Supplementary materials
Interactive materials intended for self-learning.
PAPER AND PENCIL MATERIALS
Reading comprehension for lower-level classes (A1/A2)
If you have only begun to learn a language, readers are a good solution. The following publishers produce good readers for different proficiency levels:
Black Cat, Circon Verlag, Helbling, Macmillan, Penguin
Simplified literary works
Hans Christian Andersen – Winter Tales
Isaac Asimov – Runaround
Isaac Asimov – The Fun They Had – Story
Isaac Asimov – The Fun They Had – Stories and Activities
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – Story A2 and B1
Ernest Hemingway – Cat In The Rain – OV
Ernest Hemingway – Indian Camp – OV
George Orwell – Animal Farm – Story A2
Edgar Allen Poe – The Black Cat – Story A2, B1 and OV
Oscar Wilde – The Canterville Ghost
Reading materials on films
Bend it Like Beckham – activities related to the film
Ratatouille – the story
Getting prepared for the DAES admission test in English (B1/B2)
I need the permission to upload past DAES admission tests. In the meantime, use the papers below to prepare for the DAES admission test.
Use of English at an intermediate / upper-intermediate level (B1/B2)
Enhancing your grammatical control – key word transformations – word order
Enhancing your grammatical control – verb tenses and forms
Enhancing your lexical control – topics
Enhancing your lexical control – parts of speech – word formation
Written production at an intermediate / upper-intermediate level (B1/B2)
Reading comprehension at an intermediate / upper-intermediate level (B1/B2)
Bookworms can find some of the world’s finest literature for free at
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/
if you prefer audiobooks, try
LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks https://librivox.org/
Finding out about Luxembourg
Reading materials on a photographer and his work at an intermediate / upper-intermediate level (B1/B2)
ROMY’S INTERACTIVE MATERIALS
Click on the links below to open interactive materials to practice
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USE OF ENGLISH
VOCABULARY
Adjectives
Adjectives – colours (anagram)
Adjectives – opposites – miscellaneous (1) (find the match)
Adjectives – opposites – miscellaneous (1’) (find the match)
Adjectives – opposites via prefixation (group sort)
Adjectives – synonyms miscellaneous (find the match)
Adjectives ending in -ed or -ing (quiz)
Adjectives ending in -ed or -ing (complete the sentence)
Adjectives referring to food (find the match)
Adjectives referring to goods (find the match)
Adjectives referring to measures (find the match)
Adjectives referring to people – opposites (find the match)
Adjectives referring to people – synonyms (find the match)
Adjectives referring to people at work (find the match)
American versus British English
American versus British English (whack-a-mole)
Clothes
Clothes (flip tiles)
Clothes – fabrics (labelled diagram)
Clothes – patterns (labelled diagram)
Colours
Colours (anagram)
Food
Food (group sort)
Food – What is in the couscous? (labelled diagram)
Food – What is in the paella? (labelled diagram)
Food – What is on the pizza? (1) (word search)
Food – What is on the pizza? (2) (labelled diagram)
Furniture
Furniture (flip tiles)
Instruments
Instruments (balloon pop)
Geography
Geography – 7 Continents and more (labelled diagram)
Geography – Mountain ranges and mountains (labelled diagram)
Geography – 4 Oceans and and 5 major rivers (labelled diagram)
Geography – Which country is it? (crossword)
History
Jobs
Jobs – crafts (game show quiz)
Jobs related to arts (matching pairs)
Jobs – miscellaneous (1) (maze chase)
Jobs – miscellaneous (2) (flip tiles)
Jobs – miscellaneous (3) (quiz)
Natural phenomena
Natural phenomena related to disasters (1) (matching pairs)
Natural phenomena related to disasters (2) (matching pairs)
Parts of speech
Parts of speech (1) (Matching game)
Parts of speech (2) (Matching game)
People
What kind of person is being described? (crossword – B1/B2)
School supplies
School supplies (1) (label this image) (8 items)
School supplies (2) (label this image) (23 items)
Time
Time – Days, months, seasons (word search)
Verbs
Verbs – Activities at school (find the match)
Verbs – Activities at work (find the match)
Verbs and expressions referring to a student’s daily routines (flip tiles)
Verbs and expressions referring to free time activities (flip tiles)
Verbs and expressions referring to household chores (flip tiles)
Verbs and expressions referring to life stages (flip tiles)
Word building and word families
Word building and word families (group sort)
Natural phenomena related to the weather (find the match)
GRAMMAR
A or an
A or an (whack-a-mole)
Quantifiers (some, any, a lot of, lots of, much, many, little, few)
Verbs tenses and forms
‘to be’ in the present and the past – Poem By An African Child
‘To be’ in the present and the past – Ancient Mesopotamia (1)
To be’ in the present and the past – Ancient Mesopotamia (2)
‘to be’ in the past – What is a Ziggurat?
Imperative (affirmative) (spin the wheel – pair work)
Imperative (negative) (spin the wheel – pair work)
Present simple tense – Deer (gap fill)
Present simple tense – Hares (gap fill)
Present simple tense – Foxes (gap fill)
Present simple tense – Squirrels (gap fill)
Present continuous tense (gap fill)
Present continuous tense (spin the wheel – pairwork)
Past simple tense – regular and irregular verbs (1)
Past simple tense – regular and irregular verbs (2)
Past simple tense – Frederick Douglass (1) (gap fill)
Past simple tense – Frederick Douglass (2) (gap fill)
Mixed tenses – present simple or past simple tense- The Family Of Man
Active or passive – Art In London
Conditional sentences – excerpts from songs (match up)
READING COMPREHENSION
Quotes
Dolly Parton said (cryptogram – B1/B2)
Aristotle said (cryptogram – B1/B2)
Confucius said (cryptogram – B1/B2)
Stephen Hawking said (cryptogram – B1/B2)
Mahatma Gandhi said (cryptogram – B1/B2)
Quotes by various famous people (1) (unjumble – B2)
Quotes by various famous people (2) (unjumble – B2)
Quotes by various famous people (3) (unjumble – B2)
Quotes by Albert Einstein (unjumble – B2)
Quotes by Nelson Mandela (unjumble – B2)
Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt (unjumble – B2)
Quotes by Oscar Wilde (unjumble – B2)
Song lyrics
Songs are a nice way of learning languages. Studying the lyrics helps you to enhance your lexical and grammatical control. Listening to the songs, maybe even singing along with them, helps you to improve your pronunciation.
Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Marvin Gaye- What’s Going On
John Lennon – Imagine
Bob Marley – Three Little Birds
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
The Police – Message In A Bottle
Poems and short texts
Poem By An African Child
First They Came For The Socialists
The Dinner Party
Articles
Food
Coffee (A1)
Tea (A1)
Wine (A1)
Apples (A1)
Chocolate (A1)
Eggs (A1)
French fries (A1)
Ice-cream (A1)
Pizza (A1)
Watermelons (A1)
Coffee (A2)
Nutrition (1)
Nutrition (2)
Unusual Food – Cubic Watermelons
Unusual Food – Special Bananas
Green vegetables – not for everybody
MORE INTERACTIVE MATERIALS
This part of the website is work in progress
Generate rice donations whilst learning
Practice telling the time
Older course materials
2024 English for lower-level classes
2024 English for gastronomy classes
Quantifiers – various tasks
Verb tenses and forms – Animals in Luxembourg
Many thanks to
Malaika Schmit for helping me with my deficits in terms of computer literacy.
Julia Denisenko and Bethia Kert for proofreading and trialling my materials
Sabrina Kaufmann, freelance traditional illustrator and mangaka.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
sabrinakaufmann.com/
About me
I am Romy Schmit and I am currently working at ENAD, a governmental school for young adults
