Practice your English with Thinking Thursday

Thinking Thursday (Discussion)

Please participate in the discussion by putting your answer to the above question in the comments below.

 

<em>What is true happiness?</em>

Practice your English with Word Guess Wednesdays Word Guess Wednesdays Body Part Anagrams An anagram is a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another. For example, act = cat. Here are five anagrams that have body parts as the answers. Can you find them all? 1. are 2. keen 3. inch 4. cafe 5. earth Answers will be given next week.

Practice your English with Time Travel Tuesday Time Travel Tuesday Did you ever collect anything when you were a child? Give as much detail as possible. For example: When I was a child I collected cards and postcards that people sent me, which included birthday cards, Christmas cards and postcards from my family and friends’ holidays all around the world. When I was really little I used to stick them all up on my bedroom wall but as I got older I ran out of space. Therefore, I had to start choosing my favourites and the most recent to be put up on the wall and the rest were stored in a box underneath my bed. Over the years the box has got bigger and bigger as I haven’t been able to throw any out. Further Exercise How many phrasal verbs can you find in the example answer above?

Practice your English with Word Guess Wednesdays Animal Anagrams An anagram is a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another. For example, act = cat. Here are five anagrams that have animals as the answer. Can you find them all? 1. arm 2. flow 3. balm 4. loin 5. looped My name is Kirsty from Scotland and I have been teaching English for 4 years now (2 years online). Click on my face for more information. I post interactive English language activities most days so if you would like to join in then simply follow me. Also on Twitter (@KirstyTutors), Google+ and Facebook (Kirsty Tutors).Answers: 1. ram 2. wolf 3. lamb 4. lion 5. poodle

Practice your English with Time Travel Tuesday Time Travel Tuesday What was your favourite subject at school? Give as much detail as possible. My name is Kirsty from Scotland and I have been teaching English for 4 years now (2 years online). Click on my face for more information. I post interactive English language activities most days so if you would like to join in then simply follow me. Also on Twitter (@KirstyTutors), Google+ and Facebook (Kirsty Tutors).For example: My favourite subject at school was Physical Education (P.E.) because I have always loved sport, exercise and being outside. It was also very different to my other subjects, which were normally much more boring because they were in a classroom, listening to the teacher and writing notes. However, P.E. was closely linked to biology as an understanding of how the human body works is required.

Practice your English with Multicultural Monday

Multicultural Monday

<em>What are the most popular ways of keeping healthy in your country?</em>

(Please note this is purely an English practice and culture sharing exercise)

 

 

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Sunday Surprise - Joke

Q: Why is six afraid of seven?

 

A: Because seven eight nine (because seven ate nine).

 

 

 

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Practice your English with Story Saturday Story Saturday A Life-saving Cow Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall knocked her out for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favourite cows, was licking her face. The water was rising. Nancy got up and began walking slowly with Lizzie. The water was now waist high. Nancy's pace got slower and slower. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to successfully pull herself and Nancy out of the raging water and onto a bit of high land, a small island now in the middle of acres of white water. Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning so bad that it took rescuers another two hours to discover Nancy. A helicopter lowered a paramedic, who attached Nancy to a life-support hoist. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter. When the flood subsided two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the "island." Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy lost. "I owe my life to her," said Nancy sobbingly. Comprehension Questions 1. What had created a raging river? Example answer: Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river. 2. What happened when Nancy tried to herd her cows to higher ground? 3. What did she see when she came to? 4. What did Nancy throw her arm around? 5. What was the small "island"? 6. How long did it take the rescuers to find Nancy? 7. What lowered a paramedic to the ground? 8. Where had the Red Cross set up an emergency shelter? 9. When did the flood subside? 10. How many cows did Nancy lose? My name is Kirsty from Scotland and I have been teaching English for 4 years now (2 years online). Click on my face for more information. I post interactive English language activities most days so if you would like to join in then simply follow me. Also on Twitter (@KirstyTutors), Google+ and Facebook (Kirsty Tutors).

Grammar Fun Friday – Punctuation Full Stops… Full stops are one of the most used and important parts of English punctuation. Here are some of the ways to use them appropriately: 1. Used to show the end of a sentence a. I have finished my sentence. b. There are 24 letters in the English alphabet. c. I am ten years old. 2. Used to show acronyms (however, it is common not to use the full stop nowadays) a. B.B.C. – British Broadcasting Corporation b. A.M. and P.M. – ante meridiem (before noon) and post meridiem (after noon) c. R.S.V.P. – répondez s’il vous plait (a request for a reply to an invitation) 3. Used to show shortened or abbreviated words a. St. – Street b. Mr. – Mister c. Etc. – et cetera 4. Ellipses shows that the rest of the sentence is missing a. I don’t know, … Let me think, … Erm, … b. In her long speech the minister said, ‘We will improve education… healthcare… and transportation links’. c. Juan thought and thought … and then thought some more. My name is Kirsty from Scotland and I have been teaching English for 4 years now (2 years online). Click on my face for more information. I post interactive English language activities most days so if you would like to join in then simply follow me. Also on Twitter (KirstyTutors), Google+ and Facebook (Kirsty Tutors).