ESOL-beginners

English practice for the summer

2008-06-19T02:19:00.000-07:00

For new computer users, you can learn where the letters are here.

Practise using the mouse here and here.

Choose from grammar, spelling, reading, writing and listening here.
Try personal pronouns, present simple, or making sentences.
After that you can try some adjectives to describe things.
If you want to learn about commas (,), look here.

Don't forget - check here in the summer for more websites to try.
Enjoy your practice!

Thursday 21st May

2008-05-21T04:18:00.000-07:00

Do Monday's exercises first!

Do you remember these everyday activities?
Next, you can practise reading about daily routines here and here.
If those are too easy, try this.

Try to learn some new words in the holiday.
Can you ask questions about all these things?
Do you like these things? Why? Why not?
Choose from:
- animals
- numbers
- machines in the house
- things in the kitchen
- travel
- fruit
- vegetables
- parts of the body
- clothes

Here are some more websites you can use to practise your English in the holiday.

This is really good - lots of different activities:

http://www.eslbears.com/Message_Center.html

There is more here:
http://www.eslbears.com/Index.html
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/beginner/
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/elementary/

Learn some more new words here. What questions can you ask?
http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabpage.htm
http://www.manythings.org/lulu/ http://www.manythings.org/

Enjoy your practice!

Monday 19th May

2008-05-18T09:11:00.000-07:00

Good morning!

Here are some exercises for present simple and the verb to be.

Do this one first.

Remember the "s" for he and she: He plays football every Friday.
Verb ends in "ss" or "ch"? He watches TV in the evening.

Next, try this quiz. How many did you get right?

Now try this. How did you get on?
Here's another one, and another.

Now try the quiz again - did you get more points this time?

You can do these at home if you don't finish in class!

Thursday 15th May

2008-05-14T10:02:00.000-07:00

Hello!

Today we're going to practise some old words and new words - adjectives.

Next, try this website for telling the time.

For students who have been here longer, listen to some work on daily routine.

Enjoy!

Learning new words

2008-03-07T09:57:00.000-08:00

Good morning!

First, some words for homes.
Here's the game we played a couple of weeks ago - it's better if you've got sound!
There are more activities here.
There's also a story. You can read and listen. If you don't understand a word, double-click on it.

Try a furniture quiz, or lots of different things here.

For other words, go here. There are words for football, shopping, food, school and more.

Finally, learn some new verbs, adjectives or shapes.

2008-02-01T06:50:00.000-08:00

Good morning!

Here's some alphabet and spelling practice - do you know which letter is correct?
And there's some more alphabet work here and here for Trishna and Hadi.
This lesson includes: simple sentences - days of the week - months of the year - and talking about family.

Spellings
Look - say - cover - write - check (1)
Look - say - cover - write - check (2)

Handwriting

Learn some new words here, then write some sentences with the new words. Finally, what questions can you ask with, or about the new words?

Click here to practise listening and talking about friends.

There's lots more to practise here: try Parts 1 - 5 and the Vocabulary sections of the other parts.

Have fun!

Monday 28th January

2008-01-25T05:00:00.000-08:00

Sorry guys, no computers this week - other people are using the room.

Practising food words

2008-01-06T04:09:00.000-08:00

Click on the links to try some food-related quizzes & activities.
What can you remember?

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/games2/matchgame/match.php
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/games2/hangman/hman.php
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/games2/unscramble/index.php (try vegetables - easy)
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/games2/wsearch/wsearch.php
desserts - food – fruit – ice-cream flavours (they use the American spelling "flavors"!) – main course – restaurant – vegetables
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/games2/crosswords/index.php#main

Christmas!

2007-12-07T05:48:00.000-08:00

Hello students!

Here are some Christmas activities, to practise what you've learned today.

Write a Christmas message, and watch the penguins write it out for you.
Here's a webquest - look for answers on the internet.
There are wordsearches here.
Rudolph's missing - find him!
Shake the snow-globe!
New words? Test yourself.
Harder anagrams: mixed-up words
A quiz

Enjoy - and Merry Christmas!