If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. Therefore, you need to learn how to transform direct speech into reported speech. The structure is a little different depending on whether you want to transform a statement, question or commands. STATEMENTS QUESTIONS COMMANDS/ORDERS CHANGES…
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Household devices
This household appliances vocabulary covers most of the major appliances found in the home. Most of these appliances use electricity or gas for operation; some may use battery power.
The Passive Voice
Websites for practicing passive voice: Website about Passive Voice Website about passive voice Play the Rumour game Texts Concentrate on the use of the verbs in the Passive Voice. Text 1. How Towns Have Arisen Most villages and towns on the British Isles came into being because of their favourable situation…
Idioms of the day III
Idioms: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light ).
Conditional Sentences
Conditional Sentences are also known as Conditional Clauses or If Clauses. They are used to express that the action in the main clause (without if) can only take place if a certain condition (in the clause with if) is fulfilled.There are four types of conditional sentences. It’s important to use the correct structure for each of these different conditional sentences…
Best Connectives
Words that connect words, phrases, or clauses are called connectives. Connectives can be conjunctions, prepositions or adverbs. Check this site in order to do a quiz about connectives.
Idioms about body parts
Using the following idioms about body parts complete the sentences: to get something off your chest to cost an arm and a leg to lift a finger to be all thumbs to be up to someone´s ears to pull someone´s leg to get your head round to be heads and shoulders…
Classic British Dishes
Classic British Dishes 1. Melt-in-your-mouth homemade scones. Turn any hour into high tea with these perfectly fluffy, perfectly dense, fresh-out-the-oven scones. (Life tip: It’s pronounced “skons”. Wild, I know, but trust me.) 2. Adorable, Christmas-ready mincemeat pies. Miraculously, mincemeat (or mince) pies contain no meat — just delicious bits of fruit and a lot of holiday spirit. Impress your English…
Idioms of the day II
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth = don’t be ungrateful when you receive a present, even if it’s not exactly what you wanted. The more the merrier = the more people or things there are, the better a given situation will be.
Idioms of the day
http://www.everywordcounts.co.uk/christmas-idioms-phrases-unwrapped/ Good things come in small packages = the size of a gift doesn’t determine what’s inside. It’s the thought that counts = it’s the kindness behind an act that matters, however imperfect or insignificant it may be.