domenica 30 dicembre 2012

New Year's Resolutions

2012 is about to end, what are your New Year's Resolution?

Lose weight? Go to the gym? Give up smoking?

To express your New Year's Resolution you must use this grammar structure:

SUBJECT+ WILL/WILL NOT INFINITIVE WITHOUT YOU

the short form for WILL is 'LL and the short form for WILL NOT is WON'T

EXAMPLES:
I will give up smoking. I will take up guitar classes. I will carry on studying Russian.

NOW YOU TRY!
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USEFUL VOCABULARY


RESOLUTION
A plan to improve yourself or your life
TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF
To make a new start in your life
TO GIVE UP
To stop doing something
TO TAKE UP
To start something new for the first time
TO CARRY ON
To continue doing something
TO KEEP A RESOLUTION
To be successful in achieving the goals you set yourself
TO BREAK A RESOLUTION
To be unsuccessful in achieving the goals you set yourself

lunedì 3 dicembre 2012

GRAMMAR IN EVERY DAY LIFE: LESSON 1 SHOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

I always tell my students they have to studyEnglish grammar in order to speak correctly not just because they have to do fill-the-gap exercises on student's books.

In this first post about GRAMMAR IN EVERY DAY LIFE I am going to give you some information about
SHOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE


We use should have for the past.
We use should have to say that someone didn't do something, but it would have been better to do it.

Ex: You should have told them the truth (you told them a lie)


From the free newspaper METRO UK 3rd December 2012