Expressing Quantity

Today's topic is not only about expressing quantity, but related to these bikes on the car. What I'd like to say is that there are many ways of counting things in English. However, let's study them and try to use the most common ones every day.

Crime, Mystery and Punishment

Antonyms and opposites

Synonyms

Sense of Humour

English through Songs

Celebrations, Traditions and Stereotypes around the world

How to write a great story

Bookcrossing

Easter traditions around the World

Easter is a very important Christian festivity. People celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his death. 

Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon in March. This is between 22 March and 25 April.

The origin of the English word Easter is uncertain. It probably comes from the pagan goddess of spring, Eostre. The pagans celebrated the arrival of spring with special festivals. 

Binomials

How to write a leaflet

Today, we've gone through some steps to design and write a tourist brochure and we've become aware of the fact that there are many decisions to be taken. This is not like following simple instructions of any activity from the textbook. On the contrary, firstly we need to think about a country and a city. Secondly, we have to decide the type of details and data to be used for our leaflet, whether we'd like to help tourists with some culture shocks as they arrive at our country or even, if we prefer to promote a certain city. In both cases, we have to describe and explain some cultural habits and customs. Thirdly, we need some useful words and expressions and common vocabulary about the same topic: Tourism. Finally, we could have a look at some real leaflets written in different languages, so that we can have a model to follow, though there's no other way for us to start writing in English, rather than our everyday writing practice. For further information about writing skills, please have a look at these documents about writing techniques and examples.  

As the English set-phrase goes: Practice makes perfect, let's now put our English into practice and take a butchers at our first writer, who decided to send us her leaflet about Burges. Thanks so much, María. I'm sure that we'll read your excellent leaflet before going to there. For more leaflets' samples, please click on here. Thank you very much indeed, dear writers. Well-done and well-written too for all of you. 

Phonetics

Sentence transformations

Are you able to paraphrase in English?


Hey, what exactly do you mean by that?


Sentence transformations are highly useful for you to say things differently, or better said, different ways of talking about the same thing, using other words.


So, please avoid repetition.



Here's your presentation about Transformations and now it's time for transformation practice.


In your own words...

Technology, inventions & Internet

Reported Speech

Gerunds or Infinitives?

Relatives

Passives are used here

If I were you, I'd...

If I were you, I'd...


How would you complete the sentence above?


Conditionals are quite good for your imagination, aren't they?


So, if you're thinking about writing some more amusing couple dialogues like that one above, please feel free to leave us a comment below.


If I were you, I'd write a good if-comment right now.