Wednesday 13 April 2016

IDIOMS

Every language has its own collection of wise sayings. They offer advice about how to live and also transfer some underlying ideas, principles and values of a given culture / society. These sayings are called "idioms" - or proverbs if they are longer. These combinations of words have (rarely complete sentences) a "figurative meaning" meaning, they basically work with "pictures". 

in this Power Point you will find a list of commonly used idioms and sayings (in everyday conversational English), can help to speak English by learning English idiomatic expressions. This is a list, which contains exactly 12 of the idioms we have gone through in class.

Saturday 9 April 2016

PASSIVE STRUCTURES


Sentences can be active or passive. Therefore, tenses also have "active forms" and "passive forms." You must learn to recognize the difference to successfully speak English. In passive sentences, the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is optionally included near the end of the sentence. You can use the passive form if you think that the thing receiving the action is more important or should be emphasized. You can also use the passive form if you do not know who is doing the action or if you do not want to mention who is doing the action. nHave some practice in the following links:

And for the homework sent in class, download it in the following link: Passive Homework.

NEW!!! Here you can download the key for the passive exercises you have worked with in class: Passive key

To revise the Power Point Presentation we have seen in class and go through explanations and exercises to caonsolidate structures, click on the link: Passive Power Point