QUANTIFIERS ONLINE EXERCISES

Quantifiers are very important words because they let us express the quantity of something. There are several quantifiers in English and they can be a little tricky to use. So here’s a website to work with quantifiers and  with examples to help improve your understanding of them.

Quantifiers website 1

Agendaweb (some/any)

Agendaweb (much/many)

MARSHMELLO - FRIENDS SONG AND HANDOUT

“FRIENDS” is a pop song by American DJ Marshmello. The track is a collaboration with British singer Anne-Marie and is on her long-awaited debut album, Speak Your Mind.

The song centers on the idea of “friend-zoning” someone. Anne-Marie narrates her experience warding off unwanted romantic advances from a friend, repeatedly telling this person that they’re nothing more than “F-R-I-E-N-D-S.” The song marks the first collaboration between Marshmello and Anne-Marie.

This popular song will help your students learn English through lyrics. For this reason, here you can find a handout and links for the two videos, one with no lyrics and the other one, easier for students to follow.

Friends handout

Videos: Friends song (no lyrics) / Friends song (with lyrics)

MAKING YOUR OWN AVATAR ONLINE - AVATAR MAKER

Avatar Maker is an online tool. You can create your own avatar for free in 4 different styles. You can also select your gender and get a cool username in two clicks. It's absolutely free a d esy to download your final avatars.

Create your own character avatar from wide variety of options. Replace your photo on social media sites, forums or chat programs with your own created cartoon avatar.

From here, you will be able to make your own avatar within the limitations of selected gender styles. Once you decide, you can begin customizing your avatar from the very first tab you are given for options.

To start creating your avatar, click on this link: Avatar Maker

QUEEN ELIZABETH II - SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.

The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.Buckingham Palace said the queen, died peacefully, her estate in the Scottish Highlands. Her son became Britain’s new monarch, King Charles III.

In this post you can find some activities to make your students learn a bit more about Queen Elizabeth's life. 

Queen Elizabeth II Curious Facts

Queen Elizabeth II Activity - for students - In this activity students updated it by changing all the verbs need changing to make it suitable for these times. It helps students revise structures from past years

Queen Elizabeth II Activity updated

Queen Elizabeth II KEY

PRESENT PERFECT - LIVEWORK SHEETS

Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher. In this page there are some exercises on Modal Verbs available for you to practice what we have been doing in class.

You will have to send the answers to me, as I stated in the details:

Click on the following links. Follow the teacher's guidelines to do them in the correct order:

PRESENT PERFECT 1

PRESENT PERRFECT 2 - SINCE & FOR

PRESENT PERFECT 3 - JUST, ALREADY & YET

PRESENT PERFECT 4 - ALL WORDS

PRESENT PERFECT 4 (2) - ALL WORDS

PRESENT PERFECT 5 - PRESENT PERFECT VS. PAST SIMPLE

PRESENT PERFECT 6 - BEEN VS. GONE

MODAL VERBS - LIVEWORKSHEETS

Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher. In this page there are some exercises on Modal Verbs available for you to practice what we have been doing in class.

Click on the following links. Follow the teacher's guidelines to do them in the correct order:

1. MODALS FOR DEDUCTION

2. MODALS FOR DEDUCTION (2)

3. MODALS OF OBLIGATION, PROHIBITION OR NECESSITY

4. MODALS OF OBLIGATION, PROHIBITION OR NECESSITY (2)

5. MODALS OF ABILITY, PERMISSION OR ADVICE

6. MODAL VERBS: MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

REPORTED SPEECH GAMES - WORDWALL

Interactives and printables

Explore the different ways of using indirect speech with Wordwall.

Wordwall can be used to create both interactive and printable activities. Most of our templates are available in both an interactive and a printable version.


Interactives are played on any web-enabled device, like a computer, tablet, phone or interactive whiteboard. They can be played individually by students, or be teacher-led with students taking turns at the front of the class.

Printables can printed out directly or downloaded as a PDF file. They can be used as a companion to the interactive or as stand-alone activities.

Reported speech Liveworksheets: activity 1 / activity 2

Link to go to the Reported Speech games: Wordwall Community

PHONETICS THROUGH LYRICS - BAD HABITS by ED SHEERAN

                   ˈɛvri taɪm jʊ kʌm əˈraʊnd, jʊ nəʊ aɪ kɑːnt seɪ nəʊ
                   ˈɛvri taɪm ðə sʌn gəʊz daʊn, aɪ lɛt jʊ teɪk kənˈtrəʊl

                                   ...

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system where each symbol is associated with a particular English sound. By using IPA you can know exactly how to pronounce a certain word in English. This helps in improving English pronunciation and feeling more confident speaking in English.

In this activity, by the song Bad Habits you can offer your students a great activity to inmerse in hte Phonetic world and work out the parts f the song encrypted to lyrics.

Here you have the hand out: Bad habits (Phonetics)

And the complete lyrics: Bad Habits (Lyrics)

THE KING'S SPEECH CLASS ACTIVITY

The king's speech

 

SPELLING BEE GAMES

This game is very simple: you just look at the image and then spell the word. You can click on the letters on the screen or use the keyboard to type. The keyboard seems to be a lot faster than clicking with the mouse. So, if you are looking to get a good score, then it would be advisable to use the keys.

Before you start, you have to select a set of content to use. There are 30 different sets available for this game and each one has about 25 items to spell. You have to spell out each item once and there is also an audio clip for each image which should play just as the image is first shown.

It is possible to add your own images and audio clips. To do this you click on the 'add' button when in the content selection screen. They you can select images from your desktop computer and they get added and displayed on the screen. The file names of the images you add become the target word that you have to spell. So if you add an image called 'beach holiday', then the target to spell for that image will be 'beach holiday'. Although, you can change the target words by clicking on the textbox directly below the image. Note that for this game it is not possible to add numbers or special characters - these are automatically removed on teh content screen. This is because the keyboard that is displayed on screen only contains letter.

Spelling Bee ESL 

Spelling Bee Spell Quiz

Spelling Bee - Maths Playground

WORKING WITH LYRICS: ED SHEERAND - HAPPIER

 

For downloading the activity filling the gaps in the lyrics: Ed Sheeran - Perfect activity

For downloading the full lyrics: Ed Sheeran - Perfect Full Lyrics

TEA CONSENT VIDEO

If you're still struggling with consent, just imagine instead of initiating sex, you're making them a cup of tea. You say, "Hey, would you like a cup of tea?" And they go, "Oh, my God, I would love a cup of tea. Thank you." Then you know they want a cup of tea. If you say, "Hey, would you like a cup of tea?" And they're like, "No, um, you know, I'm not really sure." Then you could make the a cup of tea or not, but, be aware, they might not drink it. And if they don't drink it, then, and this is the important part, don't make them drink it. Just because you made it doesn't mean you are entitled to watch them drink it. And if they say, "No, thank you," then don't make them tea at all. Just don't make them tea. Don't make them drink tea. Don't get annoyed at them for not wanting tea. They just don't want tea, OK?

BRITISH COUNCIL GAMES FOR LEARNERS

Do you like playing games in English? We have fun games for you to play. Read the instructions and have fun playing and practising English.

 

Follow this link to play Bristish Council games: Fun English games for kids

BEST OF THE NEW GUINNES WORLD RECORDS 2023

Guinness World Records is the official reference, and ultimate authority, for world records. Distributed in more than 100 countries and translated into 20 languages, the Guinness World Records annual is one of the best-selling books of all time!

It aims to inspire ordinary people to do extra-ordinary things. Our mission is to entertain and inform, and to celebrate the world’s best.

To download the worksheet: Quiz
To go to the oficial website: guinnessworldrecords.com 
To go to the video of SPOTLIGHT - Most dominoes toppled in a 3D pyramid
For another video: GWR 2017

For GWR stories

LUKAS GRAHAM - 7 YEARS VIDEO (AND ACTIVITY)

Nice song to go through with your students. Have a glance at the lirycs and work out this song all together. In this song Lukas summarises his life so far and what he hopes to achieve in the future. He said that the reason the lyrics go as far as the age of 60 is because his father died at 61 and he needed to "pass it to believe it." He continued: "It's a song about growing older.

Lyrics handout: 7 years by Lukas Graham

HOW GOOD GRAMMAR SAVES LIVES AND OTHER REASONS IT'S STILL IMPORTANT

 Your grammar skills, whether good or bad, often leave people with a lasting impression about who you are. Yet grammar errors are still extremely common as they’re so easy to miss. Unfortunately, many grammar mistakes come at the price of being misunderstood, made fun of, or even losing a job.

Luckily, poor grammar skills can be fixed as long as you’re aware of them. This article will show you how even a little mishap, like adding one comma too many, can change the meaning of the whole sentence — and explain how to avoid it.

Keep reading on How Good Grammar Saves Lives

CORONAVIRUS AND MODAL VERBS

The coronavirus is a kind of virus that mutates (changes) very fast. It’s said it comes from wild animals and its origin is China because they’re used to eating wild animals (like bats, pangolins…). Actually people think the animal which transmitted first the virus to a human was a pangolin (an ant-eater family species). The coronavirus has existed for more than 30 years but it stayed confined in China. The reason of the spreading of it is because the more often commercial transactions and, therefore, business travelling to China in this last decade and also the more habitual habits from Chinese to go on holiday to other countries.

To download the worksheet: Coronavirus activity

EMMA WATSON'S SPEECH AT U.N. ABOUT GENDER INEQUALITY

Watch the video on youtube: Emma Watson at U.N.

"Today, we are launching a campaign called HeForShe. I am reaching out to you because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality and to do this, we need everyone involved. This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN. We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible." 

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For reading on the full script follow the following link: Emma Watson's speech at U.N.

Watch the first part of the video (to 5 minutes and 15 seconds!), do the exercises and then have a look at the HeForShe website. Emma Watson's Speech Exercises

SANDY HOOK PROMISE

Sandy Hook Promise is a national non-profit organization founded and led by several family members whose loved ones were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.Based in Newtown, Connecticut, our intent is to honor all victims of gun violence by turning our tragedy into a moment of transformation by providing programs and practices that protect children and prevent the senseless, tragic loss of life.

Visit Sandy Hook website on www.sandyhookpromise.org

ESL-LAB: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE - RESOURCES

The listening activities have been organized by approximate level of difficulty based on rate of speed, vocabulary, content, ambient noise, idiomatic expressions, and other factors; however, this is never an exact science. Because I have tried not to overly predigest the content for the consumption of the language learner, the materials can be challenging for very low students. In fact, the Easy level is designed for false or high beginners on up who have already studied some English, and not for true beginners.

Linjk to the activities: esl-lab