ONLINE RESOURCES

Study Tip – Beginner English Online Resources

by MELANIE on DECEMBER 10, 2012

(Photo by Paojus)

If you are a beginner, if you know someone who is a beginner, or if you teach beginners, here are some free resources that may be useful to you. All of these resources are in English.

 Videos

Hungry for English [American]
“We want you to learn to speak English in the same way that we all learned to speak our native languages as babies – by hearing it instead of reading it.”

JenniferESL [American]
“English for Beginners! No scripts. No actors. Real lessons. Real learning.”
Jennifer is an English teacher who is teaching her friend Natasha to speak English. This is an ongoing series of lessons, so check the list often for new lessons!

Mister Duncan [British]
This list of video lessons is more for elementary & intermediate students, but they are a great way to learn new vocabulary. All his videos include subtitles (text).

Vocabulary & Grammar

ESOL Courses – Online course for beginners [British]
ESOL Courses – Online English lessons, exercises, games and quizzes for beginners [British]
Helping You Learn English – English course for beginners [American]
Learn English Online – Online course for beginners [British]

The Most Common English Words
100 most common words in English (video)
1000 most common words in English: [Esl.about.com] 1-250, 251-500, 501-750, 751-1000
1000 most common words in English (in alphabetical order)

Verb Forms
Perfect English Grammar – Memorize the past simple & past participle forms of irregular verbs
Macmillan Dictionary – Test your knowledge of irregular verb forms with the ‘Irregular Verb Wheel Game’

 Reading

Read Theory – Read, listen, & answer questions
Super Easy Reading – Read, listen, & do activities
Simple English Wikipedia – 90,000 articles written in simple English!

 From http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/study-tips/

Prepositions

Introduction

This page shows you how to use the prepositions on, in, and at in different contexts.

1. Transportation

Preposition	Example Nouns	Example Sentences
in	car, truck	I went to Vancouver in my car.
on	bus, train, ship, plane, bicycle	I went downtown on the bus. We travelled to Toronto on the train.

2. Time

Preposition	Example Nouns	Example Sentences
in	January, February, March 1987, 1988, 1989 two minutes, three days	She arrived in February. I was born in 1988. I'll be home in three days.
on	Wednesday, Thursday weekend	The party is on Thursday. He left on the weekend.
at	7:00, 7:30, 8 o'clock, noon	I'll call you at 7.30.

3. Communications

Preposition	Example Nouns	Example Sentences
on	telephone Internet radio, television	I spoke to him on the telephone yesterday. I read about it on the Internet. I heard the news on the radio.

4. Where prepositions are NOT used

We don't use prepositions with certain words and phrases:

NO Preposition	Words and Phrases	Example Sentences
in, on, at	home this morning this afternoon every week last Tuesday next year	Sally went home. I met my classmates this morning. We will arrive this afternoon. We have an exam every week. Neil did his laundry last Tuesday. Betty will return next year.

When you are sure that you understand the lesson, you can continue with the exercise.

Continue with the exercise

WORD ORDER

Here is an exercise for you to put the words in the right order. Great practise!

http://www.isabelperez.com/exer/pastmix.htm

BASIC REAL ENGLISH

Hello class! 

Welcome to the 2012-2013 school year. To start, here is a wonderful website with videos about basic vocabulary: numbers, nationalities, possessives, etc. Enjoy!

http://www.multimedia-english.com/contenidos/listado/basic-real-english

A BIT OF REVISION

Hello people!
I found this wonderful presentation for you to review some of the grammar points you have studied this year so far. I think this helps!

http://www.slideshare.net/laurajim21/revision-elementary-grammar

WHO, WHO´S AND WHOSE

The MacMillan Dictionary language tips are a really helpful learning tool for English language learners. Their weekly tips draw our attention to very specific areas of difficulty in both vocabulary and grammar.

In this tip, they want to show us the difference between who, who's (= who is or who has), whose (=possessive pronoun).

Elearn Language learning also offers some explanations and gives some more examples.

Languageguide.org mainly focuses on the difference between who and whose, but their great asset is that they offer recorded audio files of all the examples.

University of Bristol allows us to do an online exercise to discrimate between Who's or Whose.

MORE PRESENT SIMPLE EXERCISES

Hello guys? How are you doing? I hope you´re having a terrific weekend!

Please click on this link:

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/simple-present-exercises.html

to do some more exercises on the present tense. It's good review for your upcoming exam! You can do all of them, except for the last section

TIMES AND DAILY ROUTINE

Hello guys, please click on the video to review your times and action words. It´s also good to practice question making and answering. 

BE: THE PRESENT SIMPLE

Fill in the gaps with the right form of the verb BE. Answers at the bottom of the page (don't look at them before you do this exercise!)


e.g.  I am a student from England. 

 My parents are not (not) rich.



1. I´m Paolo and this is Federico.  We ………………… from Italy. 
2. My father  ……………….. a teacher. 
3. How ………………….. you?  Fine,  thanks. 
4. My little brother ………………… two. 
5. New York ………………… (not) in England.   It ……………. in America.
6. I ……………… Janet and this ……………….. my friend Bill. 
7. They  ……………………. students. 
8. My mother  …………………. (not) Spanish. 
9. It   …………………….. very hot in Brazil. 
10. She ………………………… from America. 
11. They ……………….. (not) at home.  They …………… at the theatre. 
12. It ………………………. six o´clock.   We …………….. late. 
13. …………………. you a footballer?  Yes, I …………………. .
14. ………………….. he French or German?   He ……………….. (not) French, he ……….. German.

From Grammar Spectrum 1, by Ken Paterson, O.U.P







KEY 

1. I´m Paolo and this is Federico.  We are from Italy.
2. My father is a teacher.
3. How are you?  Fine,  thanks.
4. My little brother is two.
5. New York is not in England.   It is in America
6. I am Janet and this is my friend Bill.
7. They are students.
8. My mother  is not Spanish.
9. It is very hot in Brazil.
10. She is from America.
11. They are not at home.  They are at the theatre.
12. It is six o´clock.   We are late.
13. Are you a footballer?  Yes, I am
14. Is he French or German?   He is not French, he is German.

POSSESSIVES QUIZ

Hello guys,
please click on the link to practice your genitive Saxon. Good luck!

http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/possessives.php

THIS, THESE, THAT OR THOSE?

Hello guys!

Please watch this video and do the exercises about the demonstratives. Have fun!

DAILY ROUTINE

HELLO CLASS!

PLEASE CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK 

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_beginning.php?id=8377

WATCH THE VIDEO AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON THE RIGHT.

SEE YOU IN CLASS!

SOMETHING ABOUT PREPOSITIONS

at – in – on (time)

at + exact time

in + part of day

on + particular day

at + weekend, public holiday

in + longer period

1. Exact times

• I usually get up at six o’clock
• I’ll meet you at 4.15
• Phone me at lunch time

In informal English, we say What time…?
(At what time…? is correct, but unusual.)

2. Parts of the day

• I work best in the morning
• three o’clock in the afternoon
• we usually go out in the evening

Exception: at night.

We use on if we say which morning/ afternoon/ etc we are talking about,
or if we describe the morning/ afternoon/ etc.

• See you on Monday morning
• It was on a cold afternoon in early spring…

3. Days

• I’ll phone you on Tuesday.
• My birthday’s on March 21st.
• They’re having a party on Christmas Day.

In informal speech we sometimes leave out on (This is common in American English)

• I’m seeing her Sunday morning.

Note the use of plurals (Sundays, Mondays etc)
when we talk about repeated actions.

• We usually go to see Granny on Sundays.

4. Weekends and public holidays

We use at to talk about the whole of the holidays at Christmas, New Year,
Easter and Thanksgiving (US)

• Are you going away at Easter?

We use on to talk about one day of the holiday

• It happened on Easter Monday.

British people say at the weekend. Americans use on.

• What did you do at the weekend?

5. Longer periods

• It happened in the week after  Christmas
• I was born in March
• Kent is beautiful in spring
• He died in 1212
• Our house was built in the 12th Century

6. Expressions without preposition

Prepositions are not used in expressions of time before
next, last, this, one, any, each, every, some, all.

• See you next week.
• Are you free this morning
• Let’s meet one day.
• Come any time
• I’m at home every morning.
• We stayed all day.

Prepositions are not used before yesterday, the day before yesterday,
tomorrow, the day after tomorrow?

• What are you doing the day after tomorrow?

CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR A PICTIONARY OF PREPOSITIONS

http://englishwilleasy.com/english-through-pictures/grammar-by-picture/12-where-what-who-a-story/

THE WORLD OF PRONOUNS

HELLO AGAIN,

 PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK TO PLAY A GAME ABOUT PRONOUNS.

GOOD LUCK!!

LIFE ON THE CORAL REEF

OBJECT PRONOUNS

HELO GUYS!

CLICK HERE AND HERE TO DO SOME MORE EXERCISES ON OBJECT PRONOUNS.

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS

POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS 1 |  level: Beginner
Write the correct possessive pronoun for each sentence: (ANSWERS AT THE BOTTOM)

EX: That car belongs to me. That car is mine.

1. That book belongs to them. That book is _____________________.
2. That pen belongs to me. That pen is _____________________.
3. This dog belongs to us. This dog is _____________________.
4. This car belongs to him. This car is_____________________ .
5. This house belongs to me and my brother. This house is _____________________.
6. That motorcycle belongs to that man. That motorcycle is _____________________.
7. These books belong to those students. These books are _____________________.
8. This hat belongs to you. This hat is _____________________.
9. This cat belongs to my aunt. This cat is _____________________.
10. This ball belongs to those boys. This ball is _____________________.



ANSWERS:
1) theirs   2) mine   3) ours   4) his   5) ours   6) his   7) theirs   8) yours   9) hers   10) theirs

PRESENT SIMPLE

HELLO CLASS!

HERE YOU CAN FIND EXERCISES WITH THE SOLUTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE SIMPLE PRESENT. 

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/simple-present-exercises.html

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ENJOY!

Learn Basic English 3rd Person Daily Actions 1 - Fun Kids English Vocabu...

Hello guys,
this is a short video for you to review some action words. It is taken from http://pumkin.com/ and it´s a great website to learn vocabulary, grammar, etc.
Enjoy!

AN AWESOME WEBSITE

Hello again guys!


Here I send you another link with tons of interesting things to do.


I hope you like it!!


http://www.isabelperez.com/grammar.htm