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Check Answers button. If you are stuck, press the Hint button to get a letter.

Across
1. opposite of 'light'
5. short for 'Alfred'
6. opposite of 'outside'
9. goes round the Earth
10. informal 'thank you'
11. very big
13. one before eleven
15. you can live in it
17. vegetarians don't eat it
19. not clear
20. past tense of 'run'
21. past tense of 'bite'
23. opens doors

Down
1. stops the water on a river
2. without others
3. ruler of a country
4. past tense of 'meet'
7. it's in the sky
8. a man's first name
12. one of your fingers
13. it is money!
14. not far
16. this or ...
18. a vehicle used in war
22. you find it in a pen

Copyright (C) 1997 by Elek Mathe ( mathelek@westel900.net)
Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students is at http://iteslj.org/cw/

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Check Answers button. If you are stuck, press the Hint button to get a letter. 1. opposite of 'light' 5. short for 'Alfred' 6. opposite of 'outside' 9. goes round the Earth 10. informal 'thank you' 11. very big 13. one before eleven 15. you can live in it 17.

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Theme: Health and Environment
Title: A Good Night's Sleep

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British Council - LearnEnglish Teens - LearnEnglish Teens - Listening skills practice

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LearnEnglish Teens - Listening skills practice

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After listening to the audio (in Listening Practice 01a), answer the worksheet given.

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Transport
Type the code:773280

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Find quizzes on any topic and practice or compete with friends.

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Hi, guys. Please watch this Video 01 to see how to change verbs into nouns.

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After watching the Video 01, complete this worksheet.

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Snack

Hi, guys. Please read this article and answer the questions given. (in Reading Comprehension 01b)

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Practise making sentences in the correct way.

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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.

In the teachers section you can also get embeddable code to add this game to your blog or webpage. You can also create direct links to this page with content pre-selected.

This is a game for practicing English sentence formation. It is primarily aimed at ESL (English as a second language) students. To play, you select a set of content to play with, and then make sentences by clicking on word bubbles. As you make sentences, the bubbles disappear and slowly the board is cleared.

The idea behind this game is to have players practice forming sentences in a fun way. Rather than just click on boxes or words to make sentences, which can get a bit boring, this game tries to make it more engaging. This is done by making it similar to a bejeweled type of game. In that genre, you have a board of gems, candies or other items and you have to match them, make them disappear and in doing so, slowly clear the whole board. The idea with this game is to have similar game play, except instead of matching jewels, players form English sentences. Bubbles are used to enclose individual words so that they can be combined in different ways. They are particularly good for this purpose as they are appealing while also hollow so as to allow the words to be displayed clearly.

Simply forming sentences, which useful in some ways, can be criticized as being dry and lacking in context. It is questionable as to whether a player is really learning much or acquiring language if they are just forming sentences abstractly. I think that language acquisition really needs a context of meaning that the language can be attached to. If you take the example of the phrase, 'He is turning on the TV'. If you can get a learner to practice forming this sentence, then it can be useful to re-enforce grammar and also the collocation of 'turning on' with 'TV'. However, it is vastly more useful if the learner can practice forming the sentence while also being presented with an image that elicits the meaning or idea of a guy turning the TV on. When a player forms the sentence in the matching context, the language is associated with the meaning and the language acquisition is much more effective. With this in mind, this game shows an image and requires the player to form a correct sentence which matches the meaning shown in the picture.

Forming the sentences in the correct way, getting correct forms of verbs etc, can be quite difficult. To make it somewhat easier, this game offers feedback to guide the player. As the bubbles are clicked, the sentence formed shows at the bottom of the screen. When small mistakes, such as missing words or incorrect word order, are made, red marks appear at the bottom to indicate this and to show the player how to change the sentence formation. Bigger mistakes, such as getting the verb or first word wrong, are also highlighted. Although, it's quite difficult to give an accurate correction for such mistakes and so these mistakes as simply underlined in red.

Playing the game is, hopefully, quite straightforward. You click the bubbles to select the words, re-click to deselect a word and you even click and drag the mouse over bubbles to select more quickly. When selecting bubbles, you can only select adjacent ones - as that's how this kind of game works - and to help with this, possible bubbles are highlighted in yellow.

There a couple of modes to play in. Normal mode can be quite tricky and so an easy mode is also possible. Easy mode fades out all the bubbles except the ones you must select. Then you simply have to select the remaining bubbles in the correct order. It's also possible to get a hint by clicking on the 'hint' button. When you do this, the game draws a line specifically showing the correct answer. This displays once right at the start, so as to guide the player as to how to play the game.

The game doesn't have scoring in the way that other games do, but it does keep track of the time taken to complete a set of content. At the end, a high score table is shown and players who complete a set fastest are shown at the top.

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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.

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Asking For and Giving Advice

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Writing Part 1: Phrases Used For Giving And Asking For Advice

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Theme: Consumerism and Financial Awareness
Topic: Booking A Table

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British Council - LearnEnglish listening skills

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After listening to a telephone conversation (in Listening Practice 02a), answer the worksheet given.

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Arranging To Meet

Read the conversation between Dave and Jane, who are planning to meet. Then, answer the True/False questions ( in Reading Comprehension 02b).

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Theme: Health and Environment
Topic: Global Warming

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Watch this video!!!

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Answer this worksheet after watching the video above.

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Theme: Health and Environment
Topic: Boost Your Brainpower

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Theme: Consumerism and Financial Awareness
Topic: The Charity Show
Listen to the audio. There are two friends talking about how one can help the other with an upcoming charity show.

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Mother's Day

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Meeting A Friend
Listen to the audio and answer the questions (in Listening Practice 05b).

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Favorite Things Listening Lesson with Audio and Quiz for ESL

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Favorite things listening lesson - Intermediate English lesson on listening.

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Please read the note and answer the quizzes below.

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: The First Woman Scientist

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Using Colours to Do Homework

Hi, guys. Please listen to this audio and do the exercises in Listening Practice 06b.

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British Council - LearnEnglish Teens - LearnEnglish Teens - Listening skills practice

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LearnEnglish Teens - Listening skills practice

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Changing Plans

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British Council - LearnEnglish listening skills

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: A Travel Guide to Bangkok

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Theme: People and Culture
Topic: Luck

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Hey guys. Try your best to complete the grammar exercise here.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Hey guys, please read the text below to learn more about reading. Then, answer the comprehension questions given. Good luck:)

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GRAMMAR: FORMING QUESTIONS - EXERCISE 2 (PART 1)

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GRAMMAR: FORMING QUESTIONS - EXERCISE 2 (PART 1)

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Watch this video to see how you can form questions in English.

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An easy way to form almost any question in English

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GRAMMAR: FORMING QUESTIONS - EXERCISE 2 (PART 2)

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GRAMMAR: FORMING QUESTIONS - EXERCISE 2 (PART 2)

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Look at these examples. Then, try to form questions for the underline words (in PART 2). WRITE YOUR QUESTIONS in the google form in PART 3.

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GRAMMAR: FORMING QUESTIONS - EXERCISE 2 (PART 3)

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GRAMMAR: FORMING QUESTIONS - EXERCISE 2 (PART 3)

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Write down your questions here.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.