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Story
Choose your own ending. In the Ghost in the Museum, you have to choose what happens by clicking at the bottom of the page. Your story will be different if you make a different choice.
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Go to the Ghost in the Museum story.
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Crossword
Puzzles
These crossword puzzles practice different vocabulary.
Click on the link to a puzzle. Click in the box where you want to answer. One click
will highlight the word that goes with the number. The first box will be yellow and the rest of the boxes will be gray. If you have a choice of across or down, a second click will highlight
the one that goes in the other direction. Type in the correct spelling of the word. Click on checkto see if your answer is right. If your answer is wrong, the wrong letters will disappear. If you need help, click on Help me!!and you will see the correct word. |
Go to The Body puzzle. (Parts of the body vocabulary)
Go to the Fruit
puzzle. (See if you can find the word that is spelled wrong!)
Go to the Irregular
Verbs A-K puzzle.
Go to the Around
the House puzzle.
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Scrambled Words
In this puzzle, the letters are mixed up. You have to move the letters around to make the word. You move the letters by clicking on them and keeping
your finger down, then moving the letter to the center circle and lifting your finger. If you don't have any idea what the word is, click on Give me a hint. If you want to try another word, click on Next Puzzle. Every time you do this puzzle, it chooses a new word. |
Go to the Scrambled
Word puzzle.
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Timed Test
You have to click on the verb form that belongs in the sentence. You will have 30 seconds to choose as many correct forms as you can. The test begins as soon as the page loads. If you get too nervous on timed tests, don't take this one. |
Go to the Verb Forms timed test. |
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Stories
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Go to the Save the Sea Cows! story.
Go to the April Fooled story.
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Trivia Tests
Here are three tests to see how much you know about the United States and Europe.
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Go to the U.S. trivia test with questions about the U.S.
Go to the Travel Trivia Test--Europe to see how much you know about Europe
Go to the Travel Trivia Test--U.S. to see how much you know about the U.S.
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Timed Test
You have to choose a, an, or [nothing] to fit in the blank in the sentence. You will have 20 seconds to choose as many correct answers as you can. The test begins as soon as the page loads. If you get too nervous on timed tests, don't take this one. |
Go to the A, An or [Nothing} timed test. |
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Crazy Stories
These are stories that
have some words missing. You choose the words that are going to be
in the story before you see the story. Then when you read your story,
it can be very strange or funny. |
Go to The
Missing Food Mystery
Go to Burp
(the sound that you make if you eat a lot and air comes out of your mouth)
Go to A
Night at the Theater
Go to A
Strange Day
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Story of the Week
These are current events that are written for students. Although it seems they aren't adding a new story every week any more, there are still a lot of stories on the site. You can read the story, the abridged story (the shorter version) or an outline of the story. You can read stories from past weeks by clicking on the Story Archives at the left side of the page. After you read the story, you can take different kinds of quizzes at the left side of the page. You can also look up words you don't understand by using the search.
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Go to The
Story of the Week
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News Stories
This is another site that has news stories, and various exercises to go with them. You can choose the most recent article, or you can click on any of the topics that are listed on the first page.
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Go to News Stories
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