The Imperative

You can use the imperative to give direct commands, instructions, or advice.  For instance, your teacher may tell you to “sit down” or “be quiet” or “open your book” or “raise your hand”.  These are all examples of the imperative. So, what are you waiting for?  Go practice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJbWW2kbRhM www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/imperative/menu.php http://esl.about.com/od/beginningenglish/ig/Basic-English/Imperative.htm

Prepositions of Time & Place

Prepositions of time and place include words such as: in, on, at, to, since, for, from, above, below, behind, under, over, near, and between…to name just a few. These prepositions are necessary to help describe the relationship between the other words in a sentence when expressing notions of time or establishing locations.  http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/bleasypreps.htm http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/594/01/ http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4jIC5HLBdM

Free ESL Videos and Quizzes

ESLvideo.com has free videos you can watch and listen to while answering questions about what is happening in the video clips.  They have videos grouped together for beginning, low-intermediate, intermediate, and high-intermediate ESL students, so there is something for everyone.  Try it out and see how you do! www.eslvideo.com/index.php

Conjunction Junction, What’s Your Function?

Ask anyone who grew up in the United States during the 70s and 80s about Conjunction Junction, and they’ll know exactly what you’re talking about!  As children we grew up watching cartoons that taught us common grammar rules and Conjunction Junction was one of the most popular ones…teaching us how to use “and/but/or” correctly.  So, [...]

Practice Listening While Watching Movies

Here is a really cool link that has short movie clips you can watch and then answer questions about each scene.  This type of practice is great for your English because it teaches you listening comprehension, proper pronunciation, and common expressions.  Some of them are more difficult than others, but you can watch the movie clips over and over [...]

Perfecting English Sounds

This wonderful website has pronunciation videos featuring Rachel the ESL teacher who will help you with your American English sounds.  Click on the videos and follow along with the printed text below as the sounds are explained.  You can then hit the “next sound” key at the bottom to get a new sound or click on the [...]

Using Movies to Improve Your English Understanding

Movies are a wonderful way to help you with your understanding of English in an enjoyable and entertaining way.  However, in order to truly advance your comprehension skills you really need to pay close attention to the words and phrases that are used while also noting pronunciations and common speech patterns.  The site below is a [...]

Real English Video Lessons

Here’s a great website that has fun and interesting videos that are specifically made for the ESL learner.  Even advanced students will enjoy starting from lesson 1 and working their way up to the most advanced lessons.  Many of the videos come with accompanying activity sheets that you can use to help you understand the [...]

Remembering September 11th

Most people will always remember exactly where they were when the September 11th attacks happened or how they first heard about the terrible events of that day.  As the Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  So, in keeping with that idea, here is an interesting [...]

Watching English Videos on HULU

With all the great advances in technology these days, you no longer have to sit around waiting for your favorite shows to begin.  Instead, many of the most popular American television shows are now available to watch online.  The best part is that you can watch them whenever you want rather than skipping your English [...]

Comparative Adjectives

Comparative adjectives are used when describing and comparing two nouns to each other.  For instance: “The red car is faster than the blue car.”  The word “faster” is the comparative form of the adjective.  To learn more about how to use comparative adjectives correctly, please watch these informative videos… www.youtube.com/watch?v=fleok757P90 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmnfche6lsU www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLE5yPZa_Ow

Learn English Listening to Music

Do you have a favorite song, but just can’t seem to figure out what all the words are or exactly what they are saying?  No problem, now you can go to this website and find all your favorite songs with the lyrics included.  Click on the song and you will hear the music, watch the video, and follow [...]

The Daily English Show

The Daily English Show is an online video program that is produced in Japan and hosted by a New Zealander, but they have some pretty interesting and entertaining topics that they cover.  You can watch the videos and also read the transcripts as you watch the videos.  Several of them even have translated scripts in different languages to help [...]

Learning English Through Movies!

Here’s another great website that makes learning English fun by watching movies!  This website has short movies, movie trailers, commercials, and homemade movies that show subtitles as you are watching them.  Once you are done you can take a quiz to see how well you were able to understand what was happening in the video.  Hours of [...]

Pronunciation Videos by Jennifer

One of your classmates found these great English pronunciation videos on YouTube by Jennifer the ESL instructor.  Jennifer covers a wide variety of pronunciation subjects and shows you through examples and practice how to produce these English sounds. www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=81BCA0A2CB139CB7