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Common mistakes in the present simple tense
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Common mistakes – present simple

19/11/201519/11/2015 - by Zdenda - 3 Comments.

After teaching present simple to my elementary students, we wrote a test and I collected the most common mistakes my students made. I analysed the mistakes and prepared games and …

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There is there are a mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

There is / There are

07/11/201407/11/2014 - by Zdenda - 16 Comments.

The basic explanation of the usage of the phrase THERE IS / THERE ARE is easy to understand and practice. My students caught on very quickly and then used the …

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Past participles mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Past participles – divided according to the pronunciation

15/03/201428/06/2014 - by Zdenda - 7 Comments.

Last week I taught passive and present perfect tense. I thought that I was well prepared but in both cases we encountered one big problem. The students could not form …

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Adjectives and prepositions
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Adjectives with prepositions

08/03/201404/12/2017 - by Zdenda - 18 Comments.

Two days ago we encountered a simple exercise in our textbook. Students’ task was to fill in the missing prepositions. Even though my students are strong lower intermediate students who …

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Present simple tense mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Present simple and continuous tenses

21/02/201425/11/2017 - by Zdenda - 8 Comments.

Many elementary students feel they cannot see the difference between these two tenses. To help them I have created a rap which explains the grammar and gives some example sentences, …

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Verbs with two objects
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Verbs with two objects

31/01/201431/01/2014 - by Zdenda - 5 Comments.

Three days ago we were talking about presents with my students and I could hear that they were using the verbs buy,give, get etc. in a way that everyone would …

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Time clauses Mind map final
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Time Clauses

28/01/201429/01/2014 - by Zdenda - 20 Comments.

In time clauses it is important to understand that you cannot use WILL after certain conjunctions, even though you are referring to the future. And that is the whole trick. …

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containers mind map
Elementary / Elementary / English games / Grammar / Vocabulary

Containers – mind map and games

23/01/201423/01/2014 - by Zdenda - 5 Comments.

The concept of uncountability is very difficult to understand and use correctly for learners of English. However, even the English sometimes need to count the things which are uncountable. To …

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Prepositions of place AT IN ON
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Prepositions AT IN ON – place

18/01/201422/06/2016 - by Zdenda - 28 Comments.

A week ago I published a post on prepositions AT, IN, ON for time. Several students asked me if I could do something like that for prepositions AT, IN, ON …

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Past simple tense mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Past simple tense

04/12/201301/03/2018 - by Zdenda - 15 Comments.

Past simple is one of the most important English tenses. Scott Thornbury once wrote that he would sacrifice all the perfect tenses and other grammar if he could teach past …

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Irregular verbs mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Present perfect tense

15/11/201321/02/2018 - by Zdenda - 27 Comments.

To learn this difficult tense you first have to learn the past participles. Regular verbs just add the ending -ed but you have to memorise the irregular ones. Here is …

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