Vocabulary Game on The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories

Here's a matching activitiy to revise some of the vocabulary you learnt while reading    The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories, by Oscar Wilde.
Many thanks to Elena F., Elena O., Mª José, Jesús, Justo, María, Pilar, Sandra G. and Susana who are the authors of the definitions you'll see in the game.

Tongue-twisters

Tongue-twisters are those sentences which are difficult to say because of the combination of sounds. They are always great fun and can be used to practise English pronunciation. We tried some in the extra class for 1st year Advanced level:

• There's no need to light a night-light /On a light night like tonight/ For a night-light's a slight night /On a light night like tonight.

• A woman to her son did utter/ Go my son and shut the shutter/ The shutter's shut, the son did utter/ I cannot shut any shutter.

• How many cookies would a good cook cook/ If a good cook  could cook cookies?

• How many cans can a cannibal  nibble/ if a cannibal can nibble cans?

• She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

These were gathered together by Inés Arias and Mª Eugenia Caballer in an article. Here are 2 more of them,: the first one shared by Salva, the other is one of my favourite ones.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of picked pepper/ Did Peter Piper pick a peck of picked pepper?/ If Peter Piper picked a peck of picked pepper,/ Where's the peck of picked pepper Peter Piper picked?

• Betty bought a bit of butter/ but Betty found the butter bitter,/ so Betty bought a bit of better butter.

More on the financial crisis

It's been a while since we talked about this topic in class, but here's a very interesting video shared by Salva. It shows a Canadian 12-year-old girl explaining the reasons for the crisis in her country and suggesting how to solve it. Although she is talking about Canada it could certainly apply to the whole world.