Archive for the Learning English Category
ERROR IDENTIFICATION #1
What’s the wrong with each of the sentences below?
The answers are in the COMMENTS below. Be sure to try to find your own answers before looking at mine!
This large goat is only living in the mountains of Switzerland.
I call to thank you for the present you sent.
John is resembling his older [...]
Word Game available for Download
Not so easy, but it’s addictive! And it will expand your vocabulary.
The game has 5,000 words, so there should be enough to keep you scratching your head – and learning – for months.
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Active & Passive
At its heart, news is about people doing things. Activity is interesting. Where you can, write sentences with subjects that are doing things, and not subjects that are simply receiving actions upon them. Compare these two sentences:
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Call My Bluff
Peer Group Pressure: Round 4 – Febrina.
Febrina told a story about how her neighbour’s house burnt down but luckily her own house was undamaged. It happened on a holiday, at about 9am or 10am, and was caused by an exploding gas cylinder when read detail…
Call My Bluff
Adrian v Everybody: Round 3.
Adrian told a story about getting a job at a fish and chip shop when he was a student. He said that he got fired after about 6 minutes! The boss asked him to take a live lobster out of the tank and put it in boiling water. Doing [...]
Oligopoly
There was controversy in the latest game of Oligopoly at the Wisma Bahasa English Division. Oligopoly is a brilliant business strategy game in which players try to amass the most assets from buying and selling property and
Spot The Error
What’s the wrong with each of the sentences below? The answers are in the COMMENTS below. Be sure to try to find your own answers before looking at mine!Can you spot the mistakes on this sign board? How many mistakes can you find? read more
What is Esperanto?
Esperanto is a language, but not of any country or ethnic group: it is a neutral, international language. The basic rules and words of Esperanto were proposed by L. L. Zamenhof at the end of the 19th century. Within a few years, people started learning it and formed a worldwide community. read more
What did you say?
The metaphors are arranged alphabetically, based on the first noun – if there is one. If there is no noun, then the order is taken from the main word that doesn’t change, such as “backwards” in “bend over backwards” (people sometimes say “lean over backwards”). What did you say? read more
