Let's practice gerunds, infinitives and using the bare infinitive. What's THAT???

Goto this page, read my posts and try the exercises:

http://preintduan.blogspot.com/search?q=gerunds

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Homework June 9th due THURSDAY

Hi class!

OK, good work.

Let's practice conditionals:

Try: http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/if-clauses.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/mb/adv_conditional.html
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_conditionals1.htm
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarlessonplans/a/l_condreview.htm
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarlessonplans/a/chant13.htm
Study:

http://esl.about.com/od/gramma1/a/conditional.htm
FROM http://prof.usb.ve/bleiva/Ingles/Gramatica/Sesion7.htm...

Links:

For information or explanations on Conditionals, go to

http://www.englishspanishlink.com/gram%20conditional.htm

http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/conditionals.htm

http://grammar.englishclub.com/verbs-conditional.htm check the six links of this page, especially the ZERO CONDITIONAL, so important in scientific English.



To practice conditionals go to:

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/if1.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/if-clauses.html

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/secondconditional1.htm

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_conditionals.htm

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/2nd3rdconditionals1.htm Fill in the gaps

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/2nd3rdconditionals2.htm Rewrite the sentences

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/2nd3rdconditionals3.htm Say if the sentences are correct or incorrect

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/condit2.htm fill in the blanks

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/condit3.htm An exercise to reinforce the use of the second and third conditional.



Modal verbs:

Remember to check explanations of MODAL VERBS in previous sessions.



May, might and would are modal verbs which are used as follows:



We use may and might for events which could happen in the future . Their most common meaning is POSSIBILITY.



Examples:

* I don't know what I will do on my vacation, but I may stay home.

* I can't help you. Why don't you ask the secretary? She might be able to help.

* It is cloudy today. It might rain this afternoon.



The negative forms of these verbs are may not, might not , would not



Examples:

* I may not go to the party tonight. I have a lot to study.

* Classes might not start next week. The teacher is traveling.



They can also be used in the continuous tense may/might be doing


Examples:

* If you call after 10:00 pm. I might be sleeping

* She may be going out off town next summer.



Sometimes we use would after the verb wish


Examples:

* I wish it would stop raining. It's raining a lot. I want to go out to play, but my mother says I can not because it is raining.

* Tom wishes He would be able to speak German. He needs to travel to Germany soon and he doesn't know a word in that language.



We use I wish...wouldn�t to complain about the way some people do certain actions .


Examples:

* I wish my father wouldn't smoke so much. He might get sick.

* He wishes you wouldn't drive so fast. It makes him feel nervous.



You can also use would to express the past and remember events which have happened.


Examples:

* When my brother was a child, he went to the USA by ship. He would wake up very early every morning to see the sunrise.

* Whenever Linda was sad, she would just walk out of the room.

* When we were children, we all used to get up very early and go to the beach every day during summer.



Taken and modified from: Murphy, R. and William Rutherford (1999). Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press, UK.



Links:

For explanations and exercises on Modal Verbs go to: http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html

http://esl.lbcc.cc.ca.us/eesllessons/modals/modals.htm

http://www.i-claudius.com/esl/modals.html

http://smccd.net/accounts/sevas/esl/gramcheck/gramcheck3-5/modalflashcds.html

Try searching on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHbkjCviC0&feature=PlayList&p=EEA0D5FA42DB4C58&index=2&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

Or Google:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=conditional+quiz+esl&meta=

More test practice here:

http://preintduan.blogspot.com/2009/04/toeic-youtube-tests.html