A New Life

A New Life

Make or do?

These two words are very similar and there are no fixed rules to help us decide which to use. We usually use MAKE for creating or constructing something. It is also often used for preparing food and…

Maps of the Crusaders 03

Sometimes place names change because political control changes. For example, after the Fourth Crusade Venice took control of the Greek island of Crete. The Venetians ruled from 1204 to 1669, and they…

Project on the web

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Questions - Understanding the text

Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Ask another student the questions and answer them. Mowgli/is/How/old? does/him/hit/Why/Baloo? Master Words/What/the/are?…

My body

Comprehension (I) (PET)

Look at the sentences below. Decide if each statement is correct or incorrect. Jonathan Swift was born in London in 1667. He studied at university in Dublin. He became a minister of the Church in 1694.…

Grammar (II) (PET)

Look at these sentences. For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first using no more than three words. I asked the Emperor for permission to visit the capital…

Comprehension check (KET)

Read the sentences below and then answer the questions. The Bermuda Triangle is in the It is often called In 1492 Christopher Columbus’s compass did not work The United States Coast Guard found the…

Discussion - The text and beyond

One of the best known sentences about the past is from the novel The Go-Between (1953) by the English writer L. P. Hartley (1895- 1972). The narrator, an old man, looks back at events that took place…