Gifts

Hello. Welcome back to the computer lab. Here are some videos and exercises you might find interesting.

First, here are some videos about the etiquette of gift giving in various parts of the world.

Click this to watch a video about gifts in China.


Click this to watch an American woman talk about how to give and receive a gift.

Here's a news report about holiday gift giving  in United States.

Here's a very long video (18 min.) about Giving gifts in United States.

Here are some  idioms related to gifts: Idioms (click here)


Here's a good Explanation of the past unreal conditional.  There are some exercises down below  as well. Click here.

Here's a video about present and past unreal conditionals. There's not a lot of information,  but the music and the travel pictures are very nice:

Remember adjective clauses?  We studied them way back at the beginning of the semester. Here is  a video that talks about when to use commas  and when not to use commas. It might be a good review for you. Warning: it's very long (10 min.).

There are a lot more good  webpages for learning English  on the CCSF student wiki. And, of course, you can find videos on YouTube about just about anything. Have fun!


Finally, would you like to try some easy computer programming? You can make a "Boggle" game  in Microsoft Excel. Instructions are here: Click here