Learning English: 2021

Sunday 30 May 2021

Monday 24 May 2021

The iceberg principle effect on language learning

Friday 14 May 2021

Bod Dylan teaches you about questions, nouns

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The states of the USA

01	Alabama	AL	Montgomery	Birmingham
02	Alaska	AK	Juneau	Anchorage
03	Arizona	AZ	Phoenix
04	Arkansas	AR	Little Rock
05	California	CA	Sacramento	Los Angeles
06	Colorado	CO	Denver
07	Connecticut	CT	Hartford	Bridgeport
08	Delaware	DE	Dover	Wilmington
09	Florida	FL	Tallahassee	Jacksonville
10	Georgia	GA	Atlanta
11	Hawai	HI	Honolulu
12	Idaho	ID	Boise
13	Illinois	IL	Springfield	Chicago
14	Indiana	IN	Indianapolis
15	Iowa	IA	Des Moines
16	Kansas	KS	Topeka	Wichita
17	Kentucky	KY	Frankfort	Louisville
18	Louisiana	LA	Baton Rouge	New Orleans
19	Maine	ME	Augusta	Portland
20	Maryland	MD	Annapolis	Baltimore
21	Massachusetts	MA	Boston
22	Michigan	MI	Lansing	Detroit
23	Minnesota	MN	St. Paul	Minneapolis
24	Mississippi	MS	Jackson
25	Missouri	MO	Jefferson City	Kansas City
26	Montana	MT	Helena	Billings
27	Nebraska	NE	Lincoln	Omaha
28	Nevada	NV	Carson City	Las Vegas
29	New Hampshire	NH	Concord	Manchester
30	New Jersey	NJ	Trenton	Newark
31	New Mexico	NM	Santa Fe	Albuquerque
32	New York	NY	Albany	New York City
33	North Carolina	NC	Raleigh	Charlotte
34	North Dakota	ND	Bismark	Fargo
35	Ohio	OH	Columbus
36	Oklahoma	OK	Oklahoma City
37	Oregon	OR	Salem	Portland
38	Pennsylvania	PA	Harrisburg	Philadelphia
39	Rhode Island	RI	Providence
40	South Carolina	SC	Columbia
41	South Dakota	SD	Pierre	Sioux Falls
42	Tennessee	TN	Nashville	Memphis
43	Texas	TX	Austin	Houston
44	Utah	UT	Salt Lake City
45	Vermont	VT	Montpelier	Burlington
46	Virginia	VA	Richmond	Virginia Beach
47	Washington	WA	Olympia	Seatle
48	West Virginia	WV	Charleston
49	Wisconsin	WI	Madison	Milwaukee
50	Wyoming	WY	Cheyenne

Monday 10 May 2021

Sunday 9 May 2021

Conditional sentences

CONDITIONALS

The zero conditional

This conditional is used when the result will always happen.

IF	CONDITION	RESULT
If	Present simple	Present simple

We can use this type with laws and rules.

Examples:

1.- If you heat ice, it melts.

2.- If water reaches 100 degrees, it boils.

3.- If the sun goes down, it gets dark.

We can use when instead of if and the meaning doesn’t change.

And we can change the order of the two parts and the result is the same.

4.- I am happy when I eat.

5.- You get burned if you touch a fire.

Are you over 50? probably... already retired?
Are you worried about your wellness?
I can give you some simple tips that you can put into practice for a healthy ageing.

If I have to choose and object, this is, undoubtedly, my iPad.

It's almost always in my hands when I'm at home. I take it with me to bed, and the first thing I do when I wake up is to turn it on.

On its screen it is almost everything: the email messages, I get the social networks of my friends and acquaintances, the updated news of all the media, the music and videos of my favorite singers, the television program that I wasn't able to see the previous day, the applications to brush up my English, the books I'm reading...

The mobile phone is also significant to me. However, its screen is too small for my recently operated tired eyes.

Also, as an accessory to my iPad, I have some wireless earphones. Great. They allow me to listen to podcasts while I'm moving around the house and without having cables connected to the device. Moreover, at night, in bed, my partner and I don't bother each other... with is essential.

(Written as an essay for the EOI on 17/12/2018)

Tuesday 4 May 2021

Longleaf Pine Trees Give Us More than Just Wood

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7 Daily Habits of High Performance Students

The easiest way to learn English

Saturday 1 May 2021

Love me do

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Burned vs. Burnt, and other verbs like this

Only American English makes a distinction between the two. In other varieties of English, burnt and burned are both perfectly acceptable for the past tense of burn. It wasn’t always that way. Before the sixteenth century, burned was the only form. However, some people started adding T instead of -ed at the ends of verbs. The fad caught on a little in the United States and Canada, but not enough to become an established part of the language there. In the United Kingdom and other countries, the T was a hit. Here are some examples of burnt functioning as the simple past tense and past participle of burn...

(From Grammarly)

Others verbs following a similar pattern

	Clap	Clapped Clapt	Clapped Clapt
31	Dream	Dreamt Dreamed	Dreamt Dreamed
	Kneel	Knelt Kneeled	Knelt Kneeled
	Lean	Leant Leaned	Leant Leaned
	Leap	Leapt Leaped	Leapt Leaped
45	Learn	Learnt Learned	Learnt Learned
61	Smell	Smelt Smelled	Smelt Smelled
	Spell	Spelt Spelled	Spelt Spelled
63	Spill	Spilt Spilled	Spilt Spilled
	Spoil	Spoilt Spoiled	Spoilt Spoiled
	Strip	Stript Stripped	Stript Stripped
	Sunburn	Sunburned Sunburnt	Sunburned Sunburnt
69	Sweep	Swept Sweeped	Swept Sweeped
	Vex	Vext Vexed	Vext Vexed

From usingEnglish.com

Thursday 29 April 2021

One, two, three, four, the Beatles in time and other podcasts

Luke's English Podcast

Wednesday 28 April 2021

How do I know my English grammar level?

Monday 26 April 2021

Quote of the day

Synonyms

Wednesday 21 April 2021

Teaching improves learning

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The umbrella man

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Thursday 1 April 2021

Quote of the day

Wednesday 31 March 2021

10 ways to stop translating in your head

Sunday 28 March 2021

Quote of the day

Irregular Verbs. Group 5. The Three Forms are Different

77	Be	Was / Were	Been
78	Bear	Bore	Borne
79	Begin	Began	Begun
80	Bite	Bit	Bitten
81	Blow	Blew	Blown
82	Break	Broke	Broken
83	Choose	Chose	Chosen
84	Do	Did	Done
85	Draw	Drew	Drawn
86	Drink	Drank	Drunk
87	Drive	Drove	Driven
88	Eat	Ate	Eaten
89	Fall	Fell	Fallen
90	Fly	Flew	Flown
91	Forbid	Forbade	Forbidden
92	Forget	Forgot	Forgotten
93	Forgive	Forgave	Forgiven
94	Freeze	Froze	Frozen
95	Get	Got	Got Gotten
96	Give	Gave	Given
97	Go	Went	Gone
98	Grow	Grew	Grown
99	Hide	Hid	Hidden
100	Know	Knew	Known
101	Lie	Lay	Lain
102	Overcome	Overcame	Overcome
103	Prove	Proved	Proven Proved
104	Ride	Rode	Ridden
105	Ring	Rang	Rung
106	Rise	Rose	Risen
107	See	Saw	Seen
108	Sew	Sewed	Sewn
109	Shake	Shook	Shaken
110	Show	Showed	Shown
111	Shrink	Shrank	Shrunk
112	Sing	Sang	Sung
113	Sink	Sank	Sunk
114	Speak	Spoke	Spoken
115	Steal	Stole	Stolen
116	Swear	Swore	Sworn
117	Swim	Swam	Swum
118	Take	Took	Taken
119	Tear	Tore	Torn
120	Throw	Threw	Thrown
121	Wake	Woke	Woken
122	Wear	Wore	Worn
123	Weave	Wove	Woven
124	Withdraw	Withdrew	Withdrawn
125	Write	Wrote	Written

Monday 22 March 2021

Quote of the day

Irregular Verbs. Group 4. The Past Simple and Past Participle are the same

22	Bend	Bent	Bent
23	Bleed	Bled	Bled
24	Bring	Brought	Brought
25	Build	Built	Built
26	Burn	Burnt	Burnt
27	Buy	Bought	Bought
28	Catch	Caught	Caught
29	Deal	Dealt	Dealt
30	Dig	Dug	Dug
31	Dream	Dreamt Dreamed	Dreamt Dreamed
32	Feed	Fed	Fed
33	Feel	Felt	Felt
34	Fight	Fought	Fought
35	Find	Found	Found
36	Fit	Fit Fitted	Fit Fitted
37	Hang	Hung	Hung
38	Have	Had	Had
39	Hear	Heard	Heard
40	Hold	Held	Held
41	Keep	Kept	Kept
42	Knit	Knit Knitted	Knit Knitted
43	Lay	Laid	Laid
44	Lead	Led	Led
45	Learn	Learnt Learned	Learnt Learned
46	Leave	Left	Left
47	Lend	Lent	Lent
48	Light	Lit Lighted	Lit Lighted
49	Lose	Lost	Lost
50	Make	Made	Made
51	Mean	Meant	Meant
52	Meet	Met	Met
53	Pay	Paid	Paid
54	Say	Said	Said
55	Sell	Sold	Sold
56	Send	Sent	Sent
57	Shine	Shone	Shone
58	Shoot	Shot	Shot
59	Sit	Sat	Sat
60	Sleep	Slept	Slept
61	Smell	Smelt Smelled	Smelt Smelled
62	Spend	Spent	Spent
63	Spill	Spilt Spilled	Spilt Spilled
64	Spin	Spun	Spun
65	Spit	Spat	Spat
66	Stand	Stood	Stood
67	Stick	Stuck	Stuck
68	Strike	Struck	Struck
69	Sweep	Swept Sweeped	Swept Sweeped
70	Teach	Taught	Taught
71	Tell	Told	Told
72	Think	Thought	Thought
73	Understand	Understood	Understood
74	Weep	Wept	Wept
75	Win	Won	Won
76	Withhold	Withheld	Withheld

Sunday 21 March 2021

Irregular Verbs. Group 3: the Base Form and the Past Participle are the same

19	Become	Became	Become
20	Come	Came	Come
21	Run	Ran	Run

Irregular verbs. Group 2: the Base Form and the Simple Past are the same

Beat

Beaten

Irregular verbs. Group 1: the three forms are the same

01	Bet	Bet	Bet
02	Bid	Bid	Bid
03	Burst	Burst	Burst
04	Cost	Cost	Cost
05	Cut	Cut	Cut
06	Forecast	Forecast	Forecast
07	Hit	Hit	Hit
08	Hurt	Hurt	Hurt
09	Let	Let	Let
10	Put	Put	Put
11	Quit	Quit	Quit
12	Read	Read*	Read*
13	Set	Set	Set
14	Shut	Shut	Shut
15	Split	Split	Split
16	Spread	Spread	Spread
17	Upset	Upset	Upset