Test your knowledge of Education Vocabulary (IELTS Preparation)

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Downloadable PDF version: Test your knowledge of Education Vocabulary (IELTS Preparation) – Without answers

Downloadable PDF version:Test your knowledge of Education Vocabulary (IELTS PREPARATION) – ANSWERS

English4Gamers – Episode 4 – Street Fighter II

In this episode, we continue playing Street Fighter II. At the beginning, there is a vocabulary list with all the words you will hear and maybe you don’t know. During the episode, you will have to answer some questions. If you have any suggestions, write them in the comments below ;-). If you just want to watch the video, without testing your knowledge, click here: Richard Retro Channel

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“To wonder” – What does it mean?

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Example sentences from the web:

  • I wonder what she can do to help her husband.
  • I wonder why I said that.
  • We were wondering where the bride went.

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To wonder in the news:

Behind the news: http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4183263.htm

First part of the transcript:

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English4Gamers – Episode 3 – Super Mario Bros (Listening comprehension)

In this episode, we play again Super Mario Bros. At the beginning, there is a vocabulary list  – you can find a printable version below -with all the words you will hear and maybe you don’t know. During the episode, you will have to answer some questions. If you have any suggestions, write them in the comments below. I know I have to speak louder ;-). We filmed this weeks ago, now I’m a bit better (at least, I hope so). If you just want to watch the video, without testing your knowledge, click here: Episode without the quiz.

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Downloadable PDF – Vocabulary list: Vocabulary list – English4Gamers – Episode 3 – Super Mario Bros

Future tenses – quiz for FCE

Test your knowledge of future tenses for First Certificate English Cambridge Test - Free English Materials For You

Downloadable PDF file (without answers):FCE Preparation – Test your knowledge of future tenses
Downloadable PDF (answers):FCE Preparation – Test your knowledge of future tenses – Answers

“You snooze, you lose.” – English proverb

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Example sentences from the web:

  • John: Hey! I wanted a glass of milk too!
    Sarah: It’s too late. You snooze, you lose.
  • Isabel: Mark is so selfish, he knew I wanted to go to the show, but yesterday he bought the last ticket for himself.
    Cristina: If it was so important, why didn’t you buy the ticket before? You snooze, you lose.

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Listening activity – English4Gamers

Watch the first episode of English for gamers and fill in the gaps with the missing words

  1. A: You are the good gamer […] you __________________.
  2. A: He ____________________ . I _____________ like ten times.
  3. R: I didn’t get the ____________ score. That’s ________.
  4. A: So, this is a _________ of cake.
  5. R: With the flower you can _________________ fire.
  6. R: You have ____________  the second controller.
  7. R: Can you say it? Restart? That ____________  like Richard.
  8. R: You are too ____________ you can’t break it _____________ now.
  9. A: I _____________  my ________________. […] I would like you _____________ me when there is a mushroom somewhere maybe.
  10. R: Time is running ___________.
  11. A: These creatures are blue. What’s the __________________?
  12. R: There is no light so it’s all in ___________________.
  13. R: On the sides of the ______________ the game doesn’t exist. So if you go ____________________, you can’t go back.
  14. R: How do you say it? The ______________ on the back of the turtles?
  15. A: You _______________________  fun of me.
  16. A: Okay guys, __________ _____ it for today. So … See you next week!

Downloadable PDF file: Episode 1 – English4Gamers – Fill in the gaps

Answers: Episode 1 – English4Gamers – Fill in the gaps – Answers

Spot the mistakes

Can you spot all the mistakes?

  1. I am the good gamer and I play with good character.
  2. It don’t work.
  3. If you are talking to me, then I got distracted.
  4. A turtle on a cloud that trow another turtle.
  5. There is one that have a coins.

Write a comment below with all the mistakes you can find and I will tell you if you are right!

Downloadable PDF file: Can you spot all the mistakes?

 

The first video is out! – English4Gamers – Super Mario Bros

You can find a vocabulary list below the video 😉 (you can download it as PDF file).

Vocabulary list

  • Gamer => a person who plays games and especially video or computer games.
  • Fake => not real, but made to look or seem real.
  • Score => the number of points someone gets in a game or test.
  • A piece of cake => something that is very easy to do.
  • To configure => to arrange or prepare (something) so that it can be used
  • Controller => a device or piece of equipment used to operate a machine, vehicle, or system. controller meaning.png
  • To restart (that sounds  like Richard ahahahh) = to make (something) start again after it has stopped.
  • Mushroom =>mushroom super mario.jpg
  • To run out => to finish; to come to an end.
  • Darkness => a state in which there is little or no light.darkness.jpg
  • Brick => brick meaning.png
  • Quote => to repeat (something that is written or said by another person) exactly.
  • Screen => the part of a television or computer that shows images or writing.screen meaning.png
  • To cheat => to break a rule or law usually to gain an advantage at something.
  • Spike => a long, thin rod that ends in a point and is often made of metal.
  • To skip => to not do something that you usually do.

Vocabulary list first episode English4Gamers (in English)
Lista dei vocaboli inglese-italiano primo episodio English4Gamers

Richard’s questions:

  1. Can you say “restart” in English?
    Yes, you totally can ;-)!
  2. How do you pronounce “delete”?
    You say it like this : /dɪˈliːt/

 

English for Gamers – Episode 0

As I told you previously, the intro is out :-). I hope you will like it:

This is the first video in English on Richard’s channel, that’s why we are speaking both English and Italian, but from tomorrow on, Italian will be banned ;-).