Grammar resources by area
In this section you will find a large collection of grammar resources organized by grammar point to help the busy teacher find exactly what they need in a hurry.
Past tenses
Where were you? Could / Couldn't
A photo card guessing game, using forms of could.
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Father Christmas gets stuck
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Father Christmas's Journey (A board game)
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Time expressions
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Mingling activity: Irregular pasts
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Mingling activity: Irregular pasts: Lesson plan
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The history of: Past passives: Lesson plan
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Where were you? Could / Couldn't: Lesson plan
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Last week: past simple
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Last week: past simple: lesson plan
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100 years ago: Was / were
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Have we met? Present perfect and past simple
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Have we met? Present perfect and past simple: Lesson plan
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Evidence: Past modals
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Evidence: Past modals: Lesson plan
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Explain! Past perfect continuous: Lesson plan
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Explain! Past perfect continuous
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Holiday activities: Lesson plan
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Speaking: Holiday activities
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Memories of the past: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Memories of the past
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The accident: Lesson plan
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Grammar: The accident
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Guessing game: Past continuous: Lesson plan
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Guessing game: Past continuous
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Murder mystery: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Murder mystery
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Experiments: Magnetic pennies
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Experiments: 3D shadows
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Experiments: Ear gongs
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Mingling puzzle: Past perfect and past simple: Lesson plan
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Mingling puzzle: Past perfect and past simple
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Nails trick: Experiment sheet
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Nails trick: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Experiments: Nails trick
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Games and activities: What happened?
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Games and activities: Past continuous challenge
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Grammar activities: I have never ...
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Grammar: Let me talk about my life: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Past tense practice with hilarity: Lesson plan
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Grammar: On the cards
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Grammar: On the cards: Lesson plan
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Speaking: Murder in the classroom: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Past tense card game: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Past tense card game: Worksheet
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Grammar: My alibi: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: My alibi: Worksheet
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Grammar: The no-go game: Lesson plan
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Bingo: Irregular verbs
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Modal verbs 5
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Passives 2
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Past and future
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Past perfect and past simple 1
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Past perfect and past simple 2
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Past and present
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Crossword in two halves
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Past and present
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Pasts 1
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Pasts 2
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Verb flags
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Pasts 3
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Used to
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Used to 1
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Used to 2
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Wish 1
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Grammar contrasts 1: used to and would
Determiners
Impressions: You choose!
In this lesson students will discuss their preferences using both, either/or and neither/nor and give a short presentation.
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Remember and forget
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Present and past participles
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Using the word 'pass'
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Determiners
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Board game: Indefinite pronouns: Lesson plan
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Articles 3
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Articles 2
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Articles 1
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Find the families
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Logical laws
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Indirect questions 1
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Articles 1
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Articles 2
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Articles and countable and uncountable nouns
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Grammar: the article in English
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Grammar: an 'A' or 'The'
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Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar games
Conditionals
Guessing game: Must, mustn’t, needn’t, don’t have to: Lesson plan
A small-group card guessing game to practise must, mustn’t, needn’t and don’t have to
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Pairwork: First conditional
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Pairwork: First conditional: Lesson plan
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Reading maze: Third conditional: Lesson plan
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Reading maze: Third conditional
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Holiday activities: Lesson plan
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Speaking: Holiday activities
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Grammar: The Titanic
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The Titanic: Lesson plan
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Grammar: 2010 World Cup: Lesson plan
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Grammar: 2010 World Cup
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Picture game: Second conditional: Lesson plan
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Picture game: Second conditional
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Build a sail-car of the future: Experiment sheet
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Build a sail-car of the future: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Making sense of road signs: Lesson plan
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Five minutes out: Lesson plan
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Grammar: A very bad day
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Grammar: A very bad day: Lesson plan
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Games and activities: Health and hygiene
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Games and activities: Good food, bad food
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Games and activities: Jigsaw sentences
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Games and activities: If only
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Games and activities: What if...?
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Grammar: Wishes and regrets: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Money - just imagine! Lesson plan
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Conditionals 2
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If … then
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If sentences 3
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Conditional dominoes
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Conditionals 1
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If sentences 1
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If sentences 2
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Conditional dominoes
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
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Grammar: 'unless' and 'if'
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
Reported speech
Team competition: Reported commands
A team competition at upper intermediate level to practise the reported commands He/She told you to … and He/She said to …
Passives
Compass: Lesson 3: Eating habits
The third lesson of this new series from award-winning author Lizzie Pinard.
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The history of: Past passives: Lesson plan
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This restless Earth: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Quiz: Present passives: Lesson plan
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Quiz: Present passives
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Games and activities: What are they made from?
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Games and activities: Who was it made by?
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Grammar: Smart crackle cakes: Lesson plan
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Grammar: passives in conversation
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Grammar: passives
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The passive in English – article
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The passive in English – tips and activities
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Passives 1
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Passives 2
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Passives 3
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Passives 4
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Passives 2
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Passives 3
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Passives 4
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Grammar: word order in passive questions
Adverbs
Grammarman: Episode 3: Never say never
In this episode, Grammarman’s TV appearance is sabotaged by rogue editor Wrongo. Put the adverbs of frequency back into the correct places before Verbo City’s viewing public loses faith in its helpful hero. The answers can be found in the downloadable worksheet to the right of the page.
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Grammarman: Episode 3: Never say never: Worksheet
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Board game: Adverbs
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Board game: Adverbs: Lesson plan
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Board game: Frequency adverbs: Lesson plan
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Board game: Frequency adverbs
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Pronunciation skills: Adverbs of frequency: Lesson plan
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Pronunciation skills: Adverbs of frequency
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Adverbs of time 2
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Adverbs of time 3
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Adverbs of time 4
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Games and activities: Health survey
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Grammar: Broken hearts and fish out of water: Lesson plan
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Grammar: The adverb game: Teacher's notes
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Indirect questions 1
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Adverbs of time
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Adverbs of time 1
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Reveal the answers
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Word order
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Grammar: stance markers and adverbials
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Grammar: frequency adverbs
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Grammar: the syntactic function of -ing forms
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Grammar: adverbials and phrases
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Grammar: The adverb game: Worksheet 2
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Grammar: The adverb game: Worksheet 1
Adjectives
Father Christmas gets stuck
Three activies using a simple story about Father Christmas.
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We Wish you a merry Christmas!
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Boardgame: Comparatives
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Boardgame: Superlatives: Lesson plan
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Boardgame: Superlatives
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Grammarman: Episode 8: Going to extremes: Worksheet
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Grammarman: Episode 8: Going to extremes
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Nutrition: Comparing food
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Experiments: Conductors and insulators
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Experiments: Gas from garbage
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Roller-coaster ride: Experiment sheet
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Roller-coaster ride: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Experiments: Roller-coaster ride
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Using art in the classroom: Part 1: Using art at face value
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Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: debaptism: Lesson plan
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Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: overparenting: Lesson plan
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Adjective dominoes: Order of adjectives: Lesson plan
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Describe and grab: Adjectives
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Speaking: Three Brothers: Lesson plan
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Speaking: Three Brothers
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The ring game: Order of adjectives
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Writing: A nice story
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Writing: A nice story: Lesson plan
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Games and activities: House and garden
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Games and activities: The old, the young and the ugly
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When I Listen to a Song
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Games and activities: The weather
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Children: My dog
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Games and activities: Adjectives wordsearch
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Games and activities: Opposites attract
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Grammar: putting adjectives in order
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Adjectives with -ed and -ing 2
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Adjectives with -ed and -ing 2 - worksheet
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Comparing 1
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Comparing 2
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Comparing 4
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Enough and plenty
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Adjectives with -ed and -ing 1
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Thinking of someone lesson
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Grammar: Vocabulary (extreme adjectives): Worksheet
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Grammar: Vocabulary (extreme adjectives): Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Personality assessment task: Worksheet 1
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Grammar: Personality assessment task: Worksheet 2
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Grammar: Personality assessment task: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Personality traits: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Name that city: The cost of living: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Name that city: The cost of living: Worksheet 2
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Grammar: Name that city: The cost of living: Worksheet 1
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Grammar: Teacher trumps: Teacher's Notes
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Grammar: Teacher trumps: Worksheet 1
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Grammar: Teacher trumps: Worksheet 2
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Adjectives and noun modifiers in English – article
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Comparative and superlative adjectives – tips and activities
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Adjectives and noun modifiers in English – tips and activities
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Comparative and superlative adjectives – article
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Grammar: verbal adjectives
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Grammar: gradable and non-gradable adjectives
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Grammar: two-syllable comparatives
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Grammar: Personality traits: Worksheet 1
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Grammar: Personality traits: Worksheet 2
Future tenses
Team competition: Will
A team competition to practise will for promises and predictions.
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Team competition: Will: Lesson plan
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World trip: going to
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World trip: going to: Lesson plan
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Imagine: Future perfect: Lesson plan
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Imagine: Future perfect
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Talking about the future: Lesson plan
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Talking about the future
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Holiday game: Future of can/can't: Lesson plan
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Holiday game: Future of can/can't
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Mingling activity: Future continuous: Lesson plan
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Mingling activity: Future continuous
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Build a sail-car of the future: Experiment sheet
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Build a sail-car of the future: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Grammar: The future's bright: Lesson plan
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Grammar: The future's bright
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Games and activities: What's the weather like?
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Games and activities: To be or not to be?
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Games and activities: Future perfect challenge
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Grammar: Making instant decisions: Lesson plan
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Futures 1
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Futures 2
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Futures 3
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Futures 4
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Futures 5
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Futures 6
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Futures 7
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Modal verbs 6
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Past and future
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Futures 3
Present tenses
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Impressions: Clothes and accessories
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Father Christmas gets stuck
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Father Christmas's Journey (A board game)
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Time expressions
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Mingling game: Present simple and continuous: Lesson plan
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Mingling game: Present simple and continuous
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Card game: Present simple
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Card game: Present simple: Lesson plan
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Ideal room: There is / there are: Lesson plan
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Ideal room: There is / there are
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Explain! Past perfect continuous: Lesson plan
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Explain! Past perfect continuous
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This restless Earth: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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River action: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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River action: PowerPoint presentation
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River action
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Experiments: 3D shadows
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Experiments: Ear gongs
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Nails trick: Experiment sheet
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Nails trick: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Experiments: Nails trick
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Roller-coaster ride: Experiment sheet
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Roller-coaster ride: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Experiments: Roller-coaster ride
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Streetpets: Present simple
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Games and activities: Plans for the week
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Games and activities: To be
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Games and activities: Home and garden
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Games and activities: Routine sports
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Speaking: Guessing game
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Games and activities: Present continuous crossword
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Games and activities: Present continuous challenge
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Games and activities: At leisure
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Games and activities: Present perfect challenge
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Games and activities: Who am I?
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Games and activities: The goodbye song
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Grammar: Yoga in the classroom: Lesson plan
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Present perfect aspect – tips and activities
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Grammar: Present continuous with PowerPoint: Worksheet
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Grammar: Present continuous with PowerPoint: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Bargaining: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Rock band role-play: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Rock band role-play: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Rock band role-play: Worksheet 1
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Grammar: Rock band role-play: Worksheet 2
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Grammar: Rock band role-play: Worksheet 3
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Grammar: Rock band role-play: Worksheet 4
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Grammar: Professions: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Present perfect continuous game: Worksheet
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Grammar: What's been changed: Lesson plan
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Song titles - pre-intermediate
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Modal verbs 6
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Past and present
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Grammar: Present perfect continuous game: Teacher's notes
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Present perfect
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Past and present
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Want someone to do something
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Used to 1
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Used to 2
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Grammar: reviewing the present simple
Prepositions
Live from London: The economy: Listening activities and transcript
The onestopenglish reporters went to the Houses of Parliament to find out whether locals and tourists were worried about the world's economic situation.
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Games and activities: Fruity prepositions
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Games and activities: Hop, rabbit, hop!
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Games and activities: On the dinner table
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Games and activities: A sunny day
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Games and activities: Clowning around
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Games and activities: Outer space
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The corpus principle: Part 5 - Language rules
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Games and activities: Animal prepositions
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Games and activities: In the desert
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Games and activities: Household items
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Pictures: Black cat hunt
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Prepositions relating to movement and position - article
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Prepositions relating to movement and position - tips and activities
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Young learners: Card game for prepositions: Lesson plan
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Logical laws
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Classroom cubes
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Prepositions
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Prepositions 1
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Prepositions 2
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Grammar: around town: vocabulary, prepositions and directions
Modals
Live from London: Christmas video special!
Set in Brixton, London, this video lesson includes authentic interviews with people living in London, telling us how they celebrate Christmas.
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Where were you? Could / Couldn't
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Guessing game: Must, mustn’t, needn’t, don’t have to
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Pairwork: Should have / shouldn’t have
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Pairwork: Should have / shouldn’t have: Lesson plan
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Boardgame: Comparatives: Lesson plan
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Card game: Must and Mustn't
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Card game: Must and mustn't: Lesson plan
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Where were you? Could / Couldn't: Lesson plan
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Evidence: Past modals
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Evidence: Past modals: Lesson plan
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Holiday game: Future of can/can't: Lesson plan
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Grammarman: Episode 12: The Obligator
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Grammarman: Episode 12: The Obligator: Worksheet
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Opinions: should
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Celebrity wedding planner: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Celebrity wedding planner
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Marketing strategy: Level 1: Lesson plan
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Guessing game: used to: Lesson plan
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Guessing game: used to
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Experiments: Gas from garbage
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Build a sail-car of the future: Experiment sheet
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Build a sail-car of the future: Worksheet and teacher's notes
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Making sense of road signs: Lesson plan
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Advice and suggestions 2
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Business skills bank: Socializing in English: Lesson plan
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Grammar: mood and modality 1
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Grammar: mood and modality 2
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Grammar: Should I stay or should I go: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Should I stay or should I go: Worksheet
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Grammar: Should I stay or should I go: Worksheet
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Grammar: Can you do it: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Can't you be more positive: Lesson plan
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Grammar: Figure it out: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Figure it out: Worksheet 2
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Grammar: Figure it out: Worksheet 1
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Grammar: You must not: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: You must not: Worksheet 1
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Indirect questions 1
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Indirect questions 2
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Modal verbs 1
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Modal verbs 2
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Modal verbs 3
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Modal verbs 4
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Modal verbs 1
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Modal verbs 2
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Modal verbs 3
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Modal verbs 4
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Modal verbs 5
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Modal verbs 6
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Passives 2
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Passives 3
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Passives 4
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Modal verbs 9
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Modal verbs 10
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Modal verbs 11
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Modal verbs 7
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Modal verbs 8
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Advice and suggestions 1
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The man who lost his memory
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Modal verbs 1 – article
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Modal verbs 1 – tips and activities
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Modal verbs 2 – article
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Modal verbs 2 – tips and activities
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Grammar: modal verbs may and might
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Grammar: differences between could and can
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Grammar: teaching the modals 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and 'have to'.
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Grammar: You must not: Worksheet 2
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Grammar: You must not: Worksheet 3
Nouns
Finish the sentence: Past perfect continuous
A small-group card game to practise the past perfect continuous.
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Fruit: Some and any
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Grammarman: Episode 18: Dr Adam Bomm: Worksheet
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Grammarman: Episode 18: Dr Adam Bomm
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Grammarman: Episode 17: How queer
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Grammarman: Episode 17: How queer: Worksheet
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Grammarman: Episode 15: Dinah Myte
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Grammarman: Episode 15: Dinah Myte: Worksheet
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Grammarman: Episode 11: Anna Gramme: Worksheet
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Grammarman: Episode 11: Anna Gramme
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Grammarman: Episode 7: Luthor Lexis
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Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: debaptism: Lesson plan
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Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: overparenting: Lesson plan
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Pronunciation skills: Stress in compound nouns: Lesson plan
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Pronunciation skills: Stress in compound nouns
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Games and activities: Odd one out
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Games and activities: What am I?
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Games and activities: Perfect pronouns
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Grammar: Noun phrases
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Teenagers: Grammar: Can you touch...?: Teacher's notes
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Teenagers: Grammar: Can you touch...?: Worksheet 1
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Teenagers: Grammar: Can you touch...?: Worksheet 2
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Teenagers: Grammar: Can you touch...?: Worksheet 3
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Countable and uncountable 1
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Countability and noun types - article
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Countability and noun types - tips and activities
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Prepositions of time and place - article
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Prepositions of time and place - tips and activities
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Prepositions relating to movement and position - article
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Prepositions relating to movement and position - tips and activities
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Relative clauses in English - article
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Relative clauses in English – tips and activities
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Grammar: Card game for countables and uncountables: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Card game for countables and uncountables: Worksheet
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Grammar: Countable vs uncountable nouns: Teacher's notes
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Grammar: Countable vs uncountable nouns: Worksheet 1
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Grammar: Countable vs uncountable nouns: Worksheet 2
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Grammar: Countable vs uncountable nouns: Worksheet 3
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Young learners: Frodo's backpack: Lesson plan
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Young learners: Frodo's supplies: Lesson plan
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Young learners: The home game: Lesson plan
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Find the families
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Countable and uncountable 1
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Countable and uncountable 2
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Countable and uncountable 3
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Countable and uncountable 4
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Picture pairs
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Countable and uncountable 5
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Fifteen records
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Countable and uncountable 2
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Countable and uncountable 3
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Articles and countable and uncountable nouns
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Grammar: 'them' and 'they'
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Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar practice
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Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar games
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Readers' comments (6)
Web Editor | Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:25 pm
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tblack72 | Wed, 27 Sep 2017 8:00 am
Some of these links are dead. Please advise.
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Web Editor | Fri, 19 Aug 2016 3:15 pm
Hi there,
Thanks for your feedback. A couple of things that might help you are the grammar lessons (which can be found in the grammar tab) as these are divided into levels from elementary through to upper intermediate. Alternatively, and probably most usefully, you can use the 'search by keyword' function in the top right corner of the homepage. Just choose a keyword or term such a 'Past perfect' and you will be presented with a list of all the resources on onestopenglish containing the past perfect. You can then narrow your search by category (for example class level or class length).
Hope that helps and happy teaching!
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Anonymous | Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:41 am
I am finding it difficyult quickly to find a worksheet on a particular tense or combination of tenses. The sort of thing I mean is like Worksheet 44 "Past perfect and past simple 1". I would just like to search through all the worksheets of this type.
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Web Editor | Mon, 18 Jul 2016 3:04 pm
Hi there,
Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear it is appreciated!
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Anonymous | Mon, 18 Jul 2016 2:55 pm
Perfect change and re-order of all.
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