Monday, 12 October 2015

GRAMMAR and VOCABULARY:jcloze activity

The emperor's new clothes

The emperor's new clothes

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
There was an Emperor who very vain. All his life, his courtiers him how wonderful he was. It was not surprising that he had begun to believe it himself.

One day, the Emperor decided that he would like a new suit of . It so happened that in the court at that time there were two wicked men. They told the Emperor that they him a suit that was unlike anything that had ever been made before.

"It is made of a new material," said one, "so fine that only the truly can see it".

This sounded just what the Emperor . He asked them to begin at once. And so the performance began. The two were given a room in the palace and every day they more money to buy the thread and cloth they . In fact, they did not buy anything at all, but kept the money for themselves.

LISTENING and WRITING: The gingerbread man

We are going to listen to a short classic fairy story. After listening it, slowly, we will complete the text:






When we have finished listening the tale, we can fill in the gaps and complete this story:


Once upon a time a little old _____ and a little old woman _______ in the country. One day, the little old woman made some ________ cookies. She had some _______ left over, so she made a little _____________ man, with three ________ and two eyes made of _________ and a smiley mouth made out of a _____. But when the little old woman went to take him out of the _____, the gingerbread man _______from the tray and ran right out of the door!


“Come back!” shouted the little old woman, _________ after him. “come back!” _________ the little old man, who ____________ in the garden. But the gingerbread man called over his ______, “Run, run, as fast as you can! You won’t _____ me, I’m the gingerbread man!”



You will find the KEY here:





Enjoy the activity.

LET'S PLAY: discover the hidden message

I have used PUZZLEMAKER to hide a message inside a puzzle. If you can find inside the puzzle the words you will see below the puzzle, you will discover the message.






You can find the solution, here:



Sunday, 11 October 2015

VOCABULARY: Body Parts

This will be a very simple exercise too. You can print the "jpg" image and let's see how is your body vocabulary!!!!!




You will find a key to this exercise here:


ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR: am / is / are

I will begin with an easy grammar exercise. Put in   am,  is  or  are.



  1. The weather ____ nice today

  1. I ____ not tired

  1. This bag ___ very heavy

  1. These bags ____ very heavies

  1. Look!  There ___ Carol.

  1. My brother and I ____ good tennis players

  1. Ann ___ at home. Her children _____ at school

  1. I _____ a taxi driver. My sister _____ a nurse



Here you will find a Key to exercise





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