Your Weekly Assignments And Links

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Afternoon class:

Reading

You can read a couple of stories similar to the one about passing gas:

The Fart In The Dark

Come And Get It!

And you can read lots of other urband legends (and their explanations) at Snopes.Com.

Grammar

Try this punctuation quiz.

Study the Factsheet and try the quizzes on commas.

Even better is the section on Putting Sentences Together.

Monday, September 27, 2004

More for the morning class on count and non-count nouns:

Quiz on How Much/How Many

Practice some and any with these exercises:

One, two, three, four, five, and six.

Try the past progressive exercises on this page.

Afternoon class -

Read a positive review of Mrs. Doubtfire.

Morning Class - Practice with nouns

Try an easy count - non-count noun quiz.

Try a quiz on irregular plurals and non-count nouns. Make sure you read the instructions first on this one!

Play a game to distinguish count and non-count nouns.

Do a self-study quiz.

Unscramble letters to make non-count nouns.

Do a self-study quiz on counting words for food.

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Test your knowledge of U.S. history and government:

Quiz for elementary school students

Quiz for grades 7-8 students

Quiz for high school students

Study Grammar

Read the introduction to past progressive and do the exercises at this site.

Monday, September 20, 2004

Take this quiz or this one to find out if you're a Democrat or a Republican!

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Here are some

Simple Past Exercises

Another simple past quiz

Irregular Verbs Quiz 1

Irregular Verbs Quiz 2

Irregular Verbs Quiz 3

Irregular Verbs Quiz 4

LONG Irregular verb quiz

Morning class:

Present Continuous Exercises

Monday, September 13, 2004

Nancy's afternoon class:

To practice the past tense, go

here and here and here and here and here.

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Nancy's afternoon class:

Self-study quiz about In, On, and At

An online review of the simple present and present progressive.

Try the Present Tense exercises from this page.

Learn about verb + preposition combinations through quizzes on this page.

Movie Lists

Top 100 Overlooked Movies of the 1990s.

Roger Ebert's Great Movie List

Internet Movie Database Top 250