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English Online Course for Intermediate Learners - Unit 4

The fourth unit continues with a review of the past simple, including a fun interactive learning tool to help you learn the past forms of irregular verbs. We also take a look at using adjectives correctly, differences between 'make' and 'do', and we end with some listening exercises concerning job opportunities.

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Unit 4 - Simple Past, Regular and Irregular Verb Learning, Adjectives and their Order, Vocabulary: Make or Do?, Listening Comprehension: Job Opportunities

Grammar: Past Simple, Adjectives and their Order

  • Past Simple
    Learn about the past simple and when to use it. For example: They went to Rio last year.
  • Past and Past Participle Learning Tool
    Go - went - gone, come - came -come, sing - sang - ? Having problems memorizing irregular past verbs? Practice the forms with this interactive tool.
  • Adjectives
    The basic rules for using adjectives in English.
  • Adjective Placement
    Guideline to the correct order of adjectives when using more than one adjective to describe a noun (i.e., an interesting old English book).

Vocabulary: Make or Do?

  • Make or Do - 1
    Test your knowledge of when to use the verbs 'make' or 'do'
  • Make or Do - 2
    Test your knowledge of when to use the verbs 'make' or 'do'
Listening: Job Opportunities
  • A Job Opportunity - 1
    Listen to two people talking about a new job opportunity and get the details about the job offered.
  • A Job Opportunity - 2
    Listen to two people talking about a new job opportunity and get the details about the job offered.

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