London Underground (2) - Buskers

Future Tenses: Will / Be going to / Present Continuous / Present Simple

You can practise the use and forms of these verbs with the following exercises: remember that sometimes more than one answer is possible! Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Exercise 10 And now you can play with the following games: have fun! Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 If you need to revise how to use these tenses or how to form them, take a look here And now, to relax, check the following worsearch and crossword with vocabulary related to travelling Wordsearch Crossword

Wonderful Life. Black (RIP)

British Vs American English (AE)

KET EXAM. SPEAKING (A2)

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KET EXAM. READING AND WRITING (A2)

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KET EXAM. LISTENING TESTS (A2)

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PET EXAM: WRITING (B1)

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PET EXAM: READING TESTS (B1)

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PET EXAM: LISTENING TESTS (B1)

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At The Hotel. Vocabulary + Problems. Reading-Comprehension Activity

Reading-Comprehension Exercise

Kitchen Utensils

Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler (Ted Ed Lesson)

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The House. Basic Vocabulary

Modals: some exercises

You can practise what you have learnt about modals with these exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Exercise 10

Can you solve the bridge riddle? - Alex Gendler TED ed

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Booking a Travel Ticket

Telephoning: Booking a Travel Ticket   by BEP

Booking tickets on the phone is a basic part of business travel. In this intermediate Business English Podcast, we will practice useful phrases and language for making travel arrangements on the telephone.
Viva is an Italian manufacturer of ladies’ apparel, or clothing. Marco and Francesca, Viva employees, are on a business trip. After visiting customers in the UK, they are now heading to Las Vegas in the United States to meet with their American distributor – the company that sells their product there. Marco calls a travel agent to book tickets for them.

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Listening Questions:
1) When does Marco want to leave and when does he want to return? Will he and Francesca be flying first class, business class or economy?
2) Does Marco ask the travel agent to “hold the fare” or does he pay for it immediately?
3) Does Marco need to pick up his and Francesca’s tickets at the travel agent’s office?

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest

the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

Shakespeare - Macbeth

Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare - Hamlet

Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare - The Tempest

- See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.hX3bWutv.dpuf

the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

In the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

In the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

 William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world.
 Click on the link below and enjoy Shakespeare.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet

If you want to read the original works, click on the link below.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

January Blues ( Knee Socks by Arctic Monkeys)

There are lots of good reasons why people often feel down in January, whether teenagers or adults. But teenagers have extra triggers, such as exams and specific teenage stresses and turmoil.

The Christmas period often produces a feeling of anti-climax – either you had a great time and now it’s over or you didn’t, but it feels as though everyone else did. 

Whatever is dragging you down, simple strategies can help:
1.Understand that this is normal. 
2. Get as much daylight as possible.
3. Beware of New Year resolutions! 
4. Exercise
5. Identify your worries
6. Do something new
7. Read for pleasure
8. Eat properly
9. See a doctor if necessary
10. You are not alone

                                                               Adapted from The Guardian

Nicola Morgan

Sunday 18 January 2015

 

London Webquest

Introduction
Have you ever been to London? This time you are going to visit London through the internet. In pairs you are going to find out what you can do in London. With the information you find you will have to make a collage, describing the sights you have chosen and using pictures of the sight. For this WebQuest you have 100 minutes.
Have fun!!!

The Task
You will have to make a collage on an A-3. In that collage you write at least 20 words  about each sight and you will use a picture that goes with the description, i.e. the sight itself. Each pupil is responsible for 3 sights and descriptions. So, because you work in pairs, you will need 6 sights for each A-3 collage. When everyone has finished and has seen all other collages you will all do a quiz to see what you know about the sights of London.

The Process
Follow the steps below:

1. Find a partner.
2. Talk about the sights you would like to use for your collage(if you do not know any sights of London, use "The Sources").
3. Go to "Resources" in order to find useful links. You are also allowed to use a search machine (if you do not know how to use a search machine, go to: basic search help).
4. Gather the information and pictures given on the websites and print them out. You have to use your own words for the descriptions. So, do not copy every word from the internet!
5. Make the collage.
6. Look at the other collages.
7. Do the quiz. 

Resources Needed
You can use the following resources

• http://www.capital-calling.com/sights-tour.htm
• http://www.londonpass.com/london-attractions/

Need any help using search machines?

• Basic search help

When you have finished and seen all other collages you have to do the following quiz:

• http://members.tripod.com/~JornP/londonsights.htm 
  Evaluation
  You will be graded on the following:
  Working in pairs    25%
  Lay-out                25%
  English                 50%
  
  
  
  A WebQuest for 3rd Grade VMBO (English)
  Designed by
  Bas Trimbos
  bastrimbos@home.nl

Sightseeing London

Join us on our virtual sightseeing tour around London.
Click on the links and then do the London quiz

• Tower of London
• Tower Bridge, HMS Belfast
• Dungeon
• Globe Theatre
• London Eye
• Houses of Parliament
• Buckingham Palace
• Horse Guards
• Trafalgar Square
• Piccadilly Circus
• Madame Tussaud's
• Millennium Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral
• Monument to the Great Fire of London
• Docklands

In our London quiz, you can test what you have learnt on our sightseeing tour.

Three Kings/Wise Men/Magi in the Christmas Story

Legends are told about them and they have been given names. This is how they are often described:

• Gaspar (or Caspar), who has brown hair and a brown beard (or no beard!) and wears a green cloak and a gold crown with green jewels on it. He is the King of Sheba. Gaspar represents the Frankincense brought to Jesus.
• Melchior, who has long white hair and a white beard and wears a gold cloak. He is the King of Arabia. Melchior represents the Gold brought to Jesus.
• Balthazar,who has black skin and a black beard (or no beard!) and wears a purple cloak. He is the King of Tarse and Egypt. Balthazar represents the gift of Myrrh that was brought to Jesus.
  

Herod asked the Wise Men to find Jesus and tell him where he was, not so he could go and worship him as he said, but so he could kill him! He thought that Jesus sounded like a new King that could come and take his power away.
When the Wise Men found Jesus and Mary, they would have been living in a normal house in Bethlehem, because by this time Jesus would have been aged between one and two. Then they gave their gifts to him. The gifts seem quite strange to give to a baby, but Christians believe that they had the following meanings:

• Gold: is associated with Kings and Christians believe that Jesus is the King of Kings.
• Frankincense: is sometimes used in worship in Churches and showed that people child worship Jesus.
• Myrrh: is a perfume that is put on dead bodies to make them smell nice and showed that Jesus would suffer and die.

The gifts are also all things that come the east of Israel in Arabia. When they were about to go to tell Herod where Jesus was, they were warned in a dream not to, so Herod could not carry out him horrible plan.
Click here to read more about the story

Nowadays, children get other kind of presents: electronical or traditional ones.

Beginner's Guide to Writing Essays

 

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Extreme Adjectives