United States

Find all the States

How well do you know the United States of America? Try to fill all the gaps correctly!

London calling

Complete this exercise about London:

LONDON

Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

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Across: 2. Where Anna Bolena died 4. Shakespeare's theatre 7. The most important bridge in London 9. Where the Beatles recorded some of their most important albums 11. The place with more screens in London 14. A district strongly associated with alternative culture 15. The most famous clock in the world 16. The name of the river that crosses London 17. "Mind the Gap" 18. The Chinese district of London 19. A square which commemorates a battle against the Spaniards

Down: 1. The meeting point of the English polititians 3. A street famous for its expensive shops. It is the name of a famous English University and city 5. The best known cathedral in London 6. The most famous shopping centre in England 8. Where the English Queen lives 10. the most famous museum in England 12. A big wheel in London facing the famous river 13. Famous district where the hpuses are colored in the outside. A film made its name famous

Travelling Abroad

“The world is a book and those 

who do not travel read only one page” 

– St. Augustine

– Have you ever travelled abroad?
– What places have you visited?
– What travel did you enjoy the most?
– What places would you like to visit?

• Discuss the questions above with your partner for 5 minutes.
• Write a composition in which you give answer to the questions above and a reflection on the quote that appears in the title of this post.

Test Ted Talk

Watch the following video and  answer the questions:

Check what you know with this test

What do you remember?

Complete these activities

Welcome to Podcasting

Hi there! Have you ever heard about podcasting?

The Oxford dictionary defines podcast as "A digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player, typically available as a series, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically."

We think podcast are a useful tool to practice English on your own.

Challenge #2: Find some channel about a subject you are interested about and subscribe to it. We promise you won't regret it!

Here you have a twice-monthly podcast, which is a comedy show about a fiction town in the dessert.

It is called Welcome to Night Vale. It is worth having a look at it!

If you are interested, here you can also find the transcripts of each episode. Enjoy guys!

Source: http://commonplacebooks.com/

Adjectives: shopping

Do the following activity and then ask your partner questions about the products that appear in the pictures bellow. Remember to include adjectives we normally use when we go shopping (Cheap,  big, small, fashionable, exclusive...)

False friends. Extra activity

Take a look at this extra activity about false friends (Adjectives)

-Write sentences in which you include the false friends that appear in the previous exercise

Body, Piercing, and Tattoo

Read the following document and then discuss with your partner the following questions:

body, piercing and tattoos

Have you got any piercings or tattoos?

– If so...

• What?
• How many?
• Was it painful?
• Would you do it again or would you remove it/them?

– If not...

• Would you like to have a piercing or a tattoo?
• What?
• How many?
• Why?

Now watch this presentation. Could you add some extra information from the document above?

Customs: Tipping

What do you think about tipping? Give your opinion (in no more than 200 words).

You may want to use some of these expressions: Expressing Opinions. English Vocabulary.

Statistics

Blogsalaito University shows the time high school students dedicate to each subject:

Try something new for 30 days

Have you ever watched a ted talk? This is Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days. We hope you like it!

  

– Watch the video twice.
– What do you think about "trying something new for 30 days"? Would you do it? What would you try?

Challenge #1: Try something new for 30 days and tell us your experience in class during 3-5 minutes.

What if?

Matt and Brenda are having coffee

Write down in your notebook what things you would bring along with you if you went to London and why, bearing in mind what you have learnt about London in previous posts. You need, at least, five sentences. 

Valentine's Day!

– Elaborate a Valentine's Day card telling the receiver why do you love him/her.
– Include his/her most admirable personal qualities.

• Deadline: Monday, February 15th 

Love is about timing!

Watch this video: Love is about timing

– What does it suggest to you?
– How would you define the word "timing"? Write it down in your notebook.
– Do you agree with the statement "Love is about timing"? Please explain your reasons why or why not.

Predictions!

What is going to happen...?

Use be going to + infinitive to make predictions about what is going to happen next in these videos:

Pause this video at 0:20 and guess what is going to happen with the "sleeping beauty":

Pause this one at 0:43 and make a prediction about what the violinist is going to do:

Pause this one at 0:02, before it zooms out. Guess what is going to happen with the ducks:

Were you right?

Quoth the raven... nevermore

Have you ever heard about Edgar Allan Poe? This is one of his well-known poems "The Raven". We hope you like it!

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Fill in all the gaps

Complete this exercise about the poem  Annabel Lee. 

Annabel Lee

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

It was many and many a ago,
In a kingdom by the ,
That a maiden there lived whom may know
By the name of Lee;
And this maiden she lived no other thought
Than to love be loved by me.

I was child and she was a child,
this kingdom by the sea,
But loved with a love that was than love—
I and my Annabel —
With a love that the wingèd of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

this was the reason that, long ,
In this kingdom by the sea,
wind blew out of a cloud,
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that highborn kinsmen came
And bore her from me,
To shut her up a sepulchre
In this kingdom by sea.

The angels, not half so in Heaven,
Went envying her and —
Yes!—that was the reason (as all know,
In this kingdom by the )
That the wind came out of cloud by night,
Chilling and killing Annabel Lee.

But our love it stronger by far than the love
those who were older than we—
many far wiser than we—
And the angels in Heaven above
Nor demons down under the sea
Can dissever my soul from the soul
the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the never beams, without bringing me dreams
the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the never rise, but I feel the eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
so, all the night-tide, I lie by the side
Of my darling—my —my life and my bride,
In her there by the sea—
In her by the sounding sea.