Simple Present: personal info | Eating Preferences & Meal routines | Listening & Writing Skills ESL & ELT Activities from elementary to advanced levels

Simple Present: general truth — personal info

Where are you from? Where do you live? What languages do you speak? What do you do everyday?

Oct 12, 2011

Simple Present: revision of grammar rules

Nov 1, 2013

Practice: Now, you do it ! Watch the video and select the correct option.

Feb 15, 2017

Listening & Writing Skills

What about you?

Listen to the video, take notes and then write about your eating preferences and meal routines.

Have breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. Is this true about you?

May 1, 2021

Queen Elizabeth II has been a subject of fascination for almost a century, both for her public deeds as the Queen of the United Kingdom and for her personal life as an esteemed royal.

One topic that never fails to spark interest is the dietary habits of queens, kings, and other heads of state like her.

What luxurious foods do the elite of the world get treated to at banquets?
And what do they like to snack on at home when nobody’s looking?

Chefs and staffers of the Queen have come out over the years to share details about Queen Elizabeth’s eating habits, and the foods she prefers on her plate just might surprise you. Here’s what Queen Elizabeth typically eats in a day.

Listen to the video. Take notes. Then write about the routines of a person you know.

Jan 17, 2022

Routines & Habits in a day at Oxford | Simple Present

Aug 3, 2017

Oxford student Paul Ostwald is a budding journalist and co-founder of ‘The Journal of Interrupted Studies’. Do you want to see which colleges you could likely get into today?

Try out our FREE college admissions calculator here: https://crmsn.tv/AdmissionsCalculator Paul is graduating from Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), one of Oxford’s best known degrees. Follow a day in Paul’s life at Oxford!

Check out more about the Journal of Interrupted Studies on the following website: http://www.jis-oxford.co.uk/

Routines & Habits in a day at Stanford | Simple Present

Nov 15, 2018

The sophomore captain showcases a day in his life at Stanford, which features classes in visual frontiers and English, training, and time with teammates.

*English Language Learners Definition of sophomore : a student in the second year of high school or college uk / ˈsɒf.ə.mɔː r/ us / ˈsɑː.fə.mɔːr /

Mar 1, 2020

What’s up guys! In this video I go through my typical Wednesday as a STANFORD STUDENT ATHLETE.

grammar properties & grammatical reasons | word agreement | quiz

Grammatical Category Quiz

You can do this grammar quiz online or print it on paper. It tests what you learned on the Grammatical Category post on this platform.

1. Grammatical category is related to

 word indexation
 word agreement
 calligraphic form

2. Only _____ can be affected by the grammatical category known as “number”.

 nouns
 adverbs
 adjectives

3. Possessive is a value of the grammatical category called

 number
 case
 gender

4. Modern English uses _____ gender.

 grammatical
 political
 natural

5. The grammatical category “person” is a property of pronouns and has _____ values.

 one
 two
 three

6. “Tense” is a grammatical category that applies to

 verbs
 adverbs
 adjectives

7. Continuous and perfect are examples of the grammatical category known as

 tense
 mood
 aspect

8. The subjunctive “mood” expresses __________ .

 a statement of fact
 unreality
 something desired

9. “Voice” is a grammatical category affecting

 transitive verbs
 intransitive verbs
 all verbs

10. _________ can be affected by the grammatical category known as “degree”.

 gradable adverbs
 non-gradable adverbs
 all adjectives

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how much have you learnt about tenses ? take this quiz ! | grammar

What is Tense? Quiz

You can do this grammar quiz online by writing your answers on a sheet or paper or print the quiz on paper. It tests what you learned on the twelve tenses, aspect and mood  and the easy grammar series | what is tense?  posts on this platform.

1. In English, tense is a _______ method used to indicate the time of an action or state.

 noun-based
 verb-based
 preposition-based

2. If we talk about something that’s happening now, and then talk about something that’s already happened, we usually use

 different tenses
 the same tense
 the present tense

3. Using a system of verb-based tenses is _______ to indicate the time of an action or state.

 the easy way
 the only way
 not the only way

4. Two important components of many English tenses are

 time and place
 time and aspect
 time and effect

5. Which aspect describes an action that’s still happening or not yet completed?

 the progressive aspect
 the perfective aspect
 the simplistic aspect

6. Which of these is perfective in aspect?

 is speaking
 will speak
 has spoken

7. The progressive aspect produces progressive or “_______” tenses.

 continuous
 present
 perfect

8. The perfective aspect produces _______ tenses.

 continuous
 present
 perfect

9. Tenses that combine the two aspects are called _______ tenses.

 continuous present
 perfect continuous
 perfective progressive

10. “Who are we still waiting for?” Which tense do you think this is?

 past perfect
 present continuous
 present perfect continuous
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