Vocabulary Games

Verb-Adverb Charades Subjects Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Theater Arts Grade [facebookbadge] Vocabulary Practice With Rap Your Words Vocabulary Practice With Rap Your Words Posted on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 I love being able to let popular celebrities inspire my students with a positive educational message, especially the most unlikely ones. Eminem did my work for me when he was interviewed by 60 Minutes; he talked about how he can rhyme unlikely words together and therefore has an almost obsessive need to know as many words as possible.

Vegetables A-Z - Vegetables Vegetables A-Z Artichokes - globe Flowers, Bulbs Artichokes - Jerusalem Making the right choices: ‘Lean On Me’ – On the same page Every word in the song “Lean On Me” by Bill Withers has been written into a grid with some distractors. Starting in the upper left corner, students complete the lyrics choosing one of the words available right next to the last word in any direction and using each square only once. To guide them through the process, the writing worksheet provides students with a few words in each line, including the first ones, which are also capitalised in the grid for easier reference. You may want to model and play the first two lines of the song so that the students can understand the procedure. Students will be practising a number of skills as they make their choices. Sometimes they will have to make decisions concerning subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, word order, or selecting the right preposition.

Typing Test English See the partners we work with below. Expand each one to see how they process your data. You can object to legitimate interest processing per vendor. Third Party VendorsAccept all | Reject all Privacy policy: Purposes (Consent): Giving Students a Well-Deserved Break- 13 Addictive Word Games Ever thought learning vocabulary or grammar was dull? I’m pretty sure this thought never ever crossed your mind, but just in case you know someone who might need a break from the traditional grammar and vocabulary exercises, let me share with you a nice alternative. Whether you have two minutes or two hours, spend your break testing your knowledge with these amazing vocabulary and grammar games, some of them from well-known dictionaries. Have fun and learn some new words along the way. You don’t have to register for any of them, although some of these sites offer this possibility for those students who want to track their progress. My favourite?

Confused and Misused Words, Vocabulary English in the present world is not a foreign language. It has become the International Language in an IT-driven society. One’s success in life has become very much dependent on the level of proficiency in English Language. Nevertheless, English language harbours a number of words that are highly susceptible to be confused or misused. This page on Confused and Misused Words gives you a compilation of the most frequently misspelled, commonly confused and easily misunderstood words floating around in the English Language.

31 commonly confused words to watch out for - OxfordWords blog Let’s be honest: English can be a really confusing language. There are pairs upon pairs of words that seem specially designed to torment – sometimes differing by just a single letter – it’s not just language learners who have to be wary but also native speakers of English. Here is a collection of some of the commonly confused words that you often encounter. 1-2. elicit or illicit Would you elicit an illicit reply, or vice versa?

101 American English Proverbs Santa Monica College Reading Lab Homepage American English Proverbs Choose a proverb from the list below and write its meaning along with a description of a real life experience that demonstrates the meaning of the proverb. For definitions, please click on the picture of the Idiom List. Once there, click on the word that begins your proverb. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings - Page 2 Dark Horse: One who was previously unknown and is now prominent. Dead Ringer: 100% identical. A duplicate. Devil's Advocate: Someone who takes a position for the sake of argument without believing in that particular side of the arguement. It can also mean one who presents a counter argument for a position they do believe in, to another debater. EAP Vocabulary Academic Word List Coxhead (2000). The most frequent word in each family is in italics. There are 570 headwords and about 3000 words altogether. For more information see The Academic Word List. For more practice see: Schmitt & Schmitt (2005), or the Compleat Lexical Tutor. If you have an iPhone or an Android phone and want to practise these words, you could try: Flashcards Deluxe.

Ten fun exercises to improve your memory Our brain is one lazy mechanism that just loves doing nothing and taking days off whenever it can. That’s why we should always force it to do certain things. To train your gray matter, we offer you a few interesting brain exercises from Angels Navarro’s book ’El libro de la memoria’ (’The book of Memory’). Go ahead and give your brain a good workout! Exercise 1 Difficulty level: Medium Scribble is a word game for all ages. Scribble is a word game for kids, adults, families, and classrooms. The goal is to create as many words as you can using the ten letters that are randomly generated in the box below. Just scribble down the words on a piece of paper as fast as you can think of them. You can even make it into a contest with your family, classmates or friends. Make up your own rules!

Words and Their Stories: Expressions with the Word 'Hand' (VOA Special English 2008-04-07) www.manythings.org/voa/words Speed: Download MP3 (Right-click or option-click the link.) Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.