Happy Halloween!

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Tonight is Halloween, so celebrate it by reading some Halloween jokes:

Q. Why are black cats such good singers?
A. They're very meeewsical.

Q. Why didn't the skeleton dance at the Halloween party?
A. It had no body to dance with.

Q. What would you do if a witch, an alien, Count Dracula and Frankenstein were at your door?
A. Hope it was Halloween.

One ghost asked another, "Do you believe in people?"

Sam: Why do witches fly on brooms?
Pam: Because vacuum cleaner cords are not long enough!

and playing a couple of games:


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Creepy Pong See how many Halloween ghouls you can beat at table tennis!

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Revision of past tenses

Visit these websites and do the exercises to start revising for the upcoming exam...

• Past simple
• Past continuous
• Past perfect
• used to
• difference between past simple and past continuous
• difference between past simple and past perfect

Halloween is coming...

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Reported speech help

If you have trouble with reported speech, these sites may help:

changes in verb tenses

reported statements and exercises

reported questions and exercises

April Fool's jokes

Today we read about some jokes (also known as pranks or hoaxes) played on the media on April Fool's Day.

Visit the following page:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax10.html (and its link)

to learn about some successful jokes that fooled a lot of people and became very popular.

Activity: send a comment to this article with the following two tasks:

- was any joke you read specially funny/witty/wise? Explain it and say why.

- could any of those jokes be harmful/not funny at all and why?

(don't forget to sign your writing!)

Vanuatu

Today we read about Vanuatu and the Pentecost leap. Quite interesting, isn't it? Visit the country's website here and enjoy the white sandy beaches with tourquoise waters, the lush vegetation and great volcanoes.

Read some of the information and answer some questions:

- how many islands are there in the archipelago?

- how many people live there?

- how many languages do they speak there?

- what's the capital city?

- what's the weather like?

Be prepared to comment anything you find curious/interesting/funny in class.

More verbs

If you feel you need to practice the present simple and the present continuous a little bit more, try these:

• present simple - explanation + 8 exercises
• present continuous - explanation + 5 exercises
• difference between them both - explanation + 12 exercises + 3 tests