Week 1
Who is your idol?
I would love to know who your favourite idol is.
1. Go to the Padlet.
2. Press the + sign.
3. Give the name of your idol.
4. Give a reason why this person is your idol.
5. Add a Youtube clip of this person ( add the URL via "link" icon).
The present continuous
Exercise 1: Read the text and answer the questions in Google Forms.
1. Open google forms.
2. Read the questions.
3. Read the text.
4. Answer the questions.
It's a rainy Saturday. It's raining a lot and Mary and her family are spending the afternoon at home. Her uncles are visiting them. Mary and her father are in the living room. Mary is making a drawing and her father, Mr.Harris, is surfing the net. They are also talking. Mary's older brother, Peter, is in his bedroom playing computer games. He is a computer fanatic and he spends much time playing on the computer. His little brother, Jim is also in the living room. He is playing with his dinosaurs' collection. Sometimes he teases Mary, he is a really naughty boy. Mary's mother, Mrs Harris, is in the kitchen preparing a snack for all of them. She is making some tea and talking to Mary's uncles - Lucy and Tom. They are from the nearest town and stopped by to say hello. Fluffy, the family cat is sleeping on the kitchen's sofa. We can't see him in the picture, but he is a true fluffy cat.
Exercise 2: follow the steps.
1. Watch the clip.
2. Answer all the questions during the clip.
3. Questions? Click on the link and post your questions. I will answer as quickly as possible.
If you need a bit more explanation about the present continuous:
- https://engelslerenonline.com/werkwoorden/present-continuous/
Exercise 3: Complete the sentences by conjugating the verbs between brackets in the present continuous.
Belangrijk! Zet geen spatie na een ingevuld woord. Educaplay zal dit aanzien als een fout.
Exercise 4: Form a question and make sure that this part of the sentence is the answer. Use a question-word-question.
Take a piece of paper and write down the correct answers.
She is leaving for Barcelona this evening.
____________________________________________________________
We are going to Comic Con next weekend.
____________________________________________________________
Ben Affleck is talking to the director of the film. ____________________________________________________________
They are performing in London tonight.
____________________________________________________________
Correction key:
The question words:
- who
- what
- how
- when
- where
- why
Easy? Go to: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/question_words2.htm
Vocabulary
Exercise 5: download the exercise and do what is asked.
Online dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/album
Correction key:
Exercise 6: fill in the crossword puzzle. You can use the vocabulary list (at the bottom of this page) if needed.
Easy? Try not to use the vocabulary list.
Exercise 7: Now it's your turn! Try to come up with a sentence just like the ones in the crossword puzzle. Put your sentence in the padlet. The other students have to guess the answer.
