Week 5 - Unexpected Adventure

Practice matching the meanings to this week's new words.

Click here to listen to and practice the spelling for this week's words. 

Grammar - ADJECTIVES with -ed or -ing   Read the rules first....   then try this short quiz.    If you want more, there's More practice here. 

Week 4 - Obesity

Practice our week 4 vocabulary with a few games.

Listen to and spell this week's words. 

Noun? Verb? Adjective? Adverb?

Here's a good introduction to parts of speech in English.  Read the page and then click on Continue with first exercise to find a few short quizzes to test yourself.

Next, try this test about parts of speech.  You have to read sentences and decide if a word is a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.

Week 3 - Navajo Code Talkers

Spelling: Follow the link to hear pronunciation and sample sentences for this week's spelling words.

Vocabulary:  You can practice the new words and meanings here.

Week 2 - Native American Lands

Indian Reservations in the USA

Spelling - Listen to and spell this week's words.

Vocabulary - See the full list of words and practice using games.

Listen & Read - There are hundreds of Native American reservations in the U.S.   Learn more about Native American history and how the reservations began.

Past Tense Questions

A short exercise with WAS/WERE/DID 

Here's a good page that explains the past negatives and questions.  After you read it, click on Continue with the exercises to test yourself. 

Martin Luther King Jr - listening

You can listen to this story about Martin Luther King, Jr. on VOA Special English.  You'll see and hear a lot of the words we studied this week.

Here's a similar story about Rosa Parks, whose actions started the bus boycotts in Montgomery.

To listen, look on the upper right side and click on LISTEN MP3.  It should start automatically.