Grammar: Definite and Indefinite Articles

For extra practice with articles:

From Purdue’s OWL: The Use and Non-Use of Articles – including countable vs. noncountable, first vs. subsequent mention, and general vs. specific. This page has a very good overview of everything about article use in English.

From Biotext: Using the Articles a, an, some, and the before Nouns.  This page has a checklist of links about article usage, including a quiz.

About.com: Definite and Indefinite Articles – including a short quiz.

Quiz on definite and indefinite article use

Three more quizzes about articles (graded by level)

Pre-University: Personal heroes

In class on Thursday, give a short presentation about a person you admire.

The presentation should:

• Be short (3-5 minutes). You should not need to do a large amount of research.
• Be about a public figure from the last 100 years (“Public figure” can mean someone well-known in a local area or field of study, not just “world famous”)
• Tell what the person has done that makes them admirable
• Tell what personal qualities the person has which you admire
• Include a photograph or some other type of media

Grammar: Phrasal verbs

Explanation and examples of phrasal verbs on englishpage.com

Phrasal verb dictionary: on the left of that page, click on a letter of the alphabet to look up phrasal verbs beginning with that letter.