Understanding fast speech
UNDERSTANDING FAST (REAL) ENGLISH If you join a video game with native English speakers, one of the first things you will likely notice is how fast they speak. They may slow down for you, but not when they are talking with each other. If you are very good at the game you are playing –...
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I (Terry) taught English for 50 years. Very early on (about the time when the above photo was taken) I was struck by the fact that many students study English for ten or more years, but never learn it well enough to actually use it. My main interest, then, became to help them finish the...
The most popular video games can be great English-language-learning resources
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Our Targated Audience
OUR TARGATED AUDIENCE We are especially interested in those gamers who would like to be able to join in multiplayer games with English speakers. Many of them have never thought of doing this and, hopefully, we can motivate them to give it a try. If the gamers are skilled in a particular game, they can...
You can learn a lot of English for watching video games. You can learn even more by joining multiplayer games with English speakers. You can do this even if your English is far from perfect, but it is much better if your grammar is as correct as possible.
Grammar for Gamers will help you. We will focus only on the grammar that is most useful for video games. This will help you better understand what your teammates are saying and it should help your teammates better understand you as well.
Since you are gamers, we know you like to have fun. Therefore, we will try to make the subject of grammar as fun as possible and as easy to understand as possible. We will also use many examples from video games.
Topics : These are the topics covered in Grammar for Gamers: Introduction, Nouns 1, Nouns 2,Nouns 3, Verbs & verb tenses 1, Verbs & verb tenses 2, Verb forms, The Progressive, Present Perfect, Future, Modals, Active-Passive, Prepositions, Adjectives, Phrasal Verbs, Adverbs, Conditionals, Other Resources
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Introduction: What you need to know and no more
In our introduction, we explain what we will do in Grammar for Gamers and why it should be useful to you when you play video games with native English speakers or when you communicate with anyone in English.
Nouns: Part 1
This is a short (2-minute) introduction to nouns, describing the different kinds of nouns and which group of nouns we will focus on most.
Nouns: Part 2
Another short (2-minute) lesson introducing the indefinite article (a, an) and countable and uncountable nouns. Notice how the meaning of a noun can change if you forget to use an article. What’s the difference between “a chicken” and “chicken”, for example?
Nouns: Part 3
The definite article “the” and why it is so important. You will understand the basic idea behind how we use “the” and then see a video clip from PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) where players talk about “the tree” and “the rock” again and again. (5 minutes)
Verbs and Verb Tenses: Part 1
English grammar for gamers and English learners. A short introduction to verbs and verb forms. A quick look at the simple present tense, one of the two main tenses in English, with a video clip from Fortnite. (5 minutes)