Thursday 30 June 2016

ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING 6

Welcome to the sixth installment of ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING for becoming fluent in English!

If you don't remember how to do the exercises, watch the video explanation 
(in English or in Italian).

Ask how old these people are



Answer to the questions about their age



When? On Monday, Tuesday, ...



Use pronouns (object)

Take a pen and a piece of paper and get ready for the dictation. Start from pictures and click on the sound icon. (Options--->Start with photos--->Options--->Click on the sound icon)

Q&A: Start from questions (Options--->Start with term--->Options)

Well done! See you soon!

Tuesday 28 June 2016

Lesson 14 - Yesterday

Watch the video: what did they do yesterday?
Answer some questions about the video here

Revise the past simple

What did Dina do yesterday?

The most famous song about yesterday...

Lyrics here

An easy game to revise the irregular past simple

Another game:

Deepening the Past Simple



ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING - 5 (part 2)

(Part 2)

How much or how many? Remember countable and uncountable nouns


Take a pen and a piece of paper and get ready for the dictation. Start from pictures and click on the sound icon. (Options--->Start with photos--->Options--->Click on the sound icon)
Q&A: Start from questions (Options--->Start with term--->Options)




Well done! See you soon!

ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING 5 - (part 1)

Welcome to the fifth installment of ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING for becoming fluent in English!

If you don't remember how to do the exercises, watch the video explanation 
(in English or in Italian).

Someone tells you the she saw somebody you know so you ask how they are



How are they? The are all very well



Someone always does something you are doing now

When are you doing everything? Tomorrow

Go on to part 2

Sunday 26 June 2016

Lesson 13 - A long way out

Storytelling:
A repository with many books for you

Let's start with the story of "The rainbow fish"



Read the story again



Build your own story




An example

Another resources repository:





ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING 4 - (part 2)

(part 2)

Take a pen and a piece of paper and get ready for the dictation. Start from pictures and click on the sound icon. (Options--->Start with photos--->Options--->Click on the sound icon)



Q&A: Start from questions (Options--->Start with term--->Options)



Well done! See you soon!

ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING 4 - (part 1)

Welcome to the forth installment of ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING for becoming fluent in English!

If you don't remember how to do the exercises, watch the video explanation 
(in English or in Italian).

Lest's ask do do something: Could you...?



Second activity: Ask questions


Third activity: answer "No" to the questions


Now pretend that you know all these people very well!


This time you don't know these people, but your sister knows them all very well


Continue with part 2

Monday 20 June 2016

ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING - 3

Welcome to the third installment of ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING for becoming fluent in English!

If you don't remember how to do the exercises, watch the video explanation 
(in English or in Italian).

Let's start by asking for permission politely: May I...?


Now we are at the restaurant and we are ready to order: I'll have...


Refusing an offer: No, thank you, no... for me


Take a pen and a piece of paper and get ready for the dictation. Start from pictures and click on the sound icon. (Options--->Start with photos--->Options--->Click on the sound icon) 


Q&A: Start from questions (Options--->Start with term--->Options)

Well done! See you soon!

Sunday 19 June 2016

Lesson 9: Football is more popular than volleyball!



How can you describe sport? What is football like?




Do you agree?

A listening activity


A text about Sport








ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING - 2 (part 1)

Second installment of ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING for becoming fluent in English!

If you don't remember how to do the exercises, watch the video explanation 
(in English or in Italian).

Ready to start the drills? Use pronouns HE, SHE, IT, THEY



Turn the example into negative: HE IS... / HE IS NOT...


Ask: When can you see Mr...?


Answer to the questions: everyone is busy at the moment


Say when you have lesson


Continue with part 2

ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING - 2 (part 2)

Part 2

Take a pen and a piece of paper and get ready for the dictation. Start from pictures and click on the sound icon. (Options--->Start with photos--->Options--->Click on the sound icon)


Q&A: Start from questions (Options--->Start with term--->Options)


Well done! See you for the next set

Lesson 8: Which is bigger, Rome or Venice?



Take a quiz about comparatives:


Watch a video:






A grammar lesson




Vocabulary - Similar words: high or tall? big or large?


Most common irregular comparatives and superlatives
adjective - comparative - superlative
good           better (than)    (the) best 
well            better (than)    (the) best 
bad             worse (than)    (the) worst 
ill                worse (than)    (the) worst 
far              further (than)   (the) furthest 



Thursday 16 June 2016

To improve your fluency: ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING

Hello, from today I would like to start some exercises for your fluency; 
the following activities, even if they don't seem to make much sense, should help you to speak English without translating from your mother tongue.

After a while you should get used to thinking in English!

The language in these activities doesn't focus on grammar or on a specific lexical group, but it is a random choice of examples, and that should help your brain flexibility.

You will find some oral drills, a dictation and a set of questions and answers for each unit of "English brain training"

In the video I explain how to use each set in order to make it effective for your language development.
(qui trovate il video in italiano)

Ask questions about what people are: English? French? A student?
Do this exercise twice, the first time listen, read and repeat both sides of each card, and the second time anticipate the answer on the back of each card


You are very good at speaking languages: in this set you speak many languages


Mr Grant is very rich and he has many things...


Take paper and pen and get ready for the dictation: after each sentence check it flipping the card

Last activity: make it twice.
The first time just listen, read and repeat questions and answers; the second time listen to the question and answer without flipping the card. Check if you were correct looking at the back of each card.

I hope you find this activity useful and effective for your language acquisition. See you soon for the second installment of the "ENGLISH BRAIN TRAINING"


Tuesday 14 June 2016

Lesson 7: Comparing Jobs

Speaking about jobs

What's the best job in your opinion? 
In my opinion the best job is....... , because......

How is your job better than others? (more interesting, funnier, longer holidays,...)

In which way is it worse (than others)? (less paid, harder, more difficult, ....)

What's the worst job in your opinion?

Compare your work with someone else's work: who works longer hours? who is better paid? which work is more interesting/boring? 










..


Thursday 9 June 2016

Past simple

The Past Simple




Irregular Verbs: repeat to learn pronunciation




 

A list of verbs (in groups)

EXERCISES:


Simple Past (regular verbs) 
Simple Past (all verbs) 
Simple Past - easy 
Simple Past - medium 
Simple Past (verbs in bold) 
Simple Past (verbs in bold - irregular) 
Simple Past (all verbs) 
Questions in Simple Past - Exercise 1 
Questions in Simple Past - Exercise 2 
Simple Past - Exercise 1 

Past simple pronunciation



The most common irregular verbs

A longer list













Lesson 6: Things are looking up!

Little / A little    Few / A few

Explanation:
http://speakspeak.com/resources/english-grammar-rules/various-grammar-rules/few-a-few-little-a-little




http://www.grammarbank.com/a-little-a-few-exercise.html


Lesson 5: A perfect present!


Grammar Explanation:






Saturday 4 June 2016

For grammar revision: Present simple and present continuous

Let's start from some grammar: let's revise present simple

Verb to be



Grammar explanation PDF

EXERCISES

Verb to have

Other verbs
"Easy" explanation



Complete explanation (also adverbs of frequency)

Grammar explanation in PDF

EXERCISES

Now it's time for the Present Continuous (or Progressive)



Grammar explanation in PDF

EXERCISES