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These lessons are designed to help you learn about English language structures and vocabulary and give you reading practice. Enjoy learning!!!
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The first lessons practice various verb forms.
'To be' verb forms--am, is, are Practices present and past tenses, simple and progressive forms of the verb, 'to be.'
The four Verb forms Practices the four verb forms: infinitive, present participle, past, and past participle
Negatives for present tense verbs Practices the negatives of present tense verbs
The verbs 'do' and 'does' Practices the present tense and negatives
Simple present and present continuous tenses Practices difference between simple and progressive verbs
Negatives for present tense verbs Practices negative forms for the progressive and simple present tenses
Present tense--forming questions Practices reversal of subject and verb
Past tense verb forms Practices past tense plus negatives and questions
Future tense verbs Practices 'will' and negatives and questions
Special verb usage Practices the verbs 'taste, feel, smell, sound, look'
The exceptions with 'have' Practices all of the 'have' verb with its special uses
The verbs 'see' and 'think' Practices the special uses of these verbs
Verb pattern practice I II and III Practices special verb patterns
Verb patterns 4 and 5 Practices more special verb patterns
Making questions--no added words Practices making questions with 'to be' and modals with no words added
Review of present tense verbs A review of present tense verb rules
Present Perfect verbs Practices the present perfect tenses plus negatives and questions
Past Perfect Verbs Practices the past perfect tenses plus negatives and questions
Active-Passive verb forms Practices the active-passive in the past tense only
Active-Passive verbs in the perfect tenses Practices the active-passive in the perfect tenses
The following lessons give practice in reading. All have hints unless specified.
Health care (flu) cloze practice
The following lessons are a bit easier to read.
Mixed reading 3 Choices of the correct words, no hints
Mixed paragraph cloze practice # 1 A variety of paragraphs with no hints
Mixed paragraph cloze # 2 A variety of paragraphs with no hints
The following cloze reading lessons are designed specifically for language students, but they should be enjoyable for all. They work with both grammar concepts and vocabulary.
Cloze1--Bush family privacy--has hints
Cloze 2--Security Barriers--no hints
Cloze 3--Some birds don't fly--no hints
Cloze4--Advice column--no hints
Cloze5--Brain matter--no hints
Cloze6--Fish breathing-no hints
Cloze7--Hispanic Heritage--no hints
Cloze8--Dear Abbey2
Cloze9--Contrails
Cloze10--Iceman--hints
Cloze11--Abbey1--hints
Cloze12--Dinos--hints
Cloze13--Penny gas--hints
Cloze14--Movie critics--hints
Cloze15--Turtles--hints
The following lessons work with a few 'trouble' areas of the English Language.
Adjectives and Adverbs Practices the form and use
Articles with count and non count nouns Practices 'a, an, the'
Comparatives and Superlatives Practices 'er' 'est' 'more' and 'most'
Common Connectives Practices the connectives: 'but, except, and, however, even though, unless, plus, therefore, because, since, so'
Prepositions that show a place in space Practices important prepositions
Relative clauses Practices 'who' 'whom' 'which' 'that'
These questions ask for information. Practices 'who, what, where, when, why'
The following are vocabulary matches that review Word Family exercises.
Word Families # 1 & 2 All match the Word Family lessons indicated
Word Family # 3 & 4 Word Family # 5 & 6 Word Family # 7 & 8
Word Family # 9 & 10 Word Family # 11 & 12 Word Family # 13 & 14
Word Family # 15 & Review of 1, 2 & 3 Word Family # 16 & 17
Word Family # 18 & 19 Word Family # 20 & 21 Word Family # 22 & 23
The following are general reviews of Word Family lessons as indicated.
Word Family Review of # 4 to 6 Word Family Review of # 7 to 9
Word Family Review of # 10 to 12 Word Family Review of # 13 to 15
Word Family Review of 16 to 18 Word Family review of 19 to 21
Word Family Review 22 to 25 General Review of Word Family lessons 1 to 8
General Review of Word Family lessons 9 to 15
Review of Word Family lessons 16 to 25
The following are random vocabulary practice.
vocabjunble1.htm Vocabulary jumble # 2
The following are crossword style practice.
Type in the Past Participle of the verbs given in the clues
Type in the Past tense of the verbs given in the clues
In this puzzle you need to type in the Present Perfect tense of the verbs in the clues
There are additional WWW sites that might be of help to you. Try some of the following.
http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/ These are tests of your skill level.
http://proxy01.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/ These don't offer hints.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/impact/toc.html These are for intermediate and advanced reading. They have vocabulary marked and defined.
These lessons were written by Dr. James L. Madachy using Half-Baked software developed at the University of Victoria.