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Lesson Plan
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Helping Verbs: Grammar for ESL/ELL

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
English language learners act out verbs, discuss their importance in constructing grammatically correct sentences, and then learn about helping verbs. They use helping verbs in a sentence then discuss how they are different from action...
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Interactive
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ESL: Action Verbs: Using Hands

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL action verbs worksheet, students match verbs to pictures and fill in blanks in sentences with verbs that describe something done with hands.
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Lesson Plan
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Can you write?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this ESL worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle using action verbs. Illustrations are included for six clues needed to complete the puzzle.
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Lesson Plan
ESL Kid Stuff

Can - for Ability

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
You can do it! Practice action verbs and using can for ability with a series of activities designed for English learners. Kids jump, stomp, and turn as they discuss the things they can and can't do.
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Worksheet
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ESL Actions Matching Game Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this ESL action word/verb worksheet, students examine 10 pictures of actions such as rollerblading, taking photos, reading a comic book, and swimming. They match the pictures to the words or phrases that describe them.
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Worksheet
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ESL Action Verbs Matching Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL action verb matching worksheet, learners match a clip art picture of a person performing an action to the sentence that names it. They complete 5 examples.
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Worksheet
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ESL: Actions Word Search and Collocation

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this action word worksheet, students find a set of 19 action words in a word search puzzle, then match nouns with verbs. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Worksheet
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ESL Actions- Matching Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL actions/verbs matching worksheet, students match 10 words to the picture that shows the action. They see words such as walk, dance, swim, and play.
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Lesson Plan
ESL Kid Stuff

Actions - Present Continuous

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
What are you doing? Why, studying the present continuous tense, of course. Language learners engage in activities and exercises that provide them with practice crafting and answering questions using the present continuous tense.
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PPT
University of Hawaiʻi

Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
When you ask a fourth grader to write a sentence in the past perfect progressive tense, there might be some confusion. But with a presentation that features several different verb tenses, along with examples and a handy timeline, your...
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Worksheet
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Verbs of Action

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL verbs of actions worksheet, students will analyze the activities pictured. Students will choose the correct verb that is depicted in each of the ten photographs.
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Worksheet
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Actions

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this action words worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict an action. From 4 choices, students select the word that best describes the action. This is intended for ESL use.
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Worksheet
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Action

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL verb worksheet, students will focus on action verbs. Students will complete 10 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and vocabulary from the secondary column.
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Worksheet
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ESL Matching Actions Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
For this ESL action word matching worksheet, students match a clip art picture of an action such as running, eating dinner, or swimming, and match it to the appropriate words.
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Worksheet
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ESL Irregular Verbs Matching Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL irregular verbs activity, students examine 10 small, colorful clip art pictures of actions before matching them to the proper form of the verb that describes them.
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Worksheet
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Word Scramble: Actions

For Students 4th - 7th
In this ESL word scramble activity worksheet, students practice their problem solving skills as they unscramble 12 action words.
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PPT
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Present Time: ESL

For Teachers Higher Ed
Review the basics with your ESL students. This presentation covers basic English Grammar focusing specifically on simple present, present progressive, adverbs of frequency, and short answers. This is a content review and intended to...
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Worksheet
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Look, See & Watch

For Students 7th - 9th
Help your ESL students learn the difference between "look," "see," and "watch" with this practice worksheet. Ten questions provide sentences for English learners to complete, as well as the multiple choice options. The verbs are...
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Worksheet
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Begin & Start

For Students 7th - 8th
Complete the sentences with "begin" or start" in this multiple-choice worksheet. After a lesson on context clues in your ESL class, use this activity as a class assignment to reinforce their skills, or as a quiz to assess their learning.
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Worksheet
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Action 1- ESL

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ESL action words learning exercise, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing things. Students match the pictures to the verbs that describe them.
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Worksheet
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Verbs

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL verb worksheet, students will focus on words of action. Students will complete 6 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and vocabulary from the secondary...
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Lesson Plan
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Hop! Jump! Turn!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars demonstrate action words, express meaning through mime, and demonstrate memory and aural comprehension skills. They view action words through pictures, and act them out.
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Worksheet
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Drill - Sentences with 'do'

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite fifteen sentences using the action verb be. Students study the example given for each category of sentences.
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Worksheet
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What Are They Doing?

For Students Higher Ed
For this ESL verb worksheet, students will focus on words of action. Students will analyze 8 pictures and respond to the questions using action verbs to tell about the photo.