Comparison of Adjectives

This is an easy exercise. Click here and fill in the missing forms.

Animal Body Parts - A Vocabulary Game

Play a word game to practise animal body parts vocabulary.
Click here. 

Animals Movement

Mindmap - Daily Routines

Here you can see the mindmap we were talking about at school. To practise the Present Tense Simple, just form sentences and write them down.

Top 100 Waste Tips

Here are some tips to help you reduce, reuse and recycle waste at home.

1) Try to reduce your rubbish by buying things with as little packaging as possible.

2) Buy good quality products as cheap things break easily and end up in the bin.

3) If you don’t need a plastic bag, don’t take one!

4) Bring your own bags with you when you go shopping.

5) Take old toys, books and clothes to a charity shop for reuse.

6) Refill an empty plastic bottle with water rather than buying new bottles time.
This reduces waste and saves you money!

7) Only buy as much food as you need. This will also save you money!

8) Get a home composter from your Council. Then you can make compost to feed
your garden from dead plants and flowers.

9) Use your recycling bin at home.

10) Many other things like wood, electrical goods, glass bottles and scrap metal
can be taken to your local Recycling Centre.

Environmental Damage of Plastic Bags

The environmental damage caused by plastic bags is enormous. Plastic makes up 80% of the volume of litter on roads, parks, and beaches and makes up 90% of floating litter in the ocean In every square mile of ocean there are over 46,000 pieces of plastic. This puts an enormous strain on the environment. The little pieces of plastic act as a sort of sponge for chemicals. They soak up millions of deadly compounds. Marine life then eats these pieces and dies. It is estimated that over a 100,000 different birds, seals and whales die every year After the animal dies the plastic is free to roam the ocean and kill again.

The Carcass of an Albatross Filled with Plastic

When plastic bags find their way into the ocean they kill endangered turtles. Plastic bags are eaten by turtles who confuse them for jellyfish, their primary food source. The turtles then suffocate.



Plastic bags wrap themselves around living coral and quickly kill them. This has become a huge problem for Australia, whose Great Barrier Reef is being threatened by little white bags of death. Plastic bags trap seals and sea lions, prevent whales from digesting and kill birds by the thousands.

A baby seal caught in a plastic bag

Despite what some economist tell you, you cannot put a price on the environment. If people realized the destruction that is done to the environment or the amount of animals that die from their over consumption of plastic bags, I'm sure they would switch to a reusable bag.
We need to make sure that the bags that are consumed are recycled and not just littered into the streets.
NOW WATCH THIS VIDEO: The Curse of the Plastic Bag


Source: plasticbageconomics

Environment

1 Environment. Match the word to the picture. Click here


2 How green are you? Do the quiz.


3 Clean and green. Play the recycle game.


4 To visit the Planet Earth Museum, watch the Video.

A Friendship Quiz

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How to be a good friend

Believe in each other.
Exchange silly stories.
Share favourite clothes
Tell it like it is.
Find the answers.
Rely on each other.
Inspire bravery.
Encourage dreams.
Never stop caring.
Talk about crazy ideas.
Stand by each other.

Word Formation

What is it?

In a sentence or text you have to change the form of a word, e.g. from a noun to an adjective, or from a verb to a noun. For example:

The _____ was very nervous. (sing)

You have to complete the sentence with the person noun (singer). You change the verb (sing) into the person noun (singer).

• Look at the word you have to change. Which words do you know that are in the same word family?
• The beginning of the word is often the same and the end of the word changes.
• What form is the new word? A verb? A noun? An adjective? An adverb?
• Nouns often end: -ment, -ion, -ness, -ity.
• People nouns often end: -er, -or, -ist, -ian.
• Adjectives often end: -able, -ible, -ive, -al, -ic, -ed, -ing.
• Some verbs end: -ise, -ate, -en.
• Adverbs often end: -ly.
• Is the new word negative? If so, you may need a prefix, e.g. un- (unhappy), im- (impolite), in- (inexperienced), dis- (dishonest), etc.
• If you don’t know the new word, guess. You may be right!
• Check your answers carefully when you finish.

 From
The British Council

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Further exercises:

Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Comparison of Adjectives

Dear Students,
Practise the comparison by doing the exercises below. Don't forget to look up unfamiliar words, and have your Grammar Book ready.
You can find more exercise in the table of contents. (Inhaltsverzeichnis)
Or just click on the label "Comparison".
 
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4 (Look up the adjectives in the dictionary)
Exercise 5
Exercise 6

Dangerous animals

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Now read the text or listen to it to learn about the five most dangerous animals in Australia. 
Click here.

during - while

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Past Tense Continuous (Progressive)

Lots of exercises to practise the Past Tense Continuous.
Have fun.


Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6

Audition for a Band

Click here to listen to the audition for a boygroup


Now tick off "true" or "false". Click here.
Check your understanding: Gap fill.

Austrian Pop Idol

Britain's Got Talent

Pop Idol

Present Perfect Progressive - Exercises

Exercise 1 - Present Perfect Progressive
Exercise 2 - Present Perfect Progressive
Exercise 3 - Present Perfect Progressive or Simple
Exercise 4 - Present Perfect Progressive or Simple
Exercise 5 - Present Perfect Progressive or Simple
(Scroll down for the exercises)

Exercises: Past Tense - Present Perfect Tense

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5

Modal Verbs: may - be allowed to - Grammar and exercises

Für may benutzt man die Ersatzform to be allowed to. Außer im Simple Present kann may in keiner anderen Zeitform verwebdet werden.

Bejahte Aussagesätze

Zeitform	Modalverb	Ersatzform	Bemerkung
Simple Present	I may play football.	I am allowed to play football. I'm allowed to play football.	Ich darf Fußball spielen.
Simple Past	kann nicht gebildet werden	I was allowed to play football.	Ich durfte Fußball spielen.
will-future	kann nicht gebildet werden	I will be allowed to play football. I'll be allowed to play football.	Ich werde Fußball spielen dürfen.

Es können auch noch von anderen Zeitformen die Ersatzformen gebildet werden.
z.B. Present Perfect: I have been allowed to play football.

Verneinung

Zeitform	Modalverb	Ersatzform	Bemerkung
Simple Present	I may not play football.	I am not allowed to play football. I'm not allowed to play football.	Ich darf nicht Fußball spielen.
Simple Past	kann nicht gebildet werden	I was not allowed to play football. I wasn't allowed to play football.	Ich durfte nicht Fußball spielen.
will-future	kann nicht gebildet werden	I will not be allowed to play football. I won't be allowed to play football.	Ich werde nicht Fußball spielen dürfen.

Fragen

Zeitform	Modalverb	Ersatzform	Bemerkung
Simple Present	May he play football.	Is he allowed to play football?	Darf er Fußball spielen?
Simple Past	kann nicht gebildet werden	Was he allowed to play football?	Durfte er Fußball spielen?
will-future	kann nicht gebildet werden	Will he be allowed to play football?	Wird er Fußball spielen dürfen?

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3