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Irregular verbs in context Scream story
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Irregular verbs in context – Scream

18/02/201519/02/2015 - by Zdenda - 2 Comments.

Teaching irregular verbs can be fun. The verbs are easy to use to tell stories and stories are interesting for everyone. In the following post I am going to tell …

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Present simple tense mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Present simple or present continuous tense – improved

25/09/201426/09/2014 - by Zdenda - 18 Comments.

I have already published a post on Present simple and continuous tense here. However, as my teaching situation changed I realize that I need a slightly different type of materials …

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Elementary / English games / Grammar

Have got for elementary and weak students

20/09/201420/09/2014 - by Zdenda - 8 Comments.

I have changed jobs and now I teach at elementary school. And even though I think that I am an experienced teacher I have never taught students with actual learning …

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was were mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

WAS or WERE – the really important grammar

16/09/201401/02/2023 - by Zdenda - 3 Comments.

As the word WAS is the ninth and WERE the 34th most frequent word in English it is crucial to use them correctly. You simply cannot avoid using these words, …

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SVOMPT word order mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

SVOMPT – word order in English

28/08/201428/08/2014 - by Zdenda - 14 Comments.

SVOMPT rule is one of the most important rules in English. If students learn to follow this rule, their English will improve dramatically, and they will be understood. Once a …

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Questions with WHAT mind map 2
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Questions with WHAT for learners of English

18/08/201419/08/2014 - by Zdenda - 1 Comment

Our most popular post is about questions with HOW. There is another post on all the WH question words. In this post I would like to deal with the questions …

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Despite, in spite of, because mind map
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Learn to use the conjunctions DESPITE, IN SPITE OF and ALTHOUGH

04/08/201404/08/2014 - by Zdenda - 20 Comments.

In this post I would like to teach you how to use the words DESPITE, IN SPITE OF, ALTHOUGH, EVEN THOUGH, BECAUSE OF and BECAUSE correctly. I will explain the …

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HOPE want would like mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Hope, want and would like: learn the verbs

28/07/201428/07/2014 - by Zdenda - 11 Comments.

Hope, want and would like belong into the group of verbs which are followed by the infinitive. If you click the link above you can see a complete solution for …

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indirect-questions-explanation
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Indirect questions: explanation of English grammar

22/07/201430/07/2014 - by Zdenda - 3 Comments.

When students hear the phrase indirect questions, they get scared. But actually this is one of the easiest grammar points in English. The only thing you have to watch out …

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possessive-case-explanation
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Possessive case explanation

03/07/201408/01/2016 - by Zdenda - 2 Comments.

This is another post in my series of simple grammar explanations for elementary and beginner learners of English. In this post I try to explain the usage of the possessive …

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Nouns and prepositions mind map
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Nouns plus prepositions

05/06/201424/06/2014 - by Zdenda - Leave a Comment

Students often use the wrong prepositions. So I have created this post in hope that this short explanation and practise will help them get at least some of the prepositions …

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Should ought to and had better mind map
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Should, ought to and had better – other ways to give advice

17/05/201424/06/2014 - by Zdenda - 1 Comment

Recently I have published a post on giving advice. And our post on modal verbs won the British Council blog award. This post will deal with three ways to express …

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First conditional mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

First conditional – grammar explanation for learners of English

12/05/201424/06/2014 - by Zdenda - Leave a Comment

First conditional is very similar to time clauses. However, I would say that first conditional is easier than time clauses. First conditional is used if we speak about two possibilities …

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Will and be going to mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar / Listening

Future – will or going to

03/05/201411/03/2015 - by Zdenda - Leave a Comment

There are many ways to speak about future in English. We have already dealt with two ways here. In the first blog we tried to distinguish between Will and MAY …

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When if mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

If or when – choose the right word

01/05/201401/05/2014 - by Zdenda - Leave a Comment

I remember struggling with this grammar when I was at secondary school. As it is possible to translate the words IF and WITH with the same word in my mother …

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Infinitive of purpose - mind map
Elementary / English games / Grammar

Infinitive of purpose

21/04/201426/06/2014 - by Zdenda - 5 Comments.

This is one of the easiest grammar points for the Czech students because in their mother tongue there exists a structure which is similar to infinitive of purpose. Because of …

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Past perfect tense mind map
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Past perfect tense – explanation and a mind map

01/04/201414/12/2017 - by Zdenda - 5 Comments.

Last week I was teaching past perfect in one of my classes and suddenly one of the students exclaimed: “Finally we are learning something new.” And by new she meant …

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Separable and not separable phrasal verbs
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Separable and not separable phrasal verbs

28/03/201426/06/2014 - by Zdenda - 3 Comments.

This morning I was preparing a presentation for one of my classes on separable and not separable phrasal verbs and suddenly an interesting pattern appeared. It seems that the fact …

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passive demonstration
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Passive voice

24/03/201403/04/2015 - by Zdenda - 35 Comments.

To learn Passive voice it is necessary to know the past participles. If you do not know the past participles go to our post on Past participle and learn the …

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Second conditional mind map
English games / Grammar / Intermediate

Second conditional – a simple explanation of a difficult grammar point

17/03/201426/10/2022 - by Zdenda - 7 Comments.

Several weeks ago I published a post on Conditionals. In the post, I tried to cover all the conditionals in one mind map and I think that I succeeded.However, the …

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