CONNECTORS AND LINKERS

Linkers and connectors are a great way of improving your English and your wiritng skills. Why? Because we use them to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences.



Here you have a list of them grouped according to what they express and with their Spanish translation.
In this page you'll find all the practice necessary to master connectors in written English. Go through the Grammar exercises, the Translations exercises and the Rephrasing exercises.


Now try the wheel game to practise connectors to improve your writing skills.

Below you have another shorter list with the basic connectors if you wish to print.

VERB PATTERNS

Unfortunately in English there are some things that you just have to learn. Verb patterns are one of them. Some verbs are followed by the gerund (-ing form). Some verbs are followed by the infinitive (to + verb).
Verb patterns are always difficult to master by English learners.
As everything else, it just needs practice.

Verbpatternsinenglish 

Check the list here

Practice 1
Practice 2
Practice 3 
Practice 4

FIRST STEPS ON PRESENT PERFECT

 

 

Let's learn the basics of this important tense in English!

 

 

 

 

 

Present Perfect Tense

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It's time to practise to master the Present Perfect Tense.

Have or Has
Participles
Participles?
Present Perfect & Participles Hangman Game

Have + Past Participle  
Negative 

Question
What have you done?

There are some words which are typically used with Present Perfect.

Already and Yet

Just

Just, yet or Already
 

Been to or Gone to?


Listen to the song
Song with blanks



Present Perfect or Simple Past?
Present Perfect vs Simple Past Game

Who is Daniel Seddiqui? What has he done?

REPORTED SPEECH

Telling someone what another said is called reported speech.
How often do you have to report what someone else said? Really often. We do this every day. Children tell parents what teachers and classmates said at school. Friends tell one another about events from their day, including what co-workers, classmates, neighbours, and relatives said. Because reported speech does not use the speaker’s exact words, it’s also called indirect speech. It’s different from quoted or direct speech, which uses the speaker’s original words.

What did they say?

The following presentation tries to sum up the main changes that take place when we report what somebody previously said:

Reported Speech Theory And Changes

Practice on Reported Speech
Reported Speech Worksheet

Online Practice

STATEMENTS	QUESTIONS	COMMANDS
Statements1	Questions1	Commands1 (Affirmative)
Statements2(time expressions)	Questions2	Commands2 (Negative)
Statements3 (gap-filling)	Questions3 (time expressions)	Commands3

Revise Reporting Verbs with this useful video:




The following video gives further and modre detailed explanation on reporting verbs.




The following presentation sums up the different reporting verbs and their patterns. 

Reporting verbs

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Now it's time to practice them by doing the activities below.

Reporting Verbs 1
Reporting Verbs 2
Reporting Verbs 3
 
Quizz 1
Miscellaneous
Report the text

Game on reporting verbs

THE PASSIVE VOICE

We often use the passive to describe things, especially when we don’t know -- or aren’t interested in -- who is doing the action. In order to sound natural in English you will need to use the passive sometimes, so let’s practise it!

Passive voice-

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Make sure you do some of the activities below:

Passive 1                                                     -Have something done 1

Passive 2                                                     -Have something done 2



Passive 3

Passive 4

For those of you who are still struggling with Passive Voice, try these exercises to revise the basics.


Now complete the passage with the correct active or passive form of the verbs in brackets.

Finally try playing this game. You can play alone or in pairs.

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Passive (advanced.1)
Passive (advanced.2)

MODAL VERBS

Last week you didn't have enough time to work on modal verbs, so today I hope you will.

1.- If you didn't become a millinaire last week, start by taking the Millionaire Quiz Challenge 

2.-Then do the two activities below the image.

3.- Now watch the following movie segment from Premonition and guess what might have happened to the characters. Check the options you believe are possible explanations for the characters’ current situation.








4.- Now try the following 4 rephrasing exercises.

5.- Finally, if you've finished all the above, you can listen to the following song by Abba, The Day Before You Came, where there are lots of examples of modals for deduction.

Lyrics | Abba lyrics - The Day Before You Came lyrics

PRESENT PERFECT

It is time to revise the main uses of the Present Perfect. We need it to express important things about our lives.

• Complete the 9 activities on the site below.

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In the following presentation you have all the uses and more practice

Pay attention to the video to understand the different uses of AGO, SINCE and FOR and try the challenge below the video

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Check the use of FOR and SINCE in the following activities.


1.- For / Since
2.- For / Since
3.- For / Since
 

Now have fun with the following games.

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You can keep playing lots of different games here.

Finally, watch the following cartoons where Present Perfect has been used.

PERSONAL PRONOUNS

Watch the following presentation to understand Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives in English.

A1 U1 Possessive Adje

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Now, if you are in 1ºESO you can do the activities in your Virtual Course



Look at the chart below with all the Personal Pronouns in English.

Let's revise personal pronouns by retelling "Little Red Riding Hood" tale.
Part 1 
Part 2

WILL AND OTHER MODALS

Try to fill the gaps in this song and pay attention to the use of will in the song

Do the following activities to learn about COULD, CAN, WILL BE ABLE TO.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3 

Now play the following games to practise the use of CAN, COULD AND WILL BE ABLE TO




Try again with this other game:




Try the following quiz

4th YEAR REVISION

Let's get ready for next week's exam. Take the following challenges and tell me how you did in a comment.

 

Now revise the vocabulary with the help of the following flashcards. Follow this order: Flashcards, Scatter and Learn

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

Finally, try the following games starting by the FlashCard game.

Click here for larger version


Revise modal verbs with the following "Who wants to be a millionaire?"

3rd ESO REVISION

Let's start revising for the second term exam. 
First, study the flashcards below. Then, choose "learn" in the study mode and make sure you know all the words. And last, try to beat the clock and be the first to make all the words disappear.

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

Show you know enough English to fling the teacher in the following game

1º ESO: REVISION TEST

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES

1.- Let's revise and practice compartive and superalative adjectives with the following slideshow:

  Comparative and-superlative-adjectives

3.- Do the following activities en the interactive book below:

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4.- Now listen to the following interviews and answer the questions below. When you finish answering the questions, scroll down and fill in the grids with your full name, my teacher code "galileogalilei" and the class ID: "none". That way, I will be able to see your results.



5.- Now let's play Who Wants to Become a Millionaire? 

6.- How did you do? Now, let's have some more fun with this game. Good luck!  Watch out: I'll be reading your score!!!!



Finally, it is time to play plip and plop. In groups you are going to compare two things without telling the other groups what they are. You will use the words plip and plop instead. If after five clues, no group guessed the words, you will win a point.
Example: 
1.- Plip is more delicious than plop.
2.- Plip is stronger than plop.
3.- Plip is more expensive than plop.
4.- Plip is usually more colourful than plop
5.- Plip is more alcoholic than plop.
Did you guess the two words?
Plip and plops worksheet

4th ESO MULTIPLE CHOICE REVISION TEST

Remember this term grammar and vocabulary test will be on Thursday 16th December. It's time to start revising.Take the following test and see how well you do. 

WEBSITE ACTIVITIES FOR 1ST & 2ND BTO

If you want online material for extra-practice on reading, grammar and listening to improve your English, just click on the following links and start practising:

FORMS OF THE VERB TO BE

El verbo TO BE, que en castellano se traduce como SER o ESTAR, en el idioma inglés goza de una particular importancia. Su significado depende del sentido de la oración. Por ejemplo:

I am a doctor. Soy un doctor. (Se aplica como verbo ser)
I am in my house. Estoy en mi casa. (Se aplica como verbo estar)

En el siguiente cuadro se puede observar su conjugación en Presente:

Tanto en el modo afirmativo como en la forma negativa pueden utilizarse las siguientes contracciones:

VERB TO BE

Let's revise the verb TO BE with students in the 1st year. Answer the questions correctly and you'll be the first to finish the race.

GRAMMAR REVISION FOR FINAL WRITTEN EXAMS

Wow!! Where did the school year go? We are about to end another school year and this always means EXAMS!!!
Time has come to revise and prepare for your finals. I know this is quite a stressful situation but don't panic: you still have time to train for them. This time I I would like to help you with the revision for the grammar exams at all levels.
In the following link you will find a page with a lot of grammar practice organized into different grammar items. All the exercises contain immediate feedback. Please go to that item of grammar you think you need to revise for your final exam and try the exercises. If you make too many mistakes in one particular item of grammar, you might need to do some extra revision. You can go to the grammar reference and clear up your doubts.
Hope you find this useful and thanks to the teacher who made this site possible.

CONDITIONS

Conditional Clauses are all around us, they are part of our lives. They are widely used in advertising or awareness campaigns, for example.

Let's revise how to express condition in English.
Watch the following presentation and pay attention to the uses and the verb patterns used in each type of condition.

Conditionals

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Let's do some practice.

CONDITIONALS TYPE 1: Exercise 1, Exercise 2

CONDITIONALS TYPE 2: Listen to the song, Exercise 1 

TYPES 1 + 2: Exercise

CONDITIONALS TYPE 3: Exercise 1,  Exercise 2

ALL TYPES: Type I, II & III + Exceptions


REPHRASINGS

Now try the Fling the Teacher Game

Check your understanding on Conditionals with the following quiz 

Now let's listen to some examples of conditionals used in different songs:




Now go to If it were my home , a site which compares living conditions in your country with those of another and imagine what your life would be like if a different country were your home.

You can compare countries in the following infographic by Newsweek

Expressing Wishes and Regrets

Uses Of `I Wish´ And if only

Make sure you've understood by making the following exercises on Wish 

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Pay attention to the following presentation on relative clauses and do the exercises below.

RELATIVE CLAUSES

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Basic Activities on Relative Clauses

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Rewriting Sentences

Now listen to the song, find the relative pronouns and identify the ones that have been omitted.









Now let's play JEOPARDY!!