آموزش زبان انگلیسی

English Adjectives

Knowing what is an adjective and what is an adverb is very important in English grammar. For example, the following sentences are typical mistakes, caused by confusion over the difference between adjectives and adverbs.

"He works hardly." ("He works hard.")
"She writes good." ("He writes well.")
"It's a really problem." ("It's a real problem.")

Adjectives describe nouns.
"A good student."
"A nice day."
"He is interesting."

Adverbs describe verbs or adjectives.
"He eats well."
"She learns quickly."
"I'm really tired."

Frequency

Here are some ways to say how often you do something


always
often / frequently
usually / generally
sometimes / occasionally
hardly ever / rarely
never

For example, "I always drink coffee in the morning" means I drink coffee every morning.

چرا زبان انگلیسی؟

زبان توسعه یافته ترین ابزار فکری است که برای برقراری ارتباط بین انسانها و جوامع انسانی به کار گرفته می شود. گرچه با ابزارهای دیگری مانند علایم، رقص و هنرهای بصری همچون نقاشی و مجسمه سازی نیز می توان ارتباط برقرار نمود، اما انتقال مفاهیم پیچیده ذهنی به ساده ترین و کامل ترین شکل ممکن فقط از طریق زبان نوشتاری و گفتاری ممکن است.

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....مطلب ادامه دارد 

The story of idioms
 

براي پرسيدن ساعت مي توانيم از اين جملات استفاده كنيم:

What time is it?

What’s the time?

Have you got the time?

1. در مكالمات روزمره رايجترين روش براي گفتن ساعت به كسي، ابتدا گفتن دقيقه و بعد از آن از  to  يا past قبل از ساعت  استفاده مي‌كنيم . past به معناي گذشته و to به معناي مانده است.

براي مثال:

It’s ten past six. (6: 10)

It’s twenty past eleven. (11: 20)

It’s eight minutes past six. (6:08)

It’s six minutes to eight. (7: 54)

It’s five to six. (5: 55)

It’s ten to nine. (8: 50)

British or American English

There are many differences between British and American English. Generally, it doesn't matter which variety of English you speak or write, and most native English speakers will understand you – whichever type of English you use.

Here are some of the biggest differences between British and American English.

Using Wish

English speakers use "wish" to show that they want a situation to be different. The verb after "wish" is one tense back, so that if you are wishing for a different present situation, the tense that follows "wish" is past simple or past continuous. If you are wishing that a past situation was different, the tense that comes after "wish" is past perfect. You can also use "wish" with modal verbs in English.

hot and bothered = feeling uncomfortable, either because it's too hot, or because you have too much to do in too little time: "She's all hot and bothered now that she's been invited to the theatre this evening." 

be like a cat on a hot tin roof = restless or jumpy: "He's like a cat on a hot tin roof with all this talk about redundancies." 

in hot pursuit = to follow closely: "The pickpocket ran off, with members of the public in hot pursuit." 

hot on the trail = close to finding something: "The police are hot on the trail of the mastermind behind the bank robbery." 

hot air = something which is not as important or true as it sounds: "What he says is just a lot of hot air – don't take it too seriously." 

more (something) than you've had hot dinners = an expression to mean that you've had a lot of something: "I've had more jobs than you've had hot dinners!" 

Common test techniques:

What are test techniques?

Quite simply test techniques are means of eliciting behavior from candidates that will tell us about their language abilities . What we need are techniques that:

- Will elicit behavior which is a reliable and valid indicator of the ability in which we are interested ;

- Will elicit behavior which can be reliably scored ;

- Are as economical of time and effort  as possible ;

- Will have a beneficial backwash effect , where this is relevant .

The present article introduces common  techniques that can be used to test a variety of abilities ,including  READING , LISTENING , GRAMMER and VOCABULARY .