Time for English

Let's cook breakfast!

Watch a role play on this video. Two girls love to cook.

This video was made for students in Japan who are learning English.
  - Purple Mary

Sara makes humus and pita bread

Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!

Look at the picture. Discuss the questions with a classmate.

1. Do you like to eat in restaurants?

2. What is your favorite restaurant?

3. What foods do you like to order?

4. What is the problem in the photo?

Watch the video "There's a fly in my soup." It is about a customer in a restaurant. He has a problem, and the waiter is not very helpful.

After you watch the video, answer the questions in the quiz. When you finish, check your results.

My dad's Mexican restaurant

In this video, a young boy talks about his father's Mexican
restaurant. There are new vocabulary words in this video. 
Find the new words in the word search below. Click on the
first and the last letters of each word.

Make Your Own Word Search

 

Now watch the video and listen to the boy.

Do you like fruit?

   
 Photos: Sandy Peters

 Learn fruit words.

Use Quizlet fruit flashcards to learn fruit vocabulary. Look at a photo and read the word. Click the  audio button to listen to the pronunciation.  You can also enlarge the flashcard. Click on the small box with 4 arrows. Then click the arrow to go to the next fruit vocabulary word.

Have a conversation about fruit.

A: What's your favorite fruit?
B: I like grapes. Do you?
A: I prefer strawberries.

Say the fruit words.

Go to eflnet.com and click on each fruit to hear the pronunciation. Listen to and say the words. Then click on the arrow at the bottom of the page to see more fruits. There are four pages.
  
Match fruit words with pictures of fruit.

Go to elfnet.com and drag the words to the correct picture of fruit.

Write the fruit words.

 Write the names of the fruits in the boxes. Then click "Check Score." (learningenglishfeelgood.com)

Play spelling games.

• Play Hangman with fruit words. (learningenglishfeelgood.com.)
  
  
• Unscramble the fruit words. (manythings.org)

Take a poll - What's your favorite fruit?

Click on your favorite fruit. If it's not on the list,
write it in the blank space next to "Other." Then
click on "View Results" to see what fruits other
people like.

Fruit salad! Yummy, yummy!

Listen to the song, Fruit Salad - Yummy Yummy by the Wiggles. Read the words as you listen to the song.

Now watch 5 funny 'cooks" make a fruit salad. They explain how they prepare the salad and sing the Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy song.

Sarah makes a fruit salad.

Sarah is from New Zealand. She makes a fruit salad.

Go to Sarah's The Daily English Show to read the transcript of this video. (#888 Fruit Salad)

Vegetables - vocabulary words

Here are some vegetable vocabulary words.
Look at the photos. Listen to the words. Read the words.

Which vegetables do you eat?

   
 Photos: Sandy Peters

Conversation:

A: Do you eat corn?
B: Yes, I like most vegetables, but not peppers.
A: Really? Well, I don't like cabbage.

Pronunciation:

 Go to eflnet.com and click on each vegetable to hear the pronunciation. Listen to and say the words. There are four pages. Click on the arrows at the bottom of the page.

Spelling game:

Play a vegetables Memory Game at elfnet.com.