QUANTIFIERS

Here is an explanation on quantifiers and two online exercises for you to read and practise:

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/determiners-and-quantifiers/quantifiers

NARRATIVE TENSES

Here is an online exercise for you to practise a bit more...

http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/upp/a_grammar/unit05/neup_grammar05;jsessionid=C1B6867E6299386314C143B8C72C41CB?cc=ar&selLanguage=en

THE PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

Here is a link for you to listen about this tense...

http://youtu.be/jP8OdFciXYw

Good luck for this new year!!! And don't forget to have lots of fun!!!

HALLOWEEN

Questions:

According to the narrator Halloween is a...
 patchwork holiday.
 mainly religious holiday.
 only cultural holiday.

Samhain celebrated...
 the spread of the Celts culture across Europe.
 the death of the living.
 the end of the harvest season.

The Catholic church frowned on the pagan rituals, which means that...
 it accepted them.
 it didn't approve of them.
 it ignored them.

Halloween was brought to America...
 by Irish immigrants escaping from poverty.
 by Irish immigrants looking for the potato famine.
 by Irish immigrants who wanted to conquer America.

Over the years the harmless tricks...
 disappeared.
 became more popular.
 turned into something different.

So the neighbours started to give ... to stop the tricks.
 braibs
 braves
 bribes

SPRING IS COMING...

"I was here first," said the snowdrop: "look!"
"Not before me!" sang the silver brook.
"Why," cried the grass, "I've been here a week!"
"So have I, dear," sighed a violet meek.

"Well," piped a bluebird, "don't leave me out!
I saw the snow that lay round about."
"Yes," chirped a snowbird, "that may be true;
But I've seen it all the bleak winter through."

"I came betimes," sang the southwind, "I!"
"After me, love!" spake the deep blue sky.
"Who is it cares?" chimed the crickets gay:
"Now you are here, let us hope you'll stay."

Whispered the sun, "Lo! the winter's past:
What does it matter who's first or last?
Sky, brooks, and flowers, and birdies that sing,
All help to make up the beautiful spring."

The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in southwest Greece. The Games were part of a religious festival. The Greek Olympics, thought to have begun in 776 BC, inspired the modern Olympic Games (begun in 1896) The Games were held in honour of Zeus, king of the gods, and were staged every four years at Olympia, a valley near a city called Elis. People from all over the Greek world came to watch and take part.