Relative clauses

What are the two relative clauses in this sentence?

Problems to use relative clauses?

Click here for an explanation and plenty of exercises.

Try another exercise here.

To practise the difference between that and what click here.

For an exercise about which with prepositions, click here.

Who, whom, where and whose here and here.

When to omit the relative pronoun, here.

If you're feeling strong and full of beans, click here for lots of (rather difficult) practice.

Compound adjectives, compound nouns, the order of adjectives.

The hyphen changes the meaning!

For a definition of compound noun (and an exercise) click here. Then, try some exercises here and here.

What is a compound adjective? Find out here and then scroll down for an exercise. More exercises here, here and here.

The order of adjectives can be complicated. Check out how to do it here. Try some exercises here, here and here.

Describing landscapes

Learn some scenery vocabulary here. Here you have words you can use to describe towns and cities. A very good interactive page from the Cambridge Dictionary here.

Here you will find more vocabulary and an exercise at the bottom of the page (not difficult, but it'll help you remember some words). This one is an interactive worksheet that includes descriptions of places. And another exercise here.

Spin the wheel!

Verb patterns

To BE or BEING? THAT is the question!

Gerund or infinitive? Try some exercises.

Three exercises:

• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 1 
• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 2 
• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 3

Verbs followed by an object: click here.

Some more, different levels:

GERUND or INFINITIVE? 1 (Basic)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 2 (Intermediate)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 3 (Intermediate)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 4 (Advanced)

You'll find a lot of info and exercises here,  though these are quite difficult. Only if you feel really confident.

If you haven't had enough, enough for a lifetime here and here.

Linking devices

Using linkers wisely will  make your writing more readable. Try some exercises:

Practise the use of discourse markers: click here, here, here and here.

To practise different kinds oflinkers , try the links below:


Combined linkers here. This one is a multiple choice exercise.

Find purpose, reason and result clauses here.

Expressing reason here.

Expressing purpose here.

Expressing contrast here.

And if that's not enough, you'll find plenty of exercises here.

Alternatives to IF

Check out this information + practice by the BBC. Click here.

Do some exercises here,  here and here.

To practise even if and whether, click here.

Try inversion exercises here and here.

Warning: we're going to ignore inversion of the second conditional in class for the time being, but you'll find examples in the exercises above. If you want to know how to do it, here's how (scroll down)
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Conditional sentences

If you need a general revision of conditional senteces, you'll find plenty of work here.

For the third conditional, click here and here. Not enough? Click here for a few more.

If you want to practise mixed conditionals, click here, here and here.

Find out alternatives to using IF here. Try exercises here.

Speculating and using vague language

Learn how to speculate and use vague language in English.  It's kind of useful. Check the ... thingies below. I reckon you'll learn new expressions and stuff. Easy-ish to use too, isn't it?

Learn how to speculate in English here or by watching this video.

Modal verbs are also frequently used to speculate. Click on this link to revise these modal verbs with the BBC (intermediate level, but a good revision).

Vague language can also be very useful when you don't know what to say. Learn some useful expressions here. There some activities here  that go with the video on Google Classrroom.

The continuous aspect

Here's an explanation of what the continuous aspect is.

Now, you can try some exercises:

• This one and this one are  about the present.
• This exercise is about the past simple/continuous.
• This one is about the future.
• Click here for the present perfect simple/continuous and here for the past perfect.

You might also find it useful to revise stative verbs, which are not used in continuous tenses. You'll find plenty of exercises here.

Personality adjectives

Would you like to try a personality test? This is a very popular one. Take it and learn how to describe personality at the same time!

You can learn more adjectives and do some exercises here, here, here and here.

A couple more here and here.

Paragraph Structure

Watch the video and learn how to write a strong paragraph:




REMEMBER: we don't change line within a paragraph; we only change line when we start a new paragraph.

You might also want to read this.

And then you can test yourself here. It's free!

Punctuation

Click here to revise how to use punctuation in English.
Try an exercise here.
Test your commas here and full stops here.
This one is a little more complicated. There's an explanation and an exercise.

Habits in the present and in the past 🐣

Click here for a brief explanation and an exercise.

Here's another exercise and here you will find a list of expressions that you can also use to indicate habit.

You will find an explanation and lots of practice about USED TO and WOULD here. More here.

You can try more exercises here, here, here and here.

And now watch this video where people apologize to their teachers 🐣. Notice how "would" is used more often than "used to. Some speakers are difficult to understand. Use the subtitles.