Happy Thanksgiving!

Every year Americans celebrate Thanksgiving festivity on the fourth Thursday of November. All the family meet for dinner and they usually eat Turkey with vegetables and cranberry sauce.
This festivity was first celebrated when the Pilgrims arrived to America and with the help of the native Indians got the first harvest.
Do this activity to learn some vocabulary on thanksgiving.

Enjoy with this game and learn some more vocabulary related with FOOD

Oxford online activities on food and drink

Oxford online activities on food and drink: wordsearch

Hangman: vocabulary on food

Vocabulary on fruits

Vocabulary on vegetables

There is / there are

I found a video which can help you understand when to use there is or there are in English.
Click the image to watch it!

There are a lot of yellow ducks!

And some activities to practise...

Describing people

PHISICALLY
What does he/she look like?
He/She is...
He/She has got...

Height	Build	Age
tall, tallish, short, shortish, medium height	frail, stocky, slim, thin, plump, fat, skinny, well-built	young, elderly, middle-aged, teenager, in 20s, 30s, 40s

Face	Eyes	Hair	Clothes
round, oval, square, with scares, wrinkles, freckles, sun-tanned, pale	big round blue eyes, large, small, bright, narrow	bald, straight, curly, spiky, wavy	casual, scruffy, shabby, smart, tidy, messy

PERSONALITY
What is he/she like?
He/She is...

careful, hard-working, worried, cheerful, broadminded, active, curious, secretive

aggressive, tough, careless, practical, sensible, independent, strong-minded, stupid

dull, boring, imaginative, ambitious, crafty, sensitive, gentle, naive

generous, loyal, self-controlled, moody, trusting, modest, tolerant, friendly

energetic, confident, selfish, shy, stubborn, reliable, clumsy, intelligent

More adjectives to describe personality (English-Spanish)

It's Halloween!

On the night of the 31st October it is HALLOWEEN. 

Halloween is an ancient pagan festival. People used to believe that it was the night that witches flew and that horrible beasts and monsters walked around. 

Do you know how Americans celebrate Halloween? Children dress up in scary costumes and go treat or treating door by door saying this rhyme:

Trick or treat

smell my feet 

give me something

good to eat

Read more

ONLINE ACTIVITIES
More on Halloween

Have fun with some Halloween games

's = "has", "is" o saxon genitive?

Do you think it is confusing? Read about it HERE

Practice the Saxon GEnitive with this activity

SAXON GENITIVE

When we want to show that something belongs to somebody or something, we usually add 's to a singular noun and an apostrophe ' to a plural noun, for example:

• the boy's ball (one boy)
• the boys' ball (two or more boys)

Notice that the number of balls does not matter. The structure is influenced by the possessor and not the possessed.

	one ball	more than one ball
one boy	the boy's ball	the boy's balls
more than one boy	the boys' ball	the boys' balls

The structure can be used for a whole phrase:

• the man next door's mother (the mother of the man next door)
• the Queen of England's poodles (the poodles of the Queen of England)

Although we can use of to show possession, it is more usual to use possessive 's. The following phrases have the same meaning, but #2 is more usual and natural:

1. the boyfriend of my sister
2. my sister's boyfriend

Proper Nouns (Names)

We very often use possessive 's with names:

• This is Mary's car.
• Where is Ram's telephone?
• Who took Anthony's pen?
• I like Tara's hair.

When a name ends in s, we usually treat it like any other singular noun, and add 's:

• This is Charles's chair.

But it is possible (especially with older, classical names) to just add the apostrophe ':

• Who was Jesus' father?

Irregular Plurals

Some nouns have irregular plural forms without s (man > men). To show possession, we usually add 's to the plural form of these nouns:

singular noun	plural noun
my child's dog	my children's dog
the man's work	the men's work
the mouse's cage	the mice's cage
a person's clothes	people's clothes

HAVE GOT

“tenir”

     HAVE GOT

Two forms  

                        HAS GOT (used for 3^rd person singular HE/SHE/IT)

AFFIRMATIVE

I/you	have got	a bike.
He/she/it	has got
We/you/they	have got

NEGATIVE

I/you	haven’t got	a bike.
He/she/it	hasn’t got
We/you/they	haven’t got

YES/NO QUESTIONS

Have	I/you	got	a bike?
Has	he/she/it
Have	we/you/they

              Short Answers

Yes,	I/you	have
	He/she/it	has
	We/you/they	have

No,	I/you	haven’t
	He/she/it	hasn’t
	We/you/they	haven’t

WH- QUESTIONS

Wh-**	Have	I/you	got	………?
	Has	he/she/it
	Have	we/you/they

** Where, when, why

Ex:       When has she got her holidays?  -   Where have they got the bikes?

Why have you got a red pen?       -   What have we got for breakfast?


Some PRACTICE

ORDINAL NUMBERS

Figures	Spelling
1st	first
2nd	second
3rd	third
4th	fourth
5th	fifth
6th	sixth
7th	seventh
8th	eighth
9th	ninth
10th	tenth
11th	eleventh
12th	twelfth
13th	thirteenth
14th	fourteenth
15th	fifteenth
16th	sixteenth
17th	seventeenth
18th	eighteenth
19th	nineteenth
20th	twentieth
21st	twenty-first
22nd	twenty-second
30th	thirtieth
40th	fortieth
50th	fiftieth
60th	sixtieth
70th	seventieth
80th	eightieth
90th	ninetieth
100th	hundredth
101st	hundred and first
200th	two hundredth
1,000th	thousandth
10,000th	ten thousandth
100,000th	hundred thousandth
1,000,000th	millionth

Spell the numbers HERE

TO BE (Present)

Practice what you have learnt:
To be
To be - negative
To be - affirmative
To be - affirmative (2)
To be - affirmative (3)
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-exercises.html
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentSimpleToBe1A.html
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-practice/present-simple-verb-be
http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/httpdocs/exercises/eso1/1eso2009/bepresent1e5.htm
http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/httpdocs/exercises/eso1/1eso2009/bepresent1e6.htm (questions)
http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/httpdocs/exercises/eso1/1eso2009/bepresent1e7.htm (negative)
http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/httpdocs/exercises/eso1/1eso2010/bepre1eso10.htm (short answers)

Cardinal Numbers

Cardinal Numbers

0    zero, oh, nought, nil, love, nothing 1    one 2    two 3    three 4    four 5    five 6    six 7    seven 8    eight 9    nine 10   ten 11   eleven 12   twelve 13   thirteen 14   fourteen 15   fifteen 16   sixteen 17   seventeen 18   eighteen 19   nineteen 20   twenty 21   twenty-one 22   twenty-two 23   twenty-three 24   twenty-four 25   twenty-five

26   twenty-six 27   twenty-seven 28   twenty-eight 29   twenty-nine 30   thirty 40   forty  (no "u") 50   fifty 60   sixty 70   seventy 80   eighty 90   ninety 100   a/one hundred 101   a hundred and one 110   a hundred and ten 120   a hundred and twenty 200   two hundred 1,000   a/one thousand 1,001   a thousand and one 1,010   a thousand and ten 2,000   two thousand 10,000   ten thousand 11,000   eleven thousand 100,000   a/one hundred thousand 1,000,000   a/one million 2,000,000   two million 1,000,000,000   a/one billion

Expressing Numbers in English

:: If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and the second digit is not zero, we should write the number as two words separated by a hyphen:

25   twenty-five 57   fifty-seven 89   eighty-nine :: Numbers over 100 are generally written in figures. However if you want to say them aloud or want to write them in words rather than figures you put 'and' in front of the number expressed by the last two figures. For example: 203      two hundred and three             (AmE: two hundred three) 622      six hundred and twenty-two     (AmE: six hundred twenty-two) :: Numbers between 1000 and 1,000,000 is usually said or written in words as: 1,803    one thousand, eight hundred and three           1,963    one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three    2,840    two thousand, eight hundred and forty

:: Saying years. We normally say a year in two parts. In the case of years ending in "00", we say the second part in "hundred":

1058   ten fifty-eight 1706   seventeen hundred and six (or 'seventeen oh six') 1865   eighteen sixty-five 1900   nineteen hundred

Practice: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/numbers/exercises?type=cardinal

Ways of expressing the number 0

0 = nil in football and other sports, for scores of 0 (AmE: zero or nothing)

0 = love in tennis

0 = zero in temperatures to refer to freezing point (0° Celsius, 0° Fahrenheit)

0 = nought in mathematics (AmE: zero)

0 = oh for telephone numbers

0 = oh (or zero) for flight numbers

Notes: 1. We use zero to express some numerical values such as temperatures, taxes, and interest rates. 2. We can pronounce "0" like the letter "o", when we are reading out numbers figure by figure (e. g. telephone number, flight number, credit card number, etc.)

Days of the week

Do you know where the names of the days of the week come from?
Guess it here: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/date/exercises2?02