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Writing Skills: Fables
Use fables as a fun way for English Language Learners to gain confidence and fluency in their reading and speaking skills. After reading a fable in class, they retell their story to a group of their peers. When this jigsaw activity is...
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How New Words Are Created
How are new words created? Study the list of ways a word can be created, and then have your class attempt to define a list of words. Word examples include snail-mail, coffee-matic, teleshopping, etc. More words and their definitions are...
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Present Continuous
In this ESL verb tenses worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures of people engaged in different activities. Using the present continuous verb tense, students write a sentence on the line that tells what the person is doing in the picture.
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Present Simple--Cloze Exercise #2
In this present simple worksheet, students fill in the blanks in twenty sentences with the correct form of the verb requested in parenthesis.
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Simple Present or Present Continuous Exercise #1
In this simple present or present continuous worksheet, students fill in fifteen blanks with the appropriate verb tense that makes each sentence grammatically correct.
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Practice with Using Different Tenses
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate choice of words to complete ten sentences and then combine four sets if sentences so that the second sentence becomes a when clause.
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Hobbies - How Long Have You Been...?
In this ESL activity worksheet, students use present perfect continuous verbs to respond to 7 questions regarding hobbies. Students also ask a classmate the same 7 questions.
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Past Simple or Present Perfect?
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students read 10 sentences with the verbs omitted. Students insert either a past simple or present perfect verb.
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Phrasal Verbs with Put
In this language arts worksheet, students read 9 sentences and choose the correct preposition to complete the phrasal verb with "put." This page is intended for ESL students.
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Hop! Jump! Turn!
Students 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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James Taylor--
Here's a fun activity to help ELL learners identify verbs. The lyrics to "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor are written out with several of the verbs missing. Learners listen to the song and fill in the missing verbs.
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Going to a Party: Say vs. Tell
In this say vs. tell activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with forms of say and tell. Students do this for 8 sentences.
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Reported Speech
In this online interactive ESL worksheet, students respond to 13 fill in the blank questions regarding verb tenses. Students may check their answers with the click of the mouse.
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ESL Advanced/Proficiency Vocabulary Worksheet 15
In this ESL advanced proficiency worksheet, students complete each of 10 sentences by choosing the best vocabulary word from the four choices that are given.
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 24
In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blank in eight sentences. Each sentence has four similar words for students to select from. The worksheet is intended to be used with advanced English language learners.
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Matching
In this ESL verbs instructional activity, learners analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students match these pictures with the verbs that describe them.
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Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
For this ESL verb tenses worksheet, students examine 7 pictures and the sentences with present simple verbs. Students change the sentence to the present continuous form and choose the correct sentence from 4 choices.
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Actions
In this ESL verbs word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict various actions. Students read the question and answer it in a complete sentence that tells about the action in the picture.
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ESL: Pronunciation or Irregular Verbs
In this pronunciation of verbs worksheet, students sort a list of verbs according to their vowels. Students are given a word and the vowel sound is identified in each sorting box.
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Verbs and Rooms in the House
In this ESL rooms in the house vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 14 phrases that describe an activity that takes place inside a house. Students categorize each phrase by putting it under the names of 6 rooms in a house.
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ESL: Do or Does?
In this ESL do/does worksheet, students choose either does, doesn't, do or don't from a drop down list to correctly fill in blanks in sentences. Page has a link to additional activities.
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Modal Verbs
For this ESL error correction worksheet, students read 14 sentences that may or may not contain errors. Students identify any errors they see in the sentences.
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ESL: Pronunciation of Common Words-Vowel Sounds
In this ESL pronunciation learning exercise, students categorize a set of words according to their vowel sounds. Sounds are given next to words that use them; words given are sorted beneath each, 14 sounds total.
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Drill - Sentences With "Do"
In this language arts worksheet, students complete a drill with sentences using the verb, "do." They follow patterns given at the beginning of each group of questions. They complete 15 examples.