PHONETICS /æ/ /e/ / ^/ - ALL LEVELS

Listen to the contrast in the different vowel sounds. Once you can identify the contrast, try to do the different activities. 

Phonetics  /æ/  /e/  / ^/

 

PARTS OF THE BODY - BASIC LEVEL

Teaching about Parts of The Body



and now with music

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE PRIME MINISTER - ADVANCED

As the world's largest democracy holds elections, BBC News Online asks people on the streets of India what they would do if they were prime minister. Read what they have answered

If I were Prime Minister

SECOND CONDITIONAL - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

In this exercise you use music and grammar at the same time. Enjoy this tune and review the second conditional.

If you had a million dollars

And now try these grammar activities:

Zero conditional: 1
First conditional: 1 , 2
Second conditional: 1 , 2

INTERMEDIATE -ING EXERCISES

Here you are some interesting exercises to review your -ing. Exercises

BASIC 1 - GAMES FOR ADJECTIVES

Videogames about adjectives. Come on try them: Games

BASICO 1 ADJECTIVES - FEELINGS

Watch this video to learn more adjectives!

MORE VIDEOS FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

These are parts 3 and 4 to continue practising your listening skill.

HALLOWEEN LESSON - BASIC LEVEL

This is the lesson about Halloween. Click on the link below and you will be taken to a text about Halloween. Then, on the menu at the top of the page, you can have access to other activities: words, picture quiz, etc

Halloween
ESOL Courses

READING - ADVANCED

Watching horror films burns nearly 200 calories a time. Watching a horror film could burn off a whole bar of chocolate, according to new research released.

Watching horror burns calories

VIDEOS - BASIC LEVEL

These are two videos with subtitles to practise your listening skill.

DESCRIPTION VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL

Vocabulary for the parts of the face

FACE

Vocabulary for clothes and accessories

CLOTHES

And now games to use that vocabulary

FACE MAKER
CLOTHES GAME

THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE + SHOPPING - BASIC LEVEL

It's a few weeks before Christmas and Sophie is working in India. She's doing her Christmas shopping in a local market.

We use this/that/these/those to explain what we are talking about. We sometimes use them with nouns and we sometimes use them on their own.

At the bottom of the page you have questions to answer.

this/that/these/those to explain what we are talking about. 

HALLOWEEN - ADVANCED

Halloween Origins



The Haunted History of Halloween



Halloween Traditions

PURALS - BASIC LEVEL

I thought you could enjoy these activities on plural. Some of them are games online whereas others are more traditional grammar exercises. I hope you enjoy doing them:

Matching pairs
Speedword
Change into plural form
Irregular plural of nouns
Plural forms of nouns
Write sentences in plural
Crossword
What is the plural?

PHONETICS - /i:/ /i/ - ALL LEVELS

This is the link from BBC learning English to practise the pronunciation of these four sounds. The activities are fun. There are a lot of examples to do.

How to pronounce both sounds
Practise to hear the difference between those two sounds.

PLURAL GAMES AND GRAMMAR - BASIC LEVEL

I know that the rules for plurals can be difficult for you so I thought you could enjoy doing these games and learn the plurals at the same time.

These are the rules of plural nouns.


When you finish a game, you can click on the restart button and continue playing with different plurals.

Memory game 1
Memory game 2

BASIC 1 POSSESSIVE S

Here you are some exercises on the possessives.

exercises

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES - BASIC

This is a lesson to review the possessive adjectives. At the end of the page there are activities to do.

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

JOBS - BASIC

The following link has a list of new jobs and at the end of the page you can click to have access to exercises.

LISTS OF JOBS WITH EXERCISES

This is a game to enjoy learning about jobs.

JOBS GAME

PLURALS - PRONUNCIATION - ALL LEVELS

Here is a video lesson to show you how to pronounce the final 's' or 'es' in plurals. The same rule can be used for the third person singular in present simple.

PLURALS PRONUNCIATION

ACTION VERBS - BASIC

Practice Action Verbs Vocabulary with this ESL Memory Game. These memory games have audio, images and text which makes it possible to practice spelling, reading, listening and word recognition. It is great for beginner and elementary ESL Lesson Plans. Please play this game twice to practise all words.

GAME 1

GAME 2 

'th' SOUND - ALL LEVELS

Accent training: ‘th’ sound exercises

Having the accent of a non-native English speaker is NOT a problem.There are about 500 million native English speakers in the world and around 1 billion non-native speakers. So actually, there are far more people in the world who speak English with a ‘foreign’ accent, rather than a ‘proper’ accent.

However, if you want to soften your accent there are some basic exercises that you can do to help reduce your mother-tongue accent when you are speaking English.

Here’s a video of a comedian from Glasgow, Kevin Bridges having an accent reduction session. For English people, the regional accent from Glasgow is sometimes very difficult to understand.

As you will see, he has problems with the ‘th’ sound, which is also a big problem for lots of other nationalities.

'th' sound

CHARACTER ADJECTIVES - ADVANCED

Text on Chinese horoscope which describes people's character and explains the meaning of those adjectives. Now, give it a try and see if what is said about your animal has truth to you.

Enter the Dragon

PRESENT PERFECT LOVE STORY - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

Present perfect used in a cartoon strip as well as a grammar explanation of how to use this verb tense.

CARTOON STRIP

PHRASALS - ADVANCED

This is the game we played in class to review the phrasals learnt so far.

PHRASALS GAME

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE - ADVANCED

I have posted the slides we saw in class on present perfect progressive

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE from angelomagno

CHECKING - IN - BASIC

This video can help you with check-in problems at a hotel.





And now some hotel vocabulary. You have to listen to it over and over again and it will automatically sink in :)
Try it :)

CHECKING IN - ADVANCED

About "English for Hotel and Tourism":
LinguaTV offers online Video Training which is designed for English learners and speakers at a intermediate level, who are employed in, or planning to work in the field of tourism. The focus of the video is on how employees in these fields communicate and deal with customers in a variety of typical work-related situations.

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES - ADVANCED

Read the clues and solve the crossword puzzle. Then use those personality adjectives to complete the sentences. Finally turn the given adjectives into nouns.

Personality Adjectives, by serene
Find this and other describing people exercises in English Exercises .org

BASICO 1 - THE COLOURS

Hi, here there´s a video about colours.

DAILY ROUTINES - BASIC LEVEL

These are online activities for daily routines and housework.

DAILY ROUTINES
HOUSEWORK

COUNTRIES & NATIONALITIES ALL LEVELS

More countries and nationalities, click here

And play this videogame

ALL LEVELS USEFUL DICTIONARY

Here you are an on-line dictionary:

http://www.wordreference.com/

MONTHS OF THE YEAR - PRONUNCIATION - BASIC LEVEL

Learn how to pronounce the months of the year

INTERROGATIVE AND NEGATIVE FORMS - PRESENT SIMPLE - BASIC LEVEL

These are exercises to practise the negative form of the present simple:

Present Simple Tense * Negative sentences * 3 tasks, by  Susan Vagone Toth
Find this and other present simple exercises in English Exercises .org

Present Simple Tense * Negative sentences * Part 2 * 2 exercises, by  Susan Vagone Toth
Find this and other present simple exercises in English Exercises .org

And now time for the interrogative form:

Present Simple Tense * Interrogative sentences * 3 tasks, by  Susan Vagone Toth
Find this and other present simple exercises in English Exercises .org

Present Simple Tense * Questions * 4 tasks, by  Susan Vagone Toth
Find this and other present simple exercises in English Exercises .org

INTERMEDIATE 1 SUBJECT vs OBJECT QUESTIONS

Here you have an explanatory video on object questions.

LISTENING SITES - ALL LEVELS

This is something created by another teacher, Mª Reyes Ferreras, for her students. I took it from her and want to share it with you. It is an amazing site which you could use to save those interesting websites and group them by topics.

NEWS SITES - ALL LEVELS

These are websites where to read all the news worldwide.

News sites on symbaloo

SCHOOL DINNERS

Today we visit Scotland, to find out what a Scottish schoolgirl thinks of her school meals. And because the European Cup Football matches have reached an interesting stage, and poor old England have been knocked out by Italy, this might be a good time to learn a new football expression.


School dinners

PAST SIMPLE VS PRESENT PERFECT - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE

This is a game to practise past simple and present perfect. You can play in pairs or by yourself. Click on start and then 'hit' to make the wheel spin.

Past Simple and Present Perfect

FREE PRACTICE FOR BASIC LEVEL

Videos and audio exercises on a wide range of topics

http://www.okey-dokey.co.uk/listening/general_pre-intermediate.php

FREE PRACTICE FOR INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS

The sites below are for students who are sitting for certification exams but can be used by others throughout summertime:

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/index.php - on the right there is a menu with practice tests.
http://www.okey-dokey.co.uk/listening/general_intermediate.php - plenty of listening exercises. However, if you want to improve your reading skill, you could try out reading the newspapers and tabloids-reading authentic material

READING FOR BASIC LEVEL

I would like to add these websites where you can find reading texts to have more practice for the certification exams:
Using English
Esl-lounge.com
Esoeonline
Esolcourses - this one has activities for all levels.
English for everyone - grade 6 for basic students.
KET examination - on the right menu there are five parts in the reading section. You could try the other sections too.

EATING HABITS - FOR ALL LEVELS

From food vocabulary to recipes and ideas, there's everything a food-loving English learner can want!

Plenty of activities for all levels on OKEY-DOKEY

ELLLO - LISTENING SITE FOR ALL LEVELS

These activities are good for elementary students . The topics are simpler and the vocabulary is more common. Each topic has got the transcript and on the right side you have 'vocabulary quiz' and comprehension quiz'. Besides there is information about difficult words if you click on 'vocabulary' next to 'transcript'

ELLLO - BASIC
ELLLO - LOW INTERMEDIATE

These are good for intermediate and advanced ones. Follow the same instructions as above.

ELLLO - INTERMEDIATE
ELLLO - HIGH INTERMEDIATE
ELLLO - ADVANCED

LISTENING PRACTICE FOR ALL LEVELS

Randall's is a website that offers you lots of material to practise your listening skill. Every level has its own material: basic students can try out 'easy', intermediate ones ' medium' and advanced 'difficult'. However, if you feel confident enough, why don't you try higher ones to see if you can make it?

A different section on the site is this part with videos and exercises, only for intermediate and advanced.
Randall's video snapshots

MORE ABOUT FOOD - BASIC 2

Vocabulary to help you pronounce and learn about food and meals

Vegetables
Meals and Cooking
Fruit
Food

FECHA MATRÍCULA PARA ALUMNADO OFICIAL Y PUBLICACIÓN DE NOTAS

Les recuerdo a todos que, el próximo 1 de Junio, se abre el período de matrícula para el próximo curso escolar, para el alumnado oficial. El plazo de finalización será el 13 de Julio. Si no realizan la matrícula en dicho plazo pierden el derecho a la plaza y ésta será ocupada por el alumnado de nuevo ingreso.

Asimismo, comunicar que las notas se publicarán el viernes 1 de Junio y podrán realizar las reclamaciones pertinentes hasta el 5 de Junio.

SEASIDE ENTERTAINMENT - BASIC 2

Where can you go on a rollercoaster, watch a puppet show or ride a donkey? Does playing virtual sports help you to play the game well in real life? Find out the answers to these questions by watching this video.




Seaside Entertainment

FOOD IN THE UK - BASIC 2

What do you think of as typical British food? Roast beef? Fish and chips? Tea and cakes? Or maybe there's more to British food than that? Check out this video to find out about what people in the UK are eating these days. There are complementary activities and the transcript.

Food in Britain

GRAMMAR VIDEOS AND EXERCISES - BASIC 2 AND INTERMEDIATE

Grammar snacks

This section offers you grammar practice in bites. The videos show the grammar that is used in a natural way. A conversation-style explanation and interactive exercises will check that you can really use the language.

Grammar snacks

READING FOR CERTIFICATION - INTERMEDIATE 2

This is a site with plenty of reading texts. At the bottom of the page you can move on to the next one by clicking on page 2 or 3. The activities are grouped by the type of exercise you have to deal with.

Reading for Intermediate 2

LISTENING FOR CERTIFICATION - INTERMEDIATE 2

These two sets of activities are thought to help you improve your listening skill. The first link will take you to a bunch of activities for an intermediate level whereas the second link is aimed to those of you who look for more demanding tasks. You could start with the first and then try the second. Who knows? You might get really surprised to know how good you have become in listening.

Intermediate Listening
Upper Intermediate Listening

All the activities are supported by their transcriptions so, after listening twice, you could check out whether you have understood or not by having a look at the dialogues. You can also download the files to your MP 3/4 or any other gadget.

LISTENING FOR CERTIFICATION - BASIC 2

On the following page, you will find 9 listening exercises with their transcription, in case you find it difficult to understand. If you click on the topic, you will be taken to the exercise and the audio. The audio can be downloaded as mp 3 file to use it every time you need.

Listening for Basic Level

FUTURE REVISION - BASIC 2 AND INTERMEDIATE 1

These are more exercises online to continue practising future tenses (be going to / will / present continuous). The link below will get you to a page with a lot of exercises but basic students should only do those in the first three groups, and the ones in orange: Be going to, will - future and Future Simple. The other two groups are for more advanced students.

Agenda Web

LISTENING TO A SPEECH - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

Randy Pausch was an American professor who sadly passed away (died) in 2008. He was an extremely inspirational person, and through this video I hope it will remind you of what is important in life. Listen to the interview and try to fill in the gaps in the sentences.
Note: in English, 'the reaper' is another word for 'death'

Activity

THE POWER OF SMILING - LISTENING - INTERMEDIATE 2 AND ADVANCED

This is a lesson that will help you live longer, be more successful and feel as if you have eaten lots of chocolate without the calories! Listen to the lecture and see if you can answer the questions below true or false. I recommend you to listen at least twice and carefully, as the man giving the talk speaks quite quickly. 






Activity

MUSIC - ALL LEVELS

And now a bit of fun. I thought some relaxing activities could be good after the strain caused by the exams. Here are some links with songs and activities:

Whitney Houston - I know him so well
Taylor Swift - Breathe
Wicked - For Good
Cold Play - Fix you
The script - If you ever come back
Corinne Baiyle Rae - Put your records on

Beautiful tunes, indeed, to help you chill out.

FOOD AND MEALS - BASIC LEVEL

This is the powerpoint presentation you had in class about food and meals in the UK.

FOOD AND MEALS

View more presentations from angelomagno.

FOOD - BASIC LEVEL

Here is a list of food vocabulary websites to help you with everything related to FOOD and MEALS.


madridteacher.com
Each word is specified in English, Spanish and with a “Spanglish” pronunciation. (If you read it as if you are reading Spanish, you should be able to pronounce it correctly)

learnenglish.de
Plenty of activities to enjoy while learning about food
eflnet.com
Pictures and exercises to go on with food.

drlemon.com


Amazing website with all you need about food, drinks, restaurants and cooking terms

CHOCOLATE - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Watch the video, click on the egg to read and learn about chocolate, then play the game with a friend.


Chocolate

DRINKS AND PUBS - BASIC LEVEL

Pubs are where many British people meet to talk and have a drink. This page explains pub vocabulary and customs.

Drinks and pubs

CHOCOLATE REVEALED - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

This lesson is from the pages of Hot English magazine. Read the article and learn new vocabulary with the useful glossary at the bottom of the page.


Chocolate revealed

TRAVEL / JOURNEY / TRIP - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE LEVELS

What is the difference between 'travel', ' journey' and 'trip'? Have a look at this explanation and take the quiz. Remember to click on START to take the quiz

Travel - Journey - Trip

SOME / ANY - BASIC LEVEL 2

We have studied the difference between 'some' and 'any' but do you really know when to use them? This exercise can say how well you know to use these two words

difference-between-some-and-any

FRUIT - BASIC LEVEL

Learn how to pronounce the fruit in English with the help of the pictures.

Fruit

LISTENING - ENGLISH CLASS INFORMATION - INTERMEDIATE AND BASIC LEVELS

Listen to this telephone message and take the quiz below to test your understanding. There are two listening options: fast (for intermediate to advanced students) and slow (for beginner to pre-intermediate students).

English Class Information

PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE - BASIC LEVEL

Try this quiz to help you decide if you have to use present perfect or past simple. It has a section with grammar notes to help you make up your mind (decide)

Present-perfect-or-past-simple ?

TAKE THE RIGHT PREPOSITION - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

How well do you know English prepositions? Take the preposition quiz to find out! Choose the correct preposition to complete each sentence, or choose — if no preposition is necessary. Leave a comment with your score!

Take the preposition quiz

LISTENING EXERCISE - BASIC LEVEL

Listen to this 1-minute biography of famous soccer player Lionel Messi and take the quiz to test your understanding!

Lionel Messi

ORDERING AT A RESTAURANT - BASIC LEVEL

Listen to this dialogue between Emily, Laura, and the waitress and practice repeating each phrase. The audio is real English at natural speed – so if you can understand it, you’ll be OK to order a meal in a restaurant in English!

Ordering a meal at a restaurant

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE - BASIC LEVEL

Learn how to know when a noun is countable or uncountable. After the grammar explanation, you can take the quiz by clicking on START.

countable-and-uncountable-nouns

COMMON ENGLISH MISTAKES - BASIC LEVEL

Don’t make these common beginner English mistakes!
Take the quiz and decide if the sentences are correct or incorrect. To start the quiz, click on START.


common-english-mistakes-beginner-quiz-1

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE - BASIC LEVEL

This website gives you the grammar on comparison and there is also a quiz where you choose the correct answer. To go to the quiz, you have to click on START.

comparative-or-superlative

EMOTIONS -SPEAK OUT - UNIT 6 - INTERMEDIATE 2

SOLUTIONS - SPEAK OUT - UNIT 5 - INTERMEDIATE 2

PASSIVE VOICE - INTERMEDIATE 2

Here are more exercises on passive voice.
English Grammar for you
ESL Games
ESL Games - Basketball
Learn English Feel Good 
Non-Stop English 1
Non-Stop English 2
Non-Stop English 3

PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS - BASIC LEVEL

This is to show you the difference between present simple and present progressive or continuous.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS - BASIC LEVEL

As you seem to have problems with present continuous, I have attached these videos that can help you understand this verb tense but I must say that they are for children.

VERBS - VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL

Learn some action verbs with the Pink Panther. A teacher of English made it for his English class and they had a blast.

A NEW NEIGHBOUR - PART 1 - BASIC 2

This is the first episode of a story in six parts.
Part 1 - a new neighbour

TO THE RESCUE - PART 2 - BASIC 2

This is part 2.

SPEAK OUT - EXPERIENCES - BASIC 2

This is a video about experiences. Remember that you usually use present perfect to talk about experiences.

SPEAK OUT - TRANSPORT - BASIC 2

SPEAK OUT - CINEMA - BASIC 2

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES - BASIC 2

These are two quizzes to review the comparatives:
Comparatives
Comparatives and Superlatives

MORE PRESENT PERFECT - BASIC 2

PRESENT PERFECT or SIMPLE PAST?, by Carlos Reis
Find this and other verb tenses exercises in English Exercises .org

Present Perfect (19.11.09), by Manuela Nunes
Find this and other exercises in English Exercises .org

present perfect affirmative, by isabel
Find this and other present perfect exercises in English Exercises .org

PRESENT PERFECT NEGATIVE, by isabel
Find this and other verb tenses exercises in English Exercises .org

PRESENT PERFECT - BASIC 2

These are exercises online to practise this new verb tense:
English Grammar Online For You
English Grammar Online For You 2
Using English
Saber Inglés
For or since ?
Englischhilfen

PRESENT PERFECT vs PAST SIMPLE - BASIC 2 AND INTERMEDIATE 1

Pactice differentiating past simple from present perfect by answering the questions. Hit the button on the wheel and wait until the arrow stops. Then you will see a question and four possible answers. When you decide which answer is correct, click on 'submit'.

Spin the Wheel

England's Newest Tourist Attraction - INTERMEDIATE 2

Are you planning a visit to England? Are you thinking to yourself, “What shall we do in England? Are there any really special places that we must go to when we are there?” You are? Good, then this podcast is for you.
England's Newest Tourist Attraction

EASTER HOLIDAYS - ALL LEVELS

We will not have time to see anything about Easter (Semana Santa) so I thought that you could find this website interesting. Here you can learn new words, read texts or learn a bit about general culture. Click on the link and enjoy your Easter holidays learning about Easter.

IRREGULAR VERBS - ALL LEVELS

I know you still have problems with irregular verbs. Well, this video can help you with them. This is the American version, in the English way, 'get' is got, got.

PRESENT PERFECT - BASIC 2

This is the new lesson. I found this video that explains how to form this verb tense. You can watch it and listen to the man's pronunciation and explanation. If it is difficult to understand, wait until next class and I will explain everything in detail.

INVENTIONS - INTERMEDIATE 2

1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

Oscar-winning actor and screen legend Sir Ben Kingsley has taken the starring role in a short feature film about the scientific heritage of Muslim civilisation. The mini-movie, entitled "1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets", accompanies a global touring exhibition which was previously open to the public at the Science Museum in London.

READING TEXTS FOR BASIC 2 AND INTERMEDIATE 1

It is a bit difficult reading for basic 2 but fast learners can try.

Headphones are a danger to life, study finds

Walking down the street while listening to an Mp3 player is riskier than you might think. Find out what your students have to say about latest research into headphone related deaths

HOW TO SPEND ONE MILLION POUNDS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

How to spend one million pounds

THE MOST EXPENSIVE SANDWICH IN THE WORLD - BASIC

The Most Expensive Sandwich in the World

GOING TO THE DOGS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

Going to the Dogs

HOMOPHONES - PRONUNCIATION - ALL LEVELS

Homophones game


Can you match the words that sound the same, but are spelt differently and have different meanings? Eg: pair,and pear.

You can repeat the game as many times as you like because there are new pairs in each attempt.

Homophones game