A rather different way to explain the Present Perfect!

Here is a ... different way to explain the Present Perfect.

Please don't ask me to do this in class.
I am totally unmusical and the results would be very embarrassing!

Feel free to try it for yourselves!

Come and chat in English!

Advise? Recommend? Propose? What should I say?

We are often a little confused about what is the correct form to use when we want to make a recommendation, or to suggest our friends do something.

Here is an interesting video that may help clarify any confusion you have about how to make recommendations and suggestions in English.

The instructor speaks quickly and gives some examples that are not appropriate for PET level.
However, I think his explanation is helpful.

See you in class!

Take the 3-minute challenge! Each other or a reflexive pronoun?

Read the following sentences and decide if you need "each other" or a reflexive pronoun to complete them.

Try to take no more than 180 seconds to finish the task!

1. I cut .................. when I was cooking last night.

2. My father and I never understand ....................... .

3. We are going to paint the house .................... . It will be cheaper than paying for a professional painter.

4. My sister and her husband aren't talking to ..................... .

5. He looked at ................... in the mirror before he left the house.

6. You work too hard, Karen. You never have any time for .......................... .

7. The lights in the office turn .................................. off automatically.

(Source: adapted by Patrick McKeown from New English File Intermediate Workbook p. 10
(c) Oxford.)

Now listen carefuly!

Would you like some extra listening practice?

Of course you would!

Follow this link to some listening materials.

<<<Listen to me!>>>

But you have to be quick.

The link will disappear in a few days.

Take the 5-minute challenge! Grammar 1 - Present perfect simple vs Past simple

When you finish, why don't you compare answers with your partner?

Take the 5 minute challenge! Vocabulary 1 - Food adjectives.

Some great videos about idiomatic language!

Are you interested in exploring some idiomatic language?
Do you enjoy watching videos as a  way to learn new expressions?

Then I'm sure you will enjoy the challenge of this series of videos from our friends at International House Barcelona!

The link will take you to the International House Barcelona channel on the usual video sharing site.

See you in class.

More marvellous modals!

Here's another reminder about those marvellous modals that we can (and should, no, have to) use as we talk and write at Preliminary level.

Why don't you see how many you can use naturally in conversation and writing tasks, in and out of class?