GOOD BYE !

Last time I say to you hello, guys! 

With this last post, all members of our group want to say that it has been a pleasure to teach you some techniques and to share with you several exercises relating with English language. 

Now, as this song tell us, we could be heroes, and now it's your turn to keep practising English and go further. I know surely that you can become an English heroe.... 

Digging

Hi Guys ! Here I've posted a poem, which I like very much. It is called Digging, written by Seamus Heaney.

Then, I've added a gap-fill exercise for you to complete the words of the poem. It's quite beautiful and I hope you really enjoy it. 

Practise ! 

Digging - Seamus Heaney

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Between my finger my thumb
The pen rests; snug a gun.

Under window, a clean sound
When the sinks into gravelly :
My father, digging. look down

Till straining rump among flowerbeds
Bends low, up twenty years
Stooping in rhythm potato drills
Where was digging.

The boot nestled on lug, the shaft
the inside knee levered firmly.
He out tall tops, the bright edge
To scatter new that we picked,
their cool hardness our hands.

By , the old man handle a spade.
like his old .

My grandfather cut turf in a
Than any other on Toner’s bog.
I carried him in a bottle
sloppily with paper. straightened up
To it, then fell right away
Nicking slicing neatly, heaving
Over his shoulder, down and down
the good turf. .

The cold smell potato mould, the and slap
Of peat, the curt of an edge
living roots awaken my head.
But ’ve no spade to men like them.

my finger and thumb
The squat rests.
I’ll dig it.

Choose the correct preposition

Match the words with these prepositions

Matching exercise

  

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.

Answer	??? out across in for back
ask	??? out across in for back
go	??? out across in for back
take	??? out across in for back
work	??? out across in for back

The word missing

An exercise of phrasal verb

Quiz

Choose the correct answer for each question in the quiz

 

1. you have to choose the correct phrasal verb for this sentence: Rita´s father is going to give her _____ at her wedding. Which is the word missing?
   1. Give back
   2. Give off
   3. Give away
   4. Given in