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We are Maria Fernanda and Shirley, two students of the teacher Fabian Elizondo, English Advanced II in Colegio Universitario Boston.

We create English Builder for those people who are beginning to study english. In this blog, we will discuss the most common mistakes that people of the avanced levels do and also we will share some advices.

Apr 30, 2009

Advice 3

  • Every word you do not know the meaning, you must try to search it in the dictionary, because is a new word to your vocabulary.

Advice 2

  • You must read books, listen music and see movies in english.

Advice 1

  • It's important that you try to speak in english everyday.

Most Common Mistakes 3

Most Common Mistakes: Grammar.
  • Students tend to confuse verb tenses.
  • People also mixed up the use of gerunds and infinitives.
  • Conditionals some times tend to get confuse.
  • When students are talking in past, most of the time use verbs in present.

Most Common Mistakes 2

Most Common Mistakes: Written part.
  • People sometimes do not capitalize the pronoun I.
  • Also in some cases students do not respect some punctuation marks.
  • Prepositions: a lot of people confuse the uses of the in/on prepositions.

Most Common Mistakes 1

One of the most common mistakes: Pronunciation.
  • "You" pronunciation: some students pronounce "you" like "YU" when is /ju:/.
  • "th" [/θ/] pronunciation: like catholic or thin, people pronounce those words with mute H.
  • Pronunciation in the word "first"[/fɜ:rst /]: Students pronounce the i like in "it" [/I/] and you must pronounce it if the -i were an -e [/ɜ/].
  • Words like study, students or school, people some times said it with an e- in front of the whole word an it sounds like "eschool, estudy or estudents".