A short straightforward grammar exercise to practise Wh question forms and typical answers.
This is for elementary – pre-intermediate students and will take about 10 minutes.
Wh questions exercise: click here for free downloadable pdf sheets including answer key.
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A straightforward exercise in which students fill in the blanks with the plural forms of a number of common words which have a variety of plural forms.
This is for elementary – pre-intermediate students, and will take about 5/10 minutes. It can be used as a warmer or a filler.
Singular Plural exercise click here for free downloadable pdf sheets including answer key.
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This is a straightforward exercise to match a punctuation mark with its name. It could be used in conjunction with a writing a task, as a warmer, or even as a filler at the end of class.
It is for elementary / pre-intermediate students and will take about 5-10 minutes.
Punctuation mark exercise: click here for free downloadable pdf sheets including answer key.
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This is a straightforward gap-fill exercise which focuses on the grammar forms of both the Past Simple tense and the Past Continuous (or Progressive) tense. It can be used as supplementary material or even as a warmer.
It is for elementary and pre-intermediate students and will take about 5-10 minutes.
Past Simple & Past Continuous grammar exercise: click here for free downloadable sheets including an answer key.
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This is primarily a writing exercise, for elementary or pre-intermediate students, and may take about 20 minutes.
At first students can read and consider the basic guide to capitalization. Their task is to correct a number of capital letter mistakes in a short passage. This is a straightforward exercise; there are no hidden tricks.
Capital letters writing exercise: click here for free downloadable sheets, including an answer key.
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The thorny issue of subject-verb agreement in English is not always an intuitive process.
Consider these two sentences:
The horse runs.
The horses run.
And there are many other anomalies too. This exercise attempts to address some of these issues, while at the same time spicing things up with some common everyday sayings.
This is an exercise for elementary to intermediate students, and can last 15-30 minutes.
Subject – Verb agreement exercise: click here for free downloadable pdf sheets with an answer key.
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This is a very straightforward gap-fill grammar exercise for the Past Simple tense of the verb to be. The main area of difficulty is that the students are not provided with the words to fill the gaps, so they will probably need to collaborate to confirm their answers.
It is for basic or elementary level students and will last about 5 or 10 minutes.
Past Simple, verb to be grammar exercise: click here for pdf sheets, including answer key.
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This is a stragtforward ‘fill the gaps’ exercise, for the present simple tense.
It is primarily for elementary students and should take only about 5 minutes, so could be used as a warmer (or a cooler), or slipped in to any class where the focus is on the present simple.
Present simple grammar exercise: click here for the freely downloadable pdf sheets, with an answer key.
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This is a tricky exercise dealing with the use of the prepositions at, on and in with time expressions.
At first glance it looks much easier than it really is, and may even take about 15 minutes.
Time at/on/in exercise: Click here to find a pdf file with an answer key which may be freely downloaded.
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