Web Resources Chapter 1

Diagnostic Quiz and Customized Practice for Grammar in General

http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouble3.htm  

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Skills Specific to Chapter 1

Subject-Verb Agreement

1. Pretest: http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/part2/twelve/agreement_pretest.html 
2. Explanation: http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/part2/twelve/present.html 
   • was/were Explanation http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/part2/twelve/was.html 
   • was/were Practice http://cctc2.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/par6_quiz.pl/agreement_app2.html 
   • there is/are http://cctc2.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/par6_quiz.pl/agreement_app5.html 

 

Simple Present VS Present Progressive

3.  "The reading text describes what normally happens during a hurricane. For this exercise, imagine that you are a television reporter describing the approach and the arrival of a hurricane. Because it is happening now, you must use the present progressive instead of the simple present."
http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/hurrican.htm 

4.  Making Questions
"Situation: You call me at home. I answer the phone and I tell you that I cannot talk for very long because I'm waiting for a taxi to pick me up at my door. I'm going to a party. Ask me questions about the party. My answers are underlined. What are the questions?" http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/partypcf.htm   

5.  Practice some more:  
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/simcon1.htm http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/simcon2.htm   

6.  Optional practice with these tenses: 
http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/psvspprl.htm 

Fragments (part 1)

7. PowerPoint Presentation on Fragments (expl)
8. Pretest and lessons on Sentence fragments (expl. and quizzes)
9. Practice:

• Fragments & Types of Sentences
• Repairing Sentence Fragments
• Fragments and Run-on Sentences
• Practice: Sentence Fragments
• Practice: Sentence Fragments II
• Practice: Sentence Fragments III

Paragraph Practice:  Descriptive Paragraphs

10. http://esl.about.com/library/writing/blwrite_descriptive1.htm 
    Do the exercise, print it out and then ADD A TOPIC SENTENCE IN WHICH YOU NAME THE TOPIC (YOU) AND WRITE THE CONTROLLING IDEA (A GENERAL ADJECTIVE THAT DESCRIBES YOU).