LEVEL 1 COMMON AND PROPER NOUNS GAME

To practice how well you can identify common and proper nouns, try the link below, it will take you to a simple game to check your knowledge, try it and good luck!

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index_pre.html

Also, following is some useful information that I found at:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/propernoun.htm

The Proper Noun

Recognize a proper noun when you see one.
Nouns name people, places, and things. Every noun can further be classified as common or proper. A proper noun has two distinctive features: 1) it will name a specific [usually a one-of-a-kind] item, and 2) it will begin with a capital letter no matter where it occurs in a sentence.
Check out the chart below:

Common Noun Proper Noun
writer Herman Melville
teacher Mrs. Hacket
beagle Snoopy
cookie Oreo
city Orlando
restaurant Tito's Taco Palace
document Declaration of Independence
school University of Virginia

Read the following sentences. Notice the difference between the common and proper nouns.

Tina offered Antonio one of her mother's homemade oatmeal cookies but only an Oreo would satisfy his sweet tooth.
cookies = common noun; Oreo = proper noun.

Charlie had wanted an easy teacher for his composition class, but he got Mrs. Hacket, whose short temper and unreasonable demands made the semester a torture.
teacher = common noun; Mrs. Hacket = proper noun.

Gloria wanted to try a new restaurant, so Richard took her to Tito's Taco Palace, where no one dips into the hot sauce until the drinks have arrived at the table.
restaurant = common noun; Tito's Taco Palace = proper noun.


When you are ready, take a test at the link below. Check your answer, click "sumit" and at the end you will get your results. Are you ready?

http://www.softschools.com/testresults.do?id=295

Now you can play this game, classify common and proper nouns at:

http://www.ezschool.com/Games/NounSort.html

Simple Past Tense

In English, there are regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are those to which you add "ed" to form the past and past participle: walk-walked; try-tried; play-played; watch-watched.
Irregular verbs may have no changes: hit-hit; set-set; let-let; spread-spread; bet-bet, etc.
one change: buy-bought-bought; bring-brought-brought; catch-caught-caught; think-thought-thought; sleep-slept-slept, etc.
two changes: speak-spoke-spoken; write-wrote-written; drive-drove-driven; drink-drank-drunk, etc.

At: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh7dyQB5SRk

You can watch several videos that will help you practice learning them.

To get a complete list of irregular verbs and exercises to check your learning, you may try:

http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html

A good practice exercise is at:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irpast1.htm

Also, take a look at the entries of October 2010, for other activities.

Here is a listening concentration game- listen and try to match the cards with same family member words! Enjoy.

http://www.manythings.org/ac/family.html

Extra Practice

Hello everyone,

For those who want more challenging activities, here is a very good link I found which a variety of possibilities: You can watch videos on different topics, practice grammar, read articles, etc.

I suggest you visit it. There is also a section for "slang" and other interesting cultural issues.

The link is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/

I hope you enjoy it!

For vocabulary practice, here is an excellent link which has lots of exercises to practice vocabulary use. I recommend it to make your vocabulary grow, you can do them little by little. I think you might them challenging and useful.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_words.htm

Practice, practice, practice!
Have fun!

Rooms in a house vocabulary

Here is a page with vocabulary related to houses and their rooms. There are also games.

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/rooms.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-housing.htm

Clothes Vocabulary Practice

Hello!

I hope you are enjoying your English classes and you are practicing a lot! Here are three links for you to practice "clothes" vocabulary. I hope you like them and find them useful. Good luck!

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/clothes.htm

http://englishvocabularylists.blogspot.com/2008/09/clothes-vocabulary-list.html

http://englishflashgames.blogspot.com/2008/08/clothes-game.html

Also, please click on the October 2010 activities. There's a lot of chances to practice using simple present tense, try it!