English All Year

Email writing

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:37:14 +0000

Hello again,

Thank you so much to all of you who took the time to write to me
about my idea of lessons in International Commerce.

In fact, the demand for Inco terms and suchlike was quite small. I
couldn’t justify spending the time producing the exercises.

A lot more people asked for lessons in ‘Business English’. I found
that a bit strange because we already have a complete website that
does that.

www.business-english.com

This site doesn’t get very many visitors compared to our grammar
sites. We’d like to develop it more but we can only do that if we
can attract the advertising support it needs and that means many
more visitors.

The one frequent demand was for more letter and email writing help.

I’m trying out some new exercise types to help with this and you
can try them out here.

http://www.better-english-test.com/unit1/

Let me know if you have any technical problems.
For those of you more concerned with revising your grammar, try
this exercise.

http://carolinebrownenglishlessons.com/throwphrasals/menu.php
That’s all for this week. Thank you again for all the feedback.

Pearson

Zero conditional and Leeds Castle

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:34:27 +0000

Hello again.

The poor summer weather here continues. I love watching the Tour de
France cycle race on my television but it’s frustrating to see how
much better the weather is in France.

Today’s exercise is about the zero conditional.

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/type0/exercise5.html

Many people wrote to me thanking me for the links to Canterbury
Cathedral. Others have written to me asking for more listening
activities. Combining the two, here is one of Caroline’s listenings
about a visit to another beautiful place in Kent.

http://carolinebrownlisteninglessons.com/leedscastle/menu.php

You can see more about Leeds castle here.

http://www.leeds-castle.com

Have a nice week.

Pearson

Second Conditional

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:59:37 +0000

This week’s exercise gives you revision of variations on the second
conditional. I think it’s quite challenging.

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/secondconditional/exercise7.html

Hope you enjoy it.

Pearson

used to

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:40:24 +0000

Hello again,

This week’s revision exercise is on ‘used to’ and can be found here:

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/usedto/exercise5.html

Pearson

Listening Practice for past simple and present perfect 2

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:11:59 +0000

I am now an expert on cold remedies from around the world. Thank
you so much to everybody who sent me a remedy or good wishes. I am
now feeling much better.

Here is this week’s listening practice on the past simple/present perfect.

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/presentperfectorpastsimple/exercise5.html

I also need some help from people who would be interested in
purchasing our English All Year multimedia lessons.

We’ve been developing these over the last year and asking people to
pay a monthly fee of just under $10. We have about 50 people
currently signed up.

Most people don’t like to pay a monthly fee and
so we are switching to an unlimited membership for $47.

However, I’m still testing the new payment system and so, for the
next 20 people who sign up, we’ll charge the special price of only
$27 for unlimited access.

Click here to take advantage of this special price:

http://www.englishallyear.com/amember/signup.php

As always, there is a 30 day money-back guarantee.

Have a nice week.

Pearson

Listening Practice for past simple and present perfect

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:10:15 +0000

Hello again,

I’ve got a bad cold but then everybody that I know here in England has got
a bad cold We’re all surviving on hot lemon drinks. Hope it is warmer
where you are.

We’ve had quite a lot of demand for further listening practice. I
hope you enjoy this activity, which also gives useful revision of
the difference between the Past Simple and Present Perfect.

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/presentperfectorpastsimple/exercise5.html

For those of you who want more listening practice, remember
that Caroline has some great activities in her $27 ebook

http://englishpartneronline.com/

There is a 30 day money back guarantee on this ebook but out of the
128 we have sold to date, only 2 people have asked for their money back.
Most ebooks have about a 10% refund rate so we are delighted with that
figure.

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Have a great week.

Pearson

Irregular Verbs – listening exercise

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:20:06 +0000

For today’s bonus lesson, we have added an exercise and a listening
exercise to the grammar lesson on irregular verbs. Here is the link:

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/irregularverbs/menu.php

Are you a member of Facebook? Pearson has just joined. So, if you
want to be his friend, do a search for Pearson Brown. You’ll see a
photo of him and his dog Rhona.

A, an and the

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:34:15 +0000

Today’s lesson looks at how we use articles; a, an or the. This is
one of those areas of English grammar that looks quite simple but
where even many advanced students continue to make mistakes. Here is
the link:

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/aoran/menu.php

Phrasal Verbs – Fall

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:36:17 +0000

Today’s lesson continues to look at the verb ‘to fall’ combined
with particles. Here is the link:

http://www.carolinebrownenglishlessons.com/fallphrasals2/menu.php

Phrasal Verbs – Do

admin — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:57:31 +0000

Today’s lesson looks at phrasal verbs – those very common English
verbs that have two parts: the verb plus a particle. This lesson is
about the verb ‘to do’. Here is the link:

http://www.carolinebrownenglishlessons.com/dophrasals/menu.php