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Grammar Cards: Describing Objects, People & Places

Help your students practise describing objects, people, and places with this set of descriptive adjective cards.

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Grammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past Participle

Help your students learn the past participle form of irregular verbs.

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Grammar Cards: Regular Verbs in Past & Past Participle

Help your students learn the past & past participle forms of regular verbs.

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Grammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past

Help your students practice talking about Past Actions using irregular verbs.

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Grammar Cards: Talking About Habits & Routines

Help your students practice talking about Habits & Routines using different verbs, time expressions, and frequency adverbs.

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Young learner games: Racing past

A board game that helps students talk about past actions.

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Young learner games: Stop

A card game that helps students talk about the past.

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Father Christmas gets stuck

Three activies using a simple story about Father Christmas.

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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

This lesson aims to help students prepare for the key word transformation section of the exam (part 4) by focusing on time expressions with the present perfect.

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Mingling activity: Irregular pasts

An individual and mingling activity to practise the irregular past simple.

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Finish the sentence: Past perfect continuous

A small-group card game to practise the past perfect continuous.

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Where were you? Could / Couldn't

A photo card guessing game, using forms of could.

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Last week: past simple

Students take part in a small group, information-gap and puzzle-solving activity to practise the past simple.

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100 years ago: Was / were

Students take part in a team competition to practise was, were, wasn’t and weren’t.

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Have we met? Present perfect and past simple

Students take part in a whole-class role-play to practise using the present perfect, then switching to the past simple.

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Evidence: Past modals

Students work together to decide who they think commited a burglary using evidence cards and practising past modals.

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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 1

An audio serialization of the elementary-level Macmillan Reader, The Prince and the Pauper , is told in sixteen chapters. Each chapter is accompanied by a comprehensive lesson plan written by Adrian Tennant, including teacher’s notes, with suggestions for extension activities, plus student worksheets and a full transcript and glossary. ...

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Explain! Past perfect continuous

A speaking card game at intermediate level to practise the use of past perfect continuous.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Memories of the past

Simon Mumford wins the Lesson Share competition with a unique way to help students remember irregular past tense forms.