Category Archives: A1: Elementary: 1st EOI
The Chocolate Questionnaire
Answer this Chocolate Questionnaire. When you’ve finished, check your score: are you a chocoholic?
Learning at EOI
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Police Report
Bad luck! When you were on holiday, some robbers got into your house. The criminals took some of your favourite expensive objects. Fortunately, you took a photo of your living room before travelling (Photo 1). When you got home, you took Photo 2. You can see the difference!
Now write the sentences for the Police Report. Use there was / there were and prepositions with suitable vocabulary (in New English File Student’s Book on page 151).
Example. There was an ornament on the table. It was grey, and it was a sculpture of a tree.
There was a/an | carpet cushion lamp ornament picture plant stool | above behind between in next to on under |
the armchair the corner the cupboard the floor the sofa the table the walls |
There were some There were two/three… |
carpets cushions lamps ornaments pictures plants stools |
Describe the photo
Write your description of this photo. You can invent some information about this person. To help you, here’s an example of a description for a similar type of photo.
This is John Albright. He’s twenty-eight years old and he’s from Wales. He works for a German car company in a big factory. In this photo he’s standing next to a car, and he’s putting a wheel on it.
He’s quite fat and he has short dark hair. He’s wearing jeans and a white T-shirt. In the photo he’s wearing special glasses, but he doesn’t normally wear them.
He doesn’t like his job, but he loves driving cars in his free time. He can also drive a bus, a tractor or a lorry, but he can’t ride a motorbike! He really likes watching Formula One racing on TV at weekends. He always watches Fernando Alonso, but he hates him. His favourite driver is Lewis Hamilton.
Happy Birthday, Molly!
Dancing Queen
Regular and Irregular Verbs
be | was/were | being |
buy a newspaper | bought | buying |
call a taxi | called | calling |
come here | came | coming |
cook dinner | cooked | cooking |
dance the tango | danced | dancing |
do | did | doing |
exercise/ housework/ your homework | ||
draw a picture | drew | drawing |
drink coffee | drank | drinking |
drive a VW | drove | driving |
eat fast food | ate | eating |
find some money | found | finding |
finish work | finished | finishing |
get | got | getting |
a newspaper/a taxi/an e-mail/dressed | ||
home (arrive)/to work (arrive)/get up late | ||
give her a present | gave | giving |
go | went | going |
away for a week/by bus/for a walk | ||
home/out on Friday/shopping | ||
to bed/to work/to church/to class/to a restaurant | ||
to the beach/to the cinema/to the gym | ||
have | had | having |
a coffee/a sandwich/a drink/a good time | ||
children/a car/a shower/breakfast/lunch/dinner | ||
hear a noise | heard | hearing |
help someone | helped | helping |
like animals | liked | liking |
listen to the radio | listened | listening |
live in a flat | lived | living |
look for your keys | looked | looking |
make the dinner | made | making |
meet a friend | met | meeting |
paint a picture | painted | painting |
play | played | playing |
chess/tennis/the guitar | ||
read a newspaper | read /red/ | reading |
ride a bike | rode | riding |
run a race | ran | running |
say goodbye | said | saying |
see a film | saw | seeing |
sing a song | sang | singing |
sleep for seven hours | slept | sleeping |
smoke a cigarette | smoked | smoking |
speak German | spoke | speaking |
start work | started | starting |
study economics | studied | studying |
swim every day | swam | swimming |
take | took | taking |
photos/the dog out for a walk/your umbrella | ||
talk to a friend | talked | talking |
tell me a secret | told | telling |
travel by plane | travelled | travelling |
turn on the TV | turned | turning |
use a computer | used | using |
wait for a bus | waited | waiting |
wake up early | woke | waking |
walk home | walked | walking |
watch television | watched | watching |
wear glasses | wore | wearing |
work in an office | worked | working |
write a sentence | wrote | writing |