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.