Tag: English

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

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Do you know the origin of this celebration? If you don’t, watch this video and find out more about this topic!

VOCABULARY

TO WONDER = to have an interest in knowing or learning something; to think about something with curiosity.
TO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS => This phrase is used as an INFORMAL and often somewhat IMPOLITE way to tell someone to stop watching or asking about something that is private.
BEHOLD! (interjection)= look!; see!
TO BUMP= to collide with; to hit against an object in a sudden and forceful way.
Bump
WHATEVER (slang)
PILGRIM= a person who makes a journey, often a long and difficult one, to a special place for religious reasons.

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SETTLEMENT= a place where people have come to live and where few or no people lived before.
FARMER= a person who operates a farm or cultivates a land.

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HARVEST= the season when crops are gathered from the fields or the activity of gathering crops.

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BLESSING= approval that allows or helps you to do something.

Thanksgiving crossword puzzle
(printable or interactive)

Visual Vocabulary 3

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Landscape (2)

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Bamby was exploring the forest  forest when he encountered a fallen log (trunk) tree-576846_1280.png. Thumper, the rabbit rabbit-551991_1920.jpg, decided to use this trunk to teach Bamby how to jumpfreedom-307791_1280.png. After that, Thumper taught Bamby to say “bird“bird-548654_1280.png and “butterfly“butterfly-142506_1280.jpg.

The simple past of the verb “to teach” is “taught”.

Remember that the plural of “butterfly” is “butterflies” and the singular of “leaves” is “leaf”.

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Do you know the difference between WHO, WHOM, and WHOSE?

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who whom whose

WHO

WHOM

WHOSE

Interactive quiz “Who, whom or whose?

Downloadable PDF:
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHO, WHOM, AND WHOSE
QUIZ – WHO WHOSE WHOMQUIZ ANSWERS – WHO WHOSE WHOM
QUIZ ANSWERS – WHO WHOSE WHOM

 

Visual Vocabulary 2

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Can you guess in what season was it taken?Landscape (1)

 Photo credit: Professor Bop / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND

These are wooden houses, houses made of wood:wooden houses

Photo credit: Cycling man / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND

This is a branch, it’s a part of a tree. On this branch there are six doves:

branch

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This is a tree trunk or ‘log‘:

tree trunk

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This is a fence, a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary. This is a wooden fence because is made of wood:

fence

Photo credit: Timothy Valentine / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA

This is a field,  an area of cleared enclosed land used for cultivation or pasture:

field

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“The audience” – What does it mean?

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The audience Photo credit: open hardware summit / Foter.com / CC BY

More example sentences from the web:

  • The audience always like love stories.
  • The audience cried when Marilyn died.
  • This forum provided a unique opportunity to present information on community colleges to a larger audience of researchers studying educational issues.

In the sea

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Worksheet – In the Sea – Vocabulary quiz

Answerkey – In the Sea

A visual vocabulary on this topic (for more advanced students) with a listening game available.