I am posting a new exercise for ESL students below. It is meant for (relative) beginners, and as such, it has very important words in it. You can use it for brushing up your own knowledge, or print it out and bring it to your class and let your students solve it.
July 24, 2022
Wow! The vowels are missing!
Complete the Hungarian words with the missing letters.
The letter "a" is missing 18 times,
the letter "á" 11 times,
the letter "e" 42 times (!),
the letter "é" 15 times,
the letter "i" 13 times,
the letter "í" 2 times
the letter "o" 9 times,
the letter "ö" 4 times,
the letter "ő" 4 times,
the letter "ü" 3 times.
July 23, 2022
French Missing Letters
You can find ten pictures with captions below. However, the captions have missing letters. Your task is to fill them in.
July 21, 2022
Find the Pinyin in the Grid! A Wordsearch Puzzle with Chinese Words
Find the Pinyin for the following Chinese characters in the grid below!
出租车, 电脑, 电视, 电影, 东西, 对不起
汉语, 叫, 老师, 四, 他, 写, 再见
吃, 多, 多少, 后面, 回, 会, 吗
July 19, 2022
Frutas : A crossword for Spanish learners
Below you can find a crossword about fruit names.
I hope you or your students can solve it quickly.
July 17, 2022
Word Cloud with the first lines of a Hungarian poem
Here is a word cloud with Hungarian words, but this time it hides not simple, detached words but something more complicated.
From the words you can assemble the first four lines of a long epic poem written in the 19th century.
The solution is the name of the (Hungarian) poet and the title of his work.
July 16, 2022
Missing letters in French Words -- An exercise with audio
There are a few sentences with lots of blank spaces below. Your task is to fill in the blanks.
If you are having trouble understanding the text on your own, don't panic. A list of all the letters that are missing and a brief audio file are your two options for assistance. Just play the audio if you get lost. I'm sure, you will benefit from it.
J_ v__s d_nn_ tr__s fr_ncs.
M. _t Mm_ L__r_nt v__l_nt s_rt_r c_ s__r.
V__l_z-v__s m'__d_r, M_ns___r ?
P__r q__ _ch_t_z-v__s d_s c_d___x ?
J_ n_ v__s __ p_s v_ d_p__s tr__s _ns.
_t_s-v__s c_nt_nt d_ v_tr_ tr_v__l ?
J_ m_ng_ _ l_ m__s_n.
J_ v__x _cr_r_ _n_ l_ttr_ _ m_n _m_.
L_ ch__ff__r _rr_t_ l_ c_r.
J_ m_ r_v__ll_ t_t.