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Passive exercises
Here’s a collection of exercises on the passive voice. I strongly recommend you do them:
- A very simple beginner’s activity: decide whether the sentences are active or passive.
- Practice the present simple passive
- Practice and read some past simple passive sentences.
- Some past continuous passive exercises from a German website.
- Exercise with a variety of verb tenses.
- Another exercise with a variety of verb tenses, especially irregular verbs.
- More variety of tenses here.
- Many tenses (but they won’t give you a clue!) in this French website.
- Advanced practice with different tenses and even passive infinitives.
And before you finish…
Why don’t you try to find the missing verbs for these pictures?
The BBC and love (?!)
The BBC offers you this article about how to ask someone out (1). It’s quite interesting because it suggests words and sentences that help you in case the other person says the word ‘no’. If you want to improve your English in an amusing way, read it. If you want to ask someone out, read it. As always, a transcript acompanies the recording.
(1) Ask someone out = demanar a algú una cita.
Interview to Pau Gasol
An interesting interview posted on youtube where Pau Gasol tells a journalist he is really looking forward to playing his first game with the Lakers. The interview was filmed before scoring 24 points yesterday.
Pay attention to his English, which is quite good and has a marked American accent (of course!)
LEGO
Another article in English from Diari d’ Escola. By the way… when I was a child, Lego had a fierce competitor: Tente. If you ask me I was a tente-child, and enjoyed bulding my castles, walls and vehicles. What about you? Were you a Lego-child or a Tente child? Or … you were neither?
Ens hem de posar les piles
Tots, alumnes i professors. Si no, llegiu el següent article:
Finish this exercise and …
… the present perfect will be easy-peasy! The exercise takes less than 5 minutes and garantees, if completed correctly, that you are the master of the present perfect.
James I the Conqueror
This coming Saturday, 2 February, will be the 800th anniversary of the birth of the king of Catalonia-Aragon, James I, known as ‘The Conqueror’. Count of Barcelona, King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca, and Lord of Montpellier, James I is one of the most important historical figures in the Catalan Countries, a political, cultural and linguistic reality that took shape during his reign (1213-1276).
What does ’spam’ mean?
Spam is a word that can be translated as ‘correu no desitjat’. The origin of this word is quite curious. It was invented by the Monty Python, a group of British comedians, in an improvised act.
Here’s the origin of the word, explained by professor David Crystal (transcript).
And if you don’t care about linguistic curiosities, just play the spam game that you can find in the ‘game-of-the-month‘ section!
A piece of interesting news
Lesson 5 is dedicated to the world of press, but what do we really know the press, or media, in English? I would like to put forward a simple task for you: visit an on-line newspaper, radio or tv channel and choose a piece of news that has interested you. You can add a link, and the reason why you chose that particular story.
This here is an exemple:
Enric12@hotmayl.com:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2248111,00.htmlI chose this story because it is unusual for a government to say I’m sorry, especially to people who have a low status in society.
As simple as that. If you don’t know about newspapers published in English, check this list: