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Grammar strategies Archives - Luca Lampariello. ESL Warm Up Activities with PowerPoint Download. I use fun ESL warm up activities in my classes before the lesson begins, to break the ice or even as a time filler.

ESL Warm Up Activities with PowerPoint Download

Warmers bring energy to class and definitely fills the time with more learning when the lesson runs shorter than expected. Below are some of the games that I have been using in my English class with available PowerPoint templates to help you start. I hope you would find them useful in your class. ESL Warm Up Activities and Games Boggle Vocabulary Game This game is based off of the game BOGGLE in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters. The purpose of the game is to discover as many words as possible within a jumbled square of twenty five randomly selected letters.

Game Type: Individual, Pair, Group Vocabulary BINGO This is a quick, no-prep vocabulary review game. Disappearing Words In this simple activity, students are shown a word, phrase or sentence that disappears in 2 seconds! Game Type: Individual, Team Give Me 5! Game Type: Individual Word Snake. Contractions exercises: apostrophe, saxon genitive, Everyday Grammar TV - Episodes. English exercises online: grammar, listening, reading... Ideas for songs to teach English grammar - TeflTunes.com. ESL and EFL teachers looking for inspiration for lesson planning will find this list of songs to teach English grammar we’ve compiled a useful resource.

Highlighted are songs available as complete ESL song lesson plans here on tefltunes.com. Songs for teaching present simple Eric Clapton / Wonderful Tonight (lyrics) The Beatles / She Loves You (lyrics) Bette Middler / From A Distance (lyrics) Songs for teaching present continuous Rod Stewart / Sailing (lyrics) Fool’s Garden / Lemon Tree (lyrics) Suzanne Vega / Tom’s Diner (lyrics)

Sticky Grammar. Teaching Grammar - getting creative with controlled practice. ESL Website - English as a Second Language - Improve Your English. Free Grammar Checker. Verb-Adverb Charades. Subjects Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Theater Arts Grade [facebookbadge] Brief Description Verbs and adverbs take center stage in this lively activity.

Verb-Adverb Charades

Objectives Students will silently act out a variety of verbs and adverbs. Keywords verb, adverb, grammar, pantomime, drama, acting, theater Materials Needed [shopmaterials] a stack of cards labeled with verbs (sample list provided) a stack of cards labeled with adverbs (sample list provided) Lesson Plan This lively activity will reinforce the concepts of verb and adverbs. Before the Lesson Create two sets of cards; each set should be on a different colored paper. Create a set of verb cards on cards of one color, at least one verb card per student. The Lesson This game can be played as a whole class or with the class divided into teams. The other students call out the word the student is acting out. Then the same student who pantomimed the verb chooses and then acts out the word on his or her adverb card.

Assessment Lesson Plan Source. Grammar Girl. Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips.

Grammar Girl

A magazine writer, technical writer, and entrepreneur, she has served as a senior editor and producer at a number of health and science web sites. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University. Mignon believes that learning is fun, and the vast rules of grammar are wonderful fodder for lifelong study. She strives to be a friendly guide in the writing world. Her archenemy is the evil Grammar Maven, who inspires terror in the untrained and is neither friendly nor helpful. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. To book a lecture event with Mignon Fogarty for your company or organization, contact Macmillan Speakers. Follow Mignon on Google+, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Awards Media The Oprah Winfrey Show, Grammar Girl Fixes Common Mistakes, March 2007. Guide to Grammar and Writing.

FoxType. Adverb Worksheets. An adverb is one of the eight parts of speech.

Adverb Worksheets

It is a word that describes how, where or when an action verb takes place. Use the worksheets below to help your students understand adverbs. To see Common Core Standards for these worksheets, click on the common core symbol Find the adverb that is describing the given action verb in each sentence. Double-sided printable worksheet. 1st through 3rd Grades Does the adverb in each sentence describe how, when or where? Circle the adverb. Complete the poem by adding descriptive adverbs to each action verb. 2nd through 5th Grades Choose the best adverb from the word box to complete each sentence. Grammar: teaching conditionals. By Jim Scrivener Conditional structures that begin If + present tense offer lots of possibilities for interesting tasks, presentations or practice activities.

Grammar: teaching conditionals

Here are a few ideas. If you meet a wolf … Conditional structures that begin If + present tense … (e.g. “If you meet a wolf, run!” Dangerous results Give one student a warning about some small, insignificant action e.g. Star warnings. English Grammar. All English Lessons. LearnEnglish-online. Free TEFL EFL ESL ESOL Worksheets. Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude.

English.pdf. Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study)