Are you good at spelling? How many words to name fruits in English do you know? Play this game and see.
Wordsearch - Vegetables
Vocabulary is really important when you are learning a new language. Food vocabulary is one area that I think may interest everybody. Check how many words to describe vegetables you can find in the following wordsearch (there are 15).
Video: Friends - A rumour
This small video from Friends is the next part of the one about a rumour that Ross had started about Rachael. The quiz is just some little practice, but first of all, enjoy the video.
Video: Friends - Rachael's club
Watch this section of an episode from the sitcom 'Friends' and work with the quiz that follows.
Give a Knockout Acceptance Speech
Take a look at this video and the tips given on how to give an acceptance speech.
Give a Knockout Acceptance Speech
Give a Knockout Acceptance Speech
Practise English and learn some beauty tricks about eyebrows
This video gives good tips for women interested in their beauty. Particularly, as regards eyebrows. I propose to watch the first part of the video and then find the correct words for the underlined words in the transcript below.
I have written some words in a different colour. You can look their meaning up in the Cambridge Dictionary gadget that is on the sidebar.
We’re here today to talk about eyelashes. I’m personally obsessed with eyebrows, they really frame your head in the same way, you know, a frame complements a painting. They set the tone, day time, evening. There are some fewer mistakes that women make with eyebrows, such as over-plucking or just filling them in too densely, or using a shade that is darker than they really need to use. But we’re here today to talk about some tips, such as trimming your eyebrows, so that you don’t have to cut them so much, and by doing so and some strategic filling in you can surely lift your entire eye shape and kind of give yourself a mini eye-lift.
What I suggest for Chloe’s eyebrows is a few tricks. First of all, her hair is slightly short so we’re going to trim. We’re going to clean up the line along the top. We might even take a little bit of the end off, open up her eye shape so that it’s not closed down by her eyebrow and then ultimately we’re going to fill in with a colour that’s quite a light colour so that she gets a nice shape on her brow but she doesn’t feel like they’re too dense.
First I’m going to pluck some of her stray hairs that are furthest away from her normal lash line. Something interesting about Chloe’s eyebrows is that she has a few sparse hairs here over the bulk of her brow line, and it is a good rule not to pluck above your eyebrows because you want to make them look as big as possible, but in this case, because the hair has quite a space away from her natural hair line, you can go ahead and take those off and not worry too much about them.
Her eyebrow is actually a bit thicker than this line, which means that if we take the corner of her eyebrow off we open up her eye and make it appear a bit more lifted.
We can see in the next step for Chloe we’re going to comb up her eyebrow; we can see they’re quite long, we’ll trim the length and then we’ll fill in the small gaps, and even though she’s got dark hair we’re going to fill in the gaps in such a way that they’ll look natural. Even though Chloe has a nice texture and toneture in her eyebrows, they’re a bit sparse so what we’re going to do is take a pencil that is lighter than her hair colour and just draw in a line along the top. Give them a nice look.
Do you like them?
I love them.
Great.
CLICK HERE TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
I have written some words in a different colour. You can look their meaning up in the Cambridge Dictionary gadget that is on the sidebar.
We’re here today to talk about eyelashes. I’m personally obsessed with eyebrows, they really frame your head in the same way, you know, a frame complements a painting. They set the tone, day time, evening. There are some fewer mistakes that women make with eyebrows, such as over-plucking or just filling them in too densely, or using a shade that is darker than they really need to use. But we’re here today to talk about some tips, such as trimming your eyebrows, so that you don’t have to cut them so much, and by doing so and some strategic filling in you can surely lift your entire eye shape and kind of give yourself a mini eye-lift.
What I suggest for Chloe’s eyebrows is a few tricks. First of all, her hair is slightly short so we’re going to trim. We’re going to clean up the line along the top. We might even take a little bit of the end off, open up her eye shape so that it’s not closed down by her eyebrow and then ultimately we’re going to fill in with a colour that’s quite a light colour so that she gets a nice shape on her brow but she doesn’t feel like they’re too dense.
First I’m going to pluck some of her stray hairs that are furthest away from her normal lash line. Something interesting about Chloe’s eyebrows is that she has a few sparse hairs here over the bulk of her brow line, and it is a good rule not to pluck above your eyebrows because you want to make them look as big as possible, but in this case, because the hair has quite a space away from her natural hair line, you can go ahead and take those off and not worry too much about them.
Her eyebrow is actually a bit thicker than this line, which means that if we take the corner of her eyebrow off we open up her eye and make it appear a bit more lifted.
We can see in the next step for Chloe we’re going to comb up her eyebrow; we can see they’re quite long, we’ll trim the length and then we’ll fill in the small gaps, and even though she’s got dark hair we’re going to fill in the gaps in such a way that they’ll look natural. Even though Chloe has a nice texture and toneture in her eyebrows, they’re a bit sparse so what we’re going to do is take a pencil that is lighter than her hair colour and just draw in a line along the top. Give them a nice look.
Do you like them?
I love them.
Great.
CLICK HERE TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
Tenses practice 1
The importance of verb tenses has already been mentioned. This exercise is directed to those of you with an intermediate level of English, because it presents a wider variety of tenses and verb patterns ('to infinitive' and 'gerund').
Tense revision
Tense revision
Tenses practice - Elementary
In order to communicate successfully, you must have a clear idea of how the different verb tenses in English are used. Practice is the best way to master this. With that in mind, I'm offering a gap fill activity where you must recognise the right verb tense in each sentence.
Tense revision
Tense revision
Video: How to answer a telemarketer phone call
Have fun with this short video from the sitcom Seinfield and work with the gap fill exercise that follows it.
Seinfield video
Nationalities hangman game
Do you like playing hangman? What about trying out this one to check your knowledge of nationalities in English?
Nationalities hangman game
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Nationalities hangman game
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Crossword: Places in town
What about doing a crossword to revise your vocabulary? This crossword is about places in town. Have fun and good luck!
If you follow this link you'll have a bigger crossword format to play with:
Places in town crossword puzzle game
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If you follow this link you'll have a bigger crossword format to play with:
Places in town crossword puzzle game
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Wordsearch
Games are great for learning. How about doing this wordsearch to find words associated with geography? Good luck!
Reading: Cloze text
As I have said before, I believe that reading is really important when you are learning a new language. You can learn new words, see how words and grammar work together. I'd like you to practice with this gapped text to check your vocabulary and your grammar.
Click here to go to the web hosting page. Cloze text
Buenos Aires city
Buenos Aires is the capital city of Argentina. It is one of 20 largest cities in the world and is considered the great cosmopolitan doorway to South America. It is encircled by the 'Río de la Plata' (River Plate) on the east and north and its tributary the 'Riachuelo' river on the south and by the avenues 'General Paz' and 'Intendente Cantilo'. There are 48 "barrios" or neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires. Some of them are quite small and some of them are very large. There are "barrios" that are well known because of their commercial centres, others because of their historical background and also some of them are famous for their connection with football, such as Núñez neighbourhood, where the club River Plate is located or La Boca neighbourhood, which holds the stadium of the football club Boca Juniors.
Buenos Aires is a great city with 2 890 151 inhabitants. People from Buenos Aires are referred to as "porteños". The reason for this nickname is that "porteños" live close to the harbour -"puerto" in Spanish- and in that way they are seen as different from the rest of the population of Argentina. In the past this nickname reflected a bitter criticism for the inhabitants of Buenos Aires. The idea was that these people turned their backs to the rest of their country and were for ever looking up to Europe. This belief does no longer persist, but the nickname remains.
There are many interesting places for tourists to visit. museums (art, history, science, cinema, etc.), art galleries, the planetarium Galileo Galilei, the Buenos Aires zoo, the Buenos Aires botanical garden, a great variety of parks and open green spaces, etc.
Buenos Aires is also famous for its night life. There many options to enjoy at night, such as eating out in its many restaurants; watching a film; watching a play; enjoying live concerts, some of which are frequently free and held in the streets, etc.
Buenos Aires is definitely a wonderful city to visit.
There are many interesting places for tourists to visit. museums (art, history, science, cinema, etc.), art galleries, the planetarium Galileo Galilei, the Buenos Aires zoo, the Buenos Aires botanical garden, a great variety of parks and open green spaces, etc.
Buenos Aires is also famous for its night life. There many options to enjoy at night, such as eating out in its many restaurants; watching a film; watching a play; enjoying live concerts, some of which are frequently free and held in the streets, etc.
Buenos Aires is definitely a wonderful city to visit.
A U2 song to practise listening
Do you like U2? I think it's a great band and I admire how much they work for peace and human rights. Here you have one of U2's songs to have fun and improve your listening skills: Sometimes you can't make it on your own.
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