THE GOLDEN BIRD BY GRIMMS BROTHERS

"The Golden Bird" is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale about the pursuit of a golden bird by a king's three sons. In this post you can find the recorded story and the tapescripts for checking pronunciation and understanding of spoken English.

A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone...

For the audio, click on the following link: The Golden Bird

For the tapscripts, click on this one: The Golden Bird

For your students you can also f nd a website which checks understanding of the story with a quiz. Go to this link: Quiz on The Golden Bird

QUANTIFIERS WRITING

Many of you have been having problems with countable and uncountable nouns in class this week. At the same time I have noticed an English-language newspaper writing about ‘a large amount of people’. For the consolidation of this unit you must do a second writing with the decives we have seen in class. Remember! You must use There is /are and no possessive verbs instead. If you want to make it as a dialogue, it will be brilliant. You can also make it as a descriptive text

So here are the rules, taken from Engvid.com – there is a countable vs. uncountable test at the bottom of this page so test yourself if you like.To go to this page click on the link: countable and uncountable rules

CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH GAMES: FROM A1 TO B1

Visit Funland and play a range of classic fairground games to practise your English language. Control the ferris wheel, splash the clowns and collect prizes along the way.

PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES

Prefixes and suffixes are sets of letters that are added to the beginning or end of another word. They are not words in their own right and cannot stand on their own in a sentence: if they are printed on their own they have a hyphen before or after them.

Prefixes are added to the beginning of an existing word in order to create a new word with a different meaning. Suffixes are added to the end of an existing word.

In this marvellous Oxford blog you can analyse the different aspects of these set of words and get rid of the common problems you come up to when we deal with them.

To go to the main page of prefixes and suffixes in the blog: Prefixes and suffixes

For more particular aspects of prefixes and suffixes:

Do you know your -ibles from your -ables?

Who’s confident [confidant?] about using -ance, -ence, and similar suffixes?

If you want to practice with some exercises online: Prefixes and suffixes exercises