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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
This Week's Grammar: "The" - a small but complicated word.
If you'd like to explore the use and omission of articles, (a, an, the) in English, go to this link.
Monday, January 27, 2014
NI2 Answer Key CD3
NI2
CD3
1C 2B 3A
4B 5C 6B 7A 8B
9C 10A
2
1C 2A 3C
4A 5C 6B 7B 8C
9A 10B
3
1C 2B 3A
4C 5A 6B 7B 8A
9B 10C
4
1B 2A 3C
4C 5B 6B 7A 8A
9C 10C
5
1C 2A 3C
4B 5B 6C 7B 8B
9A 10C
6
1B 2B 3C
4C 5C 6A 7B 8C
9A 10C
7
1C 2A 3B
4B 5C 6B 7C 8A
9A 10C
8
1A 2B 3C
4C 5A 6B 7A 8C
9B 10C
9
1A 2B 3C
4C 5A 6B 7B 8C
9A 10B
10
1B 2C 3A
4B 5B 6A 7C 8C
9A 10B
11
1C 2B 3B
4C 5A 6A 7B 8C
9A 10A
12
1B 2A 3C
4A 5B 6B 7C
8A 9C 10A
NA1 Listening CD3 Answer Key
NA1
CD3
1
1C
2 B 3 C 4
A 5 C 6 B 7
A 8 C
2
1 (she was) 12 2 (a new) paperback/book 3
(an) engineer 4 (a/an (art)) teacher
5 tell/read her a story 6 read her own stories 7
poetry/poems 8 a (new) computer
9 an editor 10
the advice
3
1 E 2 C 3
D 4 F 5 A
4
1 M 2
A 3
P 4
A 5
M 6
P 7 A
5
1 B 2
B 3 B 4 A 5
B 6 C 7 A 8
C
6
1 the hotel porter 2
the hotel reception desk 3 the hotel doctor
4 24 hours in
advance/before 5 warm clothing 6 (a number of) local restaurants
7 until late at
night 8 credit cards 10
fine(s) 11 a special licence (plate)
7
1
C 2 E 3 F 4
D 5 A
8
1
C 2 C 3 B 4
B 5 A 6 B 7 C
9
1 B 2 C 3 A 4
B 5 C 6 C 7
C 8 B
10
1 two/a couple of weeks 2
all over the world 3 cold/chilly/only 7 degrees
4 train
5/6 large/grey/very busy
(either order) 7 learning Russian 8 English (conversation) lessons 9
recipes 10 English suppers
11
1
C 2 E 3 D 4
A 5 F
12
1 G 2
T 3
H 4
H 5
G 6
T 7 H
13
1 Australia 2 business/work 3
train 4 bus/coach 5 45 minutes 6 20 minutes
7 self-service place/restaurant and snack bar 8 chocolate and shoe shops
14
1
D 2 F 3 B 4
C 5 E
15
1 T 2
T 3
F 4
F 5
T 6
F 7 T
Sunday, January 26, 2014
(Almost) Everything an EOI Student should know about Grammar
The Noun
Singular and Plural; Exercises
Possessives; Exercises
Countable and Uncountable Nouns; Exercises
The Adjective
What is an adjective?
Position of adjective; Exercises
Order of adjectives;
Possessive adjectives; Exercises
Comparatives and Superlatives; Exercises
interested v. interesting; Exercises
Adjectives and their prepositions; Exercises
Determiners
a/an; Exercises
the; when we don't use "the"; Exercises; More exercises
ordinal numbers and cardinal numbers
Quantifiers: much / many / little / few; Exercises
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those; Exercises
Quantifiers: too much / too many; too little / too few; Exercises
Too / enough; Exercises
Pronouns
Personal pronouns; Exercise on Personal Pronouns (Subject Form); Personal Pronouns (Object Form); Possesive Pronouns; Reflexive Pronouns; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns.
Interrogative Pronouns; Exercises
all, both; niether, none; Exercises
each, every; Exercises
The Verb
State (stative) verbs v. action (dynamic) verbs; Exercises
Question forms
Subject and Object Questions; Exercises
Be; Have; Exercises
Do;
Imperative; Exercises
the -ing form after certain verbs
the-ing form after all prepositions Exercise
The Present Simple;
The Present Continuous;
Present Simple or Present Continuous? Test
The Present Perfect;
Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous?
Prsent Perfect or Past Simple?
The Past Simple;
The Past Continuous;
The Past Perfect;
Past Simple or Past Continuous?
Past Simple or Past Perfect?
Expressing the Future
will / be going to;
present continuous / going to;
there is / there are; there was / there were;
can / can't; should; have to; must; may; might; need
used to; Exercises
used to v. would
passive voice
zero conditional; Exercises
first conditional
modal verbs of deduction: present
modals of obligation and permission - present
modals of past obligation
Past, present and future
Talking about the present
Talking about the past
Talking about the future
The Adverb
Where they go in a sentence
Adverbs of manner
Adverbials of place
Advebials of location
Adverbials of direction
Adverbials of distance
Adverbials of time
Adverbials of probability
Comparative adverbs
Superlative adverbs
Prepositions
Prepositions of time
Prepositions of place
Prepositions of direction and movement
Prepositions of duration: for, since, during
Linkers
How to link ideas within a setence and between sentences.
Miscellaneous
So and Such; Exercises
For and Since with the Present Perfect
Stop doing v. stop to do
For and During
At last, Finally, and In the end . . .
Infinitive of Purpose (to go, to live, to study . . . )
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
New English File Upper-intermediate Unit 3 File Test
GRAMMAR
1 1 was stolen
2 is
being built
3 had
been robbed
4 be
fined
5 being
caught
6 is
believed
7 was
being repaired
8 is
said
2 1 I’ll be sitting
2 we’ll
have finished
3 I’ll
be going
4 likely
5 ’ll have
built
6 probably
3 1 in case
2 ’s
raining
3 don’t
need
4 ’ll
tell
5 ’m not going
6 haven’t
had
4 1 jury
2 evidence
3 Smuggling
4 Watch
5 questioned
6 manslaughter
7 arrested
8 hijackers
9 burglar
5 1 warm
2 breeze
3 below
zero
4 fog
5 clear
6 1 risks
2 part
3 up
4 care
5 easy
6 notice
Pronunciation
7 1 mugger, thunder
2 court,
fraud
3 humid
8 1 kidnap
2 sunburnt
3 commit
4 investigate
5 monsoon
Reading
1 A 2A
3B 4B 5A
6B 7C 8A
9C 10A
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