Category Archives: 3rd CSE

Calvin’s funny faces

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Calvin & Hobbes are the two main characters of the comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson. Calvin is an imaginative six-year old boy and Hobbes, his energetic stuffed tiger. If you don’t know them, don’t miss the link in this post they’re really good!

😎 Try it! Look at Calvin’s funny faces and try to match them with their definitions. If you need any help click on the definitions. Once solved, you can check your answers in the comment attached. Good luck!!

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To be angry / To mock / To make a smile / To be sad / To be surprised / To give someone a wink /  To scream / To make slanting eyes / To pull a face / To be tired / To pick your nose /  To be scared

Describing a place

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Writing a description is providing a picture of the scene so real and vivid that the reader feels like he has been placed in the place, observing and feeling everything.

 😎 Try it! Click on the album, you’ll see that it’s about landscapes and animals. Choose a picture, print it and try to write a description about it. If you want you can play a little game. Read your description to the rest of the class and they’ll have to guess which picture are you talking about. If you want to know how to write a description you can click on here or here.

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A ‘real’ Martion invasion in 1938

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The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama. It was performed as a Halloween episode on October 30, 1938 and directed and narrated by Orson Welles. The episode was an adaptation of H.G.Wells’ novel The war of the worlds. Although was a performance of the book, many listeners thought that an actual Martian invasion was in progress!!

😎 Try it! Read more about The war of the worlds by clicking on the link above, listen to the original radio broadcasting and then imagine you are a radio newsreader and try to do your own version of this broadcast. What are  you going to talk about? How? How will you impress your listeners? Write and perform a dialog with your classmates.

 

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Sk8er Boy (Avril Lavigne)

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Avril Lavigne is a Canadian pop singer who started making records at the age of 16. One of her most famous hits is ‘Skater boy’ or ‘Sk8ter boy’ in modern slang. The abbreviations are quite common in slang as well as in sms messages.

8-) Try it! After listening the song, can you translate (transl8) the abbreviations?

 

active8     4 2
gr8 b4 g2g      
l8r 4eva      ur

Do you know any other sms abbreviations in English?

Popword: when you click on pop, the letters don’t stop!

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popword 

Popword is a game similar to tetris but with letters. You have to drag the mouse in order to create a word in English. Longer is the word, more points you’ll have.

😎 Try it! At first try to build simple words, you can repeat them and get extra points. It goes fast but if you try the game several times you’ll become an expert!

Do you speak English?

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Welcome to my virtual English school!! In this site you will find some activities and resources to do in order to improve your skills. The resources will be organized by levels, skills to practise and types of activities. Read the  8-) 'Try it!' at the end of each post and try to do the activity. I start with a video just for fun. After all, you will see that learning English is cool!!

8-) Try it!: Can you transcribe this dialogue? Try it! and then review it.