Question with do/does

Question with full verbs (Hauptzeitwörtern) in Present Tense.
Ask for the underlined word.

In this exercise you again learn how to form the Question with do/does and you practise to ask for the underlined word.
I know you can do it :-)






Source: Herderschule

Exercises for the Test

Paste and copy the following sentences into a Word-file, print them out, do the exercises and check the answers by clicking here.

Fill in the correct Personal/Possessive Pronoun:

1 I cannot find ______ pen. Peter, can you help _____ looking for ____?
2 Brenda likes reading. ________ parents are going to buy books for ______ .
3 Susan and Tom wait for ______ teachers. They want to talk to ______.
4 We often play football with ______ friends. They like to play with ____, too.

Fill in the correct question words:

1 _____ sits in front of you? - Sandra.
2 _____ are you, Frank? - Fine, thanks.
3 _____ is your hamster? - In the kitchen.
4 _____ do you do your homework? - In the afternoon.
5 _____ many teachers have you got? - Ten.
6 _____ knows her telephone number? - Ann.
7 _____ much are these trousers? - 30 pounds.
8 _____ do you want for breakfast? - Cornflakes.

Exercises for the Test

Exercise 1 - Present Tense Simple - Progressive
Exercise 2 - Present Tense Simple
Exercise 3 - Yes/No - Questions
Exercise 4 - why - how - what - where - when

Source:
Teacher.Schule.at

Exercises for the Test

Exercise 1 - a - an - some
Exercise 2 - Mr Parker's cat
Exercise 3 - My brother Christopher
Exercise 4 - Personal Pronouns
Exercise 5 - What you want






Source:
Herderschule
The Englishlearner

Unit 18

Exercise 1 - Words Unit 18

Exercise 2 - Wordorder

Source: Herderschule

Present Tense Simple - Present Tense Continuous

Some more exercises to practise the Present Tense.
Exercise 1 - Present Tense Simple or Continuous
Exercise 2 - Present Tense Simple or Continuous

The Superstars

Landart

Key: If-Clauses Type 1:
1 studies 2 will go 3 gets 4 will stay 5 will come 6 will succeed 7 is 8 will go 9 plays 10 do’nt shut 11 will not come/won’t come 12 does not find 13 will you do 14 are 15 don’t stop 16 will get 17 must call/ will have to call 18 don’t change 19 don’t stop 20 will stay 21 don’t turn down 22 do you put 23 will wake up 24 is 25 doesn’t drive

Key :
Comparison with exceptional forms
1 worse
2 last
3 nearest
4 next
5 nearest/next
6 further
7 elder
8 next
9 less
10 best/worst
11 later
12 latest
13 worse
14 latest/last
15 fewest
16 farther
17 last
18 nearest
19 further
20 latest

Adverb-Adjective
1 in a friendly way
2 really bad
3 useful/easy/easily/correcz
4 extremely small
5 pretty/prettily
6 angry/loudly
7 terribly cold
8 fresh
9 good/nice
10 really good/ extremely hard
11 happy
12 strange/true
13 quickly/angrily
14 extremely fast
15 badly hurt




must- have to/ need not - don't have to


1 He did not have to learn.
2 Do you have to learn?
3 Did you have to learn?
4 I did not have to learn.
5 I will not/won't have to learn.
6 He had to learn.
7 Will we have to learn?
8 Does he have to learn?
9 We need not learn/ We don't have to learn.
10 We have to learn.
11 Will she have to learn?
12 Will I have to learn?
13 You didn't have to learn.
14 You don't have to learn.
15 You will not/ won't have to learn.
16 We will have to learn.
17 Do they have to learn?
18 You didn't have to learn.
19 You have to learn.
20 I had to learn.

Rainy day

Rainy days are perfect for listening to stories, aren't they?

Here is one that you all know.

Hansel and Gretel - Loudspeakers !

Hangman

Family Members - Hangman

Source:
manythings.org

Family and relatives

Let’s start with the words mother and father.
Both of them together are our parents.
If we call them, we often say mum/ mummy or dad/ daddy.
In North America, people say mom.
We are their children.
A girl is their daugther, a boy is their son.

Our parents’ parents are our grandparents.
Grandmother is also called gran, grandma or granny.
Grandfather is also called granddad, granddaddy or grandpa.
We are their grandchildren.
A girl is their granddaughter, a boy is their grandson.

A sister of our father’s or our mother’s is our aunt.
A brother of our father’s or our mother’s is our uncle.
Their children are our cousins.
When it is a boy it is our parents’ nephew, when it is a girl it is our parents niece.

Confusing??
Well - Here is part 2:

The man is the woman’s husband.
The woman is the man’s wife.
For the man, his wife’s parents are his parents-in-law: his mother-in-law and his father-in-law.
His wife’s sister is his sister-in-law and his wife’s brother is his brother-in-law.
The same is with the woman and her husband’s relatives.

Still confused?
I don’t think so, it is as clear as mud
;-)

clear as mud = confusing and unclear

Words:

aunt - Tante
baby brother - kleiner Bruder
boyfriend - Freund (für Mädchen)
bride - Braut
brother - Bruder
cousin - Cousin, Cousine
dad - Vati

daughter - Tochter
father - Vater
father-in-law - Schwiegervater
friend - Freundin (für Mädchen);Freund (für Junge)
grandfather, granddad, grandpa Großvater, Opa
girlfriend - Freundin (für Junge)

godchild - Patenkind
godfather - Patenonkel
godmother - Patentante
grandchild - grandchildren (Plural) Enkel
granddaughter - Enkelin
grandmother, grandma - Großmutter,
grandson - Enkel (Junge)

great-grandparents - Urgroßeltern
groom - Bräutigam
half-brother - Halbbruder
husband - Ehemann
mother - Mutter
mother-in-law - Schwiegermutter
mum, mummy, mom (AE) - Mutti

nephew - Neffe
niece - Nichte
parent - Elternteil
parents - Eltern
sister - Schwester
son - Sohn
stepbrother - Stiefbruder

twin - Zwilling
twin-brother - Zwillingsbruder
uncle - Onkel
wife - Ehefrau

The Body - Memory

Just click on the link and do the Memory Game.
Have fun !

The Body - Memory

Source: Monika Konietzko

Book Reviews

Between two worlds
by Stephen Rabley

Joanna Jimbuku is a nurse in North Australia.
Her boss is Bob Mills. He is a Flying Doctor.
One day a mother, her name is Jane, calls and says that her baby is very ill. Bob and Joanna fly to Jane and the baby.
When Bob looks at baby Mary, he sees that she is very ill at her heart. Joanna and Bob take the baby to the hospital in Sydney. Jane cannot come with them because she has got six other children.
While Mary is in hospital, Joanna stays at doctor Griffin’s house.
A few days later Mary is okay again.
Doctor Griffin asks Joanna if she wants to work in the hospital. Joanna is very surprised. She needs time to think about it. In a shop window in Sydney Joanna sees a painting. It reminds her of her home.
Now she knows where she wants ot be. Two days later Joanna and Bob take little Mary back to her mum Jane.
Bob says thanks to Joanna. And Joanna is happy to be home again.

Samuel



A pet for Sally

Sally is twelve years old. She wants to have a dog.
But her dad says that a dog is too much work.
Sally sometimes looks after the dog and the cat of an old lady who lives next to her.
Sally has got two friends. Their names are Patrick and Janet.
In the Easter holidays Sally looks after Patrick’s hamster and in the summer holidays she looks after Jane’s guinea pigs.
When the holidays are over, Sally is alone again. She is sad.
One day she gets a parrot. Sally is happy, The parrot’s name is Polly.
Polly can talk. Polly can say "Good morning".
One day her father forgets to shut Polly’s cage. And he also leaves the door to the living room open.
When Sally come home from school, she sees that Polly is gone. She is very sad. She goes to her friend Jane and they both look for the parrot.
Suddenly they hear a noise. It comes from a dustbin. There is a little dog in it. Sally takes the dog home. She feeds the dog.
In the evening, when her father comes home, she shows hin the dog. And he likes the dog. So Sally can keep the dog.
A few days later, Polly comes back again.
Now Sally has got two pets – a dog and a parrot.

Stefanie P.



Who wants to be a star?
By Margaret Iggulden

Tina Daniels is thirteen years old. She is a TV star.
Tina looks very pretty, but she is a sad girl. Tina is often angry with her mum and she is eating too many sweets. Her mum does not like it. “You get too fat!” she always says.
Tina does not want to be a star anymore. She wants to live a quiet life.
One day she visits Mrs. Whites, her friend’s grandmother. She lives on the island of Guernsey. Tina is wearing an old jumper. Nobody knows who she is.
Mrs. Whites is an old friendly lady. Tina is allowed to stay with Murs. Whites for a week.
One day the postman brings the newspaper.
There is a big headline: LOST TV-STAR!
But Tina does not care. She loves the country.
After the week Mrs White takes Tina home again. She has a good idea. She asks Tina’s mother if Tina could go to school at Guernsey.
Her mother agrees.
Now Tina lives on the island. She has lots of new friends and she likes the school. And nobody knows that she is a TV-star.
Who wants to be a star?
Tina doesn’t.

Anna Fr





Our friends
by W. Murray

Pam lives on a farm with her father and mother.
She likes to work on the farm after school. Peter and Jane are Pam’s friends. They often go to the farm to have tea there.
They see the horses, the cows and the pigs with their piglets.
Then the children walk round the farm. They come to the water and see the big fish and the small ones. Peter’s and Jane’s parents sometimes come by
car and they get eggs from Pam’s mother.
The children go to the sea where they meet their friend Tom. They are out at sea in their boat and Peter can fish. Tom talks about the sea, about boats and about fish and about his job. Then they go home. Mr and Mrs Green live next door to Jane and Peter and they have three children: Bob, Mary and Molly. Bob is Peter’s best friend and they often play together. Jane and Mary are good friends and they like playing with their dolls. The little girl Molly likes to play with the dog pet.
One day Peter and Jane visit their grandparents who live in an old house with a big garden.
Before they go to bed, Peter and Jane talk about how important it is to have good friends.

Julia



Kirsty's budgie
by Carol Phelan

Kirsty's Granny has got a budgie. His name is Sid. Kirsty wants Sid to talk. She wants Sid to say his name, but Sid says nothing. He only says "lazy boy". One day Kirsty's granny says, “My budgie does not want to talk." Kirsty says to her granny,"Your budgie is a female budgie and femalebudgies don't usually talk much." But Sid likes to play with his toys.Sometimes he looks at himself in the mirror and says,"Lazy boy, lazy boy."Every evening Sid flies around in the room. sometimes Sid goes back to his cage on his own and sometimes Kirsty has to take him there. Sid likes to eat lettuce, dandelions and small seeds. Sid also likes a bath, because it helps to keep his feathers clean and shiny. At bedtime, Kirsty covers Sid's cage.Suddenly Sid says "Goodnight Sid". Then he puts his head under his wing.Kirsty is happy.

Sandra


Simon and the Spy
by Elizabeth Laird

Simon is at the station. He is going to a train. There are policemen at the station. In the newspaper Simon reads about a spy. Simon looks at the people at the station. He can see students, families, children and one man.He cannot see any spies. Simon runs to the train. There is an old woman. Simon sits down in the train. There is a super girl beside him. The old woman is in the train, too.Suddenly the women falls down.Simon sees that her shoe is not a woman’s shoe.The train stops. There are e policemen on the train. The cannot see the spy. Simon likes the girl. She likes him. The train stops. Simon and the girl go on a boat. It is a beautiful day. The sun is shining and the water is blue. The girl’s name is Samantha.
The old woman is on the boat too. There are policeman on the boat. Simon opens his bag. There is a letter in it.The boat is going fast now. The wind is strong. The letter flies along the boat. Simon runs. He wants the letter back. The old woman runs too. She also wants the letter. Simon and the old woman run fast. They are a near paper now.
Simon can catch the letter.
There is a dog on the boat. The dog likes Simon and Samantha, but he doesn’t like the old woman. He takes her coat in his mouth and pulls it.The coat falls to the ground. Simon and Samantha look at the old woman. It is not an old woman! It is a man! It is the spy! Soon the policemen come. They arrest the spy.Simon is very happy.

Anna


Happy Holidays
by W. Murray

Peter and Jane are going to have holiday with their auntie and uncle. They are going to have holiday without their parents. The children are at the house of their auntie and uncle. They have a dog. The next day they go to the sea with the dog. They in the sea and have great fun. Then the children see a lot of donkeys. They want to ride on the donkeys. The following day they make a boat trip and go to a café. They eat ice cream and drink tea. On the third day it is raining. Peter and Jane write letters to their friends at home. Every day the ice cream van comes down the road. One day they go to an toy shop. They buy a kite and in the afternoon they go out to fly it. The last day of their holiday they have a picnic. Uncle and Auntie give the children money to buy a present for their parents. The next morning mother comes to take the children back home. What a nice holiday it was !

Chiara


Island for Sale
by Anne Collins

Duncan Mc Tavish and his dog Jack live in a castle on a Scottish island.
One Monday he gets a bill of $5000. He doesn’t have any money, and he can’t pay the electricity bill.
Duncan calls an agent in London. The agent sells houses to rich people.
The following afternoon Leaping Larry, a famous American pop star comes to look at the castle. He and his wife Roxana are arriving by helicopter.
They look at the castle but it is dark and very cold. There is no electricity, no food and no hot water in it. Roxana doesn’t like the castle.
So Leaping Larry doesn’t buy the island and the castle.
Duncan walks to the beach and there he sees a girl. The girl is painting a picture. She works in a school. The girl teaches painting to the children. Duncan and Jean talk for a long time. Jean looks at the castle.
She tells him that he can make a lot of money with the island. He can offer painting holidays to tourists. Duncan thinks this is a good idea. In summer lots of people to the island to paint there and Lana teaches them.
They marry and live a happy life. Lana is famous and Duncan is a rich man.
And he can pay all his bills.

Philipp


The Champion

It is half past seven in the morning. It is a beautiful day.
Mother wakes Tim and tells him that it is time for school.
Tim opens his eyes and gets up. Then he has breakfast. Tim puts on a blue T-shirt, green jeans and red and white socks. He brushes his teeth and looks in the mirror. Tim can see his face in the mirror.
On the schoolbus there are a lot of children. His friend Paul has a new CD, its Title is "Fire and Clouds".
At school Tim makes windmills.
Later he and his friends go to the park with their kites. They are all flying their kites. Tim is not flying his kite. He is sitting in the grass because his kite has no wings.
The next day it is Tim’s birthday.
All his friends are at the birthday party in the garden.
On the table there are lots of presents. Tim opens the presents. Tim gets a book with all the answer to his favourite TV-show ” Super Quiz”.
Two months later, Tim’s is on the Super Quiz Show. He has got nine questions. He knows all the answer.
The last question is : “What's two million light years away from the earth?”
Tim says, "The Andromeda Nebula." The answer is correct.
So Tim is the new champion and the prize is a free trip to the fair for him and his friends.

Nikolaus



Island for Sale
by Anne Collins

Duncan McTavish and his dog, Jok, live in a castle on a Scottish island at the west coast of Scotland.
Every day the postman comes to Duncan's castle. One day the postman brings him an electricity bill for 5.000 pounds.
But Duncan doesn't have the money to pay the bill. So he wants to sell his island.
A famous pop star called Leaping Larry comes to the island to have a look at the castle. He wants to buy it for his wife Roxanne, but his wife doesn't like the castle. So they go away and don't buy it. Duncan has got a problem. He hasn’t got any money.
One day he sees a woman on his island. She is painting. Her name is Jean.
She is teaching painting at a school. Duncan tells her about his problems. Jean has the idea to change the castle to a hotel and offer the visitors painting lessons. She wants to teach them. Duncan likes this idea. Some time later the castle is a hotel where tourists learn how to paint pictures.
Every year lots of tourists come to the the hotel. Duncan and Jean are married. They have two children and are both happy.

Albert



The last photo

Martin and his sister Pam are in Aberdeen,Scotland for one day.
Pam has a camera. She likes taking photos. It is evening and Pam wants to finish the film. So she takes a last photo of Martin.
Martin stands in front of a flowerbed. A man with a rucksack walks between Pam and Martin. So the last photo is a photo with Martin and a man on it. Pam is angry. Three days later Pam gets her photos. Martin knows the man. His photo was in the newspaper.
So he and Pam go to the police station. They show the policeman the photo. In the last photo the man is in front of Martin. "That s Alan Rook", says the policeman. "He is a bank robber. But we do not know where he is now."
"He is in Scotland", says Pam. The next day the police in Aberdeen find him in a tent. All the money from the bank is in his rucksack.
The next morning Pam and Martin’s story is in all the newspapers. The bank gives Pam and Martin a reward of a thousand pounds.

Sebastian

Why - Because

Du willst den Grund für etwas wissen:
Why are you so happy?
Antwort:
Because I have got a new pair of jeans.

Exercise: Why - Because
Click the Restart Button - you sometimes have to click it twice (2x)

Written work
Copy and paste these sentences into a Word-file, print it and write the answers.


Why does Mr. Parker's cat jump onto the table?
_______________________________________________
Why doesn't Maggie like her birthday presents?
_______________________________________________
Why does everybody like little Christopher?
_______________________________________________
Why does Mr. Parker go out of the kitchen?
_______________________________________________
Why do Maggie and her family go into the garden ?
_______________________________________________
Why does Christopher look funny when he smiles?
_______________________________________________



Source: Herderschule

Words Unit 16

Words Unit 16 - Vocabulary trainer

Source:
Herderschule

Mother's Day

Key:
must not - need not (Exercises: 3rd Test)

1 must not
2 must not
3 need not
4 need not
5 must not
6 must not
7 must not
8 need not
9 need not
10 must not
11 need not
12 must not
13 must not
14 must not
15 need not







A yummy and easy recipe for Mother's Day:
Strawberry Smoothie













1 1/2 cups frozen strawberries
1 sliced frozen ripe banana
1 cup apple juice
Put strawberries, banana and apple juice into a blender.


Optional:
Add 1 teaspoon vanilla ice cream.
Blend and pour into a glass.
Serve.

Words:
frozen - gefroren
sliced - in Scheiben geschnitten
blender - Mixer
to serve - servieren
optional - wahlweise, auf Wunsch
to blend - mixen
to pour - schütten, leeren
to serve - servieren


Source:
DLTK

Personal and Possessive Pronouns

Grammar:
Personal and Possessive Pronouns

Exercise 1

Personal Pronouns - Substitution
Exercise 2

Personal Pronouns
Exercise 3

Object Forms
Exercise 4

Possessive Pronouns

Source: Englisch-Hilfen.de

Barnabybear - The Recycling Game

Barnabybear - The Recycling Game - SWITCH ON THE LOUDSPEAKERS !

Can you put the items into the correct bin?
How many points can you score?
Have fun :-)

Present Tense Simple - Exercises

Hi students,

Just click on the link and do the exercises on the Present Tense Simple.
Have fun and enjoy !

Exercise 1 - Combine the sentence halves
Exercise 2 - Affirmative sentences
Exercise 3 - Negation
Exercise 4 - Questions
Exercise 5 - Habits and Routines
Exercise 6 - Present Tense Simple or Present Tense Continuous
Exercise 7 - Rosie's Family

Source:
Isabel's ESL-Site

Book Reviews

Key: Adverb - Adjective (Exercises: 3rd Test)

1 easy, useful, correct
2 intelligent, really, careless, carefully
3 well, badly
4 regularly, fluently, easy, terribly, fast
5 bad, slowly, surprisingly, quick
6 angry, excitedly
7 quickly, good
8 beautiful, strong
9 wrongly, bad
10 strange
11 happy, hard
12 delicious, awful
13 terribly hot, good
14 quickly, furiously, dangerous






Maisie and the dolphins
by Stephen Rabley

Maisie lives on the Bahamas. She is thirteen years old. Maisie likes pop music, reading and swimming. Her parents are animal doctors.On Saturdays she and her grandfather go out in his boat. She likes to swim under the water and look at the beautiful fish.
One day a big ship hits a dolphin.
Maisie and her grandfather take the dolphin in the boat and go home. Maisie runs into the house. Her parenrs help the dolphin. She calles him Ben. Maisie and the Dolphin make friends.
One day the Dolphin must go back to his home. Maisie and her grandfather go out to the sea and take Ben back into the sea. Ben swims away but comes back again. He has a key in his mouth. Maisie jumps into the water and follows Ben. Ben keads her to a box. Maisie opens the box with the key. They take the box back home. They are happy and rich.

Monika


April in Moscow
by Spephen Rabley

April Fox is a dancer. She works for the British Dance Company. Her boss is Maria Grant. The dancers are going to Moscow because they dance there. Laura, April's best friend, and April are going to the market in Moscow. There they meet Nikolai and Sasha. Then the four people go to a lake. April and Nikolai climb into a boat beside the lake.
Back in Moscow there is a lot to do. The evening passes quickly.
All poeple like the dancers.
Twenty-four hours later all the British dancers are at Moscow airport.
Then they fly home again.

Melanie


Ali and his camera
by Raymond Pizante

Ali, a boy from Istanbul, likes to take photos of people and buildings
in his city.
There is one problem: His parents can't buy him a camera because they don't have the money for it.
One day Ali meets a woman on a bridge. Her name ist Mrs Yildi. She gives Ali her son's Yusuf old camera.
Ali must work after school so that he can buy films.
After some time he comes to a photographer's. There he meets an old man whose name is Selim. Selim teaches Ali a lot about taking photos. From time to time Ali's photos are very good and in the end one of his photos is in the newspaper.
After some time he works as a cameraman for this newspaper.

Franzi




Flying Home

Felix is a blue and yellow bird from Brazil.
He lives with the Baxter family in New York.
His home is a cage. The Baxter family like Felix and Felix likes the Baxterfamily.
But Felix is not happy. He would like to live in Brazil.
One day Mr. Baxter opens Felix's cage to give him some food.
The phone rings. Mister Baxters answers the phone, but he forgets to shut the cage. Felix sees the open window and flies out.
Behind him Mr Baxter shouting, "Hey! Felix, come back!" But Felix does not come back.
Felix stops at the Statue of Liberty.
A small, grey and white bird asks him, "Where are you from?"
"I am from Brazil," answers Felix."
"And where are you going?" asks the bird.
Felix flies up and says, "I am going home!" Felix flies south. He cannot see New York any more. But he can see the Atlantic Ocean.
Two hours later it starts raining. Felix can see a ship. He flies to the ship.
There are hundreds of fish.
Two days later Felix flies across Peru.
He meets a beautiful bird with black and white feathers. Felix tells him his story. The bird says "I have a friend. His name is Aca and he lives in Rio. He knows the jungle.
Felix flies from Peru to Rio. There he sees a lot of people in the streets.
"Aca! Aca"! Felix shouts. Suddenly he feels a hand on his neck. Somebody wants to catch him but Aca helps him.
Felix and Aca fly from Rio to the jungle.
Felix wants to fly to his home. So the two birds fly over the road. They stop in a tree near the village. There he sees birds with blue and yellow feathers. “ Felix, is it you?” they ask. "Yes", Felix answers, "I am at home!”

Mirhiban



The Fireboy

Hapu lives in Egypt at the time of Queen Cleopatra. He works in the factory of his father Bak. They make gold tables and chairs. They are poor people. "One day we´re going to be very rich", Bak tells Hapu.
Three days later Bak suddenly stops working. He closes his eyes and falls on the ground. He is ill. Bak can´t work.
Hapu needs some money. He makes a gold necklace for Queen Cleopatra. Hapu goes to the palace. He wants to give the necklace to the Queen. But the guards don´t let him in.
At the market he hears a man say, "Cleopatra's women are coming here tomorow." The next morning he goes to the market and waits.
Suddenly a long line of people are coming from the palace. A minute later Cleopatra arrives. Hapu runs to her and gives her the necklace. “This is beautiful. Give this boy some money,” Cleopatra says.
Hapu is very happy and runs home. He gives the money to his father and they are both happy. One day a guard comes to him and offers him a job at the palace. Hapu doesn't want to leave his father, but he has to. They need the money.
At the palace Hapu tells the Queen everything about his father. The Queen says: “Your father can come with you and you both work for me”.
Hapu is very happy. He and his father can make lots of beautiful things. They both become rich.

Bernhard



Red Riding Hood
by Fran Hunia

Red Riding Hood is a nice girl.
One day she goes to her Grandma to bring her cake. On her way she picks flowers for her.
The big bad wolf wants to play with Red Riding Hood but she does not play with him. The wolf runs to Grandma. Grandma sees the wolf and gets up. The wolf jumps into Grandma's bed.
Red Riding Hood comes in and asks Grandma why she has got such big ears, eyes and teeth.
The wolf jumps up and wants to catch Red Riding Hood. But she runs out of the house. There she sees her father. She climbs up on a tree and his father kills the wolf.
Grandma crawls out of the wolf's stomach.
Red Riding Hood gives the flowers and the cake to her grandmother.
They are all happy.

Andrea

Acting out - Percy, the Penguin

Key: can/could - to be able to (3rd Test: Exercises)

1 could not go/ wasn't able to go/ will be able to go
2 couldn't walk/ wasn't able to walk
3 will be able to swim
4 can repair/ am able to repair
5 will be able to pass
6 could open/ were able to open
7 will you be able to do..?
8 could help/ was able to help
9 could the boys repair..?/ Were the boys able to repair..?
10 will be able to drive
11 can bake/ am able to bake
12 Can you iron..?/ Are you able to iron..?




Percy Penguin looks so proper,
In his long black tails,
Stiff white shirt, and neatly grommed,
Correct in all details.
He's so important, chest way out,
As he pitters patters by,
But here is something very funny--
He forgot his TIE! C.Y. Hongey

May 1st

Exercises for the 2nd Test - Key:

Tenses:

1 is going to snow

2 we are doing

3 were, was

4 are going to spend

5 will shine

6 did Joe go, wanted, was not

7 broke, stole, were not, were

8 eats, is eating

9 When does Sally normally get up

11 I am going to go

11 lived, went, worked

Key:
Personal Possessive Pronouns
1 my / me / it
2 Her /her
3 their /them
4 our / us


Question Words:
1 Who
2 How
3 Where
4 When
5 How
6 Who
7 How
8 What






On May 1st all over Austria young man put up a tree in the centre of the village. This custom is called “Maibaumaufstellen”.
This is an old tradition.
You need a beautiful tree that is 30 to 40 metres high.
The tree is chopped early in the morning on April 30th.
Then the young men take off the bark and the branches. This chases away the evil spirits and the witches.
Legend has it that these evil spirits and witches hide under the bark as beetles.
Later the men decorate the tree. On top of the tree there are green branches. There the Germanic gods live.
The wreath stands for he female element, the trunk stands fort he male element.
In the night the men have to watch over the tree. They have to be careful that nobody steals or damages the tree.







Vocabulary:

to put up - aufstellen
custom - Brauch
chop - fällen
bark - Rinde
branches - Äste
to chase away - vertreiben
evil spirtis - böse Geister
witch - Hexe
legend has it - die Legende besagt
to hide - verstecken
beetle - Käfer
to decorate - schmücken
wreath - Kranz
femaile - weiblich
male - männlich
trunk - Stamm
to watch over - bewachen
to steal - stehlen
to damage - beschädigen



Questions:

On which day do people put up the "Maibaum"?

What sort of things are there on the wreath?

Is there a "Maibaum" in your village?

Why is May 1st a holiday in Austria?