Expressing Cause and Effect

A  cause  is something that makes something else happen. Out of two events, it is the event that happens first. To determine the cau...

Causative verbs: Let / Make / Have / Get

Causative verbs  show us that some person or thing helps to make something happen; they express what causes an action to happen. ...

Word families: building possibilities...

Words often come in families. You can expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these word families and this can also enable you...

Expressing Purpose

English has various ways of expressing purpose. We can use  so that  or  in order to ; sometimes we can simply use the verb infinitive. ...

Expressing lack of understanding and asking for clarification

Here is a list of useful English phrases you can use to express lack of understanding (that is, when you fail to understand what has bee...

Unit 1: Cultural Issues and Values. Vocabulary

This is a list of vocabulary items related to culture Culture: Culture  can be defined as all the ways of life including arts...

Opinion, agreeing and disagreeing

ASKING FOR OPINION: - What do you think …? - What about you (Mario, Peter, Susy, etc ) …? - Do you think …? - Do you agree wit...

Tenses

THE PRESENT SIMPLE :   he/she/it + s It is used for: a/ regular actions or events :     - He plays tennis most weekend...

Phrasal Verbs (2)

Here are some common phrasal verbs and their Arabic meanings .

Grammar Books

أقدم لكم مجموعة من كتب قواعد الإنجليزية. هذه الكتب تحتوي على الدروس التي ستساعدك بإمتحان اللباكالوريا كما تضم تمارين لإختبار نفسك قبل ا...

Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns are used to link two sentences that have the same noun or pronoun in them. A relative pronoun is a pronoun that intro...

The Past Perfect

Use - We use the past perfect simple to talk about what happened before a point in the past. It looks back from a point in the past to ...

Reported speech

- We use reported speech when we are saying what other people say, think or believe. In reported speech we give the meaning of what w...

Apologizing and promise Expressions

Apologizing To apologize is to tell someone that you are sorry for having done something that has caused him inconvenience or unh...

Wishes / if only ...

We can use I wish or if only to express a wish. Wish  and ‘ If only ’ are both used to talk about regrets – things that we would like ...

Asking for and giving advice expressions

This activity teaches students expressions of advice (asking for and giving advice.) 1- Asking for advice What do you think I...

Speak vs Talk / Say vs Tell / Hear vs Listen / Look vs see

1-  Speak vs Talk Speak   and   tal k  have similar meanings. They suggest that a person is using his or her voice, or that two o...

Conditional types

--The use of conditional clauses: We often use if to express a condition. If you're going into college, I could give you a lif...

Relative clauses

What is a Relative Clause? *  A relative clause tells us which person or thing (or what kind of person or thing) the speaker means, ...