PAST CONTINUOUS

If you go to the following links, you can practise the Past Continuous tense. Try them. Exercise 1 - choose the correct option - To be (Past Simple) Exercise 2 - Was / were? Exercise 3 - Affirmative sentences Exercise 4 - Negative sentences Exercise 5 - Questions Exercise 6 - Questions with Question-words Exercise 7 - Mixed sentences Exercise 8 - write the verbs in the Past Continuous or Past Simple. Exercise 9- write the verbs in the Past Continuous or Past Simple.

Used to

Here are some exercises about the structure "used to + infinitive". These links take you to the site http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/, where you can learn other things. I hope they're useful for you. Exercise 1 - matching sentences - Exercise 2 - building sentences, by ordering words.

Planet Glastonbury

We are going to speak and read about the Glastonbury music festival in the English lessons. If you watch this video, you can have a better idea of what it is like and you can test your listening.

Adjective formation

You can do some interactive exercises here: is it "-ing" or "-ed"?

PAST SIMPLE again

You can test the past simple of irregular verbs through this crossword puzzle. Have fun!

I'd like to know who was here!

I know some of my students have been here, but I don't know who! So, please, if you come to this blog, let me know! Leave a comment, even if your english is not correct!

Revisions

You can make a revision of the question words (you always forget them) and the Present Simple tense. Try these exercises. Good work!

• Asking questions: http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz87mca.htm http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/activities/question_words01.html http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/dg-wh.html http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/questions2.htm http://a4esl.org/q/h/mc006-ck.html http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/assorted.html

• Present Simple: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pres.htm http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/psv.html http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/65.html

Something Stupid, by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman

As we are going to listen and speak about this song in class, you can see its video here. I hope you enjoy it!

Nicole Kidman

Do you know Nicole Kidman? Who is she? As we are going to talk about her in our lessons, here's a video about her.

Irregular verbs

I know it isn't easy and it's a bore to know the list of irregular verbs by heart. I've found a way to learn them, in the net. If you like to sing, you can try it. Follow this link: http://www.manythings.org/repeat/ck-irregular_verbs_4.mp3 and listen to these verbs: sit, sat, sat spend, spent, spent ring, rang, rung wear, wore, worn sell, sold, sold beat, beat, beaten win, won, won hurt, hurt, hurt sing, sang, sung blow, blew, blown rise, rose, risen ride, rode ridden fly, flew, flown drink, drank, drunk, forget, forgot, forgotten throw, threw, thrown hang, hung, hung, swim, swam, swum Now follow this http://www.manythings.org/repeat/ck-irregular_verbs_3.mp3 and listen to these : feel, felt, felt hold, held, held stand, stood, stood understand, understood, understood lose, lost, lost catch, caught, caught buy, bought, bought send, sent, sent fall, fell, fallen choose, chose, chosen sleep, slept, slept speak, spoke, spoken meet, met, met lead, led, led bite, bit, bitten hit, hit, hit drive, drove, driven break, broke, broken I've found this in http://www.manythings.org/repeat/favorites.html Have fun!!! Bye!

I'm back!

Hello! Welcome to the new school year: 2007 / 2008 ! I'm back with more suggestions for my students, now in the 9th classes A, B, C, D, E and F. I hope this blog is useful for you. See you!!!!!!

A Greenpeace vídeo

Watch this video about the environment and comment on it.

Child's speech

This was a speech of a 12 year-old child at the UN conference in Brazil. Listen to it! http://youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q

Moodle

Students of 8th class B: You can now register in the moodle platform of EB 2,3 do Cávado - Disciplina - Inglês - 8ºB. I'm going to start publishing resources related to your lessons.

The students of the other 8th classes can register in this class too, as I'm going to publish only in this "Disciplina" (as it appears in the platform). Go to

http://www.mosteiroecavado.net/moodle

See you!

Vídeo Test

Watch this video and then answer me: 1. Where are the people? 2. Who are those men? 3. Why is the man angry? You can answer the questions in the comment section and don't forget to write your name.

Classroom language

As I notice you still have some difficulties in speaking English in the classroom, here's an exercise to help you. You can tell me your results in the "comment" section and don't forget to tell me your name and class.

Introduction

I have created this blog to help my students, to give them information about homework, assessment, interesting sites, online exercises, etc. I hope you, students, will find it interesting and come here often. You can always contact me if you need.