Stative Verbs - I'm Loving It
A student asked me to explain if "I'm loving it" was grammatically correct! I found this great blog post (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/im-loving-it-grammar.aspx) and used it as a basis for this...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Guavaberry
It's a song for elementary students. You can review present continuos tense.It's a tropical song useful to work with adults. Pronunciation is very clear and the rythm is nice. It has four different...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Ang Lee's Life of Pi ( Group Follow up Activities)
This is a selection of fun activities that you can do after watching Life of Pi. I've used this with 5th and 6th graders with great success. They can put themselves in Pi's shoes, they can cut and...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden ( Edited )
hi :) I like this song and I think it is very useful to practice Present Simple and Present Continuous. The students are asked to fill in the blanks in lyrics while listening to the song. You can use...
View ArticlePresent Continuous Miming Game
Hi all the enthusiastic teachers. I am here again with a miming game. There are 23 simple sentences written. You can cut them and give the students who volunteer to mime :) The question is " What is...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Lemon Tree
I used this worksheet with 6th grade students to practise present continuous and activate some vocabulary items. Students have to listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the correct form of the...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Yesterday by the Beatles (ESL Cloze Listening Game - Stative/...
This review activity is intended to be used after stative (non-action verbs) like “need, want, believe, long, etc,” have been taught for a few days. This activity can be done two ways. One is to just...
View ArticleThat's Strange!
This powerpoint was originally made to complement an exercise in Side by Side 1, P110, with an aim of making the activity more fun for young children. However, the slide deck could be used as a...
View ArticleWhat Are You Doing?
This worksheet practices present continuous and pronouns. First, students learn the present continuous words for a variety of actions. They copy each word. Next, they make sentences and then read them...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys
This activity is really simple. Your students can practice present continuous, present simple and learn new vocabulary ( if they are in a low level) or just practice. This song is not really difficult...
View ArticleSimple Future
This a review of the future simple. It has very easy exercises for example: complete sentences, choose the right option and fill in gaps in a song with the tense used, too. Besides, you can improve...
View ArticleFuture Tenses
Students are asked how to form the future. Then they have to look at verbs and pictures and make sentences. This is best done in pairs to encourage speaking. Sentences can also be written down if...
View ArticlePresent Continuous
Powerpoint on how to form the present continous and an idea on how to make it fun for kids or adults to use. Slide 3 explains that you have to give the students a piece of paper with an action on it...
View ArticlePicture Sentences - Chores
The title of this worksheet is 'Picture sentences - Chores'. This resource has five different pictures to look at, and each picture shows a person doing a chore. Students must look at the pictures and...
View ArticleMaking Questions
A very simple worksheet which can be used with elementary or pre-intermediate students when revising questions. Involves present simple, present continuous, past simple, have/has got, can, there...
View ArticleRevising Present Tenses
This is a 2-page worksheet for revising present tenses: present simple, present continuous and present perfect at intermediate level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to fill in the...
View ArticlePresent Continuous Revision Worksheet
This is a worksheet for revising present continuous at pre-intermediate level. There are 4 different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences using the present continuous, write...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Lifted
Lifted is a computer-animated short film by Pixar. It tells a story of a young alien taking an examination in alien abduction. Before watching it students are supposed to speculate what the film is...
View ArticleFuture Forms Worksheet
The worksheet comprises the most common ways to express future, including future simple (with 'probably', 'definitely'), present continuous, be going to, would like to, would rather, may/ might....
View ArticleNon-Continuous Verbs
This worksheet includes a profound explanation and three exercises to help students distinguish between state and action verbs. It also provides guidance on how one and the same verb can change its...
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