Modals Song- ‘Wherever you’ll be’ by The Calling
Hi all, I’ve just been working on my lesson for my class this week. This week’s topic is auxillary verbs, in particular Modal Verbs. I came across this song. Its…
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Further Explanations of the 3 Moods and Practice Exercises
Extended Explanation and Practice of ‘Indicative, Imperative and Subjunctive Mood’ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The following are sites which gives other explanations on the 3 moods in English, plus execerise to practise what…
The 3 Moods: Indicative, Imperative and Subjunctive
3 Types of Moods in English What is a ‘mood’? The Enlish langauge has three moods: indicative, imperative and subjunctive. Each mood refers to a verb which tells us the…
Quick Tip: When to use a reflexive pronoun
There are two ways to use a relfexive pronoun. Method 1: When the subject and the object are the same person or thing, then use the relfexive pronoun. For example,…
Quick Tip: Subject Pronoun ‘I’
Tip: When you use the subject pronoun ‘I’ it must come last. For example: My sister and I went to the movies. (Correct) not I and my sister went to…
More information and Practice Exercises- The Passive Voice
Extra Information and Practice The following websites give further explanations, examples and exercises to help solidify your understand of the passive tenses. _______________________________________ StudyandExam.com- Passive Voice for All Tenses…
Quick Reminder about Determiners
Determiner As a reminder: o Determiners come at the beginning of nouns, noun clauses and noun phrases o They are not adjectives o Determiners can fall into 3 categories: articles…
Quick Tip on how to use ‘this’ and ‘that’
Phone calls: When we call people, we often identify ourselves, using that and this to help us identify who is speaking and who we would like to speak to. For…
Extra information and practice exercises- ‘will’ vs ‘be going to’
Extra Information and Practice The following sites provide additional explanations and examples of ‘be going to’ and ‘will’. In addition, sites are provided where you can practice what you know…
Nouns Continued…
Countable and uncountable nouns What are countable and uncountable nouns? Countable nouns are people, places, or things that we can count, like 1,2,3,4, etc For example: 5 apples, 2 cities,…