Archive for the ‘Online exercises’ Category

Paragraphs

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Find out how to build sentences and write into paragraphs.

8-) Try it! Click on the BBC Skillswise and learn about how to organise your writings into paragraphs. Then you can practise what you have learnt clicking on the game or doing some of the paragraphs’ worksheets.

Be a Grammar Ninja!

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Grammar Ninja is a game made by high school students.

8-) Try it! Click on the Grammar Ninja game and become a Grammar master. You can choose between different levels of difficulty. Remember! A good ninja must sharpen both the body and the mind, preferably together.

Minibeasts

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

A snail, a butterfly, an eel, a spider… how many ‘minibeasts’ do you know in English?

8-) Try it! First click on the video and try to identify and know the English name of these minibeasts. You can look for the translation in the dictionary. Then, try to complete the minibeast identification table. Finally, you can create your own identification table drawing the pictures and writing the names of the minibeasts learned.

What a statue!

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

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Would you like to tour the world hand in hand with very special characters? Let’s go then!!

8-) Try it! How much do you know about art and statues around the world? Go ahead and start your tour here, there’s a game waiting for you! Play, learn and discover more than a mistery!

Do you know the meaning of these verbs?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

How many verbs do you know in English? It’s time to learn more!!

8-) Try it! Click on this English verbs online exercise and match verbs with definitions, if you know them you can continue to the next page, if not you can use the dictionary at the right corner of this blog. Try to remember and use them in the future!

What’s the correct verb form?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

8-) Try it! Try to do this online exercise and test yourself. Click on start and choose the correct form of the verb.

Is Sudoku an American game?

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Milions of people are hooked on sudokus. In a sudoku you have to complete a puzzle of numbers from 1 to 9.

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8-) Try it! It is believed that Sudoku was originally an American game, not Japanese. If you want to know more about sudokus, listen and read this abstract. After listening and reading, try to answer the questions you’ll find in the comment attached. If you want to play a sudoku you only have to click on the picture above.

Sea animals

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Before going to the beach be sure you know all the animals you can find there, in and out the sea!

8-) Try it! First of all, click on the image and try to find all the animals in the word search. Then, try other online activities. Good luck!

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Sea animals jigword

Sea animals matchword (2 players)

Sea animals speedword

The idiom jungle I

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Do you like getting up early in the morning or staying up at night? In other words, are you an ‘early bird’ or a ‘night owl’?  In English there are some expressions we can use to refer to a figurative meaning. We know them as idioms. Sometimes they are very funny… Let’s discover them!

8-) Try it! Click on the idiom jungle and test yourself in this online exercise. It’s a multiple choice activity about friends and lovers. Learn about idioms and good luck!

34 easy grammar questions

Friday, July 17th, 2009

GRAMMAR?? Magic word!!! But… Don’t be panic!! In this blog you’ll learn it easily and with amusing activities. So have a good time with grammar!!

8-) Try it! We can start by answering a basic multiple choice. Try to solve it without looking at the anwers!!