Writing tips

Follow the link to the 15 Grammar goofs that make you look silly and check the infographic by copyblogger, it can be of some help with your writing, although it is made for bloggers.
And Ernest Hemingway tips for writing well.
Some more tips for good writing.
Do you have any question? ask Mike.

Name the sound

 

 Onomatopoeias are words that imitate the sound you hear with the object they refer to. Onomatopeias can help us to write fun poems like this one:

"It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,

And whirr when it stood still.

I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will."

(Tom Paxton, "The Marvelous Toy")

And a video here:

Source: Uploaded by user via Voxy on Pinterest

Do you want to learn about punctuation in English? just follow the link  or check this one.

If you find those links a bit boring or difficult for you, try this one easier because it is for beginners.

And some games here and here.

Enjoy!

What is your favourite free time activity?

gifup.com
Do you have a hobby or an after school activity? What do you usually do in your free time? Do you practise any sport?
tell me tomorrrow about that.

And a bit of present continuous

I know that it isn't easy to remember everything, so it is a good idea to practise a little bit.

Some more exercises for you

Here you have, some more very easy exercises

Play with words

Some questions to practise (easy!)

Refresh your English

Click here if you want to revise the first units of your book.
Enjoy.

If the United kingdom were my country...

image

Follow the link and compare Spain with the United kingdom and decide where you would prefer to live. Then if you like the game, change countries and see the differences.If you scroll down, you can read about the United Kingdom, you can even send your comment about a country if you like, but in this case, you will have to log in.

          Change countries, compare and decide which one is the best to live in.

          Grammar points: use comparative and superlative sentences.

Present: Revise

Some webs for revising the Present Simple and Continuous
First revise the Present Tense. One more here.
Present Continuous exercise. Present Continuous negative sentences and questions
Choose the right tense exercise.

Now, some exercises
Exercise: Choose the right tense.  Fill in exercises here.
More exercises here.
ESL exercises.
Exercise in Auto-English

Game
A game to play and learn.

Irregular Verbs

Image from englishforeso

For those of you who have problems with irregular verbs, here you have some useful links:

Manythings. org has this great link where you can listen and repeat the verbs. You can also download the audio podcast if you feel like.
They have also uploaded the videos, and the second one is here. 

Some exercises from the English Page:
Irregular Verbs (1)
More exercises here, and some more here.
A very large web about irregular verbs: click here,   follow this link if you want some more.

Play with irregular verbs:
Manythings   here the second part, and the third and the fourth.   
A game.
From Gamezone
More exercises and games here.
So, as you can see, irregular verbs can be easy and fun.

Mistery trip

Watch and complete the questions about the trip.
Don't forget to download your past tense handout (in the printing box).
Who wants to be a millionaire?: Download and play the game.
Did you enjoy the the activity?

What are they doing?

Generador de animadas GIF gifup.com

How many actions can you remember? What are they doing? can you make sentences explaining the pictures? use your imagination and fancy what is happening. Easy, isn't it?
Use the present continuous, or progressive when the actions are happening just in this moment.
Watch the video and practise:



And if you want a listening game click here. You need to turn on the loudspeakers and play, just listen (click on the grey part) and then click on the red and match the audio with the image.
Enjoy.

Are your ears larger than a gorilla's ears?

Who's got longer ears or feet? measure yourself and then you can compare your ears, feet and height  with some animals, as bats, gorillas, sea lions ..
Follow the link and the instructions in the webpage, then send me the result. May be you get amazed by the results.

The largest dog biscuit

Did you believe that I had forgotten the biscuit? You were wrong. Here you have, the largest dog biscuit.

Revision: Be going to

There are lots of dark clouds, it's going to rain

If you have problems with the "Be going to" form, explore the following links:
Isabel Perez has a great web to learn and practise different grammar topics, check her page and read the explanation if you need it, then you can do the exercises.
Follow the link for some more exercises. And some more here.
Finally try this link, I'm sure you think that the be going to form is as easy as a pie!

Follow the link If you want to revise your conditional sentences

 

Time for revision, tests, nervous, stress...click on the picture and explore the exercises on conditional sentences. There are many different exercises, be sure you choose your level. Feel free to explore .  I hope  they are a great help for your test next week. Good luck!

Check the plural forms

English plural forms » Create Quizzes

Getting to know you

Let me learn about your your favourite free time activities, do you like riding your bike or prefer swimming? do you enjoy chess or simply hate staying in the whole afternoon?. Just think about the activities you like doing and the things you really hate. First watch the video:



And now listen to Richard (from elllo):
Click here to listen to Richard you can also read the transcript at the same time if you find it difficult, listen to it as many times as you need, and pay attention to the way to pronounce words.

TASK: write a dialogue with your partner about your hobbies and free time activities. You will perform it in the classroom.

And don't forget to have a look to this huge web with loads of listening activities:
English Listening Language Lab On line (elllo.org)

Good luck and see you in the classroom!

You can't have your cake and eat it too

Food is present in many sayings and idioms. Something very easy is "easy as a pie" or " a piece of cake". When we love very much somebody we say "she (or he) is the apple of my eye". If the situation is serious and delicate we say "that's a hot potato" and "the best thing since slice bread" is said of a very nice person.
Click here to play with food idioms.
Or follow this link to do a crossword (this is piece of cake!).
Here you can play with some kitchen vocabulary.

Karina and Rebeca have a recipe to share with all of us. You can see how it looks and then how to cook it.

Ingredients
(Taking as a glass of yogurt)
- three glasses of flour
- two glasses of sugar
- natural yogurt or cream
- three eggs
- lemon peel

How to do it
Step 1: In a deep container add the yolks and sugar and mix until you get it spongy.
Step 2: Add the yogurt or cream, a little oil and the lemon peel. Whisk again and add the flour as rain, using a metal strainer.
Step 3: Stir well to obtain a fine cream and without lumps. pour it in a tray or dish and sprinkle over some sugar.
Step 4: the cake has to be in the oven at 170 º until golden.

note: it is important not to open the oven until it is completely cooked.
suggestion: eat it with cheese, it is delicious.

Thanks Rebeca and Karina! This cake looks delicious!