segunda-feira, 28 de maio de 2007

Prepositions

ATTENTION!!!
People...Visit this site!
It is so interesting to study prepositions, as a quiz!
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/prepositions.htm

sexta-feira, 27 de abril de 2007

How to write

First of all ...why to write? Besides to communicate with the reader and to express ideas, the writing is very important to give for the students one the best ways and more efficient to learn. When the students write, they involve with the new language and development more through the constant use of eyes, hands, and brain. Writing is great to learn grammar as sentence structure, rules for verbs, agreements, vocabulary and still permits to the students review what wrote and correct it.
At the first moment seems to be hard, however if the writing becomes often, it allows a development without problems and difficulties.
There are some manners to make easy the beginning of writing :

 Plan the content,
 Organize your idea,
 Write first draft
 Revise,
 Write final paper

Let us go to express ours ideas with the writing and we will learn more!!!

Study or Review...

Do you remember of the Phrasal verbs, separable and non-separable?

Below a list with some these verbs for you to check them;

Phrasal verbs (Separable)

Ask out – invite to go somewhere
Blow up – inflates; explode
Blurt out – say something unexpectedly
Bring back – return
Bring up – mention; raise children
Burn down – burn a building to the ground
Burn up – destroy by burning
Call up – telephone
Call off – cancel
Chase down – follow someone to catch them
Cheer up – make someone happy
Clear up – correct a misunderstanding
Cross out – draw a line thorough
Dream up – imagine
Drown out – overwhelm with noise
Dry off – remove moisture from a surface
Egg on – encourage
Explain away – give an excuse for something
Fight off – defend successfully
Figure out – find an answer
Fill in/out – complete a form
Find out - discover
Fix up - repair or renovate
Get across – make understand
Get down – depress
Give away - distribute at no cost
Give back – return something to the owner
Hand in – submit
Hand out – distribute
Hand over – surrender something
Keep away from – avoid
Lead on - give false hope to someone
Leave out – omit
Let down – disappoint
Look over - examine; inspect
Look up - find information a reference book
Make up - create; invent
Mark down – discount a price
Mess up - make something disorganized or dirty
Mix up – confuse
Pencil in – make a tentative appointment
Pick out – select; choose
Pick up – come to get; lift something
Point out – show; mention
Put away – store
Put back – return to a customary place
Put down – place something on a surface insult
Put off – postpone; delay
Put out – extinguish something burning
Rip up – tear into small pieces
Screw up – make a mistake
Slow down – make something go more slowly
Take back – return; retract a statement
Take in – give shelter; deceive; adjust in size
Take over – discuss
Tear up - rip into small pieces
Tell off – express angry response to someone
Think over – consider
Think up – create
Throw away – discard
Try on – test the way something fits
Try up – test the way something work
Turn down – decrease the sound level
Turn down – refuses an offer or invitation
Work out – resolve
Write down – make a note of something

Phrasal verbs (non-separable)

Break down – stop working or functioning
Break up with - end a relation ship
Catch up with – become equal to; level with
Chicken out – be afraid to continue an action
Come out – happen
Come out with – invent
Fade away – gradually disappear
Fizzle out – become ineffective
Flunk out – fail in school
Get over – recover from a shock or illness
Get up – leave bed in the morning
Give in - surrender
Go on – continue
Go over – review
Go thought with – continue with resolve
Give up – quit
Give up on – stop trying
Go with – date exclusively
Goof off – waste time
Goof up – make a mistake
Grow up – get bigger and older
Hand out – spend free time somewhere
Keep on – continue
Lighten up – become less serious
Look after – take care of someone
Look down on – have a poor opinion of disdain;
Look up to – admire
Make up with – reestablish a relationship
Pass out – faint
Put up with – tolerate
Run across – find or meet by chance
Run into – collide; meet unexpectedly
Run over – hit someone with a vehicle
Show off - act conspicuously
Stay up – not go to bed
Turn around - face the opposite direction
Work out – exercise

terça-feira, 24 de abril de 2007