GRAMMAR

Let's review the present simple by filling some gaps. Click on GRAMMAR ( title of the post) to start this activity. Enjoy the exercise!

Present Simple

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Complete the sentences with the present simple of play.

Affirmative

I computer games.
She tennis.
They football.

Negative

I squash.
He rugby.
We chess.

Interrogative

you basketball?
your mum golf?
they baseball?

Short Answers

Yes, I .
No I .
Yes, she .
No, she .
Yes, they .
No, they .

RELAX!

Leisure Activities
Complete the following crossword with the vocabulary of the unit.

Leisure Activities

Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

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Across: 2. A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features. 6. An interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world via the TCP/IP protocol. 9. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior. 10. The act, sport, or technique of riding or racing on a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle. 11. The act of one who writes. 12. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. 13. A sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.

Down: 1. The art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs. 2. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. 3. The art of representing objects or forms on a surface chiefly by means of lines. 4. in good health. 5. a game played against a computer. 7. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat. 8. To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures. 10. A board game for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king.

ENGLISH IDIOMS

Learn English Idioms

Try this fun quiz to check your understanding of English idioms.

IDIOMS

Quiz

 

1. What would be the English equivalent for this Spanish idiom: "al hambre no hay pan duro"?
   1.   When one is hungry all bread is good.
   2.   Beggars can't be choosers.
   3.   Hanger has not stale bread.
   4.   No hunger, no bread.
2. What would be the English equivalent for this Spanish idiom: "andarse por las ramas"?
   1.   Walk with branches.
   2.   Jump around the woods.
   3.   Walking through branches.
   4.   To beat around the bush.
3. What would be the English equivalent for this Spanish idiom: "borrón y cuenta nueva"?
   1.   Let's erase it and open an account.
   2.   You need to erase the past.
   3.   To forget the past and start anew.
   4.   New account, new eraser.
4. What would be the English equivalent for this Spanish idiom: "costar un ojo de la cara"?
   1.   To cost one eye of the face.
   2.   To cost an arm and a leg.
   3.   Pay for my eye.
   4.   My face without an eye.
5. What would be the English equivalent for this Spanish idiom: "empezar la casa por el tejado"?
   1.   To put the cart before the horse.
   2.   Begin the house for the roof.
   3.   Build the roof of the house as a starting point.
   4.   To do things in the right order.