😎 Try it! Click on Grammar Blast, choose your level and the quiz you want to practise, answer 10 questions and earn up 100 game points!
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Grammar bytes for everybody
English grammar is quite logical so it is not very difficult to learn, but if you want to feel confident about grammar as well as to improve your oral or writing skills you have to practice it a lot!!
😎 Try it! Grammar bytes is an English web page where you can put into practice your grammar. You can complete some online exercises about irregular verbs, pronouns, the use of commas… Choose between different levels of difficulty. If your answer is correct, the prizes are really good…
Poe animated
Do you like horror stories? Then Edgar Allan Poe is your writer! He was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, best known for his tales of mistery…
😎 Try it! One of Poe’s best stories about crime was ‘The Tell-Tale heart’. Read the story or click on the video to listen as well as to watch the tale. Poe is one of the best American writers, hope you enjoy his tales but be careful about nightmares…
Listen to the radio and learn
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.
We all live in a yellow submarine
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?
S-p-e-l-l-i-n-g
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!!
The idiom jungle II
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!
Paragraphs
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.
Be a Grammar Ninja!
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.