Prepositions and Paris!
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| 12:56 UK time, Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Hello again.
Thanks for your latest blog Chrystel. It's obvious you love your home city of Paris. I enjoyed seeing your photos and it's made me think that I must visit the city again next year.
Thanks to everyone else for your comments and particularly Maria, who is new to the blog. Many of you sound busy getting ready for Christmas. Chystel's preparations all well underway. Much of her blog involved describing food and drink such as turkey and champagne. I will certainly be tucking in to lots of food at Christmas, especially the turkey. I am also a fan of sweet things so I'll be eating extra helpings of Christmas pudding and stollen cake.
Chrystel also mentioned watching a modern day performance of Cinderella. In the UK, Cinderella is one of many fairy tale stories that are performed at pantomimes. These are funny, silly and entertaining shows aimed at all the family and involve many traditions. Look at this link to find out more about pantomimes and hear a performance by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English team.
Anyway Chrystel, I enjoyed your blog but have a few comments that may help you with your English.
1. A reminder about capitalisation. As I mentioned in my earlier blog, names of people, places, unique events and nationalities need to begin with capital letters - such as Chinese, Prince Charming and Christmas.
2. You said "I am happy that some of you wish to come in Paris..." but you should say "I am happy that some of you wish to come to Paris...". In English we say we go to a place (to Paris), when we are there we are in the place (in Paris). These little words are called prepositions. They are small grammatical words that usually go before nouns and pronouns. Try my prepositions test at the end of the blog to practice.
3. A small thing but some of your French language is showing in your blog! You wrote the French 'vue' which in English is 'view'. Korean is spelt with a 'K' not 'C'. You also wrote 'ect' but did you mean to write 'etc', a short form of etcetera - who knows what this word means?
Most of you have been researching the islands that I posted a photo of. It was of the beautiful Isles of Scilly, which lie off the south west coast of the UK. They are a group of small islands (isles) known for their relatively warm climate and white sandy beaches. All though they are spelt Scilly you pronounce is 'silly' - even though there is nothing silly about this place! Tatiana correctly identified that the photo was taken from a helicopter!
HOMEWORK ANSWERS:
Thanks for doing your homework and well done to most of you who got the correct answers.
I asked you to practice your present perfect. Here are the correct answers:
1. "I haven't read any good books for a long time."
b. for a long time
2. "Have you seen her recently?"
b. seen
3. "We haven't gone to the cinema for a long time."
b. haven't gone
4. "Where's mum? She's just gone to the shops. She'll be back in five minutes."
b. gone
MORE HOMEWORK:
Try out your prepositions: What is the correct preposition to use in these sentences? (Use: at, on, to, in)
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's _____ Sydney.
2. I met her ____ a concert.
3. I sent it ____ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good ____ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends ___ the weather.
Comment number 1.
At 21st Dec 2011, janii wrote:Hi Rob,
Thanks for your explanation about prepositions and another materials in English subject. It is nice to learn English from Learning English Blog.
These are my answers to your homework:
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's __in___ Sydney.
2. I met her __in__ a concert.
3. I sent it __to__ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good __in__ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends __on_ the weather.
Thank you
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Comment number 2.
At 21st Dec 2011, neerja pathak wrote:Hi Rob,
Thank you for exercise. Please give us more such practices in other part of grammar too.
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's _in____ Sydney.
2. I met her __at__ a concert.
3. I sent it _to___ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good _in___ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends __on_ the weather.
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Comment number 3.
At 21st Dec 2011, Discip wrote:Hi Rob!
Thanks you and now I am answering your homework
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's _in_ Sydney.
2. I met her _at_ a concert.
3. I sent it _to_ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good _at_ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends _on_ the weather.
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Comment number 4.
At 21st Dec 2011, Tanica_g wrote:Hi Rob,
I really enjoyed your post.These are my answers to your homework:
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's _in_ Sydney.
2. I met her _in_ a concert.
3. I sent it _to_ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good _at_ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends _on_ the weather.
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Comment number 5.
At 21st Dec 2011, mmassa wrote:Hi Rob, here are my answers
Rob is travelling around the World and now he's _____ Sydney.
2. I met her _in___ a concert.
3. I sent it _to___ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good __at__ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends __on_ the weather.
Thanks a lot
Maria
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Comment number 6.
At 22nd Dec 2011, Soler wrote:Hello Rob
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's __in___ Sydney.
2. I met her __at__ a concert.
3. I sent it __to__ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good __in__ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends __on_ the weather.
Thank you!
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Comment number 7.
At 22nd Dec 2011, max wrote:Try out your prepositions: What is the correct preposition to use in these sentences? (Use: at, on, to, in)
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's in Sydney.
2. I met her at a concert.
3. I sent it to Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good on speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends to the weather.
Try out your prepositions: What is the correct preposition to use in these sentences? (Use: at, on, to, in)
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's _____ Sydney.
2. I met her ____ a concert.
3. I sent it ____ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good ____ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends ___ the weather.
thanks Rob
Have a nice Christmas
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Comment number 8.
At 28th Dec 2011, sanjay wrote:Hi Rob,
I'm porviding you key of your questions.....plz get it.
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's __in___ Sydney.
2. I met her __at__ a concert.
3. I sent it __to__ Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good __in__ speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends __on_ the weather.
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Comment number 9.
At 28th Dec 2011, Varisha wrote:Hi Rob,
Hope you had a lovely Christmas and enjoyed your break. I find your exercises very useful. Even though prepositions and capitalisation seem to be something simple but there are times when I am stuck. So hopefully doing these exercises will help me polish my English.
The word etc means: and the other things or so on.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ work:
(Use: at, on, to, in)
1. Rob is travelling around the World and now he's in Sydney.
2. I met her in a concert.
3. I sent it to Paris yesterday.
4. He's very good at speaking French.
5. We may go for a walk but it depends on the weather.
I was wondering if you can clarify the use of prepositions "in" and "at". As in the two sentences (2 and 4) both "in" and "at" seem to fit well but I am not sure why is this. I will greatly appreciate it if you can explain the use of these prepositions further. Thanks
Happy new year
Varisha
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Comment number 10.
At 6th Jan 2012, candhida wrote:Hi all,
I'm new here! So can someone give me a clue on how to find the answers?
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