Learn about the origins and development of the English language.
What is English?
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Chinese Horoscope
Click on Chinese Horoscope to discover what animal you are! + other fun stuff.
Irish symbols
Watch the video and do the reading to discover the most popular
Do you know…?
What’s the difference between tall and high? How is the symbol & called? How many irregular verbs are there in English? What’s the origin of the word goodbye and hello? What’s the most common English surname?
Read Do you know…? to learn more about English and be able to answer these questions.
Mr Bean – Library
Watch this funny video and do the suggested activity. Mr Bean at the library[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/RyDY0hiMZy8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
Christmas is coming! (…in a few months)
Do you feel like hearing children speaking English? Read the pre-listening exercise on Christmas and the questions to be answered. Then press the ‘Play Audio’ button and do the listening exercise. Check the score and do the vocabulary activities at the bottom.
English-trailers
Press play and watch the Fifty First Dates‘ trailer. Then click on the downloadable list called activities and choose whether to read the summary, do a cloze activity or a quiz among other options.
Pronunciation quiz
Here are 10 questions to test you and help you learn about English pronunciation. There are questions about sound symbols, similar sounds, spelling and pronunciation and listening for sounds. GOOD LUCK!
What’s your favourite season?
Are you enjoying this summer? By the way, what’s your favourite season? Listen to six people from different countries explaining what they like about their favourite season. Click on the speakers to play the audio. Then complete the multiple choice exercise and click on the Show Score button to know your punctuation.
Online dictionary
Make use of WordReference.com by checking the meaning of any new words you might find. It will be great help!