The BBC web page is a good link if you want to improve your English skills. The BBC podcast web page is one of the best ways to practise your listening.
😎 Try it! Go to the BBC podcast web page. Find a podcast by radio station or genre. Click on or look for the topics you like or you want to learn more about. Don’t be panic if you don’t understand all the words, try to catch the general meaning and go step by step.
You can listen to music, but sometimes is possible to read or even to watch music. Turn off the volume and let’s see it with Yellow Submarine, a 1966 song by The Beatles.
😎 Try it! Think of a song and work in pairs. Prepare a power point presentation only with the lyrics or images about the song and show it to the rest of the class. Without listening the music, will your classmates be able to guess the title or the rythm of your song?
Are you good at spelling?
😎 Try it! If you are an advanced learner click on the Spelling Bee the Game, choose a character and start practicing! But if you want to test yourself in an easier spelling game click on Spin and Spell game and choose a topic. Good luck!!
Let’s go to the idiom jungle again (if you haven’t done it yet, look for the 27th July 2009 post).
😎 Try it! Click on the idiom jungle and test yourself in this online exercise. This time it’s a multiple choice activity about people. Learn about idioms and good luck!
Find out how to build sentences and write into paragraphs.
😎 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.
Grammar Ninja is a game made by high school students.
😎 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.
A snail, a butterfly, an eel, a spider… how many ‘minibeasts’ do you know in English?
😎 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.
Would you like to tour the world hand in hand with very special characters? Let’s go then!!
😎 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!
How many verbs do you know in English? It’s time to learn more!!
😎 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!
😎 Try it! Try to do this online exercise and test yourself. Click on start and choose the correct form of the verb.