Irregular verbs in context – Scream
Teaching irregular verbs can be fun. The verbs are easy to use to tell stories and stories are interesting for everyone. In the following post I am going to tell …
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Present simple or present continuous tense – improved
I have already published a post on Present simple and continuous tense here. However, as my teaching situation changed I realize that I need a slightly different type of materials …
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Have got for elementary and weak students
I have changed jobs and now I teach at elementary school. And even though I think that I am an experienced teacher I have never taught students with actual learning …
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WAS or WERE – the really important grammar
As the word WAS is the ninth and WERE the 34th most frequent word in English it is crucial to use them correctly. You simply cannot avoid using these words, …
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SVOMPT – word order in English
SVOMPT rule is one of the most important rules in English. If students learn to follow this rule, their English will improve dramatically, and they will be understood. Once a …
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Questions with WHAT for learners of English
Our most popular post is about questions with HOW. There is another post on all the WH question words. In this post I would like to deal with the questions …
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Learn to use the conjunctions DESPITE, IN SPITE OF and ALTHOUGH
In this post I would like to teach you how to use the words DESPITE, IN SPITE OF, ALTHOUGH, EVEN THOUGH, BECAUSE OF and BECAUSE correctly. I will explain the …
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Hope, want and would like: learn the verbs
Hope, want and would like belong into the group of verbs which are followed by the infinitive. If you click the link above you can see a complete solution for …
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Indirect questions: explanation of English grammar
When students hear the phrase indirect questions, they get scared. But actually this is one of the easiest grammar points in English. The only thing you have to watch out …
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Possessive case explanation
This is another post in my series of simple grammar explanations for elementary and beginner learners of English. In this post I try to explain the usage of the possessive …
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Nouns plus prepositions
Students often use the wrong prepositions. So I have created this post in hope that this short explanation and practise will help them get at least some of the prepositions …
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Should, ought to and had better – other ways to give advice
Recently I have published a post on giving advice. And our post on modal verbs won the British Council blog award. This post will deal with three ways to express …
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First conditional – grammar explanation for learners of English
First conditional is very similar to time clauses. However, I would say that first conditional is easier than time clauses. First conditional is used if we speak about two possibilities …
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Future – will or going to
There are many ways to speak about future in English. We have already dealt with two ways here. In the first blog we tried to distinguish between Will and MAY …
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If or when – choose the right word
I remember struggling with this grammar when I was at secondary school. As it is possible to translate the words IF and WITH with the same word in my mother …
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Infinitive of purpose
This is one of the easiest grammar points for the Czech students because in their mother tongue there exists a structure which is similar to infinitive of purpose. Because of …
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Past perfect tense – explanation and a mind map
Last week I was teaching past perfect in one of my classes and suddenly one of the students exclaimed: “Finally we are learning something new.” And by new she meant …
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Separable and not separable phrasal verbs
This morning I was preparing a presentation for one of my classes on separable and not separable phrasal verbs and suddenly an interesting pattern appeared. It seems that the fact …
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Passive voice
To learn Passive voice it is necessary to know the past participles. If you do not know the past participles go to our post on Past participle and learn the …
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Second conditional – a simple explanation of a difficult grammar point
Several weeks ago I published a post on Conditionals. In the post, I tried to cover all the conditionals in one mind map and I think that I succeeded.However, the …
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