Jan
31
Thursday 31st January, 2008
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31st January, 2008
Answers from yesterday
1. understand/the notice/you Do you understand the notice?
2. try/to learn English/your brother Is your brother trying to learn English?
3. buy/a/shirt/blue/you Did you buy a blue shirt?
4. go/to the beach/on Saturday/you Are you going to the beach on Saturday
5. know/how many /people/in the U.S./you How many people do you know in the [...]
Jan
30
Wednesday 30th January 2008
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Wednesday 30th, January 2008
Here are some solutions for yesterday’s exercises. Do you have a different answer.
Please post it as a comment.
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
To wish
A wish
xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx
To meet
A meeting
To be happy
happiness
happy
happily
To ride
Rider, riding, a ride
To walk
A walk, a walker
quick
quickly
To slow
slow
slowly
To journey
A journey
Today we are looking at sentence order.
Write questions from these words.
1. understand/the notice/you
2. try/to learn English/your [...]
Jan
29
Tuesday 29th, January
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Today’s exercise looks at word families. Make an excel file and insert the words as in the following example. Can you fill in the missing words? Use a dictionary to help. The word family layout is very useful for learning vocabulary.Note xxxxx means there is no word here.
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
To wish
A wish
xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx
A meeting
happy
To ride
A walk
quick
slowly
A journey
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Jan
29
Monday 28th , January 2008
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Monday 28th, January 2008
Here is the correction for Friday’s exercises
Statements & Questions
Replies
1. How do you do?
a. How do you do?
2. Pleased to meet you.
b. Pleased to meet you too.
3. How are you?
c. Very well thank you, and you ?
4. Have a good trip back.
d. Thank you.
5. Give my regards to Mary
e. I will [...]
Jan
26
The weekend
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Hello to all my readers. We do not have any posts at the weekend but please use the comments box for this message to make comments on the blog and its contents.
Thanks,and have a great weekend.
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Jan
24
Thursday 24th,January
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Thursday 24th January
Yesterday’s corrections
Tony Blair becomes became Prime Minister in 1997.
We had a lot of trouble with spam on our new computer. Correct
The black dog bited bit my arm
Henry, my eldest son, growed grew vegetables in his garden as well as flowers.
I went to China on holiday last year. Correct
Mary gived gave me [...]
Jan
24
Friday 25th January 2008
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Friday 25th January Today’s exercise is social English.
Match the replies (a-f) to (1-6)
Statements & Questions
Replies
1. How do you do?
a. Very well thank you, and you ?
2. Pleased to meet you.
b. Thank you.
3. How are you?
c. How do you do?
4. Have a good trip back.
d. I will tell her you asked about her.
5. Give my regards to [...]
Jan
23
Wednesday,23rd January
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Wednesday 23 January
Did you like yesterday’s exercises? Here are the answers.
1. I am pleased I bought these shoes. This is my favourite colour.
2. Those flowers are nice. Where did you buy them?
3. This cake is easy for a beginner to make.
4. What kind of plant is that, over there?
5. When I finish knitting this scarf, [...]
Jan
22
Exercise for Tuesday 22nd January 2008
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Tuesday 22nd January
Yesterday’s exercises were very easy. Here are the answers.
The sun is a large planet.
The teacher is/speaks English.
Some animals live in the forest.
Mexico is not in Europe.
An apple is not an animal
We are learning English
Here are today’s tasks
Chose the correct word to complete the sentences.
1. I am pleased [...]
Jan
21
Exercise for Monday 21st January 2008
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There are some words missing from these sentences,write the missing words in the comments box. Don’ t forget to number your answers and write a contact email address if you want a personal reply.
The sun………a large planet.
The teacher ……… English.
Some animals ……. in the forest.
Mexico …. …… in Europe.
An apple …. …. an animal
We ….. [...]
