Quick review of adjectives ending -ing and -ed.
Compare these two sentences:
"English grammar is confusing."
"I was confused by what I read."
We use -ing adjectives to describe things. "It is boring."
There are new guidelines in the U.K. regarding adoption. Now, parents should be able to adopt a child of a different race to their own.
Adoption: (noun) the act of legally taking a child to be looked after as your own. Verb: adopt.
Officially, this has always been the policy, but has rarely happened, as efforts are made to place children with backgrounds 'similar' to their own.
Definition:
When we say that something happens once in a blue moon, what we mean is that it happens very rarely.
History of expression:
The 'moon' in this expression does, in fact, refer to the real moon when it is full.
There are generally three full moons in a season, although sometimes there may be four.
The following text contains 10 highlighted phrasal verbs. Your task is to match them to the correct definitions.
During the week I always have to get up early for work so on Sunday I love to wake up late, usually around 9am and then get up 30 minutes later.
The following text contains 10 highlighted phrasal verbs. Your task is to match them to the correct definitions.
During the week I always have to get up early for work so on Sunday I love to wake up late, usually around 9am and then get up 30 minutes later.
How much can you remember about personal pronouns?
Which ones do we use for the object in the sentence, and which do we use for the subject? When do we use them and why?
In the following sentences, can you replace the words in quotation marks ("") with the correct personal pronoun?
I've given you the list of personal pronouns to help you remember.
When you're finished, see if you can post the answers to the questions above.
Lesson by Caroline Devane
This joke is based on two uses of the word smell.
Smell can be used to describe something that has a bad or unpleasant odour:
There is much anticipation for William and Kate's Royal Wedding, which is taking place tomorrow.
It is the wedding of our future king, as well as the first royal wedding for eleven years. Read this article, which tells us the facts we need to know about the day and see if you can fit the vocabulary into the correct gaps.
Study Tip: Do you ever try and guess how the vocabulary relates to the story. How do you think the royal wedding could be related to a turkey?!
A few weeks ago I wrote a lesson about relationship idioms.
This lesson is a bit simpler and focuses on some of the verbs we often use when talking about relationships.
Try and put the correct verb in each sentence.
Be careful though, make sure you put the verb in the correct tense!
Lesson by Caroline Devane
Read this article about the history of slam poetry and see if you can answer the true or false questions after. Then, why don’t you try and write some of your own slam poetry? There are slam events happening in most major cities in the world. Whilst your studying it would be a great idea to attend one, and maybe even perform!
Lesson by Caroline
