loegria

                               Sometimes in our personal life we can not travel abroad to put into practice the language we are learning due to a huge array of reasons; it can be due to lack of money, time, dependency to other people such as relatives, sickness, official national or regional lockdowns, quarantine, voluntary isolation, work hindrances, etc.  Thus, we must look for alternatives to improve our target language the same way we were in any English-speaking country. Here are ten tips for you to follow to achieve it:   1 st tip: the most effective way to improve our skills according with numerous researches are to imitate native speakers. For example, we can imitate our favourite native American or British actors or actresses and try to imitate the way they speak, their intonation, accent, etc. You can try to rehearse your favourite scenes from your favourite film or play. You should wa...

Sometimes we come across with verbs followed by a Gerund (verb ending in -ing which expresses a progressive form or a continuous action) or an infinitive preceded by the preposition “to” or sometimes the same verb uses both patterns. Which is the difference among them? Then let´s learn more about Gerunds which come Latin “gerere” which means “to do” and we use them to emphasize the action of doing something.   Sometimes the Gerund can act as a noun when we refer to the action in an abstract manner or as an adjective before the noun that accompanies as a collocation, for example: Dancing is good for your health. Painting is a good hobby when you live beside a beautiful place. Reading was my favourite pastime when I was a teenager. She likes gardening but I prefer swimming in our pool. The plants need watering every day. This is the singing parrot which is renowned in the whole country. She was the dancing queen at the club during the whole week. He used to go for...

  We have already learnt the Present Perfect so we have come across this tense which has got the same pattern as the Present Perfect tense but the verb “have” is always in the unique past form “had” for all persons and numbers and the main verb is transformed into the past participle form too as all the Perfect tenses. Examples in affirmative, negative and interrogative of all persons in singular/plural: I had brought him the map. I hadn´t caught the leprechaun. Had I cut myself? You had eaten lunch. You had not forgotten her. Had you begun the course? He had broken his toy. He hadn´t shook his body. Had he given us a gift? She had sold her flat. She hadn´t met him. Had she lent you the book? It had blown last night. It hadn´t become yet. Had it cost you twelve dollars?   We had already gone to the village. We hadn´t built that manor. Had we paid them? You had fallen in a grisly pit. You hadn´t run the race. Had you drunk the beer? They had fought for us....

 SPORTS IN NORTH AMERICA AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD´S CULTURE -USA: In this huge nation the most popular sports are American football (NFL), baseball, basketball, ice hockey, soccer, tennis, gold, free wrestling, badminton, boxing and martial arts. American football is played in two teams of eleven players each with goalposts at the end where the offense players try to reach the oval-shaped ball by running with it or passing it with the feet, head, hands or sides while the defense players of the opposite team try to stop it. It started in the Universities (Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, McGill, Princeton and Harvard are in the National Collegiate Athletic Association).but the American and National Football Leagues with the Championship Game or Super Bowl which originated in the colleges ‘postseason bowl games in which the prize was a conference. Baseball originated in bat and ball games brought by English immigrants in the eighteenth century and it is a played in two t...

  Sports in English speaking countries The English speaking countries are famous for their popular sports that have spread throughout the world, only in the United Kingdom many famous sports such as football, basketball, baseball, hockey, rugby and many more have been invented or practised there in a professional manner by players. Besides most of the English-speaking countries in the world participate in the international multi-sport event every four years in the Commonwealth Games which reflects many issues about their culture and present day societies. Students of English can get another entertaining, dynamic and passionate way to learn it through the knowledge, liking and practice of any of the most famous sports originated or related to the following English-speaking countries in Europe, America, Africa and Australasia.   - UNITED KINGDOM: here the first football club was created in 1857 (Sheffield F.C.) and it is organized in four associations made up of England, ...