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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22 Verbs in the past simple tense

ByZdenda 21/03/201611/04/2023

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…

English games | Intermediate | Listening | Vocabulary

Sports vocabulary

ByZdenda 29/06/201429/07/2014

Some posts take quite a long time to produce, but this one was an extreme case. Four people participated on it and I think we have produced a great material to teach vocabulary connected with sports. ADVERT: [showmyads] In my opinion there is everything. There is a video to help students with the pronunciation of…

Elementary | English games | Intermediate | Vocabulary

Weather vocabulary

ByZdenda 04/03/201518/05/2019

Weather is one of the most common conversational topics in Britain. Therefore, if you know the basic vocabulary, you can talk to 60 million people. With 60 million conversation opportunities, it is well worth the little effort you need to put in.To make it as enjoyable as possible, there are several activities to help you…

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Used to grammar activities

ByZdenda 07/11/201520/07/2024

The phrase USED TO is one of the highly productive chunks in English. I have already published a post on Used to but I have created several new activities since, and I would like to share those with you. So, in this post you will find several USED TO grammar activities which will help you…

English games | Intermediate | Vocabulary

Animals vocabulary – learn the names of 50 animals

ByZdenda 20/02/201404/04/2015

Many people think that the topic animals is suitable only for children. Thus the learners learn the names of twenty animals when they are young and they think it is enough. However, intermediate students need to know more animals than the twenty they learnt as children. That is why I have created the following post….

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Be Going To – Treasure hunt

ByZdenda 07/04/201611/04/2023

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,…

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