Video Time with Real English conversations

Have you ever lived in another country? A little bit of practice: listening ( first without subtitles) and speaking.





Exercises on this video here.


Another video to practise the contrast between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple tenses.



Video Transcript here.


And one more video to practise the Present Perfect tense and to revise some other verb tenses.



Video Subtitles and Exercises on the video.

Have you ever... and How long...? / Just, Already and Yet

Have you ever done these things? Complete the questions with the Past Participles of the verbs in brackets and get ready to ask and answer.

How long...?

For and Since vs Ago. Watch the difference!

Have a look at the drawings and write appropriate sentences. Be careful with the word order!!

Irregular verbs list

Click on this link to revise the irregular verbs. You will find the translation into Spanish as well.


You can group these verbs to make learning easier.





Once you are ready, try this game: The Irregular Verb Wheel Game.

Such and So

Learn how to use Such and So to show extremes which lead to a result.

Let, make, want

As we learnt in class, these three pattern verbs are easy to use: "Let someone do something", "Make someone do something" and "Want someone to do something".
However, you may need some more practice "to get the hang of it".

How to Use 'Let' and 'Make'

Let or Make Exercise 1

Let or Make Exercise 2 

Let or Make Exercise 3

How to Use 'Want someone do something'

Want someone to do something Exercise 1 

Want someone to do something Exercise 2

Want someone to do something Exercise 3


Let / Make / Want Exercise

Of course, Ed Sheeran has a great command of these structures. We can see how he makes good use of "let" and "make" in his song Photograph.

Photograph  - Ed Sheeran

Write the opposites of the underlined words

Loving can heal, loving can heal sometimes
But it's the only thing that I know
And when it gets easy
You know it can get easy sometimes
It is the only thing that makes us feel dead

(Chorus)   Fill in the gaps 1

We ........ this love in a photograph
We …….. these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never ……..
Hearts are never ……..
And times are forever …….. still

So you can keep ……..

…….. the pocket of your …….. jeans
Holding me …….. till our eyes meet
You won't ever be ……..
Wait for me to …….. home

Write the synonyms for the underlined words

Loving can cure,
Loving can repair your soul
And it’s the only thing that I know know
I swear it will get simpler
Remember that with each part of you
And it's the unique thing

we take with us when we pass away

(Chorus)

Fill in the gaps 2

And if you …….. me
Well, that's ok baby only …….. bleed
Inside these …….. you just hold me
And I won't ever …….. you go
Wait …….. me to come home (x 4)

Cross the odd word out

Oh, you can to fit me
Inside of the necklace you got

When you were sixteen years
Next to your heartbeat in

where I should to be
Keep it deep within in your soul

Fill in the gaps 2

Order the words in the sentences

I’m when away

You will remember I how me kissed

Back on the sixth lamppost under street
you phone whisper through the hearing
me for home wait to come

Full lyrics


You can watch a video with the lyrics in English and Spanish  here.

 

In Rihanna's song Stay, we can listen to the "want someone to do something" and "make someone do something" pattern verbs.

"Stay" – RIHANNA (feat. Mikky Ekko)

Fill in the gaps

[Rihanna:]

All along it was a ……..
A cold …….. hot-headed believer
I …….. my hands in the air, said, "Show me something,"
He said, "If you …….., come a little …….. ."

(Chorus)

Cross the odd word out

Round and around and around and around here we go
Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now what you know

Not really sure of how to feel about it
Something in the way that you move
Makes me to feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all along the way
I want that you to stay

Write the opposites of the underlined words

[Mikky:]

It's not little of a life you're living
It's not just something you take, it's taken

(Chorus)

Write the synonyms for the underlined words

[Both:]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, the cause I hold on
Ooh, ooh, ooh, 'cause I need this hollow gone
Funny you're the fragmented one

but I'm the only one that needed saving
'Cause when you never see the light it's difficult

to know which one of us is giving in.

Cross the odd word out

[Rihanna:]

Not really sure of how to feel about it
Something in the way that you move
Makes me to feel like I can't live without you
Yeah, it takes me all along the way
I want that you to stay, stay
I want you to stay, oooh. 


Full lyrics

Video with the lyrics in English and Spanish.