Writing-A Formal Letter

Formal letters in English follow a specific layout. You can learn about it in:

Cristina Cabal's Presentation about Formal Letters

Here is a model you can use to write a draft of your formal letter

Vocabulary: Food

Try this activity to practise your vocabulary about food, ingredients, tastes, etc.

Present Simple or Present Continuous?

Remember, we use the present simple for usual, repeated activities and routines and we use the present continuous for actions happening when we are speaking.
Now try this:

Subject Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

Study the subject pronouns and the possessive adjectives, try the activity and click finish to check your answers:

Subject pronouns and possessive adjectives, an interactive worksheet by Rosalinde

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Subject Pronouns Wheel

Click on the wheel and say the correct form of a verb tense. For example, you can try to say the corresponding form of the present of the verb 'to be'.

Halloween

Do the attached activity and practise your vocabulary about Halloween.
Write the number of the word next to the picture. Click the 'Finish' button and get your result.

Halloween - matching, an interactive worksheet by mada_1

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Describe Your Room with There is/are

Remember that we use 'there is' when we are talking about singular nouns and 'there are' for plurals. With this activity you will practise this grammar point and also some basic vocabulary.

Click HERE to go to the activity.

Dictation: Art and Artists

Listen and write the words you hear about "Art and artists". Remember you have 3 minutes. Check your results.

Art and artists

Action!3, Unit 2, Basic Practice.

An E-mail About a Trip

Write an e-mail about a trip. First, decide the information you have to include completing  the chart; then, use that information to write your email following the paragraph plan. Do not forget to use connectors of sequence and the "Useful Language".

A Restaurant Review

Read the model of a Restaurant Review and write one following the writing plan in the green square:

Image from Action!3, Student's book, Burlington Books.

Personal Information

Look at this fact file and read the email. The email contains all the personal information included in the fact file (pay attention to the words in colour). In a comment, write an email with all the personal information about yourself.

Image from Action!2 Workbook, Burlington Books.

Clothes

Listen, repeat and learn the names of clothes.

Some more animals

Look at the infographic and you will learn some vocabulary about animals and types of animals:

What is your favourite animal?

Listen, repeat and learn the names of the animals:

What is your favourite animal?

Write a description:     

Is it big/small?     
...      
Write about its habits:     

 How does it live?     

Where does it live?     

What does it eat?     

...      

Write about it in the comments below.

Test Yourself

You can test yourself and see what your level of English is with this interactive test. It contains only 40 multiple choice questions and it is for young students who are at level A1 of the CERF. 

If you get more than 28 answers correct, your English is at level A1. If you get over 36 answers correct you are well into A2 level. 

The grammar tested here contains only the verbs BE, HAVE GOT and CAN, present simple and continuous tenses. About half of the items test students´ knowledge of vocabulary and phrases. 

To start your interactive test click here

(From the web: www.engames.eu)

What are your after-school activities?

In the picture below you can see a list of after-school activities. Write a comment (click on 'comments' and comment as 'anonymous') describing your activities after school.

Have got (present)

Look at this infographic and learn the verb 'to have' in present. As you can see, there are two columns: one is for the third person singular (he, she, it) and the other one for all the rest of the subjects.

Countries and Nationalities - Game

In this game you have to drag each word into the correct bin. You have got a bin for countries and a bin for nationalities.

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Christmas Activities

In this link you will find 36 activities to practise and learn vocabulary about Christmas:

36 Christmas activities

Countries and nationalities

This is a presentation of 15 different countries and nationalities in English. Remember that both (countries and nationalities) and also languages are spelt with capitals.