Metric vs Imperial System – Conversion challenges

/ Elementary, Intermediate, Pre-intermediate, Students

How big is a 52-inch TV? Is a 5-foot tall girl/guy taller than you? Ready for some metric vs imperial conversion challenges? LENGTH: Challenge #1: Solution: Challenge #2: Solution: Challenge #3: Solution: Challenge #4: Solution: Challenge #5: Solution: Challenge #6: Solution: Challenge #7: Solution: Challenge #8: Solution: Challenge #9: Solution: Challenge #10: Solution: Challenge #11: Solution: Challenge #12: Solution: Challenge #13: Solution: Challenge #14: Solution: CONVERSATION CHART: LENGTH Challenge #16: Solution: Challenge #17: Solution: Challenge #18: Solution: Challenge #19: Solution: Challenge #20: Solution: Challenge #21: Solution: Challenge #22: Solution: Challenge #23: Solution: Challenge #24: Solution: Challenge #25: Solution: CONVERSATION CHART:

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Italian/English False Friends

/ Elementary, Intermediate, Pre-intermediate, Students, Upper-intermediate

Find 4 sets of 5-5 sentences with Italian/English false friends. There are three types of exercises in the three columns: RECOGNIZE: Can you spot the false friends in these correct-sounding sentences? RECALL: Can you choose the correct words from the three options? REMEMBER: Type in the correct words into the textboxes. Don’t mix them with any false friends. An extra set of 5 false friends: Are these sentences correct or incorrect? ELT-TUTOR ON YOUTUBE: WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO NOW? GO BACK TO VOCAB EXERCISES SEE MORE ONLINE EXERCISES TAKE THE ELT-TUTOR LEVEL TEST ONLINE COURSES

A1 QUIZ: Adverbs of frequency

/ Elementary, Students

These interactive ESL exercises teach you the use of adverbs of frequency and third person singular verb forms: Loading… WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO NOW? GO BACK TO GRAMMAR TASKS SEE MORE ONLINE EXERCISES TAKE THE ELT-TUTOR LEVEL TEST ONLINE COURSES

A1 SONG: Simple past forms and present simple questions

/ Elementary, Students

An interactive exercise for A1 students: Learn and practise simple past forms and present simple questions with Elvis Presley’s famous song, ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’. Loading… WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO NOW? GO BACK TO GRAMMAR TASKS SEE MORE ONLINE EXERCISES TAKE THE ELT-TUTOR LEVEL TEST ONLINE COURSES

QUANTO SAPETE QUANDO PENSATE DI NON SAPERE NIENTE?

/ Courses, Elementary, Students

Esistono oggi veri principianti in inglese? Io credo di no: siamo circondati di parole, nomi, abbreviazioni che vengono dalla lingua inglese e sono stati accettati (anche se non sempre benvenuti) nella lingua italiana. Potremmo discutere sulla pronuncia: Vi ricordate della pubblicità del calciatore Totti e l’insegnante di inglese praticare la propria pronuncia di ‘Power to you’ oppure ‘smartphone’? Difficile per tutti. Però rimane il fatto che conoscete sicuramente un bel numero di parole inglesi anche se non avete mai studiato la lingua. Ecco un esercizio di inglese per veri principianti per vedere quante ve ne ricordate: Loading… CONTATTATEMI PAGINA INIZIALE

Write a Story with these Scratch Story Prompts

/ Elementary, Intermediate, Pre-intermediate, Students

My children have received a toy which I find genial: it’s a story box where you can choose three variables of the story: the set (city, countryside, space, sea), the type of protagonists (animals, fantasy, jobs) and a situation (conflict, love, friendship, etc.). Once you defined the three categories, it tells you a story. Although the quality of the stories are not the highest, the idea is really good. So, it didn’t take long to find a way to adapt it to my English lessons – and my Scratch meetings. The idea was to provide inputs for a story students

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Pronunciation & Meaning of abbreviations from A 2 Z

/ Elementary, Intermediate, Pre-intermediate, Students, Upper-intermediate

January 2021 – Y R U LOL? JK. Do you use abbreviations like this? Not really? But you surely use: a PC or a USB cable you ordered from the USA or the UK. Right?In this quiz, you can check on if you know what some common abbreviations stand for, ergo their meaning and also pronunciation. Jic (= just in case) you mix vowels or consonants (normal if your mother tongue is Italian, German or Hungarian), this exercise can give you some abbreviations which will help you remember how to pronounce English letters.