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Module 1A: Adjectives and describing people

Exercises - Describing people - appearance and character’

Level

Activities

Comment

Link

Low Int

Quiz

Name pictures

www.englishclub.com

Int

Game

Hangman - 58 adjectives

www.englishclub.com

Up Int

Multiple choice quiz

Compound adjectives

BBC Quiz

Up Int

Multiple choice quiz

Personality adjectives

a4esl.org

Low Int
to Adv

Yes

You must register to use this site
but it is free

www.nonstopenglish.com

 

General ’

Level

Explanation

Activities

Comment

Link

Low Int

No

Yes

Describing houses

Natural English: Quiz

Low Int

No

Yes

Nouns - homes

Natural English: Word Find

Int

No

Yes

General adjectives

a4esl.org

Int+

No

Yes

General adjectives

www.edufind.com

Int+

No

Yes

Adjectives & Adverbs: multiple choice quiz 

http://iteslj.org/v/e/voa-adjadv.html

Int+

No

Yes

Adjectives & Adverbs: Match meaning quiz

http://www.manythings.org/mq/m6-9998.html

Int+

No

Yes

Adjectives & Adverbs:
Play Hangman

http://www.manythings.org/hmjs/voa-adjadv.html

Int+

Yes

Yes

General adjectives grammar

 www.bbc.co.uk

Int + Yes No This is a short explanation of how we use adjectives, but does not include order of adjectives http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d10f001_english_grammar_adjectives.htm

Int+

Yes

Yes

Form and order rules - Comparison with adverbs

esl.about.com

Int+

Yes

Yes

General adjectives grammar

 www.bbc.co.uk

 Int++

Yes 

No

Personal description adverbs

www.keepandshare.com

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Adjectives ending in ‘ed’ or ‘ing’

Level

Explanation

Activities

Comment

Link

Int

Yes

Yes

Short and simple

 http://gocsm.net/sevas/esl/reviewlesson/passive3a.html

Int

Yes

Yes

Guides and links

 http://newton.uor.edu/facultyfolder/rider/adjectives.htm

Int+

No

Yes

Good quiz activities

 http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/tireding3.html

http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/boreding.htm

http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/boredin4.htm

Int+

Yes

Yes

Adjectives or adverbs

 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/esladjadv.html

 Adv

Yes 

Yes

Rules based on patterns

 http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/structure/Structure1/partadjs.html

 

Module 1B: Comparisons and Surveys

Comparisons

Level

Activities

Comment

Link

Low Int+ Yes A  quiz of 35 questions checking comparative and superlative forms: good for grammar and spelling. http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz66fck.htm

Low Int

No

This is an interactive table to check comparative an superlative forms of 12 common adjectives.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup.html

Low Int+ Yes A short quiz of general knowledge practicing comparatives and superlatives. http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/preInt/comparatives%20superlatives.htm

Int

Yes

This quiz asks you to chose comparative or superlative forms to complete sentences.(15 qu.)

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup2.html

Int – Up int

Yes

This quiz has eight questions to check you understanding of comparatives and superlative adjectives.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup3.html

Int+ No This is a good explanation of the grammar of comparative adjective usage.  http://www.english4today.com/englishgrammar/grammar/ADJECTIVES5.cfm
Int+ No This is a good explanation of the grammar of comparative adverb usage. http://www.english4today.com/englishgrammar/grammar/ADVERBS12.cfm
Int + No This page explains how to make adjectives of comparison. http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d10f004_english_grammar_comparisons
Elem Yes You can practice making comparisons in this short quiz. (8 questions)

 http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d3a21_english_grammar_practice_comparatives.htm

Int + No This is a short explanation of how we use adjectives, but does not include order of adjectives. http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d10f001_english_grammar_adjectives.htm

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Surveys
These links provide lots of examples of surveys and survey questions.  Use them to learn how other people ask questions and organise their survey. You can also learn a little about presenting results.

Level

Type

Activities

Comment

Link

All simple Yes This is our ELI survey about transport.  Do the survey and then you can use the results in class with your teacher.

www.surveymonkey.com

 

Int Simple No A simple example of a survey about where your money goes.
You can view results.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110262/survey.htm
Int Simple No This is an example of a survey  about sleep used to market a product - a mattress
We don't recommend you complete the survey.
http://www.sleepdoctormattress.com/sleep_survey.php
 
Int Simple No This is good example of a survey about dreams using "yes-no" questions. http://www.chesapeake.edu/faculty/winrow/psc150DreamSurveyFa04.pdf
Int Simple No You can view an example of a survey which asks you to rank a number of leisure activities. http://depts.washington.edu/healthtr/Checklists/leisure.htm
Int+ Short No Look at an example survey for TV viewing habits - A bit difficult. http://www.beaweb.org/syllabus/smeth3.html
Int+ Long No This gives a good example of many different types of questions. www.esse.ou.edu
Up Int Complex Yes This survey uses many different question types.  It is long.
You can complete and send it, but there is no feedback.
http://www.eresponse.co.uk/run/survey3.cfm?ID=2276
 
Int+ Complex Yes Do this survey about dreams and sleep and then view results and discuss them online. 
You may need a dictionary.

http://www.misterpoll.com/1423220747.html

Int+ Complex No This is an example survey of public transport use. http://www.dnr.state.md.us/education/growfromhere/Lesson7/lesson7_3.htm
Int+ Complex No You can view how the results for a detailed survey are presented.  There are examples of percentage and graph results. http://www.surveyassist.com/s/uZd8ZWTmDUzeUqyyQuST
Int+ example No This is an interesting web-site created as a class project by ESL students who surveyed restaurants. http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/IEP_student_web_projects/area_restaurants.htm
Int+ example No Here students write in more detail about the restaurants surveyed at the link above. http://www.topics-mag.com/projects/restaurants/project.htm

 

Module 2A: Pathways and Processes

Processes

Level

Activity

Comment

Link

       
Up Int Find Information This site gives some interesting descriptions of how things are made with movies http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/

Pathways

Level

Activity

Comment

Link

       
Up Int Writing resumes This site gives some general information on resumes and templates for you to follow. Find and save a suitable template to your memory stick and put on your details

http://www.collegegrad.com/resumes/quickstart/agree.shtml

 

Up Int+ Resume

 

More examples of resumes can be found here

 

http://www.jobweb.com/resumes_interviews.aspx?id=89

 

 

Up. Int Interviews A lot of general information on how to prepare for interviews. A lot of high level reading. American. http://www.jobweb.com/resumes.aspx?folderid=144