What do you do when you are for the first time in front of your new Year 6 class, and you realise that, whereas some pupils understand something, the majority of them don’t have the faintest idea of what you’re talking about? Well, what I did was starting with classroom expressions, greetings, and not least […]
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Phrasal Verbs!
Phrasal verbs occur often in spoken but also in written English. If you can use them properly your language sounds more natural. Face Up to Phrasals and Funky Phrasals give you the opportunity to practice them with explanations, lots of examples and funny dialogues. You can also play a game based on the first series. […]
Test Prep!
I’ve selected a few activities and links you can use if you want to practise for the last class test (remember also the exercises in your workbook and the vocab in the text book). 1. The first one is about text messaging and the language of it. After you’ve done the activity you can scroll […]
Permissions and Abilities
I hope you had a nice Easter. I had a wonderful Easter with all my kids (4) around me, eating chocolate until they were on a sugar high for hours. School starts again soon, so here is something to get you tuned in to our English lessons. It’s about permissions (to allow/to be allowed to) […]
Working with Concordances
Today’s assignment is a continuation of our today’s work in the class. Using the Cobuild Corpus Concordancer you found out that uncountable nouns work with the word ‘much’ whether (während) the countable ones work with ‘many.’ Well, using the same concordancer, try to find out which words work with countable / uncountable nouns if you want to […]