The English Cafe

26 November 2009

Thinkquest - Native Americans of South Dakota

Photo by South Dakota Tourism

Click here and find out some interesting things about Native Americans.

library.thinkquest.com

The Indigeous People of North America

Photo: earthstarspiritualcenter.org

When European explorers arrived in America in 1492 they found around 2 million indigenous people living there.
The Europeans mistakenly called them Indians, thinking they had landed in the Indies in the Far East of Asia.
The explorer Christopher Columbus made this famous mistake.
The term “Indians” stuck with the people who lived there despite not even coming from India!!!.
How rude!!
These 'Indians' belonged to at least 300 different tribes and spoke over 2,000 different languages.
Famous examples of these indigenous tribes are

_ the Cheyenne

_ the Blackfoot

_ the Comanche

_ the Sioux

Each tribe spoke a separate language, and their houses, clothes and entertainment differed. However, they all followed a similar life based on hunting and farming.
These indigenous people were related to the peoples of north eastern Asia.
It is thought that their ancestors crossed a land bridge linking Siberia to Alaska around 30,000 BC.
There was gradual movement south to the Great Plains of (the yet to be
called) America.

www.schoolhistory.co.uk

21 November 2009

Learn English with Mr Duncan - Lesson 7: Health and Exercise

13 November 2009

Some/ any and Compounds

Exercise 1 somebody, nobody, nothing, etc.
Exercise 2: every, any, whole
Exercise 3: somewhere, anywhere
Exercise 4: something, anything
Exercise 5: some/any and exceptions
Exercise 6: some/any and exceptions
Exercise 7: some/any and exceptions
Exercise 8: some/any and compounds
Exercise 9: some/any and c0mpounds
Exercise 10: some/any and c0mpounds
Exercise 11: some/any and compounds
Exercise 12: some/any and compounds
Exercise 13: some/any and compounds
Exercise 14: some/any and compounds

Source:
tolearnenglish.com
eg4u
hsgundkirchen
cernet.at
englisch-hilfen.de
english.baladre.org
lernen.schule.at
esoeonline.org
ph-linz.at

You & Me 2 - The Sporting Life

Vocabulary exercise
Words in Context

Source:
Herderschule

3 November 2009

Thanksgiving

Listen to the text and fill in the blanks with words from the drop-down menu.

My amazing Thanksgiving. By filling in words, you can create your own Thanksgiving story.

Listen to the song Turkey Blues and now do this exercise. (Click:Play this game)

The story of Thanksgiving Day. Click here.

Thanksgiving voyage is a gap-fill-in-exercise.

Source:
pagesperso-orange.fr
quia.com
lve.scola.ac-paris.fr
eduplace.com

Exercise: Mixed Tenses

Exercise 1: Simple Present - Present Progressive
Exercise 2: Simple Past - Past Progressive
Exercise 3: Present Perfect - Simple/Progressive
Exercise 4: Will-Future - Going-to-Future
Exercise 5: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 6: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 7: Present Perfect - Simple/Progressive
Exercise 8: Present Perfect - Simple/Progressive - Past
Exercise 9: A quiz on English Tenses
Exercise 10: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 11: Mixed Present and Past Tenses
Exercise 12: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 13: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 14: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 15: Mixed Present and Past Tenses
Exercise 16: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 17 : Mixed Tenses in Context - James Cook
Exercise 18: Mixed Tenses
Exercise 19: Mixed Present and Past Tenses
Exercise 20: Mixed Present and Past Tenses

Source:
rsg.rothenburg.de
englisch-hilfen.de
nonstopenglish.com
english-4u.de
testyourenglish.net
sussex.ac.uk
ilv.ucl.ac.be
ego4u.com
personales.ya.com
angoloktato.hu

Irregular Comparison

Comparison of Adjectives - A Slide Show

comparative adjectives

Irregular adjectives

good	better	best
bad	worse	worst
much	more	most	uncountable nouns
many	more	most	countable nouns
little	less	least
little	smaller	smallest

Special adjectives

Some ajdectives have two possible forms of comparison.

common	commoner / more common	commonest / most common
likely	likelier / more likely	likeliest / most likely
pleasant	pleasanter / more pleasant	pleasantest / most pleasant
polite	politer / more polite	politest / most polite
simple	simpler / more simple	simplest / most simple
stupid	stupider / more stupid	stupidest / most stupid
subtle	subtler / more subtle	subtlest
sure	surer / more sure	surest / most sure

Difference in meaning with adjectives

far	farther	farthest	distance
far	further	furthest	distance or time
late	later	latest
	latter	x
	x	last
old	older	oldest	people and things
old	elder	eldest	people (family)
near	nearer	nearest	distance
near	x	next	order

Exercise 1 with "near, late, bad, good, far, old
Exercise 2 Fill in the missing words
Exercise 3 Fill in the missing words
Exercise 4 on Comparison of Adjectives (as...as)
Exercise 5 on the text "London"
Exercise 6 late, last, later, latter, latest
Exercise 7 Comparison mixed

Source:
hsgunskirchen
englisch-hilfen.de
eg4u
rong-chang.com

24 October 2009

The History of Halloween

Watch the video to find out about the origin of Halloween

Here is another video telling the history of Halloween in words.

22 October 2009

Australia Quiz

Click here to do the quiz.
Here is another one. Try it out!
This is a cultural quiz on Australia. It is rather difficult.
This one is a piece of cake.
Do you know Australian slang? Do this quiz to learn a few words and expressions.

Aussie Slang