is ambitious.
"We need to decide where to go. This is an important decision."
In this sentence the highlighted verb is decide and the noun form of the verb is decision.
Today, I'd like you to take a look at the sentences below. Complete each sentence with a noun. Always use the noun form of the verb given in brackets. Don't use any -ing words.
Today's vocabulary comes from BBC News "Hung parliament: Bear with us, urges Nick Clegg"
"Nick Clegg has asked people to "bear with us" as the Lib Dems and the Tories enter a third day of negotiations.
After yesterday's look at antonyms, the time is right for an exercise on synonyms.
A synonym is a word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
Terrible and awful are synonyms because they have the same meaning.
Can you do better today than you did on yesterday's exercise?
Antonym is a word we use to mean opposite. So if I said, "what's an antonym of old?" you could answer with "new", for example.
Here's a mixed level exercise. I'm interested to know how many you can get right. Can anyone get 10/10?
Good luck!
A few days ago we looked at how to use eat, ate, eaten. From what I can see, it was a pretty popular exercise and you must feel that it's important to review the basics.
Let's try another irregular verb, ride.
Ride is the present simple.
Rode is the past simple.
Ridden is the past participle.
Now then, complete the sentences with the correct verb.
How many did you get correct?
nerves (noun) are a group of long thin fibres that carry information or instructions between the brain and other parts of the body. A nerve is like an electric cable that passes electric current. When your hand touches a something hot, the hand sends the feeling to the brain through nerves.
You don't have to be a doctor to use the word nerve because it is used in a few natural English expressions you should know.
