An easy way to form (almost) any question in English. Question Matrix Activity. I ‘created’ an activity for my health classes this week that came from me being inspired by a number of resources that I had seen from my PLN over the past year or so.
It was an interesting activity for me to trace the origins of this idea. Whenever I see something useful on Twitter I pin it to my growing number of Pinterest boards using the Chrome Pinterest save button. This image of a question matrix used to elicit deeper questioning and responses has been preying on my mind for a while: Although I had been planning on incorporating this image into my teaching, I couldn’t work out how I was going to do so. Then I saw this tweet from @RTwithDrOffutt in which she posed questions to students that were written on a ball. This is how I used the ball at the end of our sexual health topic. The students read their words out aloud and in turn answered them.
I think for a first attempt it was successful. How might you consider using the question matrix, the ball activity, or both? Talking about regrets lesson plan. This lesson plan encourages students to use unreal past in the context of talking about regrets, using wish and if only.
The idea for this mini-lesson came from a great video to a great song by an awesome band: Eels and their Mistakes of My Youth. The clip is pretty literal and lends itself perfectly to some grammar practice using wish and if only when talking about regrets. The Task Start by brainstorming what people usually consider to be the mistakes of their youth (getting married too early? / postponing education? Before you watch the video ask the students to imagine the main character is 70 today and looking back at his teenage years depicted in the clip. After you’d checked their sentences, you might want to spend some time discussing whether it’s true that people tend to regret the things they didn’t do more than those they did.
BusyTeacher.org. Adjectives. Future. Songs and Activities for English Language Learners. Songs can be an effective way to introduce or reinforce a grammar topic.
Click on the topics below for companion songs and activities. (In a blog article posted Oct. 4, 2016 at AzarGrammar.com, I list some of the benefits of using songs to teach grammar that I’ve observed in my own classroom.) Adverb Clauses in the Song “Baby, I’m Yours”Comparisons with LikeGerunds as Objects of PrepositionsGerund or Infinitive after begin, start, continue, like, love, hate, can’t standGet to Do SomethingGotta: Informal Spoken English for Got ToI’ve Got It and I’ve Got ‘EmNoun ClausesParticipial PhrasesReflexive PronounsUsed to + a Verb in the Simple FormUsed to vs.
Language Stuff – Google Drive. Gerunds and Infinitives: rules, exercises and quizzes. What is the difference between gerunds and infinitives?
When should you use each? Let's start from the beginning. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses A gerund is a noun made from a verb. To make a gerund, you add "-ing" to the verb. English Grammar index. Verb patterns again - final solution. Big Grammar Book: 101 Worksheets for...
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All Things Grammar - Home. Gerunds and Infinitives. Some Activities to Teach Gerunds and Infinitives. ESL Classroom Games Billionaire conditional sentences, first, zero, second and third conditionals. ESL Interactive Fun Games Here we have the games carefully laid out for you.
Follow the links to browse the variety of games offered. This is only the directory for interactive games and exercises. Our ESL fun games here include : Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes, Catch it and more.
These games provide the ultimate fun in practising the following skills: Terminaciones -ish and -y - Blog Cambridge. ¿Conoces el uso de las terminaciones “-ish and -y”?
Te enseñamos cómo usarlas y para qué. Los sufijos -ish y -y se pueden usar para formar palabras que, en contexto informal, hacen referencia a una aproximación.
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All you need is a sheet of paper. This post shows how the use of game mechanics can help a teacher design better drilling activities and turn repeated practice of target grammar or vocabulary into a cognitively engaging exercise. Focus on the material to be practised and learning outcomes for your group of students: e.g. irregular verbs It is essential to clearly see the ‘why’ in terms of language learning and use games and game techniques as a means to an end, rather than for their own sake.
Bringing a game from the external world, without adapting it to learners’ needs and expected learning outcomes, may be just a waste of time (and money, if the game requires numerous handouts) in terms of learning. Form of interaction: two or three students alternating between the roles. Learning irregular verbs requires much memorization, drilling and practice. Work less: Engage learners in the process of preparation for the game. Revising Simple Past,Used to and Would with some Engaging Activities. This lesson has been designed as a next-day revision activity for B2 (Intermediate +) students.
Aim: to consolidate the use of Past Simple, Used to and Would for past habits and routines. Level: B2 (Intermediate+) In this lesson you will find. Great Chart for Learning Irregular Verbs - learn English,grammar,verbs,irregular,english.