This collection offers three games through which students match English words to the language from which they were borrowed.

Students read a definition of eponym, then play a two-level game where they match items to the people they are named after.

A collection of animated lessons on adjectives, followed by a simple quiz and detective game. comparative describing superlative

Colorful quiz asks students to choose the correct meanings of popular idioms.

Click the continents on this animated map to learn facts about some of the languages spoken in the world.

Students move through the timeline to read about the history and development of the English language.

A concise guide to how to understand Shakespearean English. Discusses word usage, grammar, wordplay, and versification.

Grammar tutorial on the correct use pronouns. Includes a follow-up exercise on the identification of pronoun types.

This University College London site explains how to tell whether a word in the adjective position is an adjective or part of the noun. Includes follow-up exercise.

Read about the system of hieroglyphs used by the Ancient Egyptians, then write your name using their symbols, and try to decode some words written in hieroplyphics.

This page offers good information on participial adjectives. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.

Click on appropriate index links to discussions on direct object, indirect object, and objective case. Site by University College London.

The mathematics behind Fibonacci numbers and the mathematics that comes as a result of them as well. Provides a lot of activities you can try using the Fibonacci sequence.

Determine whether bold word is a noun or an adjective. Answers explained. Site by University College London.

Five sentences using the word "it" as a pronoun, dummy "it" or anticipatory "it." Answers are explained. Browser must be Java enabled. Netscape recommended. Site by University College London.

This site offers a self-scoring quiz changing singular words that end in Y to plurals. Students type in the correct spelling of the plural.

This site provides an alphabetical list of common grammatical words.

From The Scots Guide to Electronics web site. The meaning of electric potential is described. A combination of diagrams and words are used to explain this difficult concept without the use of mathematics. Very well done!

Five sentence exercises for determining whether a bold word is used as a determiner or a pronoun. Answers are explained and followed up by link to more information. You may want to cursor up for a tutorial before the quiz. Browser must...

An article suitable for a range of ages discussing Shakespeare's education, and how it may have influenced his plays. Extracts from this article can usefully be used to initiate a classroom discussion. Student scan also seek to use the...

Grammar survey of inherent and non-inherent adjectives and stative and dynamic adjectives with examples.

This tutorial site provides a detailed lesson on the purpose and use of nominal adjectives. Includes examples.

This University College London site features an extended grammar lesson on adjectives and their use. Includes an exercise to test your knowledge.

This University College London site provides an advanced grammar lesson on adjectives (attributive, postpositive, and predicate adjectives), and includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.