there is someone doing something grammar

There is someone doing something – elementary grammar

ByZdenda 11/03/201406/12/2017

I had been using these phrases long before I learnt that they were a grammar item. However, as I have to teach them to my students at school, I have created this short post. There is just a simple graphical presentation of the phrases and two games to practise them.

To practise phrase there is someone doing in a more realistic and communicative way I recommend using some similar picture where students should find the differences. Nice pictures for spotting the difference can be found at Maryglasgowmagazines (you have to pay to be a member though).

There is someone doing – Mind map

This simple chart shows how the phrase There is/are … doing something should be formed.
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There is someone doing – games

I think I have not used the Penalty template for some time, so here you can play the penalty shootout. Your task is to answer each question correctly and then score a goal. Good luck.

Penalty shootout game

The second game is called Teacher invaders. Your task is to shoot all the invaders and finish the sentences with the correct for of the verbs in the brackets. Be careful with your spelling.

Past simple or past continuous? – quiz

More grammar games

You can find some more grammar games for elementary students at our site. For example there are games and mind maps to learn the past simple tense of irregular verbs. Or you could try the games on forming Adverbs correctly.

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Verb to BE in affirmative and negative sentences

ByZdenda 14/06/201424/06/2014

Next school year I am going to teach low level students, so I started to prepare materials for them. The first one deals with the verb to be in affirmative and negative sentences. The verb to be is the most important verb in English. You need it all the time. That is why solid knowledge…

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Forming Questions in Past Tense

ByZdenda 23/09/201523/09/2015

It is really important that students learn to form questions in the past simple tense. If they don’t, they won’t be able to ask about the things that happened in the past. And as most conversations deal with the things that already happened it is vital to be able to ask about the details they…

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Personal qualities

ByZdenda 30/11/201324/02/2018

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Present perfect vs Past simple tense

ByZdenda 16/11/201315/04/2023

Many students find the difference between present perfect tense and past simple very confusing. To help them I have created the following infographic.

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Learn 10 new words in 16 minutes

ByZdenda 27/01/201527/01/2015

There is the famous quote which says that you can say very little without grammar but you can say nothing without vocabulary. I completely agree, and that is why I have created the following post. I aim to teach intermediate students 10 new words. In this post I am going to teach the words that…

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Grammar Up – a new book to improve your grammar

ByZdenda 23/06/201611/04/2023

I have just published a new book. It is called Grammar Up. Grammar Up is a new, holistic approach to teaching and learning English grammar. <!– wp:more –> When you take English in school, you learn one piece of grammar at a time. After a while, you become confused by all the rules, and you…

8 Comments

gaz says:

11/03/2014 at 2:08 pm

There is Peter coming. Are you sure you can use a proper noun?
atef khadr says:

11/03/2014 at 2:31 pm

that’s great thank you so much please I need more I really love English language
توب فون says:

11/03/2014 at 2:36 pm

Mind maps for teaching gramar is great could we see one
eko says:

11/03/2014 at 3:11 pm

excellent
Zdenda says:

11/03/2014 at 4:27 pm

I think so. Though, I am not that sure now, that you talk about it.
Bazullah Uba Idris says:

17/03/2014 at 2:06 am

Good
sylvie says:

19/01/2021 at 8:10 am

Hi,
I’d love to play your games. However, I have got a Mac computer and can’t open your interactive games. What should I do?
Zdenda says:

12/02/2021 at 7:04 am

Hello Sylvie, I am really sorry but the games are in Flash and as everyone finished supporting Flash, the games will not play. Sorry but you can find some new interactive exercises at https://www.grammarlane.com