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Exercise on Simple Past
In this English grammar worksheet, students focus on using the simple past tense. Students complete 11 fill in the blank questions and self check on this interactive web page.
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Sentence Auctions
Students proofread sentence to determine which are grammatically correct and which contain errors. They bid on grammatically correct sentences and try to buy as many possible. Points are awarded for purchased sentences that contain no...
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ESL Holiday Activity-Labor Day
Several resources are provided through this website about Labor Day. Elementary learners read two short paragraphs, then complete matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, spelling word scramble, ordering events, and survey...
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Mixed Verb Tenses
He was running or he has been running? Young grammarians must examine context clues to determine which verb phrase to use in ten sentences.
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Zero Conditional Survey
In this ESL zero conditional worksheet, students collaborate with classmates to ask and answer 18 questions. Students respond using the zero conditional, which is the present simple form used to speak about general truths.
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Extra Practice--Reductions
This instructional activity provides an explanation of how to reduce or shorten time adverb clauses, cause/effect adverb clauses, and adjective clauses. After the explanation, students have an opportunity to practice reducing each type...
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Verb Phrases
This worksheet tackles the topic of verb phrases by providing an explanation of a verb phrase followed by several examples of verb phrases and their meanings. Students complete fill in the blank sentences with the correct verb phrase.
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Conversation Practice
In this grammar worksheet, students practice working with conversations between two people. Students are given eight sets of sentences and eight phrases to match to the correct conversation.
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Sentence Auction
Students read sentences and try to identify which ones are grammatically correct and which contain grammatical errors.
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Sentence Auction
Students participate in a sentence auction activity. Groups of students attempt to purchase as many correct sentences as possible. Each group has $3,000 to spend. The winning group is the one who has bought the most correct sentences.
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Irregular Past Participles
Even though this activity on past participles is designed for an ESL class, it could work in any class setting. Questions prompt students to fill in the blanks with past participles, and to think about the functions of participles within...
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Correct Uses of the Verb "Be"
Useful for an intermediate to advanced ESL class, as well as a standard Language Arts class, this grammar presentation guides learners through the forms of "be." Slides detailing the present tense singular and plural, as well as past...
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Conversation - Which school do we choose?
Students engage in a discussion about the reasons for learning English in order to develop their English fluency. They engage in a simulation which is imbedded in this lesson plan.
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Present Continuous Verb Tenses
In this ESL speaking an writing exercises worksheet, students review present continuous verb forms as they read about the verbs and record their answers to 4 questions.
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Passive Using "Get"
In this ESL verbs worksheet, students read 15 sentences that have missing verbs. For each sentence, students use the passive form with "get" whenever possible.
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Using the Verb 'would'
In this grammar worksheet, students review how to interpret the verb would and tell whether four sentences mean willingness, refusal or a request. Students also make contractions in five additional sentences.
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Two-Word Verb Exercise 2
For this grammar worksheet, students fill in twenty-five blanks with composite verbs including get up, get off, get over, get even, get around and get through.
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It's Bigger, Faster, and Stronger
For this ESL talking comparative worksheet, students practice conversations as they examine the objects picture in the sheet and talk about them with someone. Students then practice writing comparative words and forming sentences.
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Relative Clauses Test
In this grammar and writing test activity, students complete a three part quiz on relative clauses. They change portions of 5 sentences into relative clauses in part one. They remove the relative pronoun to make a good English sentence...
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Must Not vs. Don't Have to
In this grammar learning exercise, students write fifteen complete sentences from a variety of prompts of things one must do and other things one does not have to do.
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The Article I
In this grammar activity, students review and discuss how to correctly use indefinite and definite articles. Students fill in forty-six blanks with appropriate articles.
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Exercise 1: Prepositions
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate preposition, in, on or at, to place in twenty-five sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game- Intermediate Version
Students sort verb tenses. For this English grammar lesson, students work with a partner to sort cards with verbs written on them into 3 piles including verbs with "ing," the infinitive form (meaning "want to"), and the infinitive form...
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Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives
What are gerunds and infinitives? Bring your class to the computer lab to have them complete the 20-question practice activity included here. You can access immediate feedback by clicking "check" to the right of each question.