Animal idioms

Check this poster from American English at State  with some idioms using names of animals.

Look at these other animal idioms taken from Idiom connection and complete the activities below.

Complete the sentences by matching them with the right animal idiom.

Listening - assistant manager (Simple Present)

Listen to the comments from this girl and answer the questions below.
Is her life similar to you?

Phrasal verbs practice: PUT

Have a look at this poster with phrasal verbs with the verb PUT.

Now, can you complete the task below without looking back at the poster?

Simple Present - Routines

In the following video you can see the routine in an international restaurant, Stanley's International Restaurant.

Watch the video from minute 1 and learn about this restaurant.
Then watch the video again and complete the activities below.



Activities

Stanley's International Restaurant

Choose the best option to complete the text.

 

1. What does the receptionist do?
   1.   She answers the phone.
   2.   She reserves tables.
   3.   She asks questions.
2. During the TV commercial, what type of food does the first man like?
   1.   He likes Chinese food.
   2.   He likes Japanese food.
   3.   He likes Italian food.
3. When does the first man go to Stanley's International Restaurant?
   1.   He goes on Monday.
   2.   He goes on Wednesday.
   3.   He goes on Friday.
4. When the journalist says 'Thank you very much, sir', what does the man reply?
   1.   Certainly.
   2.   You're welcome.
   3.   My pleasure.
5. Does the second woman like to be in a TV commercial?
   1.   Yes, she does. She loves it.
   2.   No, she doesn't.
   3.   She doesn't mind.
6. When the journalist says 'May I ask you one or two questions?', what does the woman answer?
   1.   Certainly.
   2.   Go right ahead.
   3.   Sure.
7. Does she go to Stanley's on Sunday?
   1.   Yes, she does.
   2.   Sometimes.
   3.   No, she doesn't.
8. Why doesn't she go to Stanley's on Sunday?
   1.   She doesn't go to restaurants on Sunday.
   2.   She doesn't like American food.
   3.   She doesn't like going to Stanley's.
9. What type of food does the third person like?
   1.   Italian food.
   2.   Puerto Rican food.
   3.   Russian food.
10. When does he go to Stanley's?
    1.   He rarely goes to Stanley's.
    2.   He usually goes to Stanley's.
    3.   He never goes to Stanley's.
11. Why doesn't he go to Stanley's?
    1.   Because he doesn't like Stanley's food.
    2.   Because Stanley doesn't cook Russian food.
    3.   Because he doesn't like restaurants.
12. What does the man reply when the journalist says 'Thanks anyway.'
    1.   Don't mention it.
    2.   No problem.
    3.   My pleasure.
13. What do people do at Stanley's International Restaurant?
    1.   On Monday, they speak Italian, they eat Italian food, drink Italian wine and listen to Italian music.
    2.   On Monday, they speak Mexican, eat Mexican food, drink Mexican wine and listen to Mexican music.
    3.   On Monday, they speak Chinese, eat Chinese food, drink Chinese wine and listen to Chinese music.

Comparative and superlative forms - I need my monster

In a previous post there was a video of a tale for children called 'I need my monster'.  You can click here to go to that post.

In that story there was a boy called Ethan who had a monster under his bed, called Gabe.

Ethan loved to have Gabe under his bed but one day Gabe left and then Ethan tried to find another monster as a substitute.

Now, all the monsters that came were quite different.  Some were bigger than others, some were scarier than others, some were less experienced than others, some were more menacing than others, some were not as good as Gabe, some were as scary as Gabe and one of them was the funniest of them all. But for Ethan Gabe was the best.

The coloured words show examples of comparative and superlative forms of adjectives in English.

The table below is about Comparative forms:

One syllable adj.	ADJ + ER	Gabe is taller than Ethan.
Two syllable adj. ending in letter  ‘y’	ADJ (without the letter ‘y’) + IER	Gabe is scarier than the other monsters.
More than one syllable adj.	MORE + ADJ	Gabe is more frightening than the first monster.

The table below is about Superlative forms:

One syllable adj.	ADJ + EST	Gabe is the tallest monster.
Two syllable adj. ending in letter  ‘y’	ADJ (without the letter ‘y’) + IEST	The fifth monster is the funniest.
More than one syllable adj.	MOST + ADJ	The girl monster is the most interesting monster (at the beginning).

• This link takes you to some exercises to practise this grammar point from the story.  

• You can also practise this grammar point with the activity below (this exercise is not connected with the story):

1. My pencil is ____ than Ethan's pencil.
bigger
biger
more big

2. The Hilton's live in ____ house in the village.
the most big
biggest
the biggest

3. We bought a car that was _____ our old car.
more comfortable
more comfortable than
more comfortabler than

4. Sullivan is the ______ student in our class.
the most intelligent
more intelligent
most intelligent

5. Carol ran _____ Sue and she won the race.
more fast than
faster than
more faster than

6. Tom's joke was ______ of the night.
the funniest
the funnyest
the most funny

7. My aunt has _____ hairstyle in my family.
the craziest
craziest
the crazyest

8. My mobile is ______ my wife's.
modern than
modernest than
more modern than

9. She's the _____ girl in the class.
the shiest
shiest
the most shy

10. Peter speaks English _______ than Allan.
more fluently
fluently than
more fluently than

Score =
Correct answers:

I absolutely recommend you to check these two pages from the British Council to get more information and to do some more practice:
Comparative and superlative adjectives 
English Grammar - Comparative and superlative adjectives 

If you need more practice with this topic, you can go to english-at-home.com to do some exercises.