A new school year after a looong summer holiday, so maybe you will find this bunch of activities useful to brush up your English. Are you ready? Let's start!!
1. VOCABULARY: ROUTINES FLASHCARDS
2. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES QUIZ:
Starting school again after the looong summer holidays is not easy, so I will try to help you brush up your English. Here is a list of engaging activities you can use. I hope you will find them useful! 馃槈
1. A WORD SEARCH: COUNTRIES
2. TO BE affirmative and negative form
4. THE FAMILY: vocabulary games
7. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: word search
8. DESCRIBING PEOPLE: a wheel
STARTER UNITS are always about revising what you learnt during the past school year. Don't worry if you feel a bit rusty after the summer, we all tend to disconnect 馃槈!
We will start revising some vocabulary related to HEALTH and WELL-BEING. Click on the words to get to a Quizlet to practise it. If that one is too easy for you, here you have a more demanding version of it: HEALTH and WELL-BEING 2.
Time to revise some grammar. Verbal tenses are essential, so you must make sure you know everything about them.
PRESENT SIMPLE / PRESENT CONTINUOUS
MODAL VERBS are used all the time. They all share some common characteristics and are a bit tricky, because they can have different meanings:
OBLIGATION (MUST/HAVE TO/MUSTN'T/DON'T HAVE TO)
Let's have a look at some more vocabulary, this time ADJECTIVES to describe PERSONAL QUALITIES. Here you have a matching game:
You all know starter units are all about revision and revision means that you have already studied all that, so you should already know it all. However, I am sure that some extra practice can be helpful. Here you have some extra practice for all the things studied in this unit.
VOCABULARY: ACTIVITIES
We all need money to make our lives more comfortable, but we have to be careful to use it in a correct way. This is what we have been talking about in Unit 4: we have learnt verbs related to money, words to talk about quantity and how to compare things. Students have used all this to prepare presentations about A business idea.
Have a look at some of the businesses these entrepreneurs 馃槈 are going to set up:
Are you worried about the environment? Would you like some cool tips on how to protect it? Check out this video featuring students in the 1st year Bachillerato, who analyse some of biggest environmental issues facing our precious planet Earth. Compete the questionnaire below while you watch.
The platypus is one of the only two mammals that lays eggs. Amazing, isn't it? Well, this is not the only surprise this little weird animal hides. Sir David Attenborough unveils something even more bizarre about this lovely creature in the video below. Click on the picture to watch:
