Grammar Games
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Grammar Games – Irregular Verbs
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Grammar Games – Have Got
In the first part of this quiz,you should write correct sentences about the pictures using HAVE GOT. In the second part of the quiz you should first match the pictures and the words and then write them. In the last part of the quiz you have to write the correct answers. ADVERT: [showmyadsa]
Grammar Games – Gerund or Infinitive
The best way to remember the verb patterns is by using them. Try the following quiz. ADVERT: [showmyadsa] To display the quiz on full screen click the button below. This game is called On Target, and your task is to choose the correct option and then shoot all the bad cows and ducks. You can…
Grammar Games – Future Tenses
The following quiz can help you practise the difference between present continuous and BE GOING TO. In the quiz, you should complete the text using either present continuous tense or BE GOING TO form. You will be rewarded with a game if you pass the quiz. Try the following quiz to practise WILL:
Grammar Games – Countable and Uncountable nouns
Practise the usage of the words FEW and LITTLE in the following quiz. You can take the quiz on the full screen by clicking the button: Choose the correct form: either HOW MUCH or HOW MANY. This game is called En Garde and your task is to answer correctly and then inflict as much damage…
Grammar Games – Comparatives and Superlatives
The following quizzes are not for beginners. They are for students who can understand the text and decide which form is correct in the given context. ADVERT: [showmyadsa] Before you play the video, take a piece of paper and something to write with. Play the video and write down the correct answers to the questions….
Grammar Games – A, THE, SOME, ANY
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Grammar Games – Articles
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Clothes vocabulary
In this post I would like to offer you several activities to teach Clothes vocabulary. Here, I will concentrate on teaching the following 15 pieces of clothes: a jacket, a dress, a coat, shorts, trainers, boots, shoes, trousers, a skirt, a shirt, a T-shirt, a hat, a cap, a tie and a jumper. This selection…
Four EFL Speaking Activities that Work
Speaking activities should be the core of the communicative approach. However, there are many textbooks that come with very few exercises to practise this skill. And then you have to create your own. To save your time and energy I will share four speaking activities that worked very well in my classes. <!– wp:more –>…
Present tenses – teach the difference between the present simple and continuous
In my previous post I offered several resources to teach the difference between the present simple and present continuous tenses. There are several exercises and games including an infographic. But, as my students complained that the infographic was not that helpful I created a new one. <!– wp:more –> Advert: [showmyads] In this post there…
Present simple or present continuous?
Sometimes it is very difficult for students to decide whether they should use the present simple or the present continuous tense. To help them decide correctly, I will share several activities with you. These activities make it clear which tense the students should use and how to form it. <!– wp:more –> ADVERT: [showmyads] In…
Be Going To – Treasure hunt
The following set of activities is for false beginners and elementary students of English. The aim of these activities is to practise the usage of the form be going to and reinforcing this form. <!– wp:more –> Make a copy of the worksheet for each student. Make an extra copy of p.1 for each student,…
Speaking Activities to Practise MUST and Past Continuous
Recently I have spent quite a lot of time designing various speaking activities for my students. In this post I would like to share two speaking activities which help students practise the usage of the past continuous tense and of the modal verbs MUST, MUSTN´T and DON´T HAVE TO. I hope both of the activities…
Present continuous questions
Present continuous tense is one of the most popular tenses among students. It is easy to form and its usage is crystal clear (at least at the beginning). However, when it comes to forming questions, students often fail. To avoid this, I have come up with a number of activities to help my learners and…
Two speaking activities for elementary students
Speaking activities are essential in a communicative approach. Most people agree that students should communicate ever since they start learning English. However, it is really difficult to design genuine communicative tasks for low-level students of English. In this post, I would like to share two communicative tasks for beginners. In the first one, students practise…
Easter – English Learning Magazine
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22 Verbs in the past simple tense
Elementary students often struggle with verbs. They know very few of them and this deficit becomes obvious at the moment they start learning the past simple tense. To help them I created the following post where I try to teach 22 frequent verbs and their past tense. <!– wp:more –> In this post, you can…
Embarrassing Dates – lesson plan
My first English language teaching activity got published in August 2008. It happened on the site http://www.teachitelt.com. The site regularly sent me the royalties and I created several more activities for them. Unfortunately, recently they sent me an email that the site is going to finish on 30th March 2016. The good thing is that…