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•→ http://photographicdictionary.com/body-parts ⇐
• Idioms related to the body . . . →[01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03] ⇔ [04]←
· · · click the parts for idioms . . . →[01]← / →[02]← / →[03]←
→[quiz 01]← / →[quiz 02]← [body idioms]
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¤ Finite & Non-finite Verbs ←[pdf]
¤ Auxiliary Verbs ⇐ «Auxiliaries are required with non-finite verbs. This is their role to mark non-finite verb forms for tense, aspect and voice, which non-finite verbs cannot express. Finite verbs mark these features on their own.»
(Bernard T. O’Dwyer, Modern English Structures: Form, Function)
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Unlike Spaniards, who are prone to exaggeration in their everyday remarks, Britons (not Americans!) tend to prefer understatements. Take a movie: while it may well be appraised as ‘Great!’ or ‘Brilliant!‘ by a Spanish national, it might simply be assessed as ‘Not bad’ (not less appraisal to be inferred from the lips […]
•→www.chompchomp.com/terms/antecedent.htm⇐
•→Pronouns vs. determiners⇐
• quiz→
¤ DEMOSTRATIVES ‘THIS’ – ‘THAT’ ↓ ‘THESE’ – ‘THOSE’
¤ PERSONALS – POSSESSIVES
There’s a lot of English in this chart, with all these reference words.
I my mine me myself you your yours you yourself he his his him himself […]
♣ Can you feel the pain? ↔aches & pains. •→PAIN collocations⇐
•→Physically painful ⇐[MacMillan Dictionary]
¤ English words and phrases connected with injury.
Boil = infected swelling with liquid inside it:
«You’ll need to go to the doctor to have that boil lanced.» (lance – puncture and clean)
Lump […]
Stress: an essential element of rhythm, which is the most distinctive feature of the English language. Word stress is not used in Japanese or Spanish, where each syllable is pronounced with eq-ual em-pha-sis.
The biggest difference in the “music” of languages is the way we speak syllables. All languages can divide […]
Intonation – Intonation is the rising and falling sounds of the voice when speaking. Intonation (Part 2) – Phrasing – In addition to the intonation of a statement, there is another aspect of speech that indicates meaning — phrasing. Intonation (Part 3) – Contrast – Once the intonation of new information is established, you’ll […]
THE LIVING SISTERS ⇓ Video by Michel Gondry [2011]
How are you doing? How are you doing?I’ll be fine, how about you?I’m fine too
How is it going? How is it going?Yes it goes, what about you?It goes for me too.
Nothing new, can’t […]
•→www.http://playphrase.me/⇐ — 205165 phrases, from 222 movies . . . Φ Just type in the phrase you would like to hear; it might be: – «I was wondering…» or – «Would you believe…?» or – «Do you mean?» or – «…and the like.» or – «You see…» or – «as long as…» or -«There seems […]
¤ A slide_share presentation: ↓ History of Advertising
History of Advertising from Tugce Esener Φ The Language of Advertising . . .⇐
φ Advertising vocabulary quiz . . . ⇒ [01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03] ⇐
•→38-examples-of-great-visual-pun-in-advertising/⇐
◊ Guinness 1994 ⇓ ‘We have all the time in the world’ […]
•→Adjectives … lists ⇒[01] ⇔ [02]⇐ // •→Top 500 Adjectives⇐
⇒ QUIZ #1 ⇔ QUIZ #2 ⇐
∞ Collocations… Click on ⇒facilities⇐ Find the odd one out.
Φ Opposites … ⇒ [01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03] ⇔ [04]⇐
•→Softening ⇐[quizzes]
If you use a negative adjective, […]
The (-ed) ending of regular past forms has three sound realizations: [-d] [-t] [-id], depending on the sounds just before it.
• If the verb ends in a voiced phoneme, the ‘-ed’ ending sounds like [-d]
• If the verb ends in a voiceless consonant […]
⇒ [s] vs [∫] ⇐
[s] vs [z]
‘hiss’ vs ‘buzz’
•→www.jamesabela.co.uk/beginner/pluralpron.pdf⇐
•⇒Pronunciation of words ending in -S ⇐ When we pronounce the –s in the words ‘dogs’,’cats’, ‘dishes’, ‘lives’, and ‘it’s’, do we pronounce […]
•→ would – contractions ⇐
◊ How to understand native speakers’ questions ⇓
⇐ Click for TONGUE TWISTERS
There are hundreds on the Net, but you’ll have enough with these for quite a while. Here’s some good ones for Spaniards:
«Six Spanish students study […]
•→ QUIZ ⇐
¤ Past simple for past habits & states :
The past simple is used to express habits and states that existed during a period of time in the past. This period can be implied or expressed with a time expression or a clause:
When I was a child, I visited my grandma every […]
♣ Negation ⇐(like asking) is one of the most difficult areas of English
•→ Double Negatives⇐[a feature of Spaniards and Blacks]
∇ Transferred Negation
When we express negative ideas with verbs like think, believe… we prefer to make the first verb negative instead of the second. We shift or transfer the […]
• Asking questions is another tricky area of English language. This →Anglo-link video lesson ←may give you some insights.
⇓ Another video tutorial by Katie [Beta College of English]
◊→ Intonation in questions ⇓
•→ Question Tags – Intonation ←
•→ Follow-up Questions ⇐
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¤ Ways of saying . . . ‘YEP!’ ⇓
. . . ‘definitely‘ / ‘of course‘ / ‘sure‘ / ‘naturally‘ / ‘that’s right‘ / ‘I don’t mind if I do‘ / ‘by all means‘ / ‘you bet‘ / ‘you’re on‘ / ‘no problem‘ / ‘affirmative‘ / ‘absolutely‘ […]
♣ English Tenses & Aspects . . . →[Basic]← // →[Advanced]←
English tenses ⇑ ∞ Tense consistency …
Many learners get mixed up between these two expressions. Listen to Liliane’s free tutorial at Beta College of English ⇓
What’s important to remember: the forms ‘have/has got..’ are only […]
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