Monday, October 13, 2025

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

I STIL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR

By U2

I have _____ the highest mountains
I have _____ through the fields
Only to ___ with you
Only to ___ with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to ____ with you

But I still haven't ______ what I'm looking for
But I still haven't ______ what I'm looking for

I have ______ honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like _____
This burning desire

I have spoken with the tongue of angels
I have _____ the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was _____ as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I believe in the _______ come
Then all the ______ will bleed into one
Bleed into one
But yes I'm still running

You ______ the bonds
And you loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Oh my shame
You know I _______ it


 

1. Find all the pps (past participles)

2. Find the verbs which are in Past Simple

3. Find the verbs that are in infinitive

4. Find Present Perfect + superlative

5. Find a rhyme

6. Find the plurals

7. Find the linking words

 

What’s the song about?


I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

 



Easier:

For and Since



 Practice here



Present Perfect or Past Simple? (1)

Present Perfect or Past Simple? (2)


More challenging:

Present perfect or past simple?

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Adjectives

 

 

Regular Adjective

angry

bad

big

clean

cold

crowded

dirty

funny

good

hot

hungry

interesting

old

pretty

scary

small

surprising

tired

ugly

 

Opinion

Size

Other

Age

Shape

Colour

Pattern

Origin

Material

Purpose





Image result for good pairs of adjectives collocations


dark green
pitch black
bright yellow
freezing cold
warm (and) sunny
wet (and) slippery
burning hot
young (and) attractive
cheap and nasty
huge global
painful and arduous
slow (and) painful
lightning fast
fresh (and) healthy







Regular Adjective

Extreme Adjective

angry

furious

bad

awful, terrible, horrible

big

huge, gigantic, giant

clean

spotless

cold

freezing

crowded

packed

dirty

filthy

funny

hilarious

good

wonderful, fantastic, excellent

hot

boiling

hungry

starving

interesting

fascinating

old

ancient

pretty

gorgeous

scary

terrifying

small

tiny

surprising

astounding

tired

exhausted

ugly

hideous




Thursday, October 9, 2025

Betty Botta

 Betty Botta bought some butter;

“But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter!

If I put it in my batter

It will make my batter bitter.

But a bit o’ better butter

Will but make my batter better.”

Then she bought a bit o’ butter

Better than the bitter butter,

Made her bitter batter better.

So ’twas better Betty Botta

Bought a bit o’ better butter.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Crosswords and word games

B1 personality 


B1 describing people


B1 food and drink




Link to crosswords for different levels


B2 level crosswords


B1 Level crosswords and printable worksheets



Multiple levels


Double letters


a__ent

d__p

le__er

sk__ng

m__n

a__ept

s__n

pla__ing

bu__er

ye__ow

wri__en

su__er

ha__y

e__

jo__ing

pa__ion

ki__

ki__




Race


In teams write


6 words with a double l

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.


6 words with a double m

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.


6 words with a double c

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.


6 words with a double p

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.


6 words with a double s

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.


6 words with a double o

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.



6 words with a double e

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.




6 words with a double d

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.





6 words with a double r

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.



Letter limit


think of a 6 letter word to fit the following categories 


bird

colour

a city

a female name

a month

a country




think of a 6 letter word to fit the following categories 


a day of the week

a metal

a member of the family

a number

a season

an animal




think of a 6 letter word to fit the following categories 


a vegetable

a sport

a shape

a male name

a job

a fruit



think of a 7 letter word to fit the following categories 

a country

a month

an animal

a member of the family

a greeting

a verb



think of a 7 letter word to fit the following categories 


a vegetable

a sport

a shape

a male name

a part of the body

a fruit



Scattergories (difficult!)


Worksheet for classrooms...

B1 Level

Turning words verbs and adjectives into NOUNS




Sunday, October 5, 2025

Cleft Sentences

Clefts, inversion and auxiliaries

Kahoot!

Pseudo Clefts



To practice this, use the following exercises on this website:

Emphasis - cleft sentences

Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 6


1.I really enjoy a long walk in the country.
It's .
What .
(is) A long walk .
(That's) A long walk in the country. .
 
2.I dislike his rudeness the most.
What .
(what) His rudeness .
It's .
(That's) His rudeness. .
 
3.His sense of irony makes me laugh.
(what) His .
(That's) His sense of irony. .
It's ..
What .

Sentence transformations

Sentence transformations are a way of consolidating everything you've learned at each level.

So, my advice for this way of exercising the flexibility of your English usage is to practice at lower levels than the one you're currently studying. 

If you try to do the harder ones before you've really mastered the grammar and vocabulary of that level you'll just get frustrated!


B1 level key word transformations - online


 B1 level sentence transformations


B2 level sentence transformations


C1 level sentence transformations

Saturday, October 4, 2025

IELTS writing - Graphs and data - Transport

 travel time method of travel

The graphs below give information about commuting inside and outside London in 2009.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.


The graphs show_________________________________________________________________

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Commuting inside and outside London in 2009

The g_____s show the t____e it t_____s employees __ commute to their w____places , and the m___e of transport they use . F____s are g____n for b___h inside and outside London.

For the m_______y of the UK , the number of commuters d_______s as commuting time i_______s . Almost h___f of the commuters take l___ than 15 minutes to get to their place o__ work , while only around 3 p______t s_____d over an hour commuting . Indeed , three quarters of commuters o______e London reach work within half an h___r . In London , the trend is very d_______t . The figures s___w that it takes m___h longer to get to work . Less than half of the commuters have reached work within half an hour , with the p________e reaching work in less than fifteen minutes s_________y lower than the p________e reaching work in thirty m_______s . M_______r , forty percent of people spend up to an hour commuting , with an e______l proportion in the 30-45 minute bracket and the 45-60 minute bracket , and a further sixteen p_______t commute for over an hour – over five times the proportion outside London .

Regarding the m___e of transport , the car is dominant b___h inside and outside London , significantly so outside London , where other m____s of transport account for less than a quarter of j_______s . Of the other modes of transport , w_____g and taking the bus are more c_______n than cycling , taking the train and using the u________d . Inside London , the car accounts for a_____t one third of commuting journeys . However , public transport is used for a_____t half of the journeys , the train and underground being more p________r than the bus .


Practice using this


The table below shows CO2 emissions for different forms of transport in the European Union. The Pie Chart shows the percentage of European Union funds being spent on different forms of transport.






CO2 emissions per passenger kilometre
co2 emissions

















EU Funds for transport 2007-2013

eu funds for transport



per

methods

greatest

next

make up

as trains do

budget

amount

a further

as much as

cleanest

nearly


Transport in the European Union

The chart shows CO2 emissions of each passenger kilometre for various types of transport in the European Union while the pie chart shows European Union spending on transport . Flying by air produces by far the most CO2 emissions, approximately three times that of passenger cars which are the second largest producers!

Very little is spent by the EU on air travel while roads represent more than half of the EU transport expenditure.

Trains produce about three times less CO2 emissions per passenger kilometre than passenger cars and eight times less than air travel. Almost a third of EU transport funds are spent on railways .

Ships are a clean form of transport and produce about the same quantity of CO2 per passenger kilometre compared with trains. However, only 2 percent of EU funds are spent on ports. Another one percent is spent on inland waterways .

Coaches are the least polluting form of transport. Emissions of CO2 per passenger kilometre from coaches are half those of buses. Buses emit less than half as much CO2 per passenger kilometre as cars. The European union spends 10 percent of its transport budget on public transport, such as buses and coaches .



methods

by far

shows

than

more than

as much as

on

as

less than half as much

the same

the cleanest

form

such as

less than

largest

by far

less

per


Transport in the European Union

The chart _______ CO2 emissions _______ passenger kilometre for various ________ of transport in the European Union while the pie chart shows European Union spending _______ transport . Flying by air produces _______ the greatest CO2 emissions, approximately three times _______ passenger cars which are the next ______ producers!

Very little is spent by the EU on air travel while roads make up _______ half of the EU transport budget .

Trains produce about three times _______ CO2 emissions per passenger kilometre ______ passenger cars and eight times ________ air travel . Nearly a third of EU transport funds are spent on railways .

Ships are a clean ________ of transport and produce about ________ amount of CO2 per passenger kilometre ______ trains do . However, only 2 percent of EU funds are spent on ports . A further one percent is spent on inland waterways .

Coaches are ________ form of transport . Emissions of CO2 per passenger kilometre from coaches are half those of buses. Buses emit ________ CO2 per passenger kilometre as cars. The European union spends 10 percent of its transport budget on public transport , ______ buses and coaches .