READING EXERCISES

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A Plastic Ocean: a film review

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A short story extract

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An email from a friend

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Asteroids

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Cultural expectations and leadership

QUIZ ACTIVITY

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Personality trait

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EVENING

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Learning styles quiz

What-type-of-learner-are-you?

READING AND WRITING SKILLS

EXERCISES:  Click on the videos and complete the exercises (TASK 1 AND TASK 2)

EXERCISE 1: Water changes everything

EXERCISE 2: Can eating fruit be bad for you?

EXERCISE 3:   Why aren't babies afraid of snakes?

READING AND WRITING SKILLS

EXERCISES: 

1-When do children learn to tell lies?

2-Technology addiction

Reading and writing skills

Exercises

1-Click to see the video Hardest language to learn.

2-) Click here to read the article The hardest language. 

3-Read the article 15 Things to STOP Doing When Learning English!

How to write a summary

1-Click here to the  video  How to write a summary

2-Click here to read how to write a summary of an article. 

3- Read the article the importance of English 

4-Click here to send the Microsoft Word summary

Reading comprehension A2

Reading 1: Black Friday
Reading 2: Accommodation

Questions with how

QUESTIONS WORDS: HOW CAN I USE HOW?

How is a very useful question word.  Let’s look at some of the ways it can be used.

How can I stay healthy?

This question is asking about method—the way you do something.  You would answer in this way:
You can stay healthy by exercising, by eating well, and by getting enough sleep.

How do you use a public bus?
First, you need to buy a ticket.  Then, you wait at the bus stop.  When the bus comes, you put your ticket in the machine next to the driver.  The driver will give you a transfer.  When you want to get off the bus, pull the cord.  Finally, remember to thank the driver!

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How far is it to your house?
How + adjective is asking you to say the quantity of the adjective —in this case, distance.  You could answer in this way:

• It is five miles.
• It is a mile and a half.

How big is your room?   This question is asking you how much space it has.  You could answer:

• It’s huge.  It’s 200 square feet.
• It’s really tiny.  It’s not much bigger than a bath tub.

How spicy is the food at that restaurant?  
You could answer in this way:

• It’s really spicy.
• It’s not very spicy.

You can ask the same type of question with an adverb:
How quickly do you learn new vocabulary words?
You could answer:

• I learn very quickly.
• I don’t learn them very quickly.

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How long does it take to get to your job each day?
“How long does it take to” + verb is asking about the amount of time needed to do something.
You could answer in this way:

• It takes an hour.
• It takes twenty minutes.
• It takes five minutes.

How long does it take to speak English like a native speaker?
You could answer:

• It takes years.
• It takes a life time.
• It takes many months.

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How much does it cost to buy a house in your city?
“How much does it cost to” + verb is asking about the amount of money needed to buy something.
You could answer:

• It costs half a million dollars.
• It costs $400,000.
• It costs an arm and a leg (a lot!).

How much does it cost to go out to eat?
You could answer:

• For one person, it costs about $10.
• For a family, it costs around $50. 

Notice how the modifiers about and around mean not exactly—maybe more, maybe less.)

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How many people do you know who can speak English?
How + many/much is asking you about a quantity of a noun.
You could answer:

• I know tons.
• I know around 5. 
• I know a few. 

Notice how with a plural count noun (people), you use the word many, which is plural, and your answers are also plural:  tons, 5, a few.

How much fun do you have each day?
You could answer:

• I have a lot. 
• I have a little. 
• I have a bit. 

Notice how with a non-count noun (fun), you use the word much, and your answers are also non-count amounts: a lot, a little, a bit.

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How much do you exercise?
How much do you + verb asks you about the quantity of a verb:

• I exercise a lot.
• I rarely exercise.
• I exercise three times a week.

How much do you drink?

• I never drink.
• I drink about two glasses of alcohol a day.
• I drink a lot.

Exercise 1: Questions with how

Exercise 2:  Questions with how 

 Reading comprehension

Reading 1: Daily Routine

Exercise 2: Weather

Reading 3: Accommodation

Comparisons with adjetives

Comparative and superlative adjectives

Comparative adjectives

Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has more or less of a particular quality:

Josh is taller than his sister.

I’m more interested in music than sport.

Big cars that use a lot of petrol are less popular now than twenty years ago.

Superlative adjectives

Superlative adjectives describe one person or thing as having more of a quality than all other people or things in a group:

The ‘Silver Arrow’ will be the fastest train in the world when it is built.

The most frightening film I’ve ever seen was Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’.

What is the least expensive way of travelling in Japan?

Comparative or superlative?

A comparative compares a person or thing with another person or thing. A superlative compares a person or thing with the whole group of which that person or thing is a member:

Joe’s older than Mike. (comparing one person with another)

Sheila is the youngest girl in the family. (comparing one person with the whole group she belongs to)

When there are just two members in a group, traditionally, we use the comparative. However, in informal situations people often use the superlative:

Who is younger, Rowan or Tony? (traditional usage)

Jan and Barbara are both tall, but Jan’s the tallest. (more informal)

Comparative and superlative adjectives: form

One-syllable adjectives (big, cold, hot, long, nice, old, tall)

To form the comparative, we use the -er suffix with adjectives of one syllable:

It’s colder today than yesterday.

It was a longer holiday than the one we had last year.

Sasha is older than Mark.

To form the superlative, we use the -est suffix with adjectives of one syllable. We normally use the before a superlative adjective:

I think that’s the biggest apple I’ve ever seen!

At one time, the Empire State building in New York was the tallest building in the world.

They have three boys. Richard is the oldest and Simon is the youngest.

Exercise 1: Comparisons with adjetives 

Exercise 2:  Comparison of Adjectives 

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WH Questions – and statement and Time expressions

WH questions are very common in English. The lesson below shows you how to use them correctly. You can find the exercises at the bottom of the page.

Let’s get started with the lesson. 

WH questions ask for information. Here are the six questions and their answers:

Question	Answer	Example
What	Thing	What is your name?
When	Time	When is the party?
Who	Person	Who is your brother?
Where	Place	Where is the bank?
Why	Reason	Why do you like pizza?
How	Directions	How do you spell your name?

WH Questions Structure

WH questions in the simple present use “do” or “be”. Take a look at the structure for each of these verbs.

Do

WH   +   DO/DOES   +   SUBJECT    +   VERB

Take a look at some examples:

• Where do you work?
• When does she wake up?
• Who is your brother?

Be

WH   +   BE    +    SUBJECT

Here are the examples:

• Where are you from?
• Who is that man?
• When is your class?

Exercise 1: WH Questions Test

Exercise 2: WH Questions Test 2

Exercise 3: Present Simple Wh Questions



TIME EXPRESSIONS 
Prepositions in expression of time

1. The preposition inmonths

• in July, in the month of July
  in September, in the month of September

• • years

    in 1996, in the year 1996
    in 2012, in the year 2012

  • seasons

    in summer
    in the summer, in the summer of '69

  • parts of the day

    in the morning
    in the afternoon
    in the evening

  • point of time in the future

    in a minute
    in a fortnight 
    in three weeks' time, in three weeks (only when not ambiguous)

• duration (within a maximum period)

  in a minute
  in two weeks

2. The preposition at

• parts of the day

  at (the crack of) dawn
  at night

• time of day

  at 6 (o'clock), at 7 p.m., at 18 hrs (24-hour clock: airports, the military)
  at midday , at noon 
  at midnight

• • festive seasons

    at Christmas
    at Easter

  • points in time

    at the weekend  (on the weekend, on weekends )
    at the time, at the same time

  3. The preposition on

• days

  on Sunday, on Sundays (Sunday: no preposition  journalese)
  on Good Friday
  on my birthday

• dates

  on the 25(th) of December*
  on December (the) 25(th)*
• 
  

• a particular part of a day

  on the morning of September (the) 11(th)* 

4. Other prepositions

• after (following)

  after school

• as of (starting), more formal than from

  as of tomorrow

• before (preceding a point in time, future or past)

  before Christmas

• between ... and (limits of a period)

  between Monday and Friday

• by (before, at the latest)

  by Thursday

• during (in the course of a period)

  during the day
  during the holidays  (during the vacation )

• for (duration, future or past)

  for up to 10 weeks
  for five minutes
  negated:
  not for* three weeks  (not ... in three weeks ) * increasingly being replaced by in
  after a superlative:
  the ...est for* two years  (the ...est in three weeks ) * increasingly being replaced by in

• from (starting, as of)

  from today
  from July

• past (time of the day)

• 23 minutes past 6 (6:23) ( also: after)

• since (from a point of time in the past, still continuing now)

  since Monday

• till/until (up to a point in time in the future)

  till tomorrow
  until tomorrow

• to (time of the day)

  23 minutes to 6 (5:37) ( also: before)

• within (in less time than)

  within a day

5. No preposition

• next Monday
• last Tuesday
• Saturday week

Exercise 1:  Preposition of time (time expressions)

Exercise 2: Time expressions