Welcome to EnglishNet, the EFL blog for Jaime Moniz students.

EnglishNet gives you access to English language and culture.

It contains links to help you learn and improve your English grammar and your listening, reading and writing skills.

Let's start by finding some interesting facts about the English language.

- English has the largest vocabulary in the world (approximately 1.000.000 words).

- the oldest word in the English language is "town".

- "uncopyrightable" is the only English word that has 15 letters and that can be spelt without repeating a single one.

- "bookkeeper" is the only English word with three consecutive repeated letters.

- the word "typewriter" is the longest word you can write in English by only using the  keys on the same row of your keyboard.

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1 - Today wer're going to head back to the ...

Think of a caption for this picture and then leave it in your comment.

Please take a look at the following videos  and then post your opinion on one of them.

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2- Now improve your English  online

Impersonal pronouns

Exercise  1

Subjunctive

Exercise    1  2   3   4   5   

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Hello students,

1. Watch these videos and leave a meaningful comment on one of them.

Totalitarianism

Schindler ‘s list

The pianist

The great dictator    

                                                   Democracy

European Union – a New Europe

European Union - 50 years in 5 minutes

2013: European Year of Citizens

2. Test your grammar skills.

Word formation - prefixes

Exercise     1       2      3

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Hello again.

This time we'll have a look at ...
Sharing a multicultural society

1. Watch these videos about three famous freedom fighters

Martin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela









Now test your knowledge of ...

Global trends in modern society

2. Watch these videos. 

Globalisation-good or bad?

The impact of globalisation

3. Let's do some reading

4. And now some grammar

Genitive with of / 's

List of frequently used Phrasal Verbs

Exercises:

bring	set
come	take
get	mixed phrasal verbs
go	three word phrasal verbs

  

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Hi everyone!

Improve your English outside the classroom!

Our topic this month is ...

Respecting human rights

Watch this video...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights   

...and then test your knowledge:

Human rights quiz

Now watch the following videos . Do leave a comment on ONE of them.

Child soldiers
Child labour 

What's it like to be a woman or girl today?

Where is the love?

Make a difference

And now ...time for some grammar

Impersonal passive voice

Exercise   1    2    3

Purpose, reason and result clauses

Exercise   1    2

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Hello everyone!

Revise for the written and oral tests.

Watch these three videos related to

Global language

 English is the international language 

 The English language in24 accents 

   

    GRAMMAR TIME!

Let's practice! Here go a few links.

Mixed conditionals

Exercise   1

Inversion in conditionals

Exercise   1   2   3

Inversion of the subject

Exercise    1   2   3

Word formation - suffixes

Exercise   1   2   3

And now watch this last video.

Learning English pronunciation 

Do let me know what you think about ONE of the videos. Please leave a comment!

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Welcome to EnglishNet, the  EFL blog for Jaime Moniz students.

Here you have the opportunity to learn, practise and improve your English in a different way.

This is a place where you will find useful links for improving your English: grammar exercises, vocabulary tasks, videos, songs ...

You will also be able to participate and give opinions.

For now find out some entertaining facts about THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

The words "racecar", "kayak" and "level" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 The most common vowel  in English is "e" and the most common consonant is "r" followed by "t". The letter "q" is the least used.

"Invisibility" is the only word in the English language which has one vowel, but this vowel occurs five times.

I hope you enjoy and get the most of this blog!

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