Places to Learn: November 2013

Saturday, 16 November 2013

THANKSGIVING

This is a quiz that I put on the blog for our new teacher Alethea, who is American. It is a basic vocabulary quiz about Thanksgiving, the American holiday that will take place in November. I hope you like it. If you are interested ask Alethea to tell you about it. http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/thanksgiving.html

ENGLISH AT WORK

The following activity is from the website esolcourses. com and is a very good class for those of you who want to use English at work. It is a vocabulary quiz with lots of basic but very importnat pieces of vocabulary: http://www.esolcourses.com/content/englishforwork/functional-skills/starting-work/grammar-gap-fill.html
I hope you find it useful.

INTERACTIVE QUIZZES ... about Britain

Hi Guys

here are some really cool interactive quizzes about life in England from a fanastic website called www.esolcourses.com. Please have a look and pay some of the games. they are vocabulary games, but they have lots of pictures and are really fun:

This first on is a video quiz about English food http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/food/video/fishandchips.html
The second is a video about Buckingham palace http://www.esolcourses.com/content/lifeintheuk/jobs/butlering.html

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

IRREGULAR VERBS

I have found here four activities that are a great way to practice yur irregular verbs. They do not help with the meaning of the verbs, but are great for the forms of each verb:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/irv001-ck.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/irv002-ck.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/irv003-ck.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/irv004-ck.html

PRONOUNS

Pronouns are words like he/she/you/I. We have two activities here to practice these. they are very good for lower level students. http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pronouns.html

This second activity is for possiessive pronouns his/her/my etc http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pronouns.html

Monday, 11 November 2013

COUNTABLES & UNCOUNTABLES a4esl.org

So, this is an activity that is good for Survival level but is also very good for every level. I have selected three online activities from a4esl.org. They are very good for practising countable and uncountable nouns.

The first one is very simple. The activity will give you a noun and you must decide whether it is countable or uncountable. It is very simple, but good practice.http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/ch-countnouns.html

The second activity helps you to practice words like so/many/any. You will get a sentence and must choose the correct word to go with the countable or uncountable noun. http://a4esl.org/q/f/x/xz37mpk.htm

The final activity is the most difficult. You need to select the right phrase for countables and uncountables http://a4esl.org/q/j/km/mc-noncount.html

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

MORE SURVIVAL PRACTICE

Here are more exercises using all kinds of verbs. this is great practice for survival students.

http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Present_Tense_Exercise_1and2.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Present_Tense_Exercise_3.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Present_Tense_Exercise_4.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Present_Tense_Exercise_5.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Present_Tense_Exercise_6and7.pdf

I hope you like them.

SURVIVAL STUDENT PRACTICE englishforeveryone

This is for Survival students. We are practicing the verb 'to be'. It is very simple, but very importnat grammar:

http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/To_Be_Exercise_1.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/To_Be_Exercise_2.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/To_Be_Exercise_3.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/To_Be_Exercise_4.pdf
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/To_Be_Exercise_5.pdf

I hope you like them.

LISTENING PRACTICE BBC Sport

This is a great activity for those of you who want to practice their listening. It is about sport and comes from the BBC. I think it is very intresting. There are videos as well as vocabulary explanations and worksheets:

I hope you like them all.