What's in your neighbourhood?

Taibah's lesson:

Write  6 sentences about your neighbourhood.

Is your neighbourhood quiet, noisy, busy, friendly, beautiful or dangerous?

My neighbourhood is quiet, but at night it's noisy.

Where I live there is a chip shop and a library.

There isn't a mosque where I live.

There is a supermarket where I live. 

There is a pub near where I live.

Example, Is there a Post Office where you live?

There is a Post Office where I live. 

There isn't a Post Office where I live.

What does Santa Claus like to do at Christmas?

What does Santa Claus like to do at Christmas?

Try these games and test your English.

Christmas vocabulary listening game

Santa’s indoor activities

Santa’s outdoor activities

Listen to songs and write the English words - use lyricstraining.com

How to use lyricstraining.com

• This is a great web-page to practice your listening and spelling.
• Your teacher will tell you what song to choose. If you work fast and finish early you can choose your own favourite song lyrics.

Listen and write the song lyrics:

• » To continue playing you must complete each line.
• » To listen again to the last line, press the backspace key.
• » If you can't understand a word, press tab key to jump to the next.

more songs to try:

 1. Cascada, Let it snow

2. Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney & Wings

3. Christmas Lights by Coldplay
4. Last Christmas by Wham

If you don't like these songs search for someone you like: Bob Marley, One Direction, Take That, or Naughty Boy & Emeli Sandé.

Improve your typing speed

Try these typing games to improve your typing speed.

Typing fast is very important. See how fast you can go.
Good luck!

http://www.abcya.com/typing_race_cars.htm

http://www.nitrotype.com/race/?r=0.9326393874362111

http://games.sense-lang.org/

http://www.rapidtyping.com/online-typing-games/horse-racing-typing.html

NIACE test and New English File exercises

Today we're going to do a test for NIACE. While you're waiting to start you can try these exercises on the New English File website:
Click here:

Taibah's house survey

Hi Everyone, today we are going to do some talking with each other. I want to know 10 things about where you live. 

1. What type of home you live in?
2. How many rooms in your home?
3. Which is your favourite room in your home?
4. How many people live with you?
5. What is your neighborhood like?
6. If you could choose somewhere to live, where would it be?
7. What type of house would you like to live in?
8. What is your favourite piece of furniture?
9. Name one thing in your home you could not live without.
10. Who lives at number 10 Downing Street, London?

Mark's enormous family and his small untidy house

Mark with his wives and children in the back garden of his house

Mark and his big family are very happy in their house in Salford. Today Mark will tell you a story about his house and family and you can work together in groups to make notes. Then you will write the story on the blog.

Here are some photos of Mark's house. Do you think it is a nice place to live?

good luck. Have fun writing the story!!!

adverbs of frequency and food

Write a comment on the blog. First WRITE YOUR NAME then write about healthy and unhealthy food. Use adverbs of frequency.

Always, often, usually, sometimes, ocassionally, seldom, never

Example: "I never eat snakes, monkeys or carrots, I don't like the taste."

Every day - every week - on Sunday - for breakfast - for dinner - for a snack

1. Say what you always eat every day: 'Everyday I eat ...' Say when you eat it and why you like it.
2. Say what you never eat, 'I never eat...'
3. Say what you sometimes eat... 'I sometimes eat...'
4. Say what you usually eat...
5. Say what your friends, children or family eat.
6. Say what you eat for breakfast.
7. Say what you like to eat in a restaurant.
8. What is your favourite healthy food?
9. What healthy food don't you like?
10. What is your favourite unhealthy food?

"Mark, how often do you eat healthy food?" "I sometimes eat healthy food."

Adverbs of frequency

We use adverbs of frequency to show how OFTEN we do something.
For example: "I always come to class on time" means that  I come to class on time every day.

Here are some common adverbs of frequency.

Always - Oumou always shops at Marks & Spencers. = 100%
Frequently or Usually - Sara usually shops at Morrisons. = 80%

Often - Bogumila often goes to the Polish shop in Cheetham Hill. = 70%

Sometimes - Mihret sometimes goes to the local shop to buy bread and milk. = 40-50%

Rarely, Seldom - Mark seldom goes shopping. He is very lazy. = 5-10%

Never - Maria never goes to Marks and Spencer to buy food, it's too expensive!. 0%

NOTE!

Rule: Adverbs of frequency (always, never, sometimes, often, etc.) usually come before the main verb
Example: He often eats burgers.    (often is the adverb and eats is the verb).
Xia rarely drinks vodka, he is very healthy.
We always go to the cinema on Friday night.
We never have a class on Thursdays.

NOTE!

o Adverbs of frequency  come after - the verb 'to be'.
o Example:   He is sometimes late for work.

Grammar Exercises ... 

Here are some exercises for you to try:

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Exercise 6

Healthy eating week at SCC

It's healthy eating week at college

First try these quizzes from esolcourses.com

Quiz one - fast food

Quiz two - vegetables

Quiz two - fruit

Quiz four - drinks

Quiz five - breakfast

Quiz six - at the cafe

Entry 1 Group 6 advice - how to be healthy

Name	I can do something healthy	Don't do unhealthy things
Mrs Diallo	I can eat vegetables	Don’t smoke
Mrs Sekerakova	I can walk to college	Don’t drink too much alcohol
Mr Singh	I can go to the gym	Don’t sleep only 3 hours a day
Mr Vojtek	I can cook healthy food	Don’t watch too much TV
Mr Makula	I can drink milk	Don’t eat too many burgers
Mr Xue	I can play basketball	Don’t eat too much chocolate
Mrs Adonay	I can eat fruit	Don’t eat too much butter
Mrs Idziaszek	I can relax	Don’t get too stressed.
Mr Anchrya	I can eat fish	Don’t forget to go to the doctor’s and dentist’s.
Mr Hedaiti-Motalagh	I can wash my hands regularly and have a shower every morning.	Don’t play too many computer games
Mr Torres	I can go swimming	Don’t sleep all day
Mr de Carvalho	I can do boxing	Don’t use drugs
Mr Bihimo	I can cook meat	Don’t drink too much coffee
Mrs Lavinderan	I can run	Don’t drive all the time
Mr Slepcik	I can play cricket	Don’t be lazy.
Mrs Burkevica	I can dance	Don’t eat fast food

Please describe Mark and your classmates

E1 Group 6 students did a lot of FANTASTIC drawings in Elayne's class this week, and some very bad drawings! Add a comment - include YOUR NAME - and write some quick descriptions of Mark and your classmates.

Amuri	Mihret
Sara	Nagpal
Alla	Xia
Tek Nath Maria	Who is this? Oumou

Using adjectives to describe things

Use adjectives to describe the cars, people and things. 

Write in the comments section below to describe the things. For example: Number one: The old brown car is broken. It is in the grass. It is very ugly.

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