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Bad English with Miss Maroony
Start with the game and exercises below.
Remember that informal conversational English is much different from formal writing.
Never use words like "gonna" and "gotta" in a written sentence except in an example like this one !
The Carnival of Animals
Here are a few fun things for you to do !
- Take the Carnival of Animals Quizlet and see if you can recognise all of Mr Saint-Saëns' animals.
- Play Mr Saint-Saëns' Animal Word Matching Game
- Test your spelling and pronunciation (important for speaking and writing to anglophone animals !)
Mr Saint-Saëns' Animal Word Matching Game (RO)
Match the English words for Mr Saint-Saëns' animals to their Romanian translations as fast as you can !
Note: For more advanced students of English, click on "choose a study mode" to select exercises that will help you improve your spelling and pronunciation.
Mr Saint-Saëns Animal Word Matching Game (NL)
Match the English words for Mr Saint-Saëns' animals to their Dutch translations as fast as you can !
Note: For more advanced students of English, click on "choose a study mode" to select exercises that will help you improve your spelling and pronunciation.
Mr Saint-Saens' Animal Word Matching Game
Do you know the names of the animals in my music? Find out by playing the animal word matching game below. If you are quick you might beat the record for the fastest player !
You can choose from the language combinations below:
Note: For more advanced students of English, you can also use this quizlet to practice spelling and improve oral pronunciation.
Verbs with Alice & the Flowers (2)
Here are some more verbs for you to learn and practice. They are taken from the Alice in Wonderland "flowers" extract.
Alice & the past simple (irregular verbs).
Well, irregular verbs are irregular....which means that you will just have to learn them.
Get a good start with these verbs from the Alice in Wonderland flowers extract.
Action Verbs with Alice & the Flowers
Alice in Wonderland Flowers Extract
O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!'
'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when
there's anybody worth talking to."
Alice was
so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take
her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she
spoke again, in a timid voice — almost in a whisper. 'And can all the flowers talk?'
'As well
as you can,' said the
Tiger-lily. 'And a great deal louder.'
'It isn't
manners for us to begin, you know,' said the Rose, 'and I really was wondering
when you'd speak! Said I to myself, "Her face has got some sense in it, though it's not a clever one!"
Still,
you're the right colour, and that goes a long way.'
'I don't
care about the colour,' the Tiger-lily remarked. 'If only her petals curled up
a little more, she'd be all right.'
Alice
didn't like being criticised, so she began asking questions.
'Aren't
you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of
you?'
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| Bough-Wough ! |
'There's
the tree in the middle,' said the Rose: 'what else is it good for?'
'But what
could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked.
'It says
"Bough-wough!" cried a Daisy: 'that's why its branches are called
boughs!'
'Didn't
you know that?' cried another
Daisy, and here they all began shouting together, till the air seemed quite
full of little shrill voices.
'Silence,
every one of you!' cried the Tiger-lily, waving itself passionately from side
to side, and trembling with excitement. 'They know I can't get at them!' it
panted, bending its quivering head towards Alice, 'or they wouldn't dare to do
it!'
'Never
mind!' Alice said in a soothing tone, and stooping down to the daisies, who
were just beginning again, she whispered, 'If you don't hold your tongues, I'll
pick you!'
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Alice in Wonderland
The story is about a young girl named Alice, who falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a magical new world.
The quizlets below will help you join Alice in exploring this new world where animals, flowers and playing cards all speak English.
QUIZLETS
- "Flowers" extract from Alice in Wonderland Grammar and vocabulary exercises will be based on this text.
- Verbs with Alice and the flowers A vocabulary building exercise which also lets you practice spelling and pronunciation.
- Verbs with Alice and the flowers (2)
- Alice chooses the right verb A multiple choice quiz on verbs from the "flowers" extract.
- Alice and the past simple (irregular verbs)
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