A short sharp exercise concerning the grammar of the future form of ‘going to + verb’.
For elementary to pre-intermediate students, taking about 10 minutes.
Future ‘going to’ exercise click here for free downloadable pdf sheets including answer key.
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A fun activity that could be used to end a class, or even a course.
Many teachers will be familiar with this form of ‘human bingo‘ in which a different student’s name is needed in each box. I usually have students shout “Bingo!” when they have two lines of names. One-line bingo is a little too quick and full house is practically impossible.
For elementary – intermediate students, takes about 20 minutes.
Bingo click here for free downloadable pdf sheet.
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I am not sure whether to classify this activity as an exercise or a puzzle, so I’ll call it both.
My MO is to use this exercise/puzzle as a warm up introduction into the murky world of the present perfect continuous (aka progressive), and it also has the advantage of highlighting the 3rd person singular anomaly that trips up so many learners.
For pre-intermediate – intermediate level students, about 15 minutes.
Present perfect continuous exercise/puzzle click here for free downloadable pdf sheets with answer key.
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A straightforward gap-fill grammar exercise concerning the tricky present perfect simple tense.
Elementary – pre-intermediate students, and takes about 10 minutes.
Present perfect simple exercise click here for free downloadable pdf sheets including answer key.
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This follows from Similes exercise 1, which is also available for free download.
The strategy in this exercise is very simple: students complete the similes using the illustrations, and then apply the similes to the sentences below. The main degree of difficulty is in selecting the best tense for the verbs. In some cases more than one answer is possible, please use your discretion.
For pre-intermediate – intermediate students, lasting about 20-30 minutes.
Similes exercise 2 click here for free downloadable pdf sheets, including answer key.
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A straightforward gap-fill exercise, the main degree of difficulty is that the students are not provided with a choice of possible answers.
For elementary – pre-intermediate students, taking about 10 minutes.
Past Continuous exercise click here for free downloadable pdf sheets including answer key.
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This is a straightforward gap-fill exercise. It can be used in conjunction with any activity that uses the popular phrase ‘Have you ever been to …..?’
For elementary – pre-intermediate students, and should last about 5/10 minutes.
Present perfect simple verb to be grammar exercise click here for free downloadable pdf sheets, including answer key.
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This is a straightforward gap-fill grammar exercise for the Present Continuous tense (aka Present Progressive). It is a relatively simple exercise the only degree of difficulty being that the students are not supplied with a list of possible answers.
For elementary – pre-intermediate studetns, and will take about 5/10 minutes.
Present Continuous exercise click here for free downloadable pdf sheets, including an answer key.
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This exercise raises the students’ awareness of ten similes of the form as …… as …… . A practise exercise follows.
There is also Similes exercise 2 now available.
Similes are perhaps more common than we first think, and sometimes the meaning is a little obscure or culture specific so additional teacher input where appropriate is highly recommended.
This exercise is for pre-intermediate – intermediate level students and may last about 20/30 minutes.
Similes exercise 1 click here for free downloadable pdf sheets, including answer key.
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A straightforward Past simple tense exercise of filling the spaces. The only degree of difficulty is that the students have no list of possible answers from which to choose.
This is for elementary level students and will last about 5/10 minutes.
Past simple exercise: click here for free downloadable pdf sheets including answer key.
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