Personal pronouns (subject and object)

What is the matter, boys and girls? Problems with your pronouns?
Try this exercise

Então o que se passa com os pronomes? Cometem erros de principiante nas composições por causa deles. Vamos lá treinar. "É para ontem", como se costuma dizer.

More conditional sentences

Aqui está um link sugerido pela vossa colega Andreia. Bom trabalho. Clica aqui.

Past simple or Past Continuous?

If you have any doubts about the correct use of the past simple together with the past continuous, you can go to your student's book or check this webpage . Next, you must practise your tenses: click here. After finishing this exercise here successfuly, you are ready to get a good mark at any test about these tenses. Congratulations!

Aqui tens alguns exercícios para praticares o discurso indireto. Carrega aqui.

Reported Speech (statements)

Here is an introduction to the Reported Speech. Some things are known to you. Others need to be explained. If you have any doubts, just go to the comment box and write it.

Conditional Sentences (Type 1 and II)

Aparentemente, os alunos do 8º ano não entenderam muito bem como funcionam este tipo de frases. Vamos então rever a apresentação que passou na aula, acrescentada de mais uns exercícios. Para além daqueles, temos nesta ligação muito mais para treinar.

Conditional Sentences 2

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Comparative and Superlative

A video about the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives. Which is the most beautiful country in the world? Who cooks better?

Degrees of Adjectives - worksheet

You can download this worksheet and practice your adjectives. Copy and paste the image to a word document.

More practice on countable and uncountable nouns

If you want to test your knowledge on this subject, you have an interesting site here.
Countable and Uncountable Nouns , by grazdub@onet.eu
Find this and other countables - uncountables exercises in English Exercises .org
Depois de abrires a página clica em Fullscreen e resolve os exercícios.

Past Simple and Past Continuous

You can download the worksheet and practice your tenses.

Degrees of Adjectives

Can you compare two people or two things in English?
What do you do to choose one thing among many?

This presentation is about the comparative and the superlative degrees of adjectives. Have fun and don't be afraid to ask, if you have any doubt.

degrees of ADJECTIVES

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The past simple

Go to the page on this link and do the exercises using the past simple.
Next, you can watch the slideshow posted on this page and complete the sentences about it

The present continuous

Click on the title and and try your skills as a penalty striker. As you do it, you will practice your tenses.

The past simple - worksheet

Present Perfect vs Past Simple

-The present perfect is used when the time period has NOT finished:"I have eaten two ice-creams this week" (the week is not finished)
-The simple past is used when the time period HAS finished:"I ate three ice-creams last week" (last week is finished)

-The present perfect is often used when giving recent news:"Jack has broken his arm again" (recent news)
-The simple past is used when giving older information:"Jack broke his arm last year"

-The present perfect is used when the time is not specific:"I have already read that book" (I don't remember when)
-The simple past is used when the time is clear:"I read that book last month"

-The present perfect is used with for and since, when the actions have not finished yet:"I have lived in this city since 2000" (I still live here)
-The simple past is used with for and since, when the actions have already finished:"I lived in this city for a long time" (I don't live here now)

To practise these structures, click on the title of the post and watch this presentation.

Past Simple vs Present Perfect

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The Present Perfect

You can check the use of the Present Perfect in this presentation.

The Present Perfect

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This a simple comparison between the use of the Past Simple and the Present Perfect.
In very simple terms, we use the Past Simple to describe actions that occured in a specific point in the past. The Present Perfect is used to describe actions that happened in the past, but we don't exactly know when.
If you click on the title of the message, you will find many exercises to practise this tense.
At the bottom of the page there is also useful grammar information about the subject.

The past simple - exercises

Want to practice your past simple? Just click here, download the worksheet and go for it.

Countable and Uncountable nouns

Students of the 8º ano:
Click on the title of this message and do the exercise on countable and uncountable nouns. Choose activity 1 on the menu on the left. You can view all the questions by clicking on the words "show all questions".
Good luck!

Have you ever...?

Here is your chance to practise your present perfect.As you listen to this song by the band "Westlife", you can read the lyrics and identify the present perfect tense.A good exercise would be to copy the lyrics to your notebook and translate them.