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Introducing yourself and other people

Introducing yourself and others

There is a range of ways to introduce yourself and people.

Introducing yourself:

Here are expressions to introduce yourself:

My name is ...

I'm ....

Nice to meet you; I'm ...

Pleased to meet you; I'm ...

Let me introduce myself; I'm ...

I'd like to introduce myself; I'm ...

Introducing others:

Here are expressions to introduce others:

Jack, please meet Nicolas.

Jack, have you met Nicolas?

I'd like you to meet Liza.

I'd like to introduce you to Betty.

Leila, this is Barbara. Barbara this is Leila.

Useful responses when introducing yourself or other people:

Nice to meet you.

Pleased to meet you.

Happy to meet you.

How do you do?

Dialogue:

Alex is talking to the new manager and his assistant. Notice how they introduce themselves:

Things to remember:

When introducing yourself or other people in a formal situation use full names. ("I'm Alex Litterman.")

"How do you do?" isn't really a question, it just means "Hello"

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ESL/EFL Speaking lessons - Introducing people and oneself in English

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There is a range of ways to introduce yourself and people. Introducing yourself: Here are expressions to introduce yourself: My name is ... I'm .... Nice to meet you; I'm ... Pleased to meet you; I'm ... Let me introduce myself; I'm ... I'd like to introduce myself; I'm ...

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Talking about likes and dislikes

Expressing likes and dislikes

To talk about your likes and dislikes, you can use these expressions.

Expressing likes:

Expressing dislikes:

Examples of likes and dislikes :

I'm mad about basketball, but I can't bear ice hockey.
I adore reading poetry, but I loathe do ing the housework.

If you neither like nor dislike something:

"I don't mind doing the housework."

Things to remember about likes and dislikes:

1. When these expressions are followed by a verb, the latter is put in the -ing form.
Examples:

"I like listening to music."
"I hate wearing sunglasses."

2. Note that" very much" & " a lot" always come after the things you like.
Examples:

"I like basketball very much/a lot. NOT" I like very much/a lot basketball."

3. Be careful when you use "I don't mind..."
Examples:

"Do you mind playing football?"
"No, I don't mind."(Although it's in a negative form, it means that it's ok for me. I neither love it nor hate it.)

Dialogue:
Steve is at home. His girlfriend comes in...Notice how they express their likes and dislikes

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EFL/ESL speaking leeons - Talking about likes and dislikes in English

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To talk about your likes and dislikes, you can use these expressions. Expressing likes: Expressing dislikes: Examples of likes and dislikes : I'm mad about basketball, but I can't bear ice hockey. I adore reading poetry, but I loathe do ing the housework. If you neither like nor dislike something: "I don't mind doing the housework."

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Asking For And Giving Permission

Asking for and giving permission:

When you ask for permission to use something that belongs to someone else you have to do your best to be polite. It is desirable to use the word " please."

Asking for Permission:

Can I go out, please?

May I open the window, please?

Please, can I have a look at your photo album?

Please, may I taste that hot spicy couscous dish?

Do you mind if I smoke?

Would you mind if I asked you something?

Is it okay if I sit here?

Would it be all right if I borrowed your mobile Phone?

Giving Permission:

Yes, please do.

Sure, go ahead.

Sure.

No problem.

Please feel free.

Refusing to give permission:

No, please don't.

I'm sorry, but that's not possible.

I'm afraid, but you can't.

Dialogue:

Liza, eight years old, is asking her mother for permission to use the computer...

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When you ask for permission to use something that belongs to someone else you have to do your best to be polite. It is desirable to use the word " please." Asking for Permission: Can I go out, please? May I open the window, please? Please, can I have a look at your photo album?

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present continuous (progressive)

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English grammar exercises and quizzes online. Free exercises on infinitives

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Solution - Black Rhino

Black rhinos are the smaller of the two African rhino species. The most notable difference between white and black rhinos are their hooked upper lip. This distinguishes them from the white rhino, which has a square lip. Black rhinos are browsers rather than grazers, and their pointed lip helps them feed on leaves from bushes and trees. They have two horns, and occasionally a third, small posterior horn.

Populations of black rhino declined dramatically in the 20th century at the hands of European hunters and settlers. Between 1960 and 1995, black rhino numbers dropped by a sobering 98%, to less than 2,500. Since then, the species has made a tremendous comeback from the brink of extinction. Thanks to persistent conservation efforts across Africa, black rhino numbers have doubled from their historic low 20 years ago to between 5,042 and 5,455 today. However, the black rhino is still considered critically endangered, and a lot of work remains to bring the numbers up to even a fraction of what it once was-and to ensure that it stays there. Wildlife crime-in this case, poaching and black-market trafficking of rhino horn-continues to plague the species and threaten its recovery.
Why are they endangered?
Of all the threats facing black rhinos, poaching is the deadliest. Black rhinos have two horns which make them lucrative targets for the illegal trade in rhino horn A wave of poaching for rhino horn rippled through Kenya and Tanzania, continued south through Zambia's Luangwa Valley as far as the Zambezi River, and spread into Zimbabwe. Political instability and wars have greatly hampered rhino conservation work in Africa, notably in Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan. This situation has exacerbated threats such as trade in rhino horn and increased poaching due to poverty.

Today, black rhinos remain critically endangered because of rising demand for rhino horn, from some Asian consumers, particularly in Vietnam and China, who use them in folk remedies. A recent increase in poaching in South Africa threatens to erase our conservation success, reaching an apex in 2014 when 1,215 rhinos were poached. Poaching numbers are slowly decreasing-1,054 were poached in 2016-but poaching continues unabated with numbers remaining unsustainably high.

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Free online jigsaw puzzle 02 - Olympiad tester

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Solution - Black Rhino Black rhinos are the smaller of the two African rhino species. The most notable difference between white and black rhinos are their hooked upper lip. This distinguishes them from the white rhino, which has a square lip.

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Cross River gorillas live in a region populated by many humans who have encroached upon the gorilla's territory-clearing forests for timber and to create fields for agriculture and livestock.

WWF and partners have worked with the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria to create a protected area for the Cross River gorilla that spans the border of these two nations.
Why are they endangered?
The hunting and killing of gorillas is illegal in Cameroon and Nigeria, but enforcement of wildlife laws is often lax.

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Free online jigsaw puzzle | Animals 03 - Olympiad tester

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Cross River gorillas live in a region populated by many humans who have encroached upon the gorilla's territory-clearing forests for timber and to create fields for agriculture and livestock. WWF and partners have worked with the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria to create a protected area for the Cross River gorilla that spans the border of these two nations.

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Capitalization

Capitalization rules

Capitalization is the writing of a word with the first letter as upper-case letter (A,B, C, D,...) and the rest of the word as lower-case letters (a,b,c,d,...)

This is a summary of the capitalization.

Read the capitalization rules and study the examples given.

The rules

Capitalize the first word in a sentence.

They arrived late. They had dinner and went to sleep.

The first word in a quote.

He said, "You are fantastic."

Capitalize " I ".

I'm very sorry for being late. I missed the bus.

Capitalize proper nouns.

George was furious when he heard the bad news from Alice.

Capitalize names of rivers, mountains.

The Nile River is in Egypt.

The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.

The official title of a person, the initials in someone's name are capitalized

Dr. Lynch.

D. H. Lawrence is a wonderful novelist.

Days of the week, months of the year, holidays are capitalized.

We went to Paris on Monday and came back on Saturday.

The Independence Day is in July not January.

Capitalize countries, cities, languages, nationalities.

New York is more exciting than Seattle.

He lives in London, but he's not English. He's Nigerian.

He speaks English, Chinese and Japanese.

The first word in each line of a poem.

"Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts."
Shakespeare.
Punctuation Rules

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future: be going to ( i am going to work )

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Put in the verbs in brackets into the gaps and form sentences. Use going to-future.

Example:

She a present for her mother. (to buy)

Answer:

She is going to buy a present for her mother. or
She's going to buy a present for her mother.

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Punctuation

Punctuation rules

Punctuation marks are symbols which

1. organize the structure of written language,

2. and indicate intonation and pauses to be observed when reading aloud.

Punctuation marks are also used to avoid ambiguity. For example, "woman, without her man, is nothing" has a different meaning from "woman: without her, man is nothing"

This is a summary of punctuation rules.

Read the punctuation rules and study the examples given.

End punctuation marks:

1. Full stop , or period (.)

Used a full stop at the end of a sentence:
She stood up and went away. She was furious.

Used for abbreviations:
Co. (Company)
M.P. (Member of Parliament)

2. Question marks (?)

Question marks are used at the end of direct questions:
Where do you live?
Are you crazy?
Did you do the homework?

Use a question mark at the end of tag questions:
You will help me, won't you?
He likes soccer, doesn't he?

3. Exclamation marks (!)

Used to indicate strong emotions:
She's so beautiful!
What a nice girl!
How interesting!

Used after interjections:
Oh! It's awful.
Hi! What's up?

Commas (,)

Commas are used between items in a series or list. The last two items of the series usually do not need a comma between them. They are separated by "and".
I like spaghetti, fish, pizza and couscous.

Commas are also used between adjectives or adverbs:
I'd like to have a big, black, German car.
She speaks slowly, quietly and eloquently.

After the street address and city in an address:
34 Hassan II Street, Rabat, Morocco.

Before or after direct speech:
He said,"I hate being treated like that."
"I'm sorry", she replied.

Before a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
He woke up late, so he had to drive to work.

Semicolons (;)

Semicolons are used instead of a full stop or period to separate independent sentences:
They woke up early; then they went jogging.

Use a semicolon to separate items in a series when those items contain punctuation such as a comma:
They visited the Eiffel Tower, Paris; Big Ben, London; and the statue of liberty, New York

Colons (:)

Use a colon to introduce a list:
He visited three cities last summer holiday: Madrid, Roma and Athens.

To introduce an idea or an explanation:
He had one idea in mind: to see her as soon as possible.

To introduce direct speech or a quotation:
The secretary whispered in his ear: "Your wife is on the phone. "

Dashes (--)

To introduce parenthetical information:
I put on a blue jacket --the one my mother bought me-- and blue jeans.

To show an afterthought:
I explained to him my point of view-- at least I tried!

Apostrophes (')

Use an apostrophe to indicate a missing letter or letters in a contraction.
I'm fed up with his stories

Use an apostrophe plus the letter "s" to show possession.
My brother's girlfriend is such a sweet girl.

Quotation marks ("")

Quotation marks are used to quote speech, sentences or words.
She said, "I love you."
Capitalization rules

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Bornean orangutan populations have declined by more than 50% over the past 60 years, and the species' habitat has been reduced by at least 55% over the past 20 years.

The Bornean orangutan differs in appearance from the Sumatran orangutan, with a broader face and shorter beard and also slightly darker in color. Three subspecies are recognized, each localized to different parts of the island:

Northwest Bornean orangutans are the most threatened subspecies. Its habitat has been seriously affected by logging and hunting, and a mere 1,500 individuals or so remain.
Why are they endangered?
Orangutan numbers and distribution have declined rapidly since the middle of the 20th century, due to human activities. These include hunting, unsustainable and often illegal logging, mining, and conversion of forests to agriculture. One particularly catastrophic event was the 1997-98 forest fires in Kalimantan, which killed up to 8,000 individual orangutans.

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Free online jigsaw puzzle 03 - Olympiad tester

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Shapes worksheets and online activities. Free interactive exercises to practice online or download as pdf to print.

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Drag and drop words and expressions to their correct translations.

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film

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a period of 24 hours

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the planet where we live

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a building where you go to watch movies

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one of the twelve periods of time that a year is divided into

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Listening exercises for esl - short audio stories for esl learners: beginners and elementary level.

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Story by Bertie
Illustration by Bertie/Storynory/Midjourney
Narration by Natasha

Katie returns in a new tale in which she gets into trouble, big trouble, at school.

Katie has twice as much school work to do as all the other kids. She has to learn loads and loads of magic spells, as well as her written spelling, arithmetic, geography, french and history. She finds that it's ever so tempting just to use a little bit of magic in her ordinary school exams. And that's when her trouble begins.

Story by Bertie.

Read by Natasha. Duration 16.15.

Proofread by Jana Elizabeth.

It was summer. The school year had almost come to an end, and everyone was looking forward to the long holidays.

In fact, everyone would have been really, really happy, except for one thing.

Before the holidays, they had to do exams. And nobody likes to do exams, unless they are the swottiest of swots.

And Katie didn't think that exams were at all nice.

No matter how good you are at magic, you still have to remember things for yourself. And Katie had twice as much to learn as all the other children.

She had to do the witch exams as well as the ordinary school exams.

She did the witch exams in the evenings - and her mum gave her four and a half stars for her work. But then she had to get ready for the tests at her school.

"Mum, it's not fair" she complained. "I have to learn so many magic spells. And I have to learn all the school lessons too."

"Well just think yourself lucky," said Mum. "Other children have to tidy their rooms, but you can just say a magic spell and it's done just like that!"

So Katie sat in her room and tried to read her school books. But to tell you the truth, she also looked out of the window and made up fairy tales about herself.

Only in the stories, she wasn't a witch. She was a beautiful princess who could also do magic tricks.

When exam week came, the first test was spelling. If it had been magic spelling, Katie would have been alright. But in this test the teacher read out words like "accommodation" and "Mississippi" and other words that are tricky to spell.

Katie was really cross. She thought the teacher had chosen the most difficult words just to be mean.

That wasn't fair.

So she tried a little magic. She couldn't say a spell out loud, because everyone would hear.

So she just thought the words in her head really hard - and Wow! It worked. Her pen wrote the correct spellings all by itself.

Next they had to do maths problems. Katie could do the first few - because they were easy-peasy - but then there was a mean question about a monkey and some bananas.

So she thought up another magic spell, and again her pen wrote down the right answer.

In history, she had to remember all the names of the gods of ancient Egypt.

And in geography she had to remember the capital cities of Europe.

And in french she had to remember some really, really tricky words like "le singe est sur la branche " which means "the monkey is on the branch."

In fact, all the exams had mean questions in them. And in every case, a little magic spell came in handy.

In fact, the magic worked so well for Katie that she thought to herself: "Why should I bother learning all these stupid things? I can just say a magic spell and my pen will write the answer."

The week after that, the teacher finished marking all the papers.

She told the class that they had all done very well, especially Katie who had scored top marks in every exam. She hadn't got a single answer wrong.

"Wow Katie," said Julie. "You're a genius."

The teacher said: "Congratulations Katie. You certainly did very well. Maybe too well. I think that you and I should go and have a little talk with Mrs Hepworth."

And Katie felt just a bit worried.

Because Mrs Hepworth is the head mistress. And when you go to have a little talk with Mrs Hepworth, that usually means that you are in trouble.

Big trouble!

At lunchtime, the teacher took Katie to see Mrs Hepworth. She explained that Katie had got top marks in all her exams and hadn't got a single question wrong.

"You are a very naughty girl," said Mrs Hepworth.

And Katie started to cry.

And to cry.

And to cry.

And the teacher dried her tears with a handkerchief.

"There there," she said.

Eventually Katie stopped crying.

"Do you know why you are a naughty girl?" asked Mrs Hepworth.

Katie said: "You're just cross with me because I'm a witch and I know how to do magic. That's really mean of you because I can't help being a witch. I was born that way."

"Now you are talking nonsense." said Mrs Hepworth. There are no such things as witches or magic. You are in trouble because you cheated in the exams."

"I did not not NOT!" said Katie.

"Just tell us how you did it, and we will let you off - this time," said the teacher.

Katie knew that she was in big trouble. She just wanted to run out of the study and all the way back home to her mum. But she couldn't do that, so she thought she had better own up.

"Well I did do a few magic spells," she said. "Just little ones."

But they didn't believe her.

"Oh dear. What are we going to do with this problem child?" said the teacher.

"Katie." said Mrs Hepworth. "You are in big, big trouble. You have till the end of term to tell us how you cheated in the exams. If you don't tell the truth by then, you won't be coming back to school next term. We don't have girls who make up stories about witches and magic in this school. Goodness gracious! You'll be frightening all the other children with these silly stories."

And Katie was very very sad about that, because she was telling the truth about being a witch.

And it wasn't fair.

It was the last week of term. And before the holidays, the school always had a special treat. This term, Katie's class went on a trip to the safari park.

It was a big park full of wild animals from places like Africa. There were giraffes, and elephants, and long-legged deer called gazelles.

Katie's class were all safe inside the bus, and they looked out of the window at all the animals. It was ever so cool. Everyone was really excited and happy.

Except for Katie. She was sad because she was still in big, big trouble.

The best animals were the chimpanzees. They climbed all over the bus. The driver got really cross when they stole his windscreen wipers. Everyone else thought that was ever so funny.

And the lions were good too. Even if they were a bit scary.

They had lunch in a restaurant on top of a tall rock. The rock was on a big island surrounded by water. And in the water there were crocodiles.

And the crocodiles were really scary.

Even more scary than the lions.

There was boy in Katie's class called Clive. Clive was always doing silly things. But the teachers didn't seem to mind.

Clive never got into trouble, however silly he was.

But then, he didn't know how to do magic. So that was probably why he always got away with things.

In the restaurant, Clive did something very silly indeed. He asked to go to the loo, and on the way back, he went through a door that said:

"Staff Only."

And from there he went down a corridor and found a special room.

It was the room which they used to feed the crocodiles.

It had a window and the keepers threw meat out of it, down into the river. And somebody had left the window open.

Clive climbed up to look through the window. Then he saw that if you climbed out of the window, you could get onto the rocks. He thought it would be really cool to walk around the rocks, and look in at the other children eating their lunch. They would get a really big surprise to see him out there.

So that's what he did.

Only he slipped on a banana skin left by a monkey. Then, he fell down the rocks and broke his ankle. Fortunately, one of the keepers saw him and sounded the alarm.

Everyone in the restaurant rushed to the window to look out, and they saw Clive lying on a rock near the river. A crocodile was waddling slowly towards him. Its face had a sort of smile on it, and its tail was swishing.

Everyone screamed.

Except for Katie and Wendy.

Wendy knew that Katie was a witch because once she had turned her into a toad for a short time.

"Katie. Do something. You're the only one who can save poor Clive. Just say a magic spell. Quick!!!!"

Mrs Hepworth heard this. But she was too frightened to tell off either Wendy or Katie. After all, poor Clive was looking into the jaws of a crocodile.

Katie thought really hard about what would be the best magic spell to do. And then she decided: "I know. I will make Clive fly."

Fortunately, she knew the spell to make somebody fly, off by heart. She had learned it when she was getting ready for her witch exams. Now she shouted it out at the top of her voice.

I can't tell you what she said, because it's a secret. But it worked well, because everyone saw Clive rise up in the air, and gently fly back up to the restaurant.

Even the crocodile was impressed.

Then Katie said another spell to make everyone forget what they had just seen.

Except for the crocodile.

And Mrs Hepworth.

After that, Katie wasn't in trouble any more. Because Mrs Hepworth now knew that she was telling the truth when she said she was a witch.

And Katie was glad that she had worked very hard that term - to learn all her magic spells. And when she got home and told her family what had happened, her mum gave her another half star for passing her witch exams.

So now Katie is a five star witch.

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The story about the time that Katie got into BIG TROUBLE at school, just because she's a witch. It was all terribly unfair. Then the chance came to prove how useful her magic could be.

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Alice, Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole - Storynory

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Alice continues her out-of-the way experience as she stretches like a telescope, and then almost shrinks away altogether. She has a wonderful conversation with her feet, she fears that she might have become Mabel, and she dreadfully offends a mouse. It all ends in tears - so many tears that Alice and the mouse are swimming in them.

Natasha continues her fabulous reading of the full and unabridged text by Lewis Carroll. Duration 14 minutes.

The Alice Chapters are collected here.
CHAPTER II The Pool of Tears

Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure I shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.'

And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. `They must go by the carrier,' she thought; `and how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the directions will look!

ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
HEARTHRUG,
NEAR THE FENDER,
(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).

Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'

Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.

`You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, `a great girl like you,' (she might well say this), `to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!' But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.

After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, `If you please, sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: `Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!' And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.

`I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, `for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, she's she, and I'm I, and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome--no, that's all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "How doth the little--"' and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--

`How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

`How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!'

`I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, `I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, `I do wish they would put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all alone here!'

As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking. `How can I have done that?' she thought. `I must be growing small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

`That was a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; `and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, `and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child, `for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'

As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

`I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. `I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.'

Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.

Alice with Mouse in pool of tears

`Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, `to speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in trying.' So she began: `O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, `A mouse--of a mouse--to a mouse--a mouse--O mouse!' The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.

`Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she began again: `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright. `Oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. `I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'

`Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. `Would you like cats if you were me?'

`Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: `don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, `and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended. `We won't talk about her any more if you'd rather not.'

`We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail. `As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!'

`I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. `Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?' The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: `There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds! He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, `I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.

So she called softly after it, `Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't like them!' When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, `Let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'

It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.

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Alice, Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears - Storynory

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The Pool of Tears. Alice continues her out-of-the way experience as she stretches like a telescope, and then almost shrinks away alltogether. She has a wonderful conversation with her feet, and she dreadfully offends a mouse. It all ends in tears - so many tears that Alice and the mouse are swimming in them.

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ESL, Memory Games, Concentration Games, Word Recognition Games

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ESL Memory Games, Concentration Games, Vocabulary Memory Games, Grammar Memory Games, Games for ESL Kids, Word Recognition Games, Word Spelling Game, Theme Vocabulary Memory Games

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pronouns

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the comparative and superlative  adjectives 4

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the comparative and superlative  adjectives 4

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Exercise on English Adjectives - English Grammar

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Comparison of Adjectives :: page Default

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Kylie Cantrall - I Do My Thing (From "Gabby Duran & The Unsittables")

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by Queen

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song by Mickael Jackson

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BY Queen

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An exercise about comparative adjectives.

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Comparison of adjectives in English sentences - Exercises

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Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Lyrics) ft. Billy Ray Cyrus

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verb to be past  exercice

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Verb to be - past simple online worksheet for Grade 4. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf.

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jobs

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An ESL game to learn and review jobs language in English. You can see and listen to jobs words in English.

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Parts of plants model || Parts of plants project || science model for school project

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You can set this page as a homework task for a group of students; doing so will give you a record of who has completed the task. Visit the teacher's section for more information.

You can share this page by using the link below.

This game is for practicing past tense English verbs. It is intended to be used by ESL (English as a second language) students, to review past participles. The aim of this game is not to explain or communicate the concept of past tense, rather it is just to practice using past tense. The concept of past tense is difficult to illustrate visually and really is better explained by a teacher in a classroom. So, this game is really just intended as a tool to practice verbs and sentences in past tense. The language used is quite basic, but I think it covers almost all of the basic past tense verb forms (regular and irregular) and a few more difficult ones.

There are 3 different tasks in the game. In the first task, you simply have to drag the verbs to match present to past tense forms. The second task requires you to choose the correct word to complete the sentence. Finally, for the third task you have to reorder the phrase. This sequence repeats with different sets of content.

There is also a review screen in which you can see each verb with its past-participle and an image to convey the meaning.

The game uses a timer to give an element of challenge to the game. The timer can be turned of by clicking on the settings button in game.

There are 22 sets of content. Each set has 8 verbs, with a matching image and sentence to convey meaning and context. This gives a total of 176 items. These were selected from lists of basic verbs in English with a slight bias towards choosing irregular past tense forms; although, some verbs that were hard to represent visually were excluded. For example, it is quite difficult to draw an image to show the meaning of the verb 'decide'. I hope that almost all the basic verbs are covered here and that by mastering this game, students will have a comprehensive mastery of all the basic past tense forms.

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Practice past tense verbs online. This game is of ESL students to learn regular and irregular past tense verbs online for free. You look at the pictures and then click on the right verbs.

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ESL Interactive Fun Games

Here we have the games carefully laid out for you. Follow the links to browse the variety of games offered. This is only the directory for interactive games and exercises. Our ESL fun games here include : Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes, Catch it and more. These games provide the ultimate fun in practising the following skills:

Games for Practising Grammar: Present simple/present progressive games, past tense games, present perfect games, comparative/Superlatives and more...

Games for practising English vocabulary: Lots of games by topics and game types

Games to practice English pronunciation, phonetics and phonics.

Games and exercises to practice reading, spelling and lexis

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Past Simple Tense Game, Regular/Irregular Verbs- Snakes and Ladders Game

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ESL Interactive Fun Games Here we have the games carefully laid out for you. Follow the links to browse the variety of games offered. This is only the directory for interactive games and exercises. Our ESL fun games here include : Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes, Catch it and more.

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regular verbs

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appearance

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Describing People's Appearance and Personality Conversation

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verb to be past  video

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Past Simple Tense be - was / were: Fun & Interactive English Grammar ESL Video

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SHORT STORY   WATCHING /  LISTENING  /READING

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One day Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her granny. Who will she meet in the wood? Watch and find out!

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adverbs of frequency

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SIMPLE PRESENT AND PAST

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A DOG S LIFE    WATCHING /  LISTENING  /READING

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Dino the family dog helps to keep people safe on the roads. What did he do last week? Watch and find out!

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3D Paper Birds Making Tutorial - DIY Crafts ||3D Room decor || Paper Pigeons Making

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3D Paper Birds Making Tutorial - DIY Crafts ||3D Room decor || Paper Pigeons Making

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How To Make Beautiful Butterfly | Paper Butterfly toturial | Butterfly Cutting

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BY Queen

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song by Mickael Jackson

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dance monkey

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by imagine dragons

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present continuous