Interactive English Exercises and Textoys*

Descriptive Passages
Build sentences from broken phrases

 

  1. Inside District School #7
  2. The Magic Metal Tube
  3. Gregory
  4. The Blond Guitar
  5. When you're hot, you're hot

Common American Expressions
Listen to  phrases and put them into context

 

  1. AmeriPhrases 1 (After you)
  2. AmeriPhrases 2 (Age before beauty)
  3. AmeriPhrases 3 (Don't I know it)
  4. AmeriPhrases 4 (Catch you later)
  5. AmeriPhrases 5 (Easy does it)
  6. AmeriPhrases 6 (Enough is enough)
  7. AmeriPhrases 7 (Get back to me)
  8. AmeriPhrases 8 (Gangway)
  9. AmeriPhrases 9 (Have a heart)
  10. AmeriPhrases 10 (Hang in there)
  11. AmeriPhrases 11 (Look who's talking)
  12. AmeriPhrases 12 (Leave it to me)
  13. AmeriPhrases 13 (Name your poison)
  14. AmeriPhrases 14 (No can do)
  15. AmeriPhrases 15 (Put 'er there)
  16. AmeriPhrases 16 (Oh well)
  17. AmeriPhrases 17 (Save it)
  18. AmeriPhrases 18 (Search me)
  19. AmeriPhrases 19 (Ta-da)
  20. AmeriPhrases 20 (We need to talk)

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Poetic Problems
Order the lines of a poem

 

  1. Shakespeare's Sonnet 2
  2. Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
  3. Shakespeare's Sonnet 50
  4. Wordsworth (Westminster Bridge)
  5. Wordsworth 2 (Daffodils)
  6. Robert Louis Stevenson (Pirate)
  7. Robert Louis Stevenson (Travel)

Heavy Weather
Order the phrases logically to learn:

 

  1. What is lightning?
  2. What causes thunder?
  3. What do thunderstorms do?
  4. How is hail formed?

Grammar-phones
Hear phrases and compare verb tense

 

  1. Come and go
  2. Meet and greet
  3. Sing and shout
  4. Ride and drive
  5. Get
  6. Relationships

Advanced English for Professionals