Sunday, July 22, 2018

Online Conference Soon!!!

Good morning,my dear English learners! Here is the link to an online event which I"m sure you will enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwzpbE5nuMqkiXnKWaTqsnj4DN7GgH_N/view

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Spelling: How to use "ie" and "ei"

i before e except after c, or when sounding like AY as in neighbor and weigh.
i before e when the sound is e/i/, write 'ie'.
 EX: belief, believe, brief, chief, field, hygiene, niece, priest, relieved, thief, tier.
except after c when the e sound comes after an s sound, use "cei".
EX: ceiling, conceive, deceive, receipt, receive, conceited
When the main vowel sounds like AY, use "ei"
EX: freight, neighbour, sleigh, weigh, vein
Exceptions:
wEIrd, ancIEnt, caffEIne, frIEnd, hEIght, LEIsure, sEIze, specIEs

Friday, July 6, 2018

Vocabulary Task

Good evening,my dear English learners! Here is your new vocabulary task:
buggy - inconsolable - render - scope - strangle - trickle
1. The company is already so big it has very little _____ for expansion.
2. To _____ man in accessible to suffering would be to change his nature.
3. The death of a beloved wife is the most _____ of evils.
4. James McAvoy has left his co-star Michael scarred for life after crashing their ______.
5. He didn't _____ this one - if he didn't leave Ibiza until the 21st.
6.There's also a _____ of studies showing how ELT professionalism can serve more appropriate local purposes.


Thursday, July 5, 2018

Vocabulary Task

Good morning,my dear English learners! Here is the vocab task to check yourself:
aspen - deanery  - efficient - shun
1. As soon as my health and the first agony of my grief would permit, I left the ____.
2. It was most probable that it was because I had laid over the clamps of those doors garlic, which the Un-Dead cannot bear, and other things which they _____.
3.When he again lifted the lid of Lucy's coffin we all looked -- Arthur trembling like an ______ and saw that the body lay there in all its death - beauty.
4.I don't think George should get the new job -- he's too efficient.

Monday, June 25, 2018

KEEPING IELTS IN MIND: Spelling Test


Choose the correct spelling of the word.
1.meat – meet – mete – met (flash of an animal)
2. meat – meet – mete – met (encounter)
3.coffee – coffe – coffie – cofe
4. laundry – landry – londry – lundry

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Spelling 'ei' or 'ie'

Good evening, my dear English learners! Today I would to share a link on a common spelling problem: 'receive' or 'recieve'? Here is the solution:
https://www.kaplaninternational.com/blog/how-to-use-ieei

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Vocabulary Task

buggy
agile
ensue
marquee
strangled
underbrush
scope
strangle
verdant

1.       Then I stayed in the _____ until Miss King told us she was dead.
2.       Groves of beech, a river threading _____ wooded banks, a variety of upland and valley, a glade and copse, did not command my admiration.
3.       A local Iowa court has ruled in favor of an Amish man challenging a ticket he received for driving a _____ without a state- required reflector.
4.       But really _____ young women is not my favorite form of Christmas fun.
5.       There’s plenty of _____  for developing new technologies.
6.       It was ______ and quick and it gave them good chase through the ferny forest paths.
7.       Moments later, the sky-people who had been chasing the deer came running through the ______.
8.       A battle ______, leaving many dead and wounded.
9.       A ______ young woman is not easy to recognize.