terça-feira, 24 de março de 2009

For students:

Remember that verbs are actions, and it all starts in a action. Therefore, try to remember the verbs you know and learn new ones. Read two new verbs a day and try to use them in conversation classes and while writing compositions on your book. Good luck guys!!!!

sexta-feira, 6 de março de 2009

PHRASAL VERBS.
We know there are many phrasal verbs in English, so, to help people out, new phrasal verbs will be on the blog for students to learn.

cook up:to put (something) together falsely or dishonestly;
Don't believe Ron's excuse, he just cooked that up to avoid going to the meeting.

duck out of:to avoid sth or doing sth;
It's raining a lot so everybody is trying to duck out of the soccer match.

quarta-feira, 4 de março de 2009

Sentence of the week

"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself."
Anthony Trollope

HOLD (verb) = here it is used in the sense of having, forming,expressing.
SIMPLE PAST / PRESENT PERFECT

There are many differences between these two tenses, we know it. But, if you always get confused when talking to a person remember:
We use peresent perfect for indefinite time in the past, you dont know when.

She travelled last week. (when? last week)
She has travelled there before. (when? before is a vague time expression)