Complete the sentences with the correct preposition:
Today's lesson is from Marguerite Engelbrecht, EC Cape Town English language school.
We sometimes use animals to describe people or things. Choose the correct animal to complete these comparisons. Do you have similar expressions in your country?
Today's lesson is from Nasreen Narkedien, EC Cape Town English language school.
Here are fours festive expressions related to Christmas. Ho, ho, ho!
If people are like turkeys (the large bird eaten at Christmas) voting for Christmas, they choose to accept a situation which will have very bad results for them.
"Oil companies asking their customers to use less oil is like turkeys voting for Christmas."
It's Christmas Day. A day to relax. Go and make a hot drink and read Danny's article. It was written a few weeks ago. How are you spending Christmas Day?
Next weekend, we’re going to put the Christmas tree up, which means that we’re going to surrender a quarter of our living-room space to a seven-foot jolly green giant with more twinkling lights than a clear night sky and more big red bows on it than...um...than something with lots of big red bows on it...
More practice on making superlatives. Today's lesson continues where yesterday's left off.
Complete these sentences using the correct comparative. Be careful with your spelling.
Today's lesson comes from Nasreen Narkedien, EC Cape Town English school
Superlatives are the best! Or the worst…or the most confusing…or the easiest…you decide! Take the quiz and let’s see if you can solve it!
1 syllable adjectives. Add the /adj./ est.
Eg: cool = the coolest
2+ syllable adjectives. Add the most to the adjective
Eg: powerful = the most powerful
1 syllable adjectives. Add –er
Eg: cool = cooler
2+ syllable adjectives. Add more to the adjective
Eg: powerful = more powerful
Adjectives ending in –y. Remove –y and add –ier.
Eg: funny = funnier
This one's for all you sporty people who need to brush up on your running jargon! Have a look at the vocabulary and match the words to their definitions...
1) Novice
2) Marathon
3) Hamstring
4) Warm-up
5) Treadmill
6) Peak Performance
7) Cramp
8) Quads / quadriceps
9) Dehydration
10) Endorphins
This one's for all you sporty people who need to brush up on your running jargon! Have a look at the vocabulary and match the words to their definitions...
1) Novice
2) Marathon
3) Hamstring
4) Warm-up
5) Treadmill
6) Peak Performance
7) Cramp
8) Quads / quadriceps
9) Dehydration
10) Endorphins
Leaving on a Jet Plane is one of the English language's great emotional love songs, originally sung by the late John Denver. Practice your listening and phrasal verb skills by completing this gap-fill! I suggest listening once first, then begin completing the gap-fill while listening another two times. You do not need to listen to the whole song, just the first couple of verses.
When you have finished click on Show Full Lyrics (below) and sing along!
