Learning New Vocabulary through Context Clues

Context Clues from Emily Kissner


Online Practice:

Context Clues

Jeopardy Game

Context Clues - more difficult

Practice the Simple Past Tense with the exercises below:

• http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-5.html
• http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-3.html
• http://www.carmenlu.com/first/grammar/past1_2.htm
• http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/whquestionspast.php

 

Practice Used To with the exercises below: 

• http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/used-to-exercise-1.html
• http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/used-to-be-used-to-get-used-to





 

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Intensifiers & Extreme Adjectives

Excellent website for online practice:

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adjectives/intensifiers

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Today Level 2 students learned about Adjective Clauses in class.  We viewed a Slideshare presentation which is available below.

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Listening - Diet Plan

Today, our class listened to a dialogue called "Diet Plan".  Listen to the dialogue again and complete the listening and vocabulary exercises.

http://esl-lab.com/dietplan/dietplanrd1.htm

Over the weekend, Yahoo News posted an interesting article titled "23 Restaurant Foods With Crazy-High Amounts of Sugar".  It discusses how much sugar should be consumed daily and how many common restaurants sneak sugar into meals disguised as "healthy". 

https://www.yahoo.com/health/23-restaurant-foods-crazy-high-082834970.html