Present Perfect Exercises

Here you have some tips for learning Present Perfect:

Tips  

And click here to do some Present Perfect Exercises and also here 

Good Luck! 

Use of English

Here you have different exercises of Use of English for B2 Level:

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Cupcake Recipe

Practice vocabulary of food with this recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 large eggs

Easy Cupcake Recipe Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line cupcake pans with paper liners.

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl.  Add shortening, milk, and vanilla.  Beat for 1 minute on medium speed.  Scrape side of bowl with a spatula.

Add eggs to the mixture.  Beat for 1 minute on medium speed.  Scrape bowl again.  Beat on high speed for 1 minute 30 seconds until well mixed.

Spoon cupcake batter into paper liners until 1/2 to 2/3 full.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool 5 minutes in pans then remove and place on wire racks to cool completely.

Once cupcakes are completely cooled, frost with your favorite frosting recipe or decorate as you desire.

More recipes of cupcakes here. 

Present Simple and Past Simple

Today you can practice some grammar.

Here you have some Present Simple Exercises and some Past Simple Exercises

Moreover, you should know that Mansión del Inglés is a very good Website where you can find a lot of exercises of vocabulary and grammar for every level.

Let´s go with grammar!!

Talking about the future

Articles

Do you have problems with determiners and articles (the, a, an..)? They're usually quite tricky because they are sometimes used in a dffferent way  when compared to Spanish. Here you can find a very complete summary.

BBC Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/askaboutenglish/2009/01/090122_aae_nouns_pronouns_archive.shtml

Adverbs of frequency

English is Fun

Reported speech

Hello,

Are you having difficulty in understanding how reported speech works in English? Click on the following links to read some grammar explanations which can help you.

Reported Speech: Statements
Reported Speech: Questions
Reported Speech: Commands

Then practise with the following exercises:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.htm
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_reported1.htm

Passive voice

Passive voice is usually tested in Part One of the Writing test in PET, so below are some links to help you with it.

First, click here for a review in Spanish of this structure.
If you prefer to read it in English, click here.

Then, test your knowledge with these quizzes:

UsingEnglish.com
About.com
a4esl





OM Grammar
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omgrammar/vozpasiva.htm
UsingEnglish.com
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/46.html
About.com
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_passive2.htm
a4esl
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_passive2.htm

Prepositions

Reporting verbs: verb + object + to infinitive

Dear students,

I know you often have problems with verb patterns. This is a lesson about a particular kind of verb pattern that requires an object and an infinitive with to. You'll find this especially useful to do exercises on sentence transformation.

B1: As....as, as and so...as

In class we've learnt to use as to compare two things when expressing they have a similar proportion as in

My car is as expensive as yours. 

In negative statements we can also use so...as as in

He is not so/as intelligent as his sister is

Click here for a review of the different uses of as and so...as.



Learning English. BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv158.shtml

Comparatives and superlatives

Are you having problems understanding comparative and superlatives?

Have a look at this website. Then do the exercises. I hope you find them easier to understand after having worked on them.



La mansión del inglés
www.lamansiondelingles.com 

PET Writing: Sentence transformation

The first part of the Writing paper in the PET exam is called Sentence transformations. In this part you'll find  five questions  about the same theme. For each question there is one complete sentence and a second sentence which has a missing word or words. You have to complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first sentence.

This part requires a good knowledge of English grammar. There are lots of books you can use to improve your grammar. A very useful one is English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy (Cambridge University Press).

Below you can find several links where you can practise this part of the exam:

Exam English

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/PET_writing_part1.htm 

Floe-Joe

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/writing/pet_writing_practice_test_part_1.htm

OM First Certificate

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/firstcertificate2/exercises/activity5.htm

 English Stuff- Free practice exercises for learning English
http://www.stuff.co.uk/sentence_transformations.htm