Pupil outcome: I can revise and apply skills for effective descriptive writing. Key learning points: - Use a variety of strategies to vary how you start sentences. - You can create sophisticated semantic fields based on abstract nouns. -...

Pupil outcome: I can write a comparative paragraph which explores two poems inspired by the same painting. Key learning points: - The opening of a comparative paragraph could start with a topic sentence which states the paragraphs main...

Pupil outcome: I can edit and revise the content of a descriptive piece to improve it. Key learning points: - Proofreading is an active process that enables us to spot and correct errors in written work. - Changing your verbs and nouns...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, preterite and past continuous tenses in the context of protests and social movements. Key learning points: - 'iba', 'ibas' and 'iba' are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular imperfect forms of...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, past continuous and preterite tenses to write an extended past-tense account. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used for what used to happen repeatedly and to set the scene in...

Pupil outcome: I can use the BORDER acronym to produce a piece of extended writing in Spanish about why you should learn a language. Key learning points: - The verb 'hace' + noun describes a range of weather conditions, e.g. 'hace sol'....

Pupil outcome: I can understand a range of structures to talk about how long I've been doing something. Key learning points: - Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a region in northeastern Spain, and is known for its art and...

Pupil outcome: I can use plural persons of estar to talk about where we and others are and what we and others do in the context of ‘las peñas’, a Spanish custom. Key learning points: - Words with stress on the last syllable have a...

Pupil outcome: I can use singular persons of estar to talk about where I and others are and what I and others are doing at a festival. Key learning points: - El día de Muertos is a Mexican celebration whereby people remember and pay...

Pupil outcome: I can use a variety of vocabulary and structures to talk about a festival in the Hispanic world. Key learning points: - To form the present continuous, use 'estar' and a verb in the present participle (-ando, -iendo). -...

Mr. Griot explains how to identify and use participles.

This video lesson will show you how to form and use different tenses to talk about the future.



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1. Simple Future Tense: Simple future is used for actions that haven't happened...

In this video I explain what a German present participle is and how to use one as an adjective.

Know your Group 2 French verbs? Hint: the ones that end in "IR". In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you practise les verbes du deuxième groupe.

In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...

Consolidate your understanding of the past tenses in English. In this video, we'll teach you all about the four past tenses and how to use them correctly. We'll cover simple past, past perfect, past continuous and past perfect...

Present participles are often confused with gerunds because they take the same form. They both end in ‘ing’. The difference is in their function. A gerund takes on the role of a noun, while present participles act as verb tenses or...

In this lesson, we'll learn about the participial phrase and the gerund phrase. The participial functions as an adjective and the gerund functions as a noun. Participles and gerunds are types of verbals. A verbal is a verb form that can...

The BE verb is the most important verb in the English language. It communicates a state of being, or existence. The verb BE is used as a main verb as well as an auxiliary verb. It is a most irregular verb and has eight forms: be am are...

A gerund is a type of verbal that has the form of a verb but acts as a noun. In fact, because a gerund looks identical to the present participle some grammarians refer to it as the gerund-participle. This is because both the gerund and...

An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjective. Why would you want or need to reduce the...

In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...

An infinitive is a verb that is not bound by time. An infinitive is a base verb, or a verb in its basic form. This is called the bare infinitive. But when you think of the infinitive you probably think of the verb form called the full...

Learn French Group 2 'IR' verbs in the past tense