30/01/2012

Groundhog Day

Would you like to know the origins of this American holiday?
If so, read this article.

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Martin Luther King Day

It is a United States holiday held on the third Monday of January. Would you like to know who Martin Luther King was and why he was so important to American history?
Read this article
Then, watch this video about his most famous speech and complete the quiz.

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Scotland

Go to the following website and learn a little bit more about Scotland. Then answer the questions in the webpage and send them to your teacher.

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Jokes

Read and complete these English jokes. Aren't they funny?

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Future Tenses

Practice your grammar with the following exercises:

Going to (future meaning)
Future continuous/progressive
Future Perfect
Future tenses grammar quiz
Future tenses grammar quiz 2

Used to/would, be/get used to

Since you had so much trouble, here you have some more exercises to practice:

Used to/would 1: Exercise 1
Used to/would: Exercise 2
Used to/to be used to/to get used to 1
Used to/to be used to/to get used to 2
More practice

Gerunds and Infinitives

Here you have some exercises to practice when to use the gerund or the -to infinitive after verbs:

Exercise 1                     
Exercise 2                 
Exercise 3               
Exercise 4               
Exercise 5