Pronunciation & Phonetics

This is a fantastic interactive site to help you with pronunciation and phonetics!
Using this website is a fun way to learn!
Click on the image above or on this link: Pronunciation & Phonetics

Daily Quiz

There is a new quiz every day at GetTOEFL. The quizzes are useful for students who are planning to take the TOEFL test but they are also useful for IELTS, FCE, Upper Intermediate and Advanced level students.

Here's the link: GetTOEFL

Passive Voice

Here's a simple explanation of Passive Voice with lots of exercises for practice and revision. Click on the image above or visit the site with this link: English Grammar Online 4U - Passive Voice

Passive Voice is found in Unit 11A of the FCE students' course book.

Making Sentences

Try this exercise just for fun. How many sentences can you make? Click on the image to play the game or on this link: Silly Sentence Game

Announcement

The staff at Yethreb School would like to offer you warm wishes for Ramadan and a very happy Eid.

Currently we are taking a break for Ramadan. Classes will resume after the Eid on Sunday, October 29th, 2006.

If you are interested in taking any of the Cambridge exams; KET, PET, FCE, CAE, BEC - please note that the deadline for registration is on October 29th.

Please keep checking the blog during the break as we will be posting activities to do through out the month.

Wishing you a peaceful Ramadan and Eid.

The Staff at Yethreb School

English, baby!

Here's a website that has a different English lesson everyday. The lessons are fun and interesting. Each lesson has reading and listening - two skills that all the students need to improve. There are also vocabulary quizzes in each lesson. Click on the image above to visit the site or click on this link: English, baby!

Please read this

We hope that you 're having a fantastic Ramadan. We would like to remind you that classes will resume as soon as Eid is over, directly after the third day of Eid. In the meantime please keep checking the blog and work on the exercises that we'll be posting.

If you are planning to take any of the Cambridge exams (KET, PET, FCE, CAE, BEC) - the deadline for registration is on Sunday, October 29th. - that's as soon as we get back from the break.

Have a peaceful Ramadan.

The Staff at Yethreb School

Irregular Past Simple Verb Exercise

Here's an exercise to help you practice the past simple forms of irregular verbs. Click on the image above or on this link: ESLgo irregular verbs

Where's Aimen?

Aimen from the 'Making Progress to FCE' class is in Germany. He's taking a training course there for three months. You can read about what he's doing and what he thinks about life in Germany at his new weblog.

Here's the link: HUK-HUK


Have you got a blog?

PET & FCE - Practice Exercises

The deadline to register for the upcoming Cambridge University English exams is on October 29th. If you are interested in taking any of these exams you will need to make sure to register as soon as the Ramadan break is finished.

To help you prepare for the exams here are some online exercises:

PET Paper 1 - Reading Test

FCE Exam Practice: Word Formation (Paper 3 Part 5)

Cooking Verbs Vocabulary Exercise

Here's a fun exercise to keep you busy this Ramadan. How much do you know about vocabulary for foods and verbs used for cooking? Click on the image above to work on the exercise or on this link: Cooking Verbs

Announcement

The staff at Yethreb School would like to offer you warm wishes for Ramadan.

We will be taking a break for the month of Ramadan. The last class before the break will be on Thursday, September 23rd. Classes will resume on the fourth day after the end of the month of Ramadan (directly after the 3rd day of the Eid).

Please keep checking the blog during the break as we will be posting activities to do through out the month.

REMINDER: If you are planning to take any of the Cambridge exams (KET, PET, FCE, CAE, BEC) - the deadline for registration is on Sunday, October 29th.

If you are interested in enrolling in a course or have any questions, please stop by the school or contact us.

Wishing you once again a tranquil Ramadan.

The Staff of Yethreb School

The Learning Edge

Here's a fun website that has lots of activities. Click on the articles in the newspaper and listen and read, then click on:

at the bottom of the window to work on the exercises related to that article.

Click here to get started: The Learning Edge

Unforgettable - Song Exercise

Here's a music video with a gap fill exercise. Click on the image above to visit the site or on this link: Unforgettable

Be patient - it may take a while for the video to load. But after that you can listen to it over and over again, and do the exercise at the same time.

Listening & Podcasts

• English Language Listening Lab

• About.com Online Listening Quizzes

• PET Preparation Listening

• FCE Listening Exercises

• IELTS Listening Exercises

• Better@English Podcasts

Top 21 Class in Brazil

Mrs Khadija is being featured on a blog made by students at a school in Brazil. Their teacher asked her if the students could ask her some questions using the word 'like'. They posted their questions on their school's blog. Their blog is called Top 21 Class.

Five students asked her questions. This is Daise and Simone:

This is Emerson, Marilda and Aboré:

They wanted to know what Mrs Khadija liked about Libya and what life in Libya was like. Mrs Khadija told them about her life in Libya. You can visit Top 21 Class's blog to read what she had to say. http://top21.blogspot.com

Punctuation and Capitalization

The FCE students are working hard to improve their punctuation skills. Here's an online quiz - there are 50 questions. Click on the image above or on this link: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/punc_master_test.asp

Better@English podcasts

Podcasts are sound files, usually MP3s that are uploaded on the internet. There are podcasts about all kinds of things; interviews, stories, current news, poetry, or specific information. You can listen to them on the computer or download them onto an MP3 player and listen to them where ever you happen to be.

There are many podcasts especially made for people learning English. The website Better@English features two minute lessons to help you learn English vocabulary, idioms, slang, grammar and much more. To visit the site, CLICK on the image above, or on this link: http://www.betteratenglish.com/

Reported Speech Exercises

Students at Yethreb School are learning about reported speech.

Here are the links to fifteen helpful exercises:

One - Two - Three - Four - Five

Six - Seven - Eight - Nine - Ten

Eleven - Twelve - Thirteen - Fourteen - Fifteen

My Dream House

My dream house would be a big mansion. Inside this mansion I would like to have a big living room that includes a massive plasma TV.

I would also like to have a kitchen with a big table to eat on and a bathroom with a big jacuzzi.

Of course my dream house would include a wife that I love and live for. So I would like to have a big bedroom with a small bathroom. I'd also like to have children in my dream house; everyone with their own room.

I'd like to have a big garden with loads of trees, flowers and green grass. A garage with two cars; one for me and the other for my wife. I'd also like to have a guest room and a dining room.

Finally, I would like to add something that my family would enjoy. A fun room with a pool table, a tennis table and three or four computers.

And to sum up, I'd like to say that my dream house wouldn't be complate without my dad and mum and the whole family, so they can visit us anytime.

Well, I hope I didn't get carried away, and maybe in the future you could visit.

Ahmed Ahtash
FCE preparation