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Showing posts with label comparatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comparatives. Show all posts
Friday, 7 February 2020
Monday, 27 January 2020
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Revision for 3º ESO exam
GRAMMAR:
Revision of tenses
Charts of tenses
More tenses and exercises:
Conditional sentences
Quantifiers in English
VOCABULARY:
Places in a town
Travel checklists
Travelling
Food
INTERACTION:
At the restaurant
Shopping for clothes
Asking for a refund
WRITING
How to write an essay
Connectors
Revision of tenses
Charts of tenses
More tenses and exercises:
- Revision of tenses
- present simple / present continuous
- past simple / past continuous
- future simple / going to / future continuous
- present perfect and past simple
- REVISION OF ALL TENSES EXERCISE
Conditional sentences
Quantifiers in English
VOCABULARY:
Places in a town
Travel checklists
Travelling
Food
INTERACTION:
At the restaurant
Shopping for clothes
Asking for a refund
WRITING
How to write an essay
Connectors
Monday, 28 January 2019
Sunday, 13 January 2019
Comparatives and superlatives
These next weeks we are going to study comparative and superlative structures in our classes. This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
- Summary of grammar and exercise (the sheet at the top)
- more detailed grammar rules
- exercise sheet
- this Hot Potatoes exercise.
- geography quizz
- crosswords from the BBC Learning English website
- English at home: grammar summary
- English at home: online exercise
- Englisch-hilfen comparatives 1
- Englisch-hilfen comparatives 2
- Englisch-hilfen superlatives 1
- Englisch-hilfen superlatives 2
- Englisch-hilfen as...as
- learnenglishfeelgood.com online exercise
- a selection of exercises from tolearnenglish.com
- basic comparatives: grammar and exercise from English at Home
- British Council: modifying comparatives
- Comparatives exercise (English at Home)
- Superlatives exercise (English at Home)
Now try comparing the pairs and groups of elements in this presentation:
Last exercise: Compare the people in this picture:
Last exercise: Compare the people in this picture:
Friday, 12 January 2018
Comparatives & superlatives
MORE EXAMPLES:
- COMPARATIVES:
- Sue is older than Clare.
- Sue is more intelligent than Clare.
- SUPERLATIVES:
- Sue is the oldest student in her class.
- Sue is the most intelligent student in her class.
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Comparatives and superlatives
These next weeks we are going to study comparative and superlative structures in our classes. This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
Last exercise: Compare the people in this picture:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
- Summary of grammar and exercise (the sheet at the top)
- more detailed grammar rules
- exercise sheet
- this Hot Potatoes exercise.
- geography quizz
- crosswords from the BBC Learning English website
- English at home: grammar summary
- English at home: online exercise
- Englisch-hilfen comparatives 1
- Englisch-hilfen comparatives 2
- Englisch-hilfen superlatives 1
- Englisch-hilfen superlatives 2
- Englisch-hilfen as...as
- learnenglishfeelgood.com online exercise
- a selection of exercises from tolearnenglish.com
- basic comparatives: grammar and exercise from English at Home
- British Council: modifying comparatives
- Comparatives exercise (English at Home)
- Superlatives exercise (English at Home)
Now try comparing the pairs of elements in this presentation:
Last exercise: Compare the people in this picture:
Monday, 24 July 2017
Comparatives and superlatives
These next weeks we are going to study comparative and superlative structures in our classes. This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
Last exercise: Compare the people in this picture:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
- Summary of grammar and exercise (the sheet at the top)
- more detailed grammar rules
- exercise sheet
- this Hot Potatoes exercise.
- geography quizz
- crosswords from the BBC Learning English website
- English at home: grammar summary
- English at home: online exercise
- Englisch-hilfen comparatives 1
- Englisch-hilfen comparatives 2
- Englisch-hilfen superlatives 1
- Englisch-hilfen superlatives 2
- Englisch-hilfen as...as
- learnenglishfeelgood.com online exercise
- a selection of exercises from tolearnenglish.com
- basic comparatives: grammar and exercise from English at Home
- British Council: modifying comparatives
- Comparatives exercise (English at Home)
- Superlatives exercise (English at Home)
Now try comparing the pairs of elements in this presentation:
Last exercise: Compare the people in this picture:
Sunday, 12 October 2014
Monday, 7 July 2014
Some comparisons in English
These comparative expressions are commonly used in English:
as black as pitch
as blind as a bat
as brave as a lion
as brown as a berry
as busy as a bee
as cool as a cucumber
as cold as ice
as cunning / sly as a fox
as drunk as a lord
as easy as a pie
as fast as a hare
as fit as a fiddle
as free as a bird
as good as gold
as green as grass
as happy as a lark
as heavy as lead
as high as a mountain
as hungry as a lion
as light as a feather
as long as a month of Sundays
as old as the hills / as Methusalem
as pale as a ghost
as poor as a church mouse
as proud as a peacock
as red as a tomato
as tight as rain
as silent as the grave
as slippery as an eel
as smooth as silk
as sober as a judge
as thin as a rake
as ugly as sin
as wet as a fish
as white as a lily
as wise as an owl
as black as pitch
as blind as a bat
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as brown as a berry
as busy as a bee
as cool as a cucumber
as cold as ice
as cunning / sly as a fox
as drunk as a lord
as easy as a pie
as fast as a hare
as fit as a fiddle
as free as a bird
as good as gold
as green as grass
as happy as a lark
as heavy as lead
as high as a mountain
as hungry as a lion
as light as a feather
as long as a month of Sundays
as old as the hills / as Methusalem
as pale as a ghost
as poor as a church mouse
as proud as a peacock
as red as a tomato
as tight as rain
as silent as the grave
as slippery as an eel
as smooth as silk
as sober as a judge
as thin as a rake
as ugly as sin
as wet as a fish
as white as a lily
as wise as an owl
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Comparatives and superlatives
These last weeks we have been studying comparative and superlative structures in our classes. This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:
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