T4 Week 2

Welcome to term 4 computer-assisted language learning.

LISTENING

World Animal Day

                        (Use the pop-out player for listening)

VOCABULARY (BBC Words in the News)

    

CROSSWORD: Olympic sports

GRAMMAR GAMES

HOMEWORK

Listen to some English songs.

Week 8: Developing Group

LISTENING: Hiromi's Trip to Thailand

Week 7: Developing Group

LISTENING

Hiromi's trip to Thailand 
(Episode 1)

What is your ideal trip?

VOCABULARY 

Travel words

• Travel
• Journey
• Trip
• Expedition
• Safari
• Cruise
• Voyage

GRAMMAR (Prepositions)

Prepositions game

HOMEWORK

     OOE Lesson: On the Phone

For more Oxford English lessons click here

Week 6: Developing group

VOCABULARY: Health problems

• Health problems crossword
• Wordgames health crossword

LISTENING

Cable car accident (Germany)

Discussion Questions: Are you afraid of heights or are you fine with them? How do you think you would react if you were stranded for hours in a cable car?

DICTATIONS

• My friend looks like George Clooney
• My Italian friend
• Noisy neighbours

GRAMMAR: Present perfect simple

• ego4u level 2 exercise
• elc study zone gap-fill exercise

READING / LISTENING / COMPREHENSION
Mobile phone zombies [Breaking News English]

HOMEWORK:Speaking skills

10 tips for improving your speaking 

Week 5: Developing Group

LISTENING EXERCISE (English Club News)

Massive iceberg breaks off Antarctic Shelf

GRAMMAR


VOCABULARY (VOA News Words)
Two words that have been in the news quite a bit lately: DROUGHT and FAMINE.
Much of inland Queensland is being badly affected by drought and many people in East Africa are facing starvation because of famine. 
Click on the links below:

• Drought  
• Famine

DICTATIONS

• Valentine's Day [easy]

• Coffee drinkers live longer (Breaking News English)#

• Recorded message [advanced]

# For the full lesson on the benefits of coffee drinking click here.
Then choose some of the online comprehension exercises.

Vocabulary: Australia Plus videos

Big or Large    High or Tall    Blow or Throw    Burn off    Caught and Taught     Catch on or Catch out     Bring up     Fit or Suit     Then or Than     These days or Those days     Breath or Breathe     Drink,Drank,Drunk    Hang up, Hang out, Hang on

News Words

News Words from Voice of America
[69 short videos on YouTube]

Monday class: Week 9

NEWS TOPIC
Powerful earthquake strikes Central Italy (YouTube video)
Historic town destroyed in Italian earthquake (English Club news)

VOCABULARY
magnitude     sift     rubble     death toll     survivors     historic     festival

SPELLING
Homonyms (Speedword game)

GRAMMAR: Prepositions
 
Using "on", "at" and "in" to talk about time (YouTube video)
Prepositions of time (exercise 1)
Prepositions of time (exercise 2)

Prepositions crossword
Verbs followed by prepositions (Sentence Monkey game)

DICTATION
The wedding feast (part 1)
The wedding feast (part 2)
More dictations

Just for fun
Mr Bean's Christmas

Monday class; Week 8

NEWS TOPIC
Diving pool turns green at Rio Olympics (YouTube video)
Pool turns green at Olympics (English Club News)

VOCAB
algae   discoloured   buildup   lack   thoroughly   adjacent

SPELLING
Irregular verbs game (hangman)

GRAMMAR
Prepositions of place: in,at,on (YouTube video)

Prepositions of place: in, on, in front of, behind, next to, between, above, over, under, below.
Prepositions of place (cat and mouse interactive game)
Prepositions of place: exercise 1
Prepositions of place: exercise 2
Prepositions of place crossword

# Prepositions of time: in,at,on (exercise)
    Prepositions of time (Oxford Online English video)
    Prepositions game (Sentence Monkey)

For more preposition exercises click here.

Mr Bean: Home improvements

Peter's Monday class: Week 1

*NEWS ITEM: Listening and comprehension/reading
Boy falls into Cincinnati gorilla enclosure
(YouTube video)

*VOCABULARY
 VOA News Words: Kickoff

*DICTATION
Learn English Dictation: How much coffee?
[For more dictation practice click here]

GRAMMAR: *Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech game (Toon University)
Parts of Speech game (Grammar Ninja)
Word Invasion game (Arcademics)

SPELLING: Prefixes and Suffixes
Spelling game (KS2 Bitesize English)

PRONUNCIATION
How to pronounce verbs ending in "ed" (video lesson)

Extra game: Odd Word Out (ESL Grammar Games)

Thursday IELTS class

VOCABULARY REVISION

• isometric exercises
• go pear-shaped
• fetal alcohol syndrome
• overweight
• obese
• legumes
• fava beans
• dyscalculia
• crowdmapping

What exactly is BMI? How is it used to determine whether someone is overweight or obese?

ADVENTURE HOLIDAY?

TASK: Make a plan for an adventure holiday to a particular destination 
(1 paragraph). Post it on the TAFE@EAST Coast Edmodo website.

Additional resources:

IELTS Band Score Calculator (Academic reading)
IELTS online resources on Symbaloo

IELTS: Travel and Transport

"Advantages of public transport" (IELTS reading)
Q&A for "Advantages of public transport"

VOCABULARY

• isometric exercises
• go pear-shaped
• fetal alcohol syndrome
• overweight/obese

Level 2 computing

Listening topics for English Language Learners

Verb tense machine

BBC Skillswise games
BBC Skillswise: spelling help

OUP vocabulary exercises