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English Verbs - Tense Resources

Learning verb tenses is one of the most important tasks in any language learning. There are a number of resources at the site that will help you learn.

Tense Quizzes

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What's your annual revenue? / What's your net profit?

Tuesday February 9, 2010

There are a number of standard business questions used when making general inquires into the nature of a company. This resource provides a practice role-play and a reference section with variations and related business questions for a number of the standard business questions.

Sound Scripting

Monday February 8, 2010

"Sound scripting" exercises help learners become more expressive by taking sentence intonation skills to the next level. This sound scripting page has an example (with audio example) of an intermediate level text and and advanced level text which have been scripted to help with pronunciation.

You may also want to review the basics of intonation and word stress in English to help your pronunciation.

Let's help each other

Thursday February 4, 2010

A new feature on the site allows English learners and teachers share their best lessons, tips and practices with everyone. It's a great way to share your love and knowledge of English with other learners and colleagues, as well as learn from all the great ideas that others provide. Here's the easy to use form, and thanks for sharing!

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Can you find the mistake?

Wednesday February 3, 2010
These three, short, upper level reading comprehension extracts contain a number of grammatical and vocabulary usage mistakes. See if you can spot the mistakes, when you are ready you can check your work on the follow-up answers and explanations page.

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