Vocabulary lesson - Facebook

Facebook is

• an English networking website
• extremely popular
• connects you with your friends
• helps you keep up with your friends (eg. let your friends know what you have been doing)
• protects your privacy as well
• do not have to worry about strangers accessing your Facebook page
• has a search feature for users to look up old friends
• upload pictures
• comment on pictures
• allows its users to drum up small programs that work inside Facebook

Common error test 1

Phrasal verbs 1

Last week we learned a number of phrasal verbs with the preposition 'up'.
Let's review them.

1. hung up on (someone /something)
2. fed up with (someone /something)
3. shut up
4. line up
5. stand (someone) up
6. screw (something) up / screwed up
7. make up and dress up
8. make up (for something)
9. live up to (one's expectation / reputation / standard)
10. To sum up
11. show up /turn up
    

Do you still remember the meaning of these phrasal verbs? If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Be waiting for you under my leaf.

English test 1

Punctuation game

Going to the movies

1. Let's catch a movie.
2. Let's go to the movies.
3. Would you like to watch a movie tonight?
4. Let's hit the cinema tonight.

YOUR RESPONSE COULD BE "SURE", "WHY NOT?" , "SOUNDS GOOD"

Talk about your mobile phone

My new mobile's great.
It is a Nokia 82.
I love using predictive text now.
The screen is small but it displays images brilliantly.
I've got some fantastic ring tones.
I can record short video clips and send them to my friends
and I can access my emails on it.
I've downloaded some new games with great graphics on it.
I use it all the time but I hardly ever make calls on it.