Halloween Traditions

• What do you know about Halloween traditions? - Read the text here to find out! Check another worksheet about the history of Halloween (ISL) and a video about symbols and traditions.

• And what about the origins of Halloween? How did Halloween start?

 

• People usually watch horror movies or read and tell mystery stories and spooky tales? Do you fancy this type of stories? 
• If you are fond of "Friends" watch this clip: Monica's Halloween party

• Watch a short video story, for kids (when you tell a story or read aloud try to read with expression and emotion / intonation)
  
  
• (8th grade students) Visit the Padlet to record your stories: Halloweens Stories1 and Halloween stories 2

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

 

• Do some self-check exercises (positive/negative sentences) here and here (advanced)
• Do other exercises with correction (PDF - All Things Grammar)
• Also do some interactive worksheets: Liveworksheet 1; Liveworksheet 2; Liveworksheet 3, Liveworksheet 4 (easy: for/since)

Technology: Discussing A.I., robots, screen time (vocabulary, speaking, writing)

•  What is A. I.? How do you feel about A.I.?

- Read and answer to some Discussion Questions about A.I. here  English Diary.net)

• Screen Time

• Technology: revising vocabulary

- Technology and our daily lives (British Council Learn English)

- Mobile phones ( British Council Learn English teens)

• Fake news

GREAT PERSONALITIES

Take a look to the presentation of some great personalities.

Do some research on the following links: https://www.biography.com/;  https://famouspeoplelessons.com/ 

Don't forget to state your SOURCES on your work.

And here are some guidelines to write a biography:

You can also read and find information about some great personalities on the Liveworsheets below:

• Salvador Dali
• Leonardo DaVinci, text I and text II, text III
• Vincent Van Gogh
• William Shakespeare, text I, text II, text III (video)
• Martin Luther King
• Marie Curie (video)
• Benjamin Franklin
• J. K. Rowling (listening) and video

WISHES

• To express WISHES, we can use the verb wish + Past Simple or would/could+infinitive.

🎶 In the song "Stressed Out" there are plenty of examples. Do the Liveworksheet about it! After you Finish, click one of the options: Check my answers! or Email my answers to my teacher!

• Watch the video about WISHES. *Attention: When the subject changes we should use would or could+infinitive instead of the Past Simple. 

e.g. I wish he'd know how to play the piano. I wish he would write a song about me!

PAST CONTINUOUS

 

- Do some exercises:Live Worksheet 1 ; LiveWorksheet 2; Pdf, with correction (AllThingsGrammar) and some more interactive exercises (AgendaWeb)

- Have fun with a Horror Story ( Rearrange the sentences)

FOOD - EATING IN OR EATING OUT?

WORKSHEET: CLICK ON THE LINK- Liveworksheet
 👂LISTEN to a situation at a restaurant.

> Practice the language. Listen and repeat.

👀 WATCH a funny video: Mr Bean at a restaurant.

📝 Do some exercises online about ordering food in a restaurant.

• Are you ready to order?
• At a restaurant (with a video)
• Eating out (with language and pronunciation practice)

📝 Reading-comprehension: 

• A family breakfast.
• Healthy eating.
• My favorite food.

👀 WATCH more videos about:

• Food in Britain
• Traditional British dishes
• Healthy / Unhealthy eating (organic food)
• The origin of the hamburger

Which do you prefer? Traditional and national dishes or international cuisine?

TEEN'S LIFE: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

• Read / watch a video about Peer Pressure, here (teenadvice.about.com)

• Watch a video about Friends and read about: "How to be a good friend"

• Visit the websites below to improve your listening. People talk about:

•   Difficult Situations that teenagers may have to deal with, here (learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org) 

•  Best Friends, here - you can do an exercise and read the transcript.

•  Being bored, here - you can do an exercise and read the transcript ( esl-lounge.com)

• Stressful parents, here ( talkenglish.com) 

• What a busy day!, here (esl-lab.com)  

• Addictions, here ( eflclassroom.com) 

THE ENVIRONMENT - PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

👉LEARN SOME VOCABULARY ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.  DO SOME EXERCISES TOO.

PRACTISE THE USE OF LANGUAGE WITH EXERCISES TO CHECK SOME WORDS AND A LIVEWORKSHEET, AS WELL.

FOR MORE ADVANCED EXPLANATION OF WORDS WATCH HERE.

NOW, WATCH AN INTERESTING VIDEO FOR EARTH DAY, WITH A MESSAGE FROM DR. JANE GOODALL.

ONE MORE VIDEO ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: PROBLEMS, CAUSES, SOLUTIONS:

👀  MIND MAPS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING AND SOME SOLUTIONS:

👀 SOME VIDEOS TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS:

 

 
👉FIND OUT more information on other sites: Unesco or WWF, for example. You can try some Kahoot- quizzes here.

👀 WATCH more videos. This one here is about Biodiversity.

A LOT OF CELEBRITIES CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.  

David Attenborough; Shailene Woodley; Leonardo DiCaprio

👀 WHAT ABOUT COMMON PEOPLE LIKE YOU? WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT? Watch teens on these videos: Zero Waste Girl and Sophie (Cutting down on waste)

PRESENT PERFECT

      

• Revise the Irregular Verbs! Go to You Tube and watch videos on the irregular verb forms: a list with the Present Perfect or  another list of irregular verbs with translation into Portuguese (it's English with Brazilian accent though).
• DO EXERECISES: Worksheet with answers (english-hilfen) and 4 online exercises ( really-learn-english) Liveworksheet 1 (easy), Liveworksheet 2 (For and Since); Liveworksheet 3; Liveworksheet 4 ( easy:Have you ever+ Past Participle), Liveworksheet 5 ( yet, already, just)
• Further STUDY here (Woodward English)

REPORTED SPEECH

• You can download the exercises here, with correction ( Perfect-English-Grammar)
• Study and do more exercises here (My English Pages)
• Watch other useful VIDEOS video 1 ( engVid) and video 2 ( Perfect - English Grammar)
• Further practice: Exercise 1- Put in order ( easy); Exercise 2 - reported questions; Exercise 3 - reported questions ( match direct/indirect); Exercises with commands - 4 ( requests-affirmative) and 5 (requests-negative)

SHERLOCK HOLMES

• Learn about SHERLOCK HOLMES here ( Learn English Teens- British Council)
• Watch another video about him. Do some exercises.
• Do some activities about Sherlock Holmes here, too. ( gap-filling exercises)

•  Read a summary of story "The Hound of the Baskervilles here. You can watch the episode on YouTube.
  
• And a vocabulary game "Mysteries of Sherlock homes Museum"
• Visit the website Sherlockology about the BBC series. Watch the trailer of the films at IMDb or YouTube.

> Extra: Watch / Read a detective story ( Whodunnit) called " Murder in a country house". Then, write the end to the story.
> Read some more stories : "Five unusual cases" (difficult) or watch a funny video: "Test your awareness: Whodunnit?"

Volunteering

WATCH THE VIDEOS BELOW ABOUT VOLUNTEERING:







> Other videos are about " Making a world of difference" and 8 reasons to Volunteer ( for a future career). If you're interested in Scouting, here's a nice video. Or watch the video about "Henry and Sam in Kathmandu".
> Read / Listen about Volunteering and do some exercises: "Volunteering helps you live longer", "A charity show"
> Read a Fact File about "Helping others" ( easy)* and " Voluntourism" ( advanced)***

                 

HEAKTH: Staying Fit and Healthy

Read this text about staying fit:
> In pursuit of happiness ( BritishCouncil)

Listen to:
> a man and wife talking about how to stay fit (eel-lab)
> Keren talking about her lifestyle ( ello org)

Learn about a serious eating disorder that affects a great number of teenagers: Anorexia.
Watch the video on YouTube: Katie's real story.


And watch about staying healthy:

ALPHABET : PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING

• STUDY THE ENGLISH ALPHABET (the phonetic symbols show the sounds)

• LEARN YOUR A-B-C- WITH MORE PRACTICE:

> Learning English Online - Listen to the pronunciation and spelling of words
> ESOL Courses - Click on the letters, listen... repeat
> ESL video Quiz - Watch the video with the questions: What's your name? How do you spell it?

(TO) INFINITIVE or -ING FORM ( GERUND)?

> Do Exercises:

• Review examples ( easy)
• Worksheet 1 ( to infinitive or ing) - with correction
• Online Quiz 1: Infinitive or Gerund
• Online Quiz 2 

HOLIDAY DESTINATIONS

 > Do you like travelling? Why? Why not?

• Read some quotes about travelling, here. 
• And what do the following sayings mean?

" Travel east or travel west, a man's own house is still the best."

" The world is your oyster."

" When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." 

> What types of holidays do you know? Revise some vocabulary, here.

>What would be your ideal trip?

• Watch the videos.
• Do the Liveworksheets: types of holidays, Holidays and travel  and Holidays (easy)

> Which tourist attractions / cities do you know? The Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Jeronimos Monastery in Lisbon? Which ones would you like to visit?

• Watch some travel videos from places around the world, here (Geobeats.com)
• Watch a video about the TOP 10 Travel Destinations.

  > Would you like to visit London? Which tourist attractions in London do you know?

• Watch the videos " The Ultimate London Travel Guide ", " Top 10 Travel Attractions in London"(+ a Quiz) and Listen to a tour Guide doing a "Tour of London"

> What about New York City? Do some exercises here.

> Do you like holiday souvenirs? Why? Why not? Write about your favourite souvenir.

> Which good and bad experiences during holidays will you never forget?

• Listen to Sophie talking about the best places she has ever visited,  here (soundsenglish.com)
• And you?

PET FOR SCHOOLS ( information + Reading, Writing and Listening)

VISIT the Preliminary English Test - Portugal to stay informed about the PET examination.

> Follow the links below to find more information about the Cambridge PET Test and to practise for it:

• Informações para os candidatos (.br)
• Get to know an  Answer sheet
• Study the Vocabulary List needed

All students get a Statement of Results with a grade ( Pass with Distinction, Pas with Merit and Pass), a score total mark out of 100 and a CEFR level ( A2, B1 or B2).

Practise with some sample papers:

• Download from Cambridge English.org and try doing the Reading, Writing and Listening parts.  Then you can correct your answers: Reading and Writing answer key; Listening answer key
• Do another sample paper here ( Reading and Writing) and look at the Answer Sheet in the end.
• Do some PET Practice Tests online at Flo-Joe.co.uk
• Do some other exercises online for PET preparation at englishaula.com

Remember to bring a 2HB pencil to do the test!

PET FOR SCHOOLS (Speaking)

• Prepare for the speaking test and study the language: PET Speaking Guide 1 (*Mind that Part 3 is a bit different: each student describes a photograph) PET Speaking Guide 2  and PET Speaking help ( Writefix webpage)
• Describing a picture: Practice at LearnEnglishTeens
• Watch videos for the speaking test on You Tube

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES = IF CLAUSES

• Zero Conditional: Worksheet 1 (BBC) with matching and multiple choice exercises (correction) ; Worksheet 2 - forming sentences (difficult / correction)

• First Conditional: Explanation and Exercises I, Exercises II,  Worksheet I with answers

• Zero and First Conditional: online exercises

• Second Conditional: Explanation and Exercises I, Exercises II, Worksheet I with answers. Read students stories about the environment: "If I could heal the planet..."
• First and Second Conditionals ( multiple choice)

• Advanced students: Matching parts of sentences (1st, 2nd, 3rd conditionals)

To check that you know all the Conditionals (If clauses) do the revision Quiz: Which type (I,II,III)?

• To express WISHES, we can use the verb wish + Past Simple or could+infinitive.

🎶In the song "Stressed Out" there are plenty of examples. Do the Liveworksheet about it! After you Finish, click the option you want: Check my answers! or Email my answers to my teacher1