BRITISH LIFE



If you are looking for information on everyday life in Britain or the culture and legends of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), this page is for you.


TELEVISION
BRITISH COMEDY
CINEMA
MUSIC
HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS
SPORT
RELIGION
FOOD AND DRINK
MONEY
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
THE WEATHER
EDUCATION
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
MAPS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
LEGENDS OF BRITAIN

http://www.anglik.net/britishlife.htm

British Calendar


How to Start a Conversation
Use this handy card whenever you want to start a conversation with a British person. Just look them in the eye and say the conversation starter for your level. It’s as easy as that!
Elementary
It’s a nice day today, isn’t it?
Intermediate
Bit of a cold wind today, isn’t there?
Looks like we’re in for some rain later.
Advanced
A trough of low pressure is sweeping down from south-east Iceland, bringing fog and frost to low lying areas, with scattered thunderstorms in the west and a belt of rain, which may fall as sleet or snow over the Pennines, moving across the whole country by tomorrow lunchtime.
Don’t worry if you can’t understand their reply—just keep smiling!


Veja outras dicas:
http://www.lgpcards.com/catalog.html
http://www.londonelegance.com/transpondia/britishcalendar2007.shtml
http://www.britain4kiwikids.org.nz/2007cal.pdf
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/holidays.html

You can find more about Brintain in:
http://www.britain4kiwikids.org.nz/

Sample Tour Guide Speech


Listen to a tour guide on a shuttle bus from the airport to the resort.
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http://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/tour-guide-sample-speech.htm

Neste link, você poderá ouvir (inclui o texto):

- Welcoming tourists
- Describing the location
- Introducing special events and offers
- Offering advice
- Closing remarks
- Check your understanding

English grammar A-Z

Index:


A B C DE F G H IJKL M N O P Q R S TU V WXYZ
A
Agreement, adjectives
Agreement, nouns
Active voice
Adjectives
Adjectives, demonstrative
Adjectives, possessive
Adverbs
Adverbs, interrogative
Articles, definite
Articles, indefinite
Articles, partitive
Auxiliaries
B
"Be"
Belong (possession)
C
Causative constructions
Comparatives
Conditional
Conditional, pastl
D
Definite articles
Demonstratives
Direct discourse
Discourse, indirect
"Do"
F
Future, indicated by "go"
future perfect tense
future progressive tense
simple future


G
Gender, adjectives
Gender, nouns
"Go" (to indicate the immediate future)
H
Habitual actions in the past
"Has"
"Have"
Helping verbs
IJKL
Imperative (commands)
Indefinite articles
"-ing" (present participle)
Interrogatives
Irregular past participles
Irregular preterits
Irregular verb forms
Inversion (syntax)
M
"Make"
Modal verbs ("will," "should," etc.)
N
Near future tense
"Never"
"No one"
Nouns
"Nothing"
"Nowhere"
O
Object pronouns
"Only"
Order of prepositions
Order of pronouns
Order of words
Participle, present
Partitive articles
Passive
Past (habitual past)
Past conditional
Past participles (irregular)
Past progressive
Perfect (future)
Perfect (present)
Plural of adjectives
Plural of nouns
Pluperfect
Possession
Present perfect
Present participle
Preterit
Prepositions
Prepositions (verbal)
Prepositions & verbs
Present perfect
Present perfect progressive
Present progressive
Present
Preterit (irregular forms)
Preterit
Progressive, future
Progressive, past
Progressive, present
Progressive, present perfect
Pronouns, demonstratives
Pronouns, interrogatives
Pronouns, possessives
Pronouns, reciprocal
Pronouns, reflexive
Pronouns, relative
Pronouns, subject / object
Q
Questions
R
Reciprocal pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns
S
Subjunctive
Subject pronouns
Superlatives
TU
"That"
V
Verbal prepositions
Verbs (general information)
Verbs (modals)
Verbs with prepositions
WXYZ
Was
Which (relative pronoun)
Which (interrogative adjective and pronoun)
Who, what, when (question words)
Whose


Fonte:

http://www.ultralingua.com/onlinedictionary/shared/references/english/index.htm

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