All Sentence structure articles

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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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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

A pairwork memory game for teenagers and adults to practise using some and any.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: The shape of English grammar

Simon Mumford wins the competition again with a very visual lesson that uses diagrams to revise grammar constructions.

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Compounds: Geography

Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in forming complex noun and adjective phrases from the area of geography, which contain a mixture of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions.

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Process: Geography

Keith Kelly looks at examples of process language in geography, covering common verb and noun phrases, structures and sequencing phrases.

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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 …

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Attributing: Science

Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in describing attributes and characteristics from the area of science, covering adjective, verb and noun phrases.

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Attributing: Geography

Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in describing attributes and characteristics from the area of geography, covering adjective, noun and verb phrases.

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Line graphs: Science

Keith Kelly looks at examples of the language of line graphs from the area of science, covering rich idiom, verb, noun, adjective and adverbial phrases.

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Line graphs: Geography

Keith Kelly looks at examples of the language of line graphs from the area of geography, covering rich idiom, verb, noun, adjective and adverbial phrases.

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Hypothesis: Science

Keith Kelly looks at examples of the language of hypothesis, prediction and conditions from the area of science, covering common structures and lexical phrases.

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Role-play: Get / have something done

A role-play activity for the whole class that practises the correct use of ‘ have / get something done’.

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Experiments: Energy Pairs

This simple experiment reinforces vocabulary and concepts associated with energy. Students match sentences halves to make statements on energy or ‘energy pairs’. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise and consolidate concepts connected to energy, including renewable and non-renewable sources and how we use energy in our everyday lives. Students ...

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Experiments: Follow the energy path

A simple but revealing experiment in which pupils measure and record the temperature of hot water as it cools down in two different containers: one metallic, one ceramic. Matching and word-order activities help students to revise relevant vocabulary. Students then write a report using the past tense. Key vocabulary and ...

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The corpus principle – Language rules

In the English classroom, student demand for simple yet reliable language rules has never been higher. In this article, Jamie Keddie looks at how corpora can allow learners to see rules for themselves and, in doing so, build up an understanding of how language works.