Forum: English Questions 
Feb 6th, 2020, 07:53 am
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Views: 3,349  Re: Since, for and how long
Hi Alex,
Forget that rule - it makes no sense. Both forms can be used with any type of verb. The present perfect tells us that the action or state connects both past and present so eg:
I've liked...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 13th, 2019, 09:42 am
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Views: 8,628 Last lesson before Christmas activity
If you're looking for a last lesson before Christmas activity for your adult or teenage learners try this one:
https://eltnotebook.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-quiz.html
It starts with a Christmas...
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
Nov 29th, 2019, 04:23 am
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Views: 2,205 Want to do the Delta? Black Friday Offer!
Black Friday? No - for us it's Black December :)
We're offering over 100 Euros discount on all of our online Delta courses for all enrolments made before December 20th.
Some examples?
Our full...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 2nd, 2019, 09:10 am
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Views: 3,258 Re: Chorus or Choir
By chance came across another possible term today - "chorale". I rather like that one.
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 31st, 2019, 05:55 am
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Views: 3,258 Re: Chorus or Choir
I'd choose "choir" - but then I'm British. "Chorus" for me is the refrain of a song - a few lines that occur again and again throughout the song (like We all live in a yellow submarine etc) or, if...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 29th, 2019, 03:11 am
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 27th, 2019, 01:44 am
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Views: 2,483 Re: on my time
It's very difficult to answer this question as you haven't given the context and, as always, interpretation of meaning is always affected by context.
However, the expression "to do something on...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 25th, 2019, 04:38 am
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Views: 2,651 Re: Polite Requests
Any time when what is said is potentially a cause of embarrassment for the listener. Eg a request, where they might be "pushed" into having to refuse. Small requests are less likely to be refused...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 24th, 2019, 03:08 am
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Views: 2,651 Re: Polite Requests
I talked above about the use of will/would to express volition. The other use is prediction.
Eg: John'll be lying on the beach at the moment makes a prediction about a present event (John lying on...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Oct 22nd, 2019, 11:01 am
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Views: 4,456 Re: Teaching Beginners Aged 5-8 - suggestions? :)
First of all, that's a wide age range. Psychological differences between kids of 5 and kids of 8 could mean thatthe 8 yr olds might find that activities thatthe 5 yr olds love are too babyish for...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 21st, 2019, 11:09 am
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Views: 2,651 Re: Polite Requests
Yes - all three are possible. It's nothing to do with grammar but a matter of meaning.
"Can" expresses possibility, so "Can you tell me..." just means "Is it possible for you to tell me..."
in the...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 18th, 2019, 11:26 am
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Views: 2,118 Re: Conditionals
Hi Alex,
The whole context of "conditional forms" is rubbish. Some colleagues and I once sat down and brainstormed about 89 different variations in about ten minutes! There are only clauses of...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 17th, 2019, 11:08 am
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 16th, 2019, 11:01 am
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Views: 2,095 Re: Imperative
As Little Sage says, this is absolutely fine grammatically (all negative imperative verbs use Don't) but out of context sounds a bit odd.
Something can be grammatically correct but not possible in...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 15th, 2019, 10:58 am
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Views: 2,102 Re: Linking phrases
It's a bit odd in terms of meaning rather than position :
Meaning : As a result is a connective which links a cause to an effect - but here we seem to have...
Cause : advertising / Effect : dying ...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 14th, 2019, 09:49 am
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 11th, 2019, 08:50 am
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Views: 2,243 Re: some pal you are!
Not necessarily. As I said above, "some" just conveys the idea of something being extreme in some way. For example, imagine you'd been in a meeting where people had got really heated, and were...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 7th, 2019, 07:59 am
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Views: 2,243 Re: some pal you are!
Yes you can use friend. "Pal" is a colloquial equivalent, used predominantly in American rather than British English. (Checking on Lextutor (https://lextutor.ca/conc/eng/) I found 1 instance in...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 2nd, 2019, 05:29 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,243 Re: some pal you are!
There are two things that need to be understood here:
a) the meaning of "some"
b) the meaning of the word order
"Some" here is understood as meaning "excellent/incredible", or in some way "extreme"....
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 22nd, 2019, 07:40 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,143 Re: don't like to
As I have said above, as a British English speaker I would always say Do you like skiing? in this situation. But I know that in US English (which is rapidly influencing UK English too) the to +...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 19th, 2019, 02:54 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,143 Re: don't like to
Have a look at what I said in the second paragraph : For me, the sentence which expresses enjoyment is the version with like + Ving
As for your other question - in real life communication it's...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 14th, 2019, 02:02 am
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Views: 3,678 Re: Text book for 11 year old
It's awkward, as she's on the fringe between primary and secondary, but if you want something intellectually challenging, go fo secondary - especially if she's nearer 12 than 10.
Have a look at the...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 10th, 2019, 09:23 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,143 Re: don't like to
Have a look at my previous replies. Although I believe there's more overlap in American English, as a British English speaker I don't see them as both expressing enjoyment.
For me, the sentence...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 6th, 2019, 11:02 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,143 Re: don't like to
In British English both of those examples would more likely use the Ving form, especially the second. In the first, as it's "tiring" there's also the idea that it's not recommendable so it would be...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 1st, 2019, 10:10 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,143 Re: don't like to
See my first reply here (http://www.eslhq.com/forums/esl-forums/english-questions/would-enjoy-v-ing-70024/)
before you read on.
As indicated there and in my other replies in this thread, when...
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