Monday, September 28, 2009

MANY, MUCH, A LOT OF / LOTS

GRAMMAR REVIEW:

MANY
Many is used with plural countable nouns, and often with negative sentences.
- There are many trees in the park.
- There are not many wolves left in
Europe.

MUCH
Much is used with uncountable nouns, and mostly in negative sentences. You will rarely find it in positive statements
- There is not much sugar left.
- Not much work is done.

A LOT OF / LOTS
A lot of, or lots, is used both with countable and uncountable nouns, mostly in positive statements.
- I have a lot of work to do.
- I have a lot of books.
- I have lots of friends.
Pay attention!
- There are lots of trees.
- There are a lot of trees.

- There is a lot of sugar.

Monday, September 21, 2009

A word of welcome

Hello and welcome!

The current blog has been created with three ideas in mind:
- to put together all the tasks that I am compiling or finding on the web under the creative commons license;
- to make the tasks available both for me and for those teachers who find something interesting in my works;
- to get feedback and suggestions on individual tasks.

Most of the tasks will go under the category of critical reading and thinking, but also group activities and grammar.