Crafting Emails, Personal Narratives, and Biographies
Formal Email
From: Raquel García Madrid [raquelgmbdm@gmail.com]
To: Golf in Florida [info@golfinflorida.com]
Subject: Information about the course “Golf Lessons in Florida”
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to ask for information about the course “Golf Lessons in Florida”. I am very interested in this course. I would like to take it in one week in Florida in the summer. I am 21 years old and I study at Murcia University, because I want to be a teacher. Also, I work in an academy. I can read and
Read MoreMastering English Tenses, Conditionals, Passive Voice, and Modals
1. Verb Tense Practice
Put the verbs between brackets in the correct tense:
I arrived in England in the middle of July. I had been told that England, all year round, was covered with fog, so I can really say that I was quite surprised to find that it was merely raining. I asked another passenger, an Englishman, about the fog, and he said that, as far as he knew, there hadn’t been any since the previous February. After a while, he said that if I wanted fog, I had come at quite the wrong time. He added
Read MoreEssential English Grammar and Usage Guide
Essential English Grammar and Usage
Present Simple
What do you do? What does she do? Does she work? Where do they work? Do you work?
Schedules
Starts at 9:15, begins at 8:30, finishes at 4:00, ends at 5:05, we have a break at 12:45.
Dear Mrs. Mahmoud,
I am a new employee in Finance. I need help with access to the company network. Please, can you organise a training session for me? I am free on Thursday after 2:30. Do I need to come to your office? Do you give certificates after the training? Thank you
Read MoreEnglish Vocabulary, Suffixes, and Modal Verbs
Essential English Vocabulary
Here is a list of essential English vocabulary words with their synonyms:
- Amazing: Amazing
- Argue: Argue
- Beloved: Dear
- Bore: Boring
- Chance: Chance
- Come true: Come true
- Comfort: Comfort
- Do not mind: No matter
- Excite: Excite
- Fail: Fail
- Fame: Fame
- Find out: Uncover, discover, realize
- Harm: Damage
- However: However
- In addition: Besides
- Join: Enter
- Let: Let, permit
- Match: Party
- Move: Move
- Neighborhood: Neighborhood, barrio
- Neglect: Neglect
- Painful: Painful
- Pretend: Pretend
- Promote: Promote
- Prove: Prove,
English Grammar: Tenses, Adverbs, and Pronouns
Present Simple
Used for permanent situations, routines, and habitual actions.
Time expressions: Always, often, usually, never, every day, once a week.
Auxiliary: Do/does.
Present Progressive
Used for actions happening now or around the present time. Indicated by “-ing” form. Example: I am cooking.
Time expressions: Now, at present, at the moment, today, tonight, these days, tomorrow, this week/month.
Stative Verbs
These verbs describe states rather than actions and are generally not used in progressive
Read MoreEnglish Verb Tenses, Vocabulary, and Grammar
Mastering English Verb Tenses
Present Simple
- Affirmative: I run
- Negative: I don’t run
- Interrogative: Do they run?
Present Continuous
- Affirmative: We are reading
- Negative: She isn’t reading
- Interrogative: Are they reading?
Past Simple
- Affirmative: I walked to school yesterday
- Negative: You didn’t run yesterday
- Interrogative: Did he run yesterday?
Past Continuous
- Affirmative: He was going
- Negative: They weren’t going
- Interrogative: Were you going?
Past Perfect
- Affirmative: She had left the station
- Negative: They hadn’