Describing my house and the place where I live

Activity 1. Listen to Anne describing her house and do the activities.

Activity 2. Read the text about Newquay, in Cornwall and do the activities. Then, check your answers. 

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. He was born in the fourth century and is famous for bringing Christianity into Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day falls on the 17th of March. 

Click here to listen and read some more information about its origins and how people celebrate it today. When you finish, you can try the reading comprehension exercise.

Don't forget to wear green today!

Shopping

Activity 1. Shopping vocabulary exercises.   


Activity 2. Listening exercise: Shopping for the day.

Activity 3. Listening exercise. Shopping for clothes.

Countable / uncountable nouns and food vocabulary

There are two kinds of nouns in English, countable (things you can count: 'one apple, two apples...'), and uncountable (things you can´t count: 'milk').

Use a /an with singular countable nouns: 'a pinapple', 'an orange'

Use some with plural countable nouns ('I need some tomatoes') and uncountable nouns ('I need some butter') on affirmative sentences.

Use any with plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns in negative sentences and questions: 'I don't have any orange juice / potatoes', 'Do you need any milk / carrots?'

Sometimes we can use some in questions:

offers: 'Would you like some coffee?'

requests: 'Can I have some biscuits?'

Use how much with uncountable nouns: 'How much money do we have now?'
Use how many with plural countable nouns: 'How many people were there at the party?'

Activity 1. Choose the correct answer: a / an, some or any.

Activity 2. Complete the sentences with a / an, some or any.

Activity 3. Choose the correct answer: how much / how many, a lot, not much, etc.

Activity 4. Put the words in the correct order.

Activity 5. Complete the sentences with a suitable word.

Activity 6. How much or how many?



Activity 7. Food vocabulary: a crossword.

Activity 8. Snack time! Listen to the dialogue and choose the correct answers.

Activity 9. The fridge. John talks about the things he has in his refrigerator. Listen and choose the correct answer. Don't read the transcript before you do the quiz (on the right)!

The date

Activity 1.  What's the date today? Click on the buttons to hear the pronunciation.

Activity 2. Match the ordinal numbers on the right and their written forms on the left.

Activity 3. Match the years on the right and their written forms on the left.

Activity 4. Write the years. 

Activity 5. Crossword. Find the times and dates.

Activity 6. January, February, March...Practise the months of the year with this song.

Be going to and present continuous for future plans

Listen to six people talking about their plans for tonight. Then answer the questions. If your answers are not correct you can´t move forward and have to listen again!

When you finish you can listen and read the transcript. Good luck!

 Activity 1: Be going to. Choose the correct answer.

Activity 2: Be going to. Click on the words in the correct order.

Activity 3.  Be going to, present continuous. Choose the correct answer.

Activity 4.  Be going to, present continuous.Click on the words in the correct order.

Prepositions of place / Describing a picture

Activity 1: Write the correct preposition of place.

Activity 2: Tidy up your room!

Activity 3: Listen to the descriptions of some pictures and choose the correct one. 

Clothes

1. Listen to six audio extracts and choose the correct pictures. If you are wrong you can´t move forward, you´ll have to listen again. Good luck!

2. Try this other listening activity about clothes.
 

Describing people

Activity 1: Click here to listen to the dialogue. You can download the worksheet, answers and transcript.

Activity 2: Listen to the decriptions of these people's hair and choose the correct picture. When you finish, you can click on each picture and read the transcript.

Activity 3. Crossword. Click on the clues and find the personality adjectives.