44 Sounds of English

Pronunciation in English is a very important skill. To help you with that here is a fun video about the 44 sounds of English. Now to learn more about American accent and pronunciation, check out "The Phonetics Flash Animation Project". 

How was your weekend?

It's Monday, August 6th. Last Friday, we talked about what you can say when asked "What are you going to do this weekend?". Now this time, lets practice on how to answer the question - "How was your weekend?"  To learn more about this, you can check, "Weekends - Asking about what people did?" and listen to audio file on talking about the weekend.  Also try to answer the fill-in-the-blanks drill in "How was your weekend?". 


Watch this video too and can you tell what they did last weekend?

What are you going to do this weekend?

It's Friday, August 5th, so it's nice to think about what you will say when asked "What are you going to do this weekend?". To learn more about this, you can check, "Invitation to a Movie", and listen to three audio files on talking about the weekend.  You can also try to to answer the 'Going to' drill in the a4esl website, another wonderful site for learning English. More drills on 'going to' can be found here. Have a great weekend!

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Do you help at home?

What chores do you do at home? Do you help your mom or dad? Helping at home is a very important thing you can do to your family. For online resources on saying about home chores, you can visit these sites below.


3 exercises CHORES, by Irina
Find this and other daily routines exercises in English Exercises .org


HOUSEHOLD CHORES, by Isabel
Find this and other daily routines exercises in English Exercises .org


You can also download these worksheets from esltower.com, in a special 'box', I made for you. So hope you have fun and learn more about saying the chores that you do at home!





Here is a nice video about doing household chores.

Using the simple past

In English, when you say things about the past, you should use the simple past tense in your sentence.  But a lot of students of mine, especially beginners, are fond of saying 'go' when they should have said 'went'. From the website of EnglishClub is a nice lesson on using the simple past. To read it, just click here.  You can learn more about the structure and the use of the simple past tense. And you can also try their simple past quiz.

Using the simple past from EnglishClub.com

Now if you want to learn more about how to use the simple past tense, then you can also watch this very  informative video by Ellen Quish.  Have fun learning the simple past tense!

100 Lessons from EnglishSpeak

EnglishSpeak offers a lot of lessons for English language learners (ELLs). For one thing, it has '100 Lessons' which are actually audio recording of dialogs as spoken by native speakers and based on a real world conversations. It's a great set of lessons on key expressions for those who are serious students of English. 

Do You Speak English?

'Do You Speak English?', is a funny video from English Central. Watch it and I'm sure, you will smile! English Central is such a great and amazing website to practice every English student's speaking and pronunciation skills.