Talking about a photograph

Talking briefly about a photograph and a topic.

You can write your speech in "comments" .

So/ such a/ an/_ , so much, so many

Click here and you will find some sentences to practise so, such a/an/_, so much, so many

Television

Quantity words

You can do the following exercise to see if you know how to use some of these words. too, too much, too many, enough, not enough.

Describing cities. San Francisco

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You can watch the video again in the video section in this blog.

Housework

In Weekender, they find out what the BBC Learning English team's favourite household chores are and look at a new Spanish law obliging men who get married to split housework equally with their wives

Listen to the programme.

The city of Bilbao

Household chores.

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Discount Clothing Store

Listen and Read: Read along with the audio recording.

Present perfect with just, already, still, yet

Present perfect with just, already, still, yet.
Positive sentences
They've just arrived.
They've already arrived.
Question
Have they arrived yet?
Negative
They haven't arrived yet.
They still haven't arrived.
Short answer
Yes, I have
No, I haven't
Not yet
Still not
Write the adverbs in the correct place in each sentence.
1 We haven't reached the coast of Britain. (yet)
2. We've eaten the emergency rations. (already)
3. We haven't seen any dolphins. (still)
4. Has the boat arrived? (yet)
5. They have finished the race. (just)

Listen to the conversation and say if the following sentences are true or false.
1. Eva has already seen the film Crocodile Dundee.
2. Josh saw the film last week.
3. Josh can't pay for the tickets.
4. Eva offers to pay for her.
5. The film starts at 8.10.

Presente perfect with just/still/ already /yet

Click here to do an exercise with already or yet.

Click here to do another exercise with just, still, already, yet.

More exercises and more

Present Perfect with Since or for

Do the exercise and decide whether to use since or for.

- since - if the starting point is given (two o'clock, last Friday, 1998)

- for - if the period of time is given (twenty minutes, two days, one year)

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Present perfect vs past simple

Click here to do the exercise you have to choose the write answer.