New Students Session 5

Good afternoon class of session 5!!!

Well, we all know that "TOEIC IS FANTASTIC", but why?

1. It is a fantastic way to focus your grammar skills.
2. It is a fantastic opportunity to learn as part of a group-structured practice.
3. It is a fantastic chance to practice your English under pressure, which is fantastic for job opportunities.

So, how do you start using this blog?

1. JOIN this blog, so that you get notified of updates.
2. RIGHT-click the links to open new windows ("open in new window").
3. If unsure of what to do, read the blog, ask a partner or ask me!

What about now?

This week's grammar focus is on prepositions (time/place), so here are some links to follow (remember right-click, then "open in new window" please).

1. Let's start by clicking on this moderate-level prepositions QUIZ. (click)
2. Then, here.
3. More here.
4. OKAY, try studying some common prepositions here, then follow the links on the page (if the advert isn't too distracting!).
5. The other thing to do is study YouTube:

Some locations prepositions:







Common errors - prepositions:





If you have lots of time for prepositions, try all these:

Start here with these excellent tables and the exercises that come with them from the ego4u website:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepositions

These are from the Language Project website:

http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/elementary/elementary_prepositions.htm

Prepositions with People

http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/exercise_page.php?ID=76

Prepositions – Study

http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/exercise_page.php?ID=77

Prepositions of Place

http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/exercise_page.php?ID=97

Prepositions of Time

http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/exercise_page.php?ID=98

From the website 5-minute English: Time and Date:

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/mar18.htm

The following links are from the excellent ESL website a4esl.

Here are the Preposition exercises from there in order of difficulty. Make sure you bookmark the site and go back and use it for other things too.

Prepositions often confused by Donna Tatsuki

http://a4esl.org/q/j/dt/mc-confusedprep.html

A preposition crossword:

http://iteslj.org/cw/1/vm-prep.htm

About, at, for or to by Vera Mello

http://a4esl.org/q/j/vm/fb-prep.html

At, in or on by Nuala Ivic

http://a4esl.org/q/j/ni/fb-prepositions.html

Prepositions by Vera Mello

http://a4esl.org/q/j/vm/mc-prep.html

At in or on by Jack Bradshaw

http://a4esl.org/q/j/jb/fb-prepositions.html

In, At or On by Douglas Gilbert

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/dg-in-at-on.html

By Ilker utlu

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz48miu.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz46miu.htm

By Charles Kelly

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz98bck.htm

By Barbara Donnelly

http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb-bd-preposition.html

4 by Vera Mello

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/prepos01.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/prepos02.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/prepos03.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/prep01.html

By Yanti Nading

http://a4esl.org/q/h/0001/yn-prepositions.html

By Leticia Bradley

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/inatplaces.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/inonat.html

At on and in used in Time and Dates

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/atonintime.html

At, by, with

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/atbywith.html

Slightly more difficult maybe:

by Senora Edmilson

http://a4esl.org/q/h/0101/es-prepositions.html

By Violeta Tsoneva

http://a4esl.org/q/f/x/xz98mvt.htm

By Charles Kelly

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz65fck.htm

After, for or since by Vera Mello

http://a4esl.org/q/j/vm/fb-afterforsince.html

By Charles Kelly

http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/fb-prepositions.html

By Vera Mello

http://a4esl.org/q/j/vm/ci-prep.html

Charles Kelly:

http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/mc-prepositions.html

In, on or up by Richard Davies

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/rd-inonup.html

By Cheryl Newman Maris

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/cn-prepos.html

Level 2 by Vera Mello

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/prep02.html

Level 3 by Vera Mello

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/prep03.html

Astronomy quiz to practise prepositions by Joan M Diez

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/jd-astronomy.html

DIFFICULT

Quiz about Manatees (very large and not very beautiful animals that live in the sea) by Alexandra Sanchez

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz36mas.htm

Particles in Conversation by Ted Power

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle2.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle3.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle4.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle5.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle6.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle7.html

US Holidays and Celebrations by Vera Mello. This is a useful exercise for ECCE students

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/holidays.html

Prepositions for the Writing about Graphs task in the IELTS exam. Also good for CPE students. By Enda Tuomey

http://www.writefix.com/graphs/preps.htm





How do you self-study? Try searching like this on google.com.au (click here).

Homework for TOEIC weekend

Revise the difference between specified and unspecified here:

1. Read this.

2. What are generic nouns???

3. OK, practice the previous TOEIC posts - test practice.

4. Study uncountable nouns.

5. Examples of THE...


6. What's the difference between countable and uncountable?

7. Which one??

8. Practice your understanding here.

9. Practice indefinite articles.

10 and definite.

PART IV answers

part IV answers: 29c 30a 31d 32a 33c34b 35 a36c 37d 38d 39d 40b 41c

TOEIC reading PARTS V, VI, VII

OK, I think the TOEIC LISTENING tests from YouTube were quite useful. Please practice these again at home for homework.

Here are the answers from part II: 10B 11a 12c 13a 14b 15c.

Next, have a look at this series of videos about the READING PARTS v,vi, vii.

Cheers,
Duan.

PART V



CONTINUED:



PART VI



continued:



PART VII



continued:



Final review from YouTube:



Happy studying!

Duan.

TOEIC youtube tests...

Cool! Try these...









Also some of you might need to practice prepositions here:



Here:



and here:



What about conditionals?



Finally, here are some online tips and overview of the TOEIC test:




Try searching youtube for yourself typing in "TOEIC"

Cheers and happy study!

Duan.

Elmo

Ha haha!

This is soooo cute.

Testing

Hi TOEIC!

I hope you had fun doing your TOEIC homework from Thursday... th th th should be perfect!

Also, I am sure you gained a lot from the TOEIC resources in the previous posts - keep practicing your grammar, vocabulary and tests online.

Meanwhile, I want to give one more example of the causative verb grammar from this week:

Duan:"Study! Study Study!" (to students)

What happened? The students studied harder :)

Can you write a causative verb sentence describing Duan's action?

ANSWER: "Duan motivated the students (to study harder)."

Try 3 more sentences using "have, push, encourage". Same sentences - just change the causative verb and tense.

Get it? If not, leave a note on this blog post for questions to me :)

Duan.