Today's English

Learning adjectives

When's your birthday?

Watch a Real-English video: When's your birthday?

  Questions about birthdays

• When is your birthday?
• How old are you?
  
• Do you celebrate your birthday?
  

  Two kinds of numbers

 
Cardinal numbers
    1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
    6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10
  




Image: dailyclipart.net

Ordinal numbers
1st - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th - 7th - 8th - 9th - 10th
         

Watch a Real-English video by Mike Marzio. The girl counts in two ways. Listen for ordinal and cardinal numbers.

 

Using 2 kinds of numbers

Rich answers the first question with an ordinal number.  He answers the second question with a cardinal number.

Thomas: How old are you?

Richard: I'm 19.

Thomas: When's your birthday?

Richard: March 19th.

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Katch

Make a spelling list

How to make a list.

• Choose vocabulary words you learned in class.
  (Days of the week, months, personal information words,...)
• Listen to the words and the spelling of the words.
• Play games to practice spelling the words.
  
  

A rap song - months of the year

Listen to a rap song about months of the year.

A rap song - days of the week

Listen to a rap song about days of the week.

Watch a video and take a quiz

A teacher asks a student personal information questions. The student answers the questions.

Make a silent movie

Use Dvolver to make a silent movie. Use your conversation. Click here to go to Dvolver.

Two people have a conversation

Two people meet and have a conversation.
Watch a silent movie. Read their conversation.

 

Video quiz - 6-year-old boy drives a van

Video quiz - An elephant goes shopping

Video quiz - Who wins the race? The ostrich or the penguin?

• Does the penguin walk or run?
  
• Does the ostrich run fast?

Does

Asking questions - simple present

Listen to the conversations? They are asking questions in the simple present.

 

A video from English Conversation

 

"Do" and "Does" - simple present questions

Sports - play | do | go + V-ing

Practice talking about sports with Ronnie. Use the words play, go, and do.

Examples:

• I play baseball.  /  I play soccer.
  I play golf.
• I go skiing.  /  I go snowboarding.
  I go swimming.
• I do yoga.  /  I do judo.  /  I do karate.

 

Sports vocabulary

Listen to the sports vocabulary words.




Spell sports words.

Look at a list of sports words on SpellingCity.com. Click on each word to hear how it is pronounced and how it is spelled. 

Go to the game page and select games and activities under Free Activities to practice spelling the words.

A: What sports do you like?
B: I like soccer and volleyball.
A: Can you spell soccer.
B: Yes, it's spelled s - o - c -c -e - r.

Flickr Photo: Brittany Randolph

Wordsearch by Bazarsad

Make Your Own Word Search

Wordsearch by Sattam

Make Your Own Word Search

Wordsearch by Fawaz

Make Your Own Word Search

Wordsearch - short vowels a, e, i, o, u

Make Your Own Word Search

Campus life

Click on the photos on the cube to read sentences about life on a university campus.

The Surprise - The plane flies to Australia!

Practice using the vocabulary words from the reading, The Surprise.

Flickr CC photo by Zoagli

Practice the vocabulary words from the reading, The Visit. Click the words to get a quick lesson.

Drag the words to the box. Put the words in the correct order to make good sentences.