A1/A2 Vocabulary for towns and cities
Here you will find a flipping card activity to learn vocabulary for talking about your town or city.
Category: Vocabulary
A1/A2 Vocabulary for transport
Here’s a quiz to practise transport vocabulary.
A1/A2 Verbs with types of transport
Drive, fly, ride or sail? Here are some flipping cards with some of the most common forms of transport.
30 Personality adjectives for C2
Ok, it’s fine if you want to say that your best friend is a good guy, a nice guy, a great guy or even a cool guy, but where’s the vocabulary that you should be using for this level? Here’s a vocabulary activity with 30 different adjectives for you to grab and make part of your linguistic repertoire when speaking about people (actually some of them are even quite funny) 🙂
Negative prefixes: mis-, non- and anti-
Here’s a useful activity for practicing word formation with negative prefixes: mis-, non- and anti-.
Advanced C1 Listening TED Talks Are we running out of clean water?
Despite water covering 71% of the planet’s surface, more than half the world’s population endures extreme water scarcity for at least one month a year. Current estimates predict that by 2040, up to 20 more countries could be experiencing water shortages. These statistics raise a startling question: is the Earth running out of clean water? Balsher Singh Sidhu takes a closer look at water consumption. (introduction text from TED Talks)
Here you will find three topic-based activities on the issue of water. The fist activity is a quick pre-listening quiz on some of the vocabulary that you will hear in a video. The second button below is for the video. After watching the video you may want to discuss some questions so I’ll find five, hopefully, thought-provoking ones at the end of the post.
Click for pre-listening activity Click here for the activity!Speaking practice
- Does your country suffer from water shortage, and if not, do you believe this will be a problem in the coming future?
- Does your government invest in sustainable water usage? If so, how?
- What types of things do you do in order to reduce your water footprint?
- How do different economic sections cope with the issue of global warming and water shortage in your country?
- What parts of the world are the most vulnerable to water scarcity?
B1 B2 C1 C2 What do you call a baby ant?
I found this query on the internet and couldn’t help laughing. Of course, baby ants don’t really exist as such (meaning that you’d be really surprised to find a tiny version of an ant being reared by its parents, wouldn’t you?). But anyway, a baby ant would actually be an egg, a larva or a pupa, depending on the stage (of its babyhood!). But, what do we call other animals such as baby kangaroos or chickens? What’s more, what are their parents called? Here’s a quiz to check on this really interesting aspect of the animal world and the English language.
I hope you enjoy it!
