Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that allows you to make the best use of your brain power by using a combination of words, pictures, icons or symbols, sounds, colors and any other imagery you see fit into structuring and organizing your ideas together. Mind maps...
Prepositions of Time - we use these prepositions to talk about time, either with a specific start and finish or general periods of time. We use them to explain when something happened. There is no real logic to which prepositions we use when talking about time so...
Coordinating conjunctions are FANBOYS! Yes, FANBOYS is a mnemonic you can use to remember the seven coordinating conjunctions: for and nor but or yet so Coordinating conjunctions can connect words, phrases, and clauses. A coordinating conjunction joins two main...
The Past Perfect Continuous (PPC) is used to talk about a continuous event in the past which happened before another event to which it was closely related. In this diagram, the wiggly line is the PPC and the cross is a closely related second event which "stops" the...
It is sometimes the case that students will have problems understanding when to use the Present Perfect Simple and when to use the Past Simple. In general, the Past Simple is used for an action completed in the past. (Note that we would use the Past Continuous...
In English there are a number of different ways to be Negative and these depend on the original positive sentence. Generally speaking we make negatives in two ways. Either by adding not to an auxiliary verb or by using do/does/did + not: I am going to answer that...
We use Perfect Tenses to talk about a finished action, often in relation to another action. This action can occur at any time in the past, present or future. 3 Perfect Tenses There are three perfect tenses in English: Past Perfect This is used to talk about a...
This is a simple way of Teaching and Practicing the Past Continuous. I've used it several times with my (small) classes and it provides a method of practice where students can see the use of the past continuous. Preparation Prepare a large sheet of paper; in the...
The Imperative (sometimes called the Imperative Mood)is a form of verb in English. It's used mainly to tell people what to do so we can have different types of imperative sentences: Giving Orders: Stop! Shut the door! Giving instructions: Add a pinch of salt and...
Jordan is a country spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. Jordan shares borders with Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, the Gulf of Aqaba to the southwest, and Israeland the West Bank to...
