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Unreal uses of the past tense

Learn about how to use the past to talk about unreal situations. You'll find an explanation here. And a few places where you can practise: click here, here, here and here.
This one will give you an explanation of why the answer is right or wrong.
Explanations and lots of practice with more demanding exercises here.

The senses

Learn some vocabulary related to the senses and read some examples here

Learn more words here and try an exercise here


Learn new words related to...
... sounds here and here
... smell here
... taste here and here
... ways of looking here

Ellipsis and substitution

Do you Want to get more practice with ellipsis and substitution? Of course you want to get more practice do!

Click here for an explanation and exercises and click  here, here, here and here for exercises.

Future in the past

Sometimes we need to talk about the future from a past perspective, usually to talk about something that didn't happen in the end.

Practise how to do this. Find some exercises here, here, here and here.

For an explanation and some more challenging exercises, click here.

Time

Time flies... or does it drag on?
Learn some expressions we can use to talk about time or related to it.
Click here for a list of expressions and an exercise; try more exercises here, here, here and here.
If you're interested in business English, this one will do for you (I'd suggest scrolling down and having a look at the list of expressions before trying the exercise)
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Agreeing and disagreeing

First of all, remember:

We don't say I'** agree, we say I AGREE / I DISAGREE or I DON'T AGREE.





Now, you can have a look at these links and learn more varied expressions. Click here, here and here. Focus on disagreeing with the BBC here or have a look at this video:




And if you're interested in business English, this one is for you.

Prefixes and suffixes

You can enlarge your vocabulary by using prefixes and suffixes. Try some exercises:

Start with something easy here and here.

Try some more here, here and here. A bunch of them here.

Match the prefix/suffix with its usual meaning: click here, here and here.

I hope this will be useFUL.

Participle clauses

If you need to know what participle clauses are, check out these BBC links: this one is easier and this one more advanced. Scrolling down, you'll find some activities to do.

This is a very easy exercise to see the difference between a present (ing) and past (ed) participle.

More exercises: click here, here, here, here and here.

If feeling strong and energetic today, have a look at these great but quite difficult exercises.

Collocations

You can try some exercises here, here and here.

This one is a little more demanding; click here.

Some verbs have many possible cololocations in English. Click here to practise the difference between do/make and say/tell and speak/talk. A list and activity witth collocations with take/do/have/take here.

Here you can learn some collocations with prepositions.

Cleft sentences

If  what you want to do is learn more about cleft sentences, all you have to do is click here or here for an explanation and some practice (scroll down for the exercises).

More exercises here and here.

And a few more here, here and here.

Making a point

Click here to listen to some expressions you can use to make a point; for expressions to clarify your ideas, click here and here.

Some expressions you might use to manage a discussion here.

Here's something from the BBC.

You'll find lots of useful expressions here.

Passive voice; passive reporting verbs; have something done.

Passive reporting verbs: here, here, here and here. If you'd like to try something more challenging click here.

Passive causative verbs (have something done): click here, here, here and here.

If you need to revise the passive in general, you'll find lots of exercises here.

Health vocabulary

Learn to describe your symptoms with these great listening + vocabulary activities. Click here. Highly reccommended!

If you're into lists, here's one

Try something easier here, here and here. A couple more exercises here.

Not enough? Try this.

Health vocabulary wheel

Describing books/movies/series

For bookworms:

Find lots of expressions to talk about books here, here and here.

For film buffs:

Learn prepositions with movie titles here and practise word formation here.

You'll enjoy these if you're into movies: try some exercises based on movie trailers. Click here and here.

Exam samples

If you want to practise for the upcoming exam, here you have samples from other autonomous communities:
Andalucía 

Asturias

Canarias

La Rioja

Cantabria

Castilla León

Castilla La Mancha

Cataluña

Comunidad Valenciana (scroll down)

Extremadura

Galicia

Murcia

Navarra

Euskadi

And finally ... Aragón

Inversion 🐣

Practise the use of inversion for emphasis.

Here's a very good explanation with an exercise. You can also check out the BBC and take a test here.

Click here for another exericse. A few more here, here and here.

Some more challenging exercises here.

Expressing preferences

I'd rather you talked, though.

Read the explanation and see what expressions you can use to express preference here.

Try some exercises here, here and here.

Revise other structures you can use to discuss hypothetical situations here (with a quiz).
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Empty IT

It... is pretty terrifying 😱

Sometimes we use the pronoun it as an empty subject or object. Find out how:

Here's an explanation and some typical expressions.

It as an empty subject and an exercise here.

Difference between it and there with exercises here. Looks easy but it's not.

Very thorough explanation of all the uses of it and loads of exercises here.

Did you find it easy or difficult?

Crime and punishment 🐣

If you need to learn more crime vocabulary, click here. You'll find a quiz, too.

Click here to try another exercise, and also if you need to revise the difference between rob and steal.

Vocabulary + pronunciation here.

More exercises here and here.

🐣 Police vocabulary here.



You can also practise your vocabulary using the alphabet game or the wheel. Have fun!