The Order of Descriptive Adjectives

There are six common types of descriptive adjectives: age, size, material, shape, color, nationality. The correct order of these adjectives in a sentence is:

1. opinion 
2. size 
3. age
4. shape
5. color
6. nationality or origin
7. material
8. purpose
    

For example: Opera is a fast small red Norwegian Internet browser.

You think that you already knew? Then take this adjective order quiz and find out! Feel free to post your results in the comments section.

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Using Articles

This page, brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (  http://owl.english.purdue.edu), discusses the differences between indefinite articles (a/an) and definite articles (the).

• How to Use Articles (a/an/the) 

About Interlingua

INTERLINGUA is a Mexican company with 40 years of experience in the teaching of the English language. Since 1969, the company has worked on developing a teaching method which combines conversation with grammar, listening, and visual support in all levels to enable learning of the English language.

INTERLINGUA has formed 500 thousand bilingual students and has certified close to 30 thousand students with the TOEIC International Certification, the international parameter for English language abilities.

Guided Dialog

A short dialog with the aim of practicing everyday interchanges:

• Integrate objects and animals, colors, identification and possession

Common irregular verb list

Do you need a list of verbs?

Here's one for you to download from UsingEnglish.com, enjoy!

• Common irregular verb list

El Método

Desde el 10 de septiembre empezé a tomar la capacitación para dar clases en Interlingua. Hoy, después de casi 10 meses sin dar clases, fui a presentar un Team Teaching frente estudiantes de verdad como parte de mi entrenamiento.

A la capacitación, hace semana y media, llegamos 22 personas. Mañana por la mañana veré a lo mucho a 12 de ellas y la prospectiva es que solo 5 serán contratadas. Espero ser uno de los nuevos maestros que se integrarán a la compañía para poder decir una vez más:

I'm Great Teacher Roobie, ph33r my l33t teaching skillz!