Conjunctions

Learn American English Explanation of Common Conjunctions

This link has great, (but grammar-vocabulary filled) explanations of conjunctions.  There are a few small grammar mistakes in some of the examples:  ?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlvpPBh8Pc?

and or but - Using English Quiz

5 minute English-- Use because to connect sentences

So vs. Because -- Where is the cause vs. effect

Quiz because vs. so

Practice Using and, but, so, and because

UVCS Study Zone Conjunction Practice

Practice Quiz -- Includes too   Too is used like also or as well.  Too shows agreement with a positive statement when used at the end of a sentence.  When my husband travels, I want to go too.

In front of an adjective (description word), too is an adverb, not a conjunction.  Too intensifies the meaning of the next word so much that it's a problem.  If the light is too bright, it hurts my eyes.    If I eat too much, I have a stomach ache.  If he is too short for the team, he can't be on the team because of his height.

Conversations that show examples of conjunctions. (British accent)


A song to help you remember the main ideas....

How Long (Duration) vs. How Often (How many times)

Crazy Fred's Southeastern pronunciation of "How long does it take.."

I don't think by foot is wrong.  On foot is a little better.  How long does it take to walk to ____ is even more common in the USA.

BBC Explanation with Examples

Practice Quiz

Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Overview Rap Song (student)

Parts of Speech Rap (teacher)

The rhymes my great-grandmother used to learn parts of speech,

Grammaropolis: Kids songs to remember each part of speech

Teacher Sings with Kids to practice nouns, verbs, & adjectives

Schoolhouse Rock Videos-- I've heard college students hum these while taking grammar tests.

This is how many US students learned parts of speech, but they are pretty fast.

Do you need practice identifying which words are which part of speech?  These are some games for practice:

Fun Brain Parts of Speech Game -- Great Practice in Identifying them

Grammar Ninja Parts of Speech

abcya.com game for identifying parts of speech (Free and easy on a computer.  Need to sign in on a phone.  The sign in to play for free is not easy to see.)

ez school id games

1st Quiz from Using English

Another Parts of Speech Quiz from Using English

Pronouns

Beginning Level Subject Pronoun Video from Brainpop

Easy Fill in the blank with a subject pronoun

Fill in the Correct Subject Pronoun --englisch-hilfen website

What's the object pronoun?

Object Pronoun Quiz

Harder Object Pronoun Quiz

Which form is it?

Using English Pick Subject Pronoun or Object Pronoun

Grammar Aquarium -- type in the pronoun

Teacher Paul Explains Possessive Adjectives

Examples of Possessive Pronouns

Explanation and Examples of Possessive Pronouns

Possessive Adjective Board Game (Involves pirates shooting with cannons)

Soft Schools' Identify the Pronoun Quiz

Learn English Feel Good Grammar-- Scroll down there are some pronoun exercises

a for esl quiz

Beware Pronoun Problems.....

Family

Practice Family Vocabulary

Listening Exercise with family words

Do you have a big family?  Do you live with your family?  What makes your family different from other families? What do you like to do with your family?  Do you have any friends that are like family to you?

Frequency Adverbs

Side by Side Frequency Adverb Video

British Grammar Explanation and Exercises-- only difference is that we say on the weekend rather than at the weekend in the USA

Easy Routine at Night

How often do you swim? (Silly and Easy)

Put the sentence in order

Write the sentences. Put the FA before most verbs, but after verb "to be."

Adverb of frequency exercise with Grammar Aquarium

Put FAs after the verb "to be," but before other verbs

Conversational Examples

The examples put the frequency adverb first much more often than people usually do in my life.  Technically, you can correctly put a frequency adverb first or last, but I require students to put them before action verbs or after the verb "to be" because that's the way I usually hear them.

Can and could (and able to)

Esolcourses.com Explanation of Can

ESL Lounge "can" or "can't" online quiz

Real English Video

Can vs. He or she ________s in Simple Present -- Monkey Game!  You need to scroll down to play!

Only click on words to fill in the blank and "submit."  There are many ads.

Woodward English Explanation-- Uses of Can and Could

Quiz:  Expressions with must and can.  

Simple Present

Use simple present verbs to talk about routines, frequency, non-action verbs, and facts.

routine:

frequency:

Non-action verbs usually talk about emotions, possession, senses, and opinions.  Want, need, like are really common non-action verbs.  Non-action verb practice to do after you understand this post

The next video gives examples of facts and opinions.  We usually use present tense to talk about both.

ESOL Courses.com Explanation and Quiz

Many examples of present tense


Easy reading and quiz in present tense

Really Learn English.com quiz

Telling time and daily routine by Mrs. Chagill.  (Explanations are good.  Quiz feedback poor.)

Sentence Monkey Game: Can (base) vs. He/She (base) + S

Don't vs. (he, she it) Doesn't

The hard part of using simple present is remembering to add an s on the verb for he/she/it

We usually just add "s," but when the end of the word already sounds like "s" -- ending in ss, zz, ch or sh -- we add es. (crosses, buzzes, watches, rushes)  If the end of the word is consonant-y -take off the y and add ies.  She studies a lot.

Crossword to practice spelling with the "s."

Ego4U.com Simple Present Quiz