Hobbies and Sports
Posted on: October 11, 2015
How do you spend your free time?
Teens’ life is not all about school. In their free time, teens do sports and some also have hobbies, but those activities vary according to their preferences.
See if you can remember the name of the following:
If you want to use some help, click on the link below.
Sports and hobbies, by robirimini
Find this and other hobbies exercises in English Exercises .org
What about extreme sports? Have you ever tried any of these activities?
What are their names? Try to figure them out by inserting a few missing letters.
S N _ W B _ _ R D _ N G
S K _ _ N G
S _ R F _ N G
S K _ T _ N G
C L _ M B _ N G
B _ N G _ _ J _ M P _ N G
S K Y D _ V _ N G
B _ K _ N G
J _ T S K _ _ N G
Complete the sentence below:
I have already tried …………………………, but I have never done …………………………….. . Yet, I would like to try …………………………………… .For more VOCABULARY EXERCISES, click here!
The Media
Posted on: October 11, 2015
Are you a TV fan?
See if you can identify these TV programmes.
Which one is …
- a talent show ?
- a wildlife documentary ?
- a cartoon / animation film ?
- a commercial ?
- a reality show ?
- the weather forecast ?
- a music programme ?
- a quiz show ?
- an adventure film ?
- a sports programme ?
- a talk show ?
- …
What about TV jobs?
Would you like to be a … ?
Find out what they are by adding the vowels.
N _ W S R _ _ D _ R
C _ M _ R _ M _ N
_ C T _ R
C _ S T _ M _ D _ S _ G N _ R
D_ R _ C T _ R
P R _ S _ N T _ R
J _ _ R N _ L _ S T
What are your TV viewing habits?
How many hours a day do you usually watch TV?
Are you a TV addict?
Click here to take a test!
Welcome 8º1
Posted on: October 11, 2015
Hi, everyone!
Here we are again for a new schoolyear
New topics, new vocabulary, new activities.
Some hard work, but also lots of fun!
Let’s start. The sooner, the better.
Reported Speech
Posted on: March 22, 2014
Reporting
Sometimes we need to report what other people said, for example phone conversations, news, messages, etc.
This involves quite a few changes depending on the type of sentence. Look at this example:
One of the main changes are verb tenses which should change as shown here:
However, there are other changes that take place in the sentence as well:
Watch this video and pay attention to the characters reporting the situations:
Try some exercises using these:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6814
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=162
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3764
Technology
Technological gadgets are everywhere and they have made our life easier in many ways. See if you can identify some of these icons:
Try to complete the following with vowels:
PS c_ntr_ll_r
d_skt_p c_mp_t_r
pr_nt_r
c_m_r_
c_mp_ct d_sk
_SB fl_shdr_v_
l_pt_p c_mp_t_r
c_ll ph_n_
m_cr_ph_n_
h_ _ dph _n_s
w_bc_m
m _ _ s _
_P_d
d_sk_tt_
Try to answer these four questions:
- Which one is your favourite? why?
- When do you use it?
- What advantages has it brought to your life?
- Were there any disadvantages?
Among all the gadgets, cell phones seem to be youngsters’ favourite one. Why is that so?
Some people say they distract students and as a result their performance at school is negatively affected.
Watch this short animation on the subject:
Now try to complete a quiz on the language used when using a phone:
Try these links:
http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/telephone.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/telephone_quiz.htm
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4976
Planning your future
Posted on: February 12, 2014
- In: Choosing a career | Future | Uncategorized | Work
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Planning your future
Future actions can be expressed in several ways:
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Will future
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Going to
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Present Continuous
This diagram could be a good guide:
Look at the cartoon below:
Try to recall what we did in the class:
Choosing a career
Posted on: January 5, 2014
When you attend year 9, you know that soon enough you will have to make a few decisions concerning your future.
Then you start asking yourself questions:
- Should I get a job or go on studying?
- If I get a job, what kind of job should I look for?
- If I go on studying, what sort of subjects or course should I pick?
- A vocational course? A regular one? Which career should I choose ?
- …
Well, maybe these are the wrong questions. First you have to analyse yourself.
You need to think about your personality, your interests and your skills.
- What are you like? What kind of person?
- What areas, hobbies are you interested in?
- What are you good at?
- What do you imagine yourself doing in about 10 years?
- …
Getting an answer to those questions might help you choose a future.
You can also get some help from specialised websites which try to give young people a hand to choose a career path.
Take a look at those two links below. They provide two quizzes that could help you.
http://www.kidzworld.com/quiz/quiz-find-your-ideal-career-path
http://www.futuremorph.org/14-16/play/game-what-might-you-be/
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Well, sometimes it’s no use giving great advice!
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Identifying jobs and workplaces
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Look at these pictures and guess which job they refer to.
We’ll give some help! Try to unscramble those words below.
- ltrieceinac
- ttneadnat
- penracret
- chiarctte
- graerphphtoo
- cinchame
- ploinamce
- lyerabrcki
- berumlp
- kerssredma
- tibecianau
- seurn
Where do they work?
What tools do they use?
What do they do?
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Complete the grid with information about those jobs:
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Jobs |
Workplace |
Tools |
Tasks |
| 1. | |||
| 2. |
gas or petrol station |
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| 3. |
saw, hammer |
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| 4. |
plans/draws buildings |
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| 5. | |||
| 6. | |||
| 7. | |||
| 8. | |||
| 9. | |||
| 10. | |||
| 11. | |||
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Listen to a song about jobs:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3292
Prepositions of Place
To speak about places, one neeeds to review prepositions of place. See if you can remeber them.
Use these links to see if you remember them. Follow the instructions.
http://englishflashgames.blogspot.pt/2008/06/prepositions-of-place-game.html
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games/prepositions-place
Welcome to Britain
Posted on: October 9, 2013
Hello! I’m happy to see you again.
This year we’ll learn a lot of new things about the English-speaking countries.
Some of them are these here. Look at the map:
United Kingdom, Great Britain or England?
Sometimes it’s a bit confusing, but the maps can help you:
Geographically, we are in the British Isles.
Politically, we have the United Kingdom with
4 different nations.
Their citizens all speak English, but some have their own language and all of them have their own flag.
The union of these flags has a very curious name – the Union Jack.
As for the name Great Britain, it refers to
the 3 nations in the largest island.
Fashion and Style
Posted on: May 15, 2013
Fashion & Style
Maybe you like fashion or maybe you don’t , but each one of us has a different style. Which one is yours? How would you describe your style?
Look at the picture below and which of the styles do you identify with?
If you’re a girl, look at this one:
If you’re a boy, look at this one.
To describe your style you need to know the name of clothes. See if you can complete this list and identify the clothes in the picture below:
1. R _ _ C _ _ T
2. S H _ R T
3. C _ _ T
4. S W _ _ T _ R
5. O V _ R C _ _ T
6. T _ _
7. B _ L T
8. S C _ R F
9. B _ _ N _ _
10. G L _ V _ S
11. WELLINGTONS
12. S H _ _ S
13. H_GH- H_ _ L _ D SH _ E S
14. B _ _ T S
15. T R _ _ N _ RS
16. TR _ CK_N G S _ _ T
17. P _ J _ M _ S
18. S K _ R T
19. D R _ S S
20. J _ _ N S
21. T- S H _ R T
22. W _ _ S T C _ _ T
23. R _ B _
24. S _ N D _ _S
Here you have some exercises:
Making suppositions
Posted on: April 14, 2013
Imagine someone gave you the 
chance to visit another country, where would you go?
If I had the chance to choose, I would visit Australia.
If I was allowed to choose another one, I would also visit Canada.
To start a conditional sentence, we always use IF and the sentences follow a special pattern (padrão)
If it’s a probable condition, we use Type 1.
- If you go to Australia, you will have to travel for 18 hours.
- If you choose Canada, you will fly for 6 hours.
If it’s an improbable condition, we use Type 2.
- If I had enough money, I would stay there for 6 months.
- If I could, I would visit both countries.
Look at these images. What type of conditional are they using?
Let’s try a few exercises. Click below.
Teens’ life
Posted on: April 13, 2013
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What kind of teenager are you?
- a sporty teen?
- a nerd?
- a rebellious youngster?
- a hard working student?
- …
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Which adjectives would you use to describe yourself? And your classmates?
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Guess the adjective below by inserting the missing vowels (a,e,i,o,u).
- _ D _ R _ B L _
- G L _ M _ R _ _ S
- L _ Z Y
- _ T T R _ C T _ V _
- F _ N N Y
- C R _ Z Y
- _ C T _ V _
- N _ _ S Y
- S _ C _ _ B L _
- S_ N S _ T _ V _
We can create new words by adding a suffix to a noun or a verb. Look at the examples below:
invent + ive = inventive (adjective)
or
invent + ion = invention (noun)
Here you can see more examples:
Using the suffixes below create new adjectives, using the words in blue.
| – y | – ous | -ive | -ful | -able |
| ex: sporty | ||||
| danger | like | brain | beauty | respect |
| success | agree | fame | sense | courage |
- To learn more about adjectives play an interactive GAME. Click here!
Passive Voice
Posted on: March 1, 2013
What do these sentences have in common?
- Newspapers are published every day.
- TV was invented in the 1920s.
- The concert was cancelled.
They are all in PASSIVE VOICE and you can see that, because they have a common characteristic:
BE + PAST PARTICIPLE
Why do we use Passive Voice?
Because sometimes actions are more important than the people who do them.
Look at these examples:
How do you make this change?
Look at the picture below:
- Still any doubts? Check the presentation the teacher showed you in the class.
- Click here: passive_voice_8ºano
- You can also try this interactive exercise below.
PRESENT AND PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE, by Esther Martinez
The Media
Posted on: March 1, 2013
Are you a TV fan?
See if you can identify these TV programmes.
Which one is …
- a talent show ?
- a wildlife documentary ?
- a cartoon / animation film ?
- a commercial ?
- a reality show ?
- the weather forecast ?
- a music programme ?
- a quiz show ?
- an adventure film ?
- a sports programme ?
- a talk show ?
- …
What about TV jobs?
Would you like to be a … ?
Find out what they are by adding the vowels.
N _ W S R _ _ D _ R
C _ M _ R _ M _ N
_ C T _ R
C _ S T _ M _ D _ S _ G N _ R
D_ R _ C T _ R
P R _ S _ N T _ R
J _ _ R N _ L _ S T
What are your TV viewing habits?
How many hours a day do you usually watch TV?
Are you a TV addict?
Click here to take a test!
St. Valentine’s Day
Posted on: February 3, 2013
St Valentine’s Day – 14th February
Well, well, dear ones, are you ready for Cupid’s shot? St Valentine’s Day is approaching and we should start preparing our celebrations.
Are there any suggestions?
- Why not write a St Valentine’s letter or a romantic message? Look at these rhymes. It’s quite easy!!
They can be sweet or funny like these two:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
Please don’t kiss me
Because I have the flu.
Roses are red
School is out
I need a vacation
There is no doubt.
So let’s start writing! I’m waiting for your rhymes or messages.
Can you identify these food items here?
Check your notes and your book.
Some of these items are uncountable nouns, for example wine, milk and need quantifiers to refer to a portion. Look at these examples below:
Now, click on the link below and try to get the right answer.
Quantifiers, by Amalia R.
Still some problems? Review the PPT presentation the teacher showed in the classroom.
Revision_fruit_vegetables_food_and_drink_part1
How can use MUCH, MANY, A LOT OF, LITTLE or FEW?
Would you like some more exercises on this topic? Try this link:
Countable or Uncountable?, by Nuria Ortiz
Modal verbs
Posted on: January 18, 2013
These verbs are very special, but quite simple.
- CAN
- MAY
- SHOULD
- MUST
- MUSTN’ T
What do you think they mean in these situations below?
Still have doubts? 
You can check all this, by reviewing the Powerpoint presentation you saw in the class.
Click here to download it! modals_AMC_8ºano
You can also try this interactive exercise.
Eating habits
Posted on: January 18, 2013
Healthy Food = Healthy Life
What is healthy food? What portions should I take of each type of food?
If you have these doubts, read the following advice:
So your food pyramid should look like this:
To help you learn more about a delicious breakfast, you can play a game. Click here Breakfast Detective
Tell us about your eating habits. Are they healthy? Leave a comment below. Start like that:
My favourite meal is….
Still have doubts?
Review vocabulary with the powerpoint presentation we had in the class.
Click here for help. Revision_fruit_vegetables_food_and_drink_part1
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