Saturday

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Wednesday

Online Educational Games



Fun Stuff for Kids Online is from the Smithsonian.

The National Museums Scotland has a nice collection.

Learning Games at Scholastic.

        


Thursday

Freaky Friday - Take Me Away -

                         
        

Freaky Friday



B. Fill in the gaps to complete the film plot.

disagreements   break    freaky   wrong   getting  along   changes   support

 Dr. Tess Coleman and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna, are not (1)______________. They don't see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not in each other's taste in men. One Thursday evening, their (2)______________ reach a fever pitch - Anna is incensed that her mother doesn't (3)______________ her musical aspirations and Tess, a widow about to remarry, can't see why Anna won't give her fiancé a (4)______________. Everything soon (5)______________ when two identical Chinese fortune cookies cause a little mystic chaos. The next morning, their Friday gets (6)______________ when Tess and Anna find themselves inside the (7)______________ bodies. As they literally walk a mile in each other's shoes, they gain a little newfound respect for the other's point of view. But with Tess's wedding coming on Saturday, the two have to find a way to switch back – and fast.

C. Decide which of the following characters is best described by each statement. Use each character only once.

Ryan     Tess          Anna          Jake       Stacey          Harry
 1. She is a psychiatrist planning her second marriage. __________
2. She is a 15-year-old girl obsessed with her music, image and boys. ________
3. She’s a cheerleader and used to be Anna’s friend. __________
4. He is Tess’s fiancé. ___________
5. He’s Anna’s brother. ___________
6. Anna has a crush on him. ___________

       
       

Sunday

Present Perfect versus Past Simple


Grammar Infographic: Past Simple vs Present Perfect


             








Sports Collocations


There are three verbs that collocate with sports and other free time activities: go, do and play, but they are not interchangeable.

Ex 1   Ex 2 

Play

Play is used with sports that have teams, rules, and competitions:
Badminton, baseball, football, golf, rugby, and tennis are some examples.
I have been playing tennis for over ten years.
When I was young we played football just outside our house in the street.

Go

Go is used with activities where the activity is in the -ing form. 
To camp – go camping
We went camping by the lake last summer.
Other activities that take 'go' are dancing, jogging, running, hiking, riding, swimming, cycling, climbing, etc.

Do

For all other recreational activities, we use do. Aerobics, athletics, gymnastics, judo, karate, and yoga are some examples.
All young children should be encouraged to do gymnastics.
Sarah does yoga with some of her friends