In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you practise the past tense/le passé composé.

A lesson introducing present simple tense. This lesson teaches how to form present simple and outlines when simple tense should be used. Activities included at the end to practise your skills!

In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...

A question tag is a very short question ‘tagged’ on to the end of a statement. They're used to turn statements into questions. Question tags are generally used to confirm information that we believe to be true.

Auxiliary verbs are often referred to as ‘helping verbs’ because they work with the main verb in a sentence. There are two types of auxiliary verbs: primary and modal. This video explores both primary auxiliary verbs and modal auxiliary...

Have you ever encountered the words “had had” in a sentence and thought you were seeing double? Well, rest assured that your eyesight is all right and what you were seeing was a perfectly correct grammatical construction called the past...

Mr. P. will begin the lesson by explaining the two types of speech. He will then delve into each speech by giving examples. Finally, he will explain how direct speech can be changed into indirect speech, among other things, by reporting...

Learn French Group 1 'ER' verbs in the past tense

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Weak forms are an important part of English pronunciation. The same word can have very different pronunciations depending on what it does in the sentence. Understanding weak and strong forms in English will really help your...

In this lesson, you can learn about the verbs ‘have’ and ‘get’. Do you know any other common meanings of ‘have’ or ‘get’? If you can, post the meaning and an example in the comments.

You’ll see ten different...

Subjunctive tenses.

There are many ways to make requests, either by using the modal auxiliaries can, could, may or might but even by using would like or should like in affirmative sentences. In this lesson, Mr. P/Marc will delve on this points by...

The past perfect simple tense is used for actions that happened before another action in the past. In this lesson, Mr. P. will discuss how to use the past perfect simple tense and contrast with the past simple tense. At the end of the...

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Past tense practice.

What's the Present Simple or Simple Present ? In this lesson, Mr. P. will answer this question by explaining the six different ways in which this tense is used. He will naturally list easy examples for each usage. He will also provide...

In this lesson, Mr. P./Marc explains seven different ways you could use the verb have. Some of them being; have/has got to - have/has better, using have as a full verb, modal auxiliary and auxiliary.

He provides simple examples to...

This lesson is dedicated to the often confused adverbs of time: yet, already, just and still. Three of them are mostly used in the present perfect tenses but there also few exceptions. Mr. P./Marc will explain when it is also used...

If you’re studying English to become fluent you need to master a tricky facet of American English: reductions! I can help you sound more like a native English speaker and increase your spoken English proficiency by teaching you...

Get a better accent by reducing words in American English. Learn the reduction of DO and DOES!

In this lesson, Mr. P./Marc will delve into what it's called "inversion". There are five types of inversion: 1.When we make questions - 2. With negative adverbs or adverbial phrases - 3. Conditional sentences - 4. With adjuncts or...

What's an auxiliary verb ? - Why do we need them sometimes - and other times we don’t ? - Can we use them to emphasize things ? - How can we use them to show interest ? - Do we also use them to encourage the listener to respond ?- When...