Do you enjoy singing, dancing or running?
Listen to this song by the Pet Shop Boys and try and decide which word goes in which gap.
I thought this song was from the 1980’s but it’s actually from the early 1990’s.
Do you enjoy this kind of music?
Let me know!
By Caroline Devane
My lessons this week are focusing on the natural world and our beautiful planet.
Did you know that new animals are being discovered all the time? This article discusses some exciting recent discoveries.
Read through the article and then decide whether the statements below are true or false. From the statements, can you guess what my opinion of spiders might be...
Lesson by Caroline Devane
A preposition is a word that connects one thing with another, showing how they are related.
For example:
Many shops open on Saturdays.
It rains during the autumn.
Choose correct prepositions in the sentences below:
Lesson by Amanda, Cape Town English language school
A conjunction is a linking word such as, and, or, but.
Conjunctions are used to connect words or sentences.
The words before, after, as, when, while, until and since, are also conjunctions.
They tell when something happens, so they are called conjunctions of time.
For example:
An adverb is a word that describes a verb.
It tells you about an action, or the way something is done.
A lot of adverbs end in -ly.
For example:
The baby is sleeping soundly.
It is raining heavily.
Insert an adverb below into the spaces in the sentences. Only use each adverb once.
A preposition is a word that connects one thing with another, showing how they are related.
Some prepositions tell you about position or place.
For example:
"There is a big balloon in the sky."
"Jane is jumping into the pool."
Put the following prepositions in the spaces below:
This month's cartoon is based on the double meaning of click.
Definitions of Click
A conjunction is a linking word such as and, or, but.
Conjunctions are used to connect words or sentences.
The words before, after, as, when, while, until, since, are also conjunctions. They tell when something happens, so they are called conjunctions of time.
Adverbs are words that tell you more about verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. Many adverbs end in ly.
You make these adverbs by adding ly to adjectives.
Some adverbs and adverb phrases describe the way people do things. They answer the question "How?"
For example:
"The traffic was moving slowly."
An adjective is a describing word.
It tells you more about a noun. An adjective usually appears before the noun it describes.
For example: an old dog, a tall basketball player.
Sometimes, though, the adjective appears after the noun, later in the sentence.
Fill in the blanks with correct 8 adjectives below.
