Bellringers 146-150

Bellringers for all classes

Bellringer # 146

1. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December seventh, 1941.

2. 33 Japanese ships near Oahu launched 100’s of airplanes.

3. More than 1,000,000 Americans were killed or wounded in the following years of the war.

Corrections: 1) 7, 1941 2) Thirty-three, hundreds 3) one million

Bellringer # 147

1. In English, it is necessary that irregular verbs are memorized.

2. If I was making up a language, I’d insist that each verb is regular.

3. I wish that was the case in English.

Corrections: change are to be 2) change was to were and is to be 3) change was to were

Bellringer # 148

1. “Even if a toddler’s vocabulary is very limited”, said my mother, “There’s one word it is sure to contain.”

2. I asked “what that word is.” 3. “Mine, said Mom. “Every two-year-old seems to

know that one”.

Corrections: 1) limited,” said my mother, “there’s… 2) no quotes 3) ‘Mine,” said Mom. “Every … one.”

Bellringer # 149

1. I’d like to visit a place where they speak a different language from the one I speak.

2. I wrote to a friend who has moved to Japan, but she hasn’t answered it.

Corrections: 1) change they to people 2) take out it

Bellringer # 150

1. Some people can mimic an accent well, others can’t.

2. My friend Charlene has never been to England, however she can sound as if she had been born there.

Corrections: 1) well; 2) England; however,