Comparatives & Superlatives

Some exercises on Comparatives and Superlatives:

• Comparatives & Superlatives – English Grammar Games
• English Exercises – Comparatives & Superlatives
• To Learn English – Comparatives & Superlatives
• My English Pages – Comparatives & Superlatives
• Choose the right answer – Comparatives and Superlatives
• Choose the right answer – As or Than

Silvia

Tongue Twisters

This is SO fun!! Let’s try some tongue twisters and improve both our fluency and pronunciation:

“Listening to tongue twisters is one way to improve your English pronunciation. It’s very difficult to say tongue twisters in English so don’t worry if you can’t do it very well at first, just have fun!” – British Council

Silvia

Law & Order

Three interesting videos from businessenglishpod. In these episodes of Video Vocab we’re going to look at some English vocabulary related to the law.

Part 1:

This is the first in a three-part series: part 1 covers basic legal terms.  Key Vocabulary: Law (civil, criminal, contract, property, trust, tort, constitutional, administrative & international), Lawyer, Defense, Prosecution & Legal Case.

Part 2:

This is the second in our three-part Video Vocab series on legal English vocabulary for law. Today we focus on the vocabulary used to describe the actions and people involved in a court case.

Part 3:

This video podcast introduces definitions and collocations related to commercial law, including: contract law; copyright; intellectual property rights, arbitration, lawsuit; to sue; to litigate; plaintiff; defendant; damages; settlement; injunction & to appeal.

Silvia

Law Enforcement and Crime

Who doesn’t know this opening-theme song?

“Who are you? / Who, who, who, who? / Who are you? / Who, who, who, who? / I really wanna know…… (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) / Oh, come on tell me, who are you, you, you, oh, you?”

How about taking a look at some vocabulary for Law Enforcement and Crime?

• Police vocabulary
• Police vocabulary quiz
• Crime and Punishment
• Crime and Punishment quiz

Silvia

What are they like? – Personality

What are your friends like? Can you match the words for different kinds of personality and the descriptions?

• Click here at British Council: Personality and match the words to their meanings.
• This is what some people in London told BBC.co.uk about their personality traits – Express English: Personality.
• Mix and Match – Personality;

Nice study.

Silvia

Bloody, bloody Hell (Claro)!!

It’s a bloody hot day in Rio Claro, isn’t it?

Where the bloody hell is the rain?

Bloody Hell!!!

The Cambridge Dictionary defines the expression Bloody Hell as: a rude way of expressing great anger.

And it defines the word bloody as: used to express anger or to emphasize what you are saying in a slightly rude way.

To help you understant better those words, we have some bloody videos!!!

• An explanation for Bloody:

• A (bloody scary) explanation for Bloody Hell:

• And lots of Bloody Hell in Harry Potter movies:

Hope you all have enjoyed these bloody videos!

Luna

Bonfire Night

Howdy,

Today is holiday!! On 5 November every year, it iscelebrated Bonfire Night (or Guy Fawkes’ Night). 

People all around England lit bonfires    and enjoy fireworks displays.

 

On top of the fire is a “guy” (like a scarecrow ).

They do these things because they’re remembering when the King of England, James l, and the Houses of Parliament were nearly blown up   with gunpowder .

Let’s learn more about this vocabulary. Lessons on:

• Top Notch Fundamentals: Bonfire Night Beginner Level Lesson
• Top Notch 1 / Language Leader Elementary / Market Leader Elementary: Bonfire Night Elementary Lesson
• Top Notch 2 and above / Market Leader Pre-Interm. and above / Summit: Bonfire Night Intermediate Level 

Let’s party!!

Silvia