New blog on English songs for class

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WRITING RESOURCES

Here you have a document with linking words and phrases to use in compositions. There are more here: English at home and in this learning lab.

Have a look at some texts with exercises and some sample compositions.

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,900 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

FRUITS AND VEGGIES

You can play hangman with fruit names and with vegetable names too

And now test yourself with a matching activity. On the first page it’s the activity and on the second one the answers… Don’t cheat!!

Vegetables Matching

Fruit Matching.

And more on food…

Reported Speech

An explanation with a listening on the reported speech in the BBC website. You can also have a look at some video lessons with: an introduction, reference words, changing verbs,  and more tense changes.

All kinds of exercises online from englisch-hilfen, from perfect english grammar, or english grammar online or ego (theory and practice). In the form of a powerpoint or of a video. There are more pages with exercises in esl.about, and more in English learner.

You can also use parts of films (or movies in American English) to practise: Love Actually, While you were sleeping, or School of Rock, with exercises (WORKSHEET) just below the screen of the scene.

letters to God

A series of letters by American kids to God with wit and spelling mistakes…