Present Continuous
Simple Present or Present Continuous (Youtube)
Practice: Exercise 1 see more below
(Long) explanation of spelling Present Continuous.(Quiz yourself)
Quiz yourself)
(Quiz)
More Practice
Pronouns:
6 types
Grammar and listening – Mixed Levels
a4esl.org
Agenda Web
allthingsgrammar.com — This site has videos, audio, exercises (with answers) and interactive quizzes.
BrainPop ELL — Note: Talk to Sandra for the username & password.
English-4u.de
Manythings.org
more grammar & vocabulary practice
$$$ Prices – listening practice $$$
Reading
ESOL News Oregon — Beginning, intermediate & advanced news stories about Oregon. Exercises and audio included.
ESL Literacy Readers — Beginning, high-beginning & low-intermediate stories with pictures and audio. Click on a level, click on a story, then click on > (the PLAY arrow) to read and listen.
Home & School — Beginning stories about people and the things they do every day. Click on CONTENTS on the left side for the list of articles. All include exercises.
Portland People & Places — High beginning articles about people and places in Portland, Oregon. Click on CONTENTS on the left side for the list of articles. All include exercises.
Seven Wonders of Oregon — Intermediate articles about beautiful places in Oregon. Click on CONTENTS on the left side for the list of articles. All include exercises.
Video
Voice of America “Let’s Learn English” — multiple levels of conversation, pronunciation and vocabulary practice
We Speak NYC — A video series based in New York City with stories about immigrants and some of the issues they and the community at large face. Includes practice activities & scripts.
Cutting Edge Basic English Series — Note: You need your myPCC username & password to access this site.
Cutting Edge Simple English Series — Note: You need your myPCC username & password to access this site.
Colors, singular & plural with clothing
Side by Side (Book 1) videos:
– Present Continuous (-ing)
This / That / These / Those with clothing
Vocabulary
Online picture dictionary “learningchocolate.com”
Passport to English – vocabulary, listening and more
youtube link or link or link or link or link link or
Past tense -ed pronunciation (& handout)
Video lessons for number pronunciation and more. Created by PCC’s own teacher, Woods Strickiin. Thank you, Woods!
**For vowel (a, e, i, o, u + more) practice, click on the Pronunciation Exercises link top right (on a laptop) or at the bottom of this page (on your phone.)**
Accent's Way with Adar
Time 1 (vocabulary)
Time 2 (vocabulary)
Time 3 (vocabulary)
Listening quiz with time
Listen & write the time — Ask Sandra for the handout, or –> click here.
Alphabet video with sounds (youtube)
ABC song (youtube)
Alphabet Song with Ray Charles & friends (youtube)
Can/can’t exercise
Short answer practice
More can or can’t practice
Many Can / Can’t exercises
Food and shopping exercises:
Vocabulary #1, #2
Food packaging #1, #2
Clothing vocabulary exercises
Clothing 1
Clothing 2
Simple present tense practice:
1) Listening:
2) Grammar:
Present continuous practice:
1) Grammar –
Exercise 1 – BE + verb+ ing practice
Exercise 2 – sentence writing practice
Exercise 3 – practice with negative
Exercise 4 – practice with questions
Exercise 5 – contrast with simple present
Exercise 6 – more present continuous
Exercise 7 – a story in present continuous
2) Listening –
“A letter to a friend”
“At the beach”
“At home”
Possessive adjectives (my, his/her/its, etc.)
More possessive adjectives 1
More possessive adjectives 2
More possessive adjectives 3
Learn English with movie clips
What’s the correct word order
Randall’s Listening Lab
ELLLO.org — listening practice:
First jobs — six people describe their first job
Bad Jobs — six people describe jobs they don’t like
Practice with “because” and “so”
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Practice with future – “will” vs. “(be) going to”
Explanation + practice for using WILL or (BE) GOING TO for future [pdf] (printable exercise)
Practice with using WILL or (BE) GOING TO for future [pdf] (printable exercise)
Practice with simple present vs. present continuous
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
More exercises on Agenda Web
Practice with past tense:
1) Past tense -ed pronunciation rules
2) Listening-
Adele’s Listening – “A day at the office” – past with was/were
Adele’s Listening – “A terrible day”
Adele’s Listening – “A lovely day”
Adele’s Listening – “Yesterday”
3) Grammar- action verbs
Adele’s ESL Corner — There are *many* past tense exercises. Look in the Grammar column.
English-4u.de – Past tense 4
English-4u.de – Past tense 5
English-4u.de – Past tense 6
4) Grammar — BE past tense:
was/were – affirmative statements
wasn’t/weren’t – negative statements
yes/no questions with was/were
5) Practice with video: Watch one of the short video clips. Try to describe some of what happened in the video in past tense.
Charlie Chaplin “The Lion’s Cage”
Mr. Bean “Getting Back at a Bully”
Practice with comparative adjective forms:
1) Comparative adjective practice with Adele’s ESL Corner
comparative 1
comparative 2
comparative 3
2) Comparative sentence practice with English-4u.de
exercise 1
exercise 2 (includes sentences with superlative form)
exercise 3
exercise 4 (comparative form in first column, superlative form in second column)
3) Comparative exercises from spot.pcc.edu/map
practice 1 (multiple choice)
practice 2 (sentence writing)
4) from a4esl.org – comparative forms
Practice with count and non-count nouns
how much/how many?
more how much/how many?
a few or a little
countable or non-countable
Practice with modal verbs
should and shouldn’t exercises [pdf]
Typing & Spelling – All Levels
DanceMat typing
Typing.com
Sense-lang typing
Spelling practice — Look in the middle of the page where it says “Elementary Spelling.” There you can see many different word lists. Click on a list. Study the words in the box. Then begin the quiz.
Mouse exercises #1
Mouse exercises #2