All Tenses articles – Page 4
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Grammar: regular and irregular verbs
Practical suggestions for teaching regular and irregular verbs.
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Grammar: teaching the modals 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and 'have to'.
Suggestions for teaching the modals ought to, should, must and have to when talking about suggestion or advice.
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Grammar: practising the present and past simple tenses
Imaginative suggestions for teaching the present and past simple tenses to children.
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Grammar: reporting verb patterns
A discussion and teaching suggestions for reporting verb patterns.
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ArticleTeenagers: Grammar: Grammar practice
Some useful ideas to get your students to practise their grammar.
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ArticlePhrasal verbs: I'm going to let you in on a little secret
Another way of teaching phrasal verbs is by teaching a thematic 'set' of phrasal verbs. This lesson presents a set of nine phrasal verbs, all connected to the theme of giving and obtaining information. There is a recognition based activity, followed by a speaking activity to incorporate the phrasal verbs into use.
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Are you a learner of the future?
Students talk about possible future developments in education and decide whether or not they are already a ‘learner of the future’.
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Past and future
A British English worksheet to separate the conversations and put them in an appropriate order.
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ArticleWriting skills: formal and informal writing
To enable students to break down the different features of formal and informal English by working through a step-by-step text transformation at their own pace.
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Verb flags
A British English worksheet where each flag shows the base form and the past simple form of a verb. Add the third form, past participle then answer the questions.
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ArticleWriting skills: Fables
An enjoyable one-/two-hour lesson as a basis for writing a fable. Students produce an original fable, using narrative target language.
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Have you ever …?
An American English worksheet to play a game by asking and answering questions about experiences.
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Have you ever …?
An American English worksheet to practice using the present perfect with ever.
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Reported speech dominoes
A British English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching direct and reported statements.
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Reported speech dominoes
An American English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching direct and reported statements.
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Disc jockey
A British English worksheet to complete the song titles by filling in the correct words relating to love.
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
An article talking about confusion with conditionals and the phrasal verb to put off.
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Conditional dominoes
A British English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching two halves of a conditional sentence.