Spoken interaction task

 

HALLOWEEN IDIOMS

 

Describing a city/town

 Dear readers,

Here you have some ideas that you will need to do the first writing task: Describe your town/city.( Deadline 4th November)

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS:

- It's located in...

- Only ten minutes from where I live..

- The atmosphere is...

- It offers...

- The area around.... has got beautiful sights...

- What I don't like about it....

- The good thing about this place..

- If you stand outside, you will notice...

- It's popular with tourists because...

- You shouldn't miss...

5 TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION

 

PARTICIPLE CLAUSES

Dear advanced students,

Click here to learn more about how to use participle clauses in English and do the tests.

Perfect Aspect- extra exercise

 Fill in the gaps with a perfect tense:

1. By the time you get home I ___________ (clean) the house from top to bottom.

 2. Joseph ____________ (kick) a football against the wall all day.

 3. On Saturday, we ___________ (living) in this house for a year.

 4. I ____________ (stay) in the hotel twice in the 1980s.

5. When you ___________(finish), you can go home.

6. He __________ (driving) for about half an hour when the engine suddenly stopped.

7. I think someone ___________ (tamper) with my mail (Tamper with interfere with)

8. She felt terrible during the interview because she ___________ (suffer) from flu since the previous day.

 9. He _________ (learn) how to play chess and he can play well now. However, he ___________ (learn) how to play baseball for quite some time but he is still meeting his trainer once a week.

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