Summer ESL
Tenses
Writing
Language
Topics
100

This is how often you should practice your English during the summer

What is at least once a day.

100

"I like chicken. I eat pizza. I like to talk to my mother on Wechat."  All these sentences are written in this tense.

What is present simple?

100

If your audience are important people you would write in this manner.

What is informal?

100

Things or stuff?

Which word is colloquial?

Stuff

*triple points if you can tell the class what your favourite stuff to eat is.*

100

Dogs and cats are examples of 

Animals

*double points if you can say what Mr. Kaulins's favourite animals.

200

This is what should you do to improve your reading.

Read as much as you can in English.

**Daily Double**

200

I had eaten chicken because I had gone to KFC.  This sentence is written in this tense.

What is past perfect?

*** daily triple ***

200

If you write to your friend about what you did at a party, you would write in this manner.

What is informal.

200

What is the famous Chinese idiom that has two animals in it?  One of which is a horse and the other is a tiger.

What is mama huhu?

*double points if you can tell the class a thing you are embarrassed about.*

200

Watching movies or going to concerts are examples of

Entertainment

300

You won't see this white stuff in Summer when you are practicing English Conversation with your classmate but will if you do.

What is snow?

300

When you tell a story of what you did yesterday, you will write in this tense.

The past tenses or the narrative tense.

* triple points if you can sing an English song *

300

If you give me money, I a)will be happy b) would be happy.

Which is correct? a) or b)

a)

(Triple points if dance like a chicken)

300

This type of comparison uses the words "like" or "as"

What is a simile.

*triple points if you can make a simile with the word "strong"

300

After you finish school, you will enter the world of 

work.

400

When you are practicing this skill with pop songs, the skill will improve and you will have lyrics to sing to yourself and your partner.

What is listening.

400

I am watching television.

I am watching dogs bark.

I am feeling alone because my friend is being boring.

These sentences are written in this tense.

What is the present continuous?


*double points if you give the teacher money.*

400

You want to break up your report, email or essay into these sections.

What are paragraphs?

**double points if you can pronounce the following word below correctly:   Antidisestablishmentarism.


400

Go up or follow up or slow down or act up or drop in are examples of ....

Phrasal Verbs

*double points if you can make a sentence with the phrasal verb: speed up."

400

You can stay at home or you can go 

Outdoors.

*triple points if you can a finger in your nose and a finger in your ear.*

500

You can practice this skill by sending English emails to your classmates, a person you admire, or someone who who you want to know better.  If you don't practice this skill, your hair may or may not fall out.

What is writing?

500

The car had been cleaned the day before.

The sentence is written in the past sentence.

What is the passive perfect tense?

*double points if you can dance in front of the class for twenty seconds.*

500

The texts you have been asked to write on unit tests have to contain this many words, more or less.

What is 120 to 160.

(Double points if you can make two animal sounds)

500

Well, badly, quickly are examples of:

adverbs.

500

Climbing mountains, hunting for bears, and sailing around the world are examples of 

Adventure.