More Modals!

If you need grammar practice, check out this page with MODALS.  It has lots of example sentences.  I recommend reading about each modal first, then trying the exercise to practice. 

Week 12 - Apartment Lease

Week 12 Vocabulary - practice words and meanings.

Week 12 Spelling - Listen, spell, and practice this week's words with games and dictation.

Grammar - using Modals for necessity  (Must, Have to, Have got to)  Read the introduction and then try the exercises to see what you know.

Week 5 - Unexpected Adventure

Practice matching the meanings to this week's new words.

Click here to listen to and practice the spelling for this week's words. 

Grammar - ADJECTIVES with -ed or -ing   Read the rules first....   then try this short quiz.    If you want more, there's More practice here. 

Noun? Verb? Adjective? Adverb?

Here's a good introduction to parts of speech in English.  Read the page and then click on Continue with first exercise to find a few short quizzes to test yourself.

Next, try this test about parts of speech.  You have to read sentences and decide if a word is a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.

Past Tense Questions

A short exercise with WAS/WERE/DID 

Here's a good page that explains the past negatives and questions.  After you read it, click on Continue with the exercises to test yourself. 

Spring semester begins!

Hi everyone!
Welcome to Intermediate ESL.  I'm so glad you're here!

I want to let you know about two great websites for learning English.  I'll show them both in class today and you can also try them at home.

Listening:  Try http://www.esl-lab.com/  It has 3 levels of conversations in English.  Each conversation has comprehension questions and other practice exercises.  In addition, you can also read the text if you want.  Start with this one from the EASY level Family Activities .

Grammar Practice:  Try Study Zone  This site has grammar explanations and exercises from beginning level to advanced.  You'll probably find that the lower or upper intermediate (level 330 or 410) is good for you.  But if you want to start from the beginning, try level 200.  Each level has many different topics.  Not sure where to begin?  Try this one - Present or Present Continuous

Week 3 Grammar Practice

This week we're reviewing the past tense, starting with the verb TO BE.

Go to this page - http://tinyurl.com/bs7hlw

Scroll down and read the examples of Past Positive, then look at the upper left part of the page and click on Exercise to practice.

Then try 10b, the Past Negative and the Exercise.

Finally try 10c, the Past Questions and the Exercise.

Week 2 - Grammar Practice

Click on the link to read about USED TO in English. http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/usedto.html

When you finish, try the practice exercises on this page.
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/exercises/exercise10.html

(you can get the answers by clicking at the bottom of the page)