If you are reading the Harry Potter's story and you want some help to understand the difficult english words (there are a lot, right?), I have the solution for you. My english teacher has created a web site especially for you. Please go to this address :
The vanishing glass quiz

Today, we had a quiz concerning the second chapter of "Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone". The quiz's goal is to learn ten new english words, you will find all its in the story:

Snap: 1. quick or easy 2. the sound a whip makes or when a twig breaks.

Spoil: ruin, go bad, damage, impair

Hug: to put your arms around someone and squeeze (a form of greeting)

Bald: having no little hair on the top of your head.

Knob: a rounded bump or protrubance. a round control, dial or switch.

Wink: to close and open one eye quickly to convey a message or signal.

Shrink, shrank, shrunk: to reduce in size diminish

Spider: an arachnids of the order Araneae, having eight legs and the ability to spin silk.

Rise, rose, risen: 1.to get out of bed 2. to go from a lower to a higher position. 3. to appear above the horizon

Tantrum: an outburst, charactorized by seemingly uncontroled movements of arms and legs, of anger. a bad tempered fit.

You have to understand the meaning of these words.Then, you will have ten sentences with blanks where you have to place the words.

If you do correctly this quiz, I'm sure that you will have a fun lecture.