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English that marks itself

Practice material for English classes, from first steps to B1+. One rule holds all of it together: the page checks every answer on the spot, says what went wrong, and lets the student try again. No accounts, no logins, and nothing leaves the browser unless a student chooses to send a result to the teacher.

Games and activities 10
Worksheets 16

Hello! Poke me and I will tell you a joke.

Games and activities

Things to play, explore and make. Start with the Imaginarium.

Creative writing · app

The Imaginarium Machine

A local first app for A2 learners that deals out prompt cards, characters and constraints, and then gets out of the way: the students do the writing, drawing, speaking or acting.

Board game · 2 to 5 players

Shmackular Fantabular Landlord Simulator

A Monopoly style board game on one computer where every street is a grammar theme. Land on a square, answer the question, buy streets and collect rent. Everyone plays for themselves.

Flipbook · nature wonders

Dan's trip to Iceland

A Viking travel flipbook. Students follow a real trip, photo by photo and video by video, and describe every stop with adjectives and comparatives. Finish the journey to unlock a Viking mascot and a small running game.

Start the trip ↗

Arcade · 5 games

English 1 Arcade

Five machines that use everything from the seven levels of the starter course, from hello and numbers to the past and comparisons.

Quest · five chapters

Past Simple Quest

The irregular past simple, group by group, from the first three verb groups up to a master round with all of them. 39 verbs, ten groups, three replayable games and a 30 point exam.

Quest · seven stops

Present Perfect Quest

Ever and never, for and since, just, already and yet: a vault of irregular participles, seven gates of verb tables, a bridge from the past simple and a citadel with five games. Units 13 and 14.

Enter the quest ↗

Escape the Grammar Lab

A locked lab that only opens on correct grammar. The same idea as the philosophy escape room, pointed at tenses instead of arguments.

Unit 5 · games

Lessons for Life

School Taboo, Sentence Puzzle and a phrasal verb match, for playing in pairs.

Unit 5 · vocab

Quick Sorter and Sentence Rescue

Two short vocabulary rounds for the start of a lesson.

Reading · trivia

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

A trivia round on chapters 10 to 22 of the Louis Sachar novel: comprehension questions the class answers in teams, marked live.

Open the trivia

Worksheets

Exercises that mark themselves, sorted by level and then by topic.

A1 · starter

My English Booklet

Hello and am, is, are, numbers, the classroom, animals, can, the week and the clock, the past

7 levels English 1: Get ready!A starter course built from the class booklet. Every level has three parts, a reading, a challenge and a self check. Open ↗

B1 · mixed

Use of English sessions

Exam format: warm up, gap fill, multiple choice, key word transformation, word formation

B1 · Session 2 Use of English practiceA mixed session for students sitting a B1 exam. Open B1+ · Session 3 Use of English practiceThe same engine one level up, with harder transformations. Open

B1+ · Unit 4

Make It Happen

Modal verbs, personality adjectives and word formation

Unit 4 · B1+ Make It HappenThe full five part session on the unit's grammar and vocabulary. Open

B1+ · Unit 5

Lessons for Life

Relative clauses, reduced clauses and learning phrasal verbs

Explainer Reduced relative clauses: analysisThree questions to ask every time: subject or object, active or passive, can it be reduced? Open Practice Reduced clauses and phrasal verbsTwo warm ups, six activities from medium to very hard, and a reading. Open Test Relative clausesPronoun Pop and Comma Cop: which pronoun, and whether the clause takes commas. Open Mock 2 Relative clauses, second paperA second mock paper with the same two warm ups, then 100 marks of defining, non defining and reduced clauses. Open

B1+ · Unit 8

What's in a Number?

The passive and the causative have

Reference The Passive: which BE?The explainer the passive exercises point back to: the tense lives on BE, three steps, always in the same order. Open Unit 8 · B1+ What's in a Number?The passive and causative have, in the same five part format. Open Test Passive and causativePassive Builder and Tense Detective, marked as the student goes. Open

B1+ · Reading

Reading comprehension

Every answer comes with the reason and an exam tip

Set 1 Three texts of growing difficultyTrue or false with evidence from the text, sentences to complete, and expressions to match with their meanings. Open Set 2 Shorter, brand new textsThree new texts of about 300 to 400 words, in the same format as Set 1. Open Set 3 Harder texts, with Not givenDenser sentences, True / False / Not given, four option questions, expressions to match and a summary to complete. Open

B1+ · Units 4, 5 and 8

Tests and final exam

The tests that pull the units back together

Units 4 + 8 August testThe end of term test that pulls both units back together. Open Final exam Final Exam PracticeOne page, four levels, each one scored: medium, hard, very hard and the MASTERMIND round. Open

Written for Gold Experience B1+, Prepare Second Edition Level 3, Cambridge Global English and my own fifth form booklet, and used with my own groups and private students. Every page runs in the browser and keeps working offline once it has loaded. Pieces marked with an arrow live on their own class sites.