These two verbs are often confused. This is because they have the same meaning but are used in different ways.
Rules:
Say and tell can be used in both direct and indirect speech.
E.g.
Direct: "I said I'm hungry."
Indirect: "She told me she was hungry."
I have recently been trying recipes from all over the world and this has inspired me to do a lesson on 'cooking verbs'. So thank you very much Brazil for delicious Brigadeiro! I have written some cooking verbs and their definitions below. Read through the sentences and choose the correct verb in each sentence. After you have completed the exercise, tell me what recipe I should try from your country!
This text is all about my favourite types of food, but I have scrambled up some of the words. All the scrambled words are related to food and cooking. Unscramble them then write them correctly in the box. What’s your favourite food? Can you recommend any recipes to me? Enjoy!
By Caroline
About a month ago we looked at animal idioms, now lets look at idioms that use parts of the body. For example,
"She was talking about medicine, but it all went completely over my head."
Nothing was thrown over somebody’s head! This is an expression meaning that something was too difficult for you to understand.
Auxiliary verbs are the verbs which help the main verb and give extra meaning to it. For example:
"I have studied English for three years."
The auxiliary verb have changes the tense of the sentence to present perfect, so we know the activity is ongoing.
"I studied English for three years."
There are some words related to work that can be very confusing, as they sound similar but have very different meanings. For example:
Employer- the person who employs people (the boss).
Employee- the person who works for the employer.
There are some words related to work that can be very confusing, as they sound similar but have very different meanings. For example:
Employer- the person who employs people (the boss).
Employee- the person who works for the employer.
Last month, my son Jake celebrated his third birthday so we threw him a small party at home with around eight of his friends. This, incidentally, is not something that I would recommend to anyone who likes their house the way it is, particularly if ‘the way it is’ includes things that break easily, or things that don’t break easily but that can somehow be broken if you try hard enough, or things that are absolutely impossible to break but that can be stained, swallowed or used to break something else.
Unless you've been living on the moon for the last few months, you'll know that the Fifa World Cup kicks-off today in South Africa.
