Practice and improve your reading skills in English

You are going to read texts about different topics and do the activities for it:

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/intermediate-b1-reading/foreign-exchange-emails

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/intermediate-b1-reading/food-restaurants

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/intermediate-b1-reading/how-be-safe-smart-searcher

If you finish early, you can work with either "Extra practice" or "I'm done!" here on the blog.

British Isles

  Words for today: https://quizlet.com/229352431/school-words-flash-cards/ 

A presentation about schools in the UK and Ireland: http://prezi.com/pl--pbq9oo-s/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy 

Questions to answer after having seen the video clip about school in the UK:

When does school start for Jamie? 

Is there any difference in how Jamie addresses his teachers (and other adults) and how you address yours? 

What does Jamie's school day start with? 

Which different lessons does he have this day? 

Where does Jamie eat lunch? 

When does Jamie finish school? 

Questions to discuss: 

What are some of the similarities and differences between Jamie's school day and yours? 

Most of the students in the UK wear a school uniform. What are some good things and bad things about this? 

Write down your answers in your notebook. The headline should be "School in the UK and Ireland".

Clothes

 Work with different exercises about clothes here:

https://www.kimstudies.com/clothes.html

Feelings

Work with the following exercises:

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/vocabulary/feelings/emotions-1.htm

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/vocabulary/feelings/emotions-2.htm

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-3830.php

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6096

What is love?

 

Study words from the video clip. Pick five of the words and write them into sentences. 

Answer questions about the clip: 

Questions for understanding:

Why, according to the video, can it be hard for us to define love?

What are some of the behaviors that we associate with love that are mentioned in the video?

In what way is being in love similar to being addicted to something?

Questions to discuss:

How can you tell that you love someone?

What is the difference between love in movies and love in reality?

Do you think loving yourself is important in order to be able to truly love someone else? Why/why not?

Love

 

Real Love

1. Listen and read 

Listen to the text "Real Love" from What's Up 9 and read along with it: http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/ljudmastaren/3949 

2. Did you get it? 

How old was Dustin when he met Mandy?
What is in Mandy's own opinion her biggest failing [weakness, problem]?
What was the terrible lie that Mandy told Dustin when she broke up with him?

3. Talk about it

Some people think that teenagers can't be in love or they don't know what real love is. What can you say to prove them wrong?

Do you think that Dustin was the 'right one' for Mandy? Why/why not?

Do you think Mandy did the right thing to dump Dustin? Why/why not?

Why do you think Brie acted the way she did?

What advice would you give to Mandy in this situation?

4. Fill in the gaps and work with words

• Work with words here: https://www.ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/glosmastaren/3876 
• Fill in the missing words from the text here: https://www.ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/skrivtext/5324 

Life as a twin

 

Did you know that there are 125 million twins and triplets in the world? Do you sometimes wish you had a twin brother or twin sister? Today we will read/listen to a text about how it is to be a twin.

First, you will work with words here:
https://www.ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/glosmastaren/3820

Work with the following exercises

• Click or drag the Swedish words to the correct English translation:  https://www.ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/lucktext/5152
• Fill in the missing word: https://www.ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/lucktext/5159

Read (listen) the text in What´s up 7, page 16-17. 

If you have time left, work with "Did you get it?" (page 17, Textbook)

Write down your answers in your notebook. 

Listening

 Practice your listening skills by listening to conversations on different topics and then answer questions. The activities come in different difficulty levels.

EASY - https://www.esl-lab.com/easy/

INTERMEDIATE - https://www.esl-lab.com/intermediate/

DIFFICULT - https://www.esl-lab.com/difficult/