Students often get confused between the simple present — I walk — and the present continuous — I am walking. Enforce this rule with a game of charades. Prepare slips of paper in advance, using well-understood activities that are easy to act out and using vocabulary that your students know.
Here are a few ideas to get you started:. Have the student act out the activity on their given slip. Students can volunteer ideas as to what the student is doing, but they must be correctly formatted in the following way:. Examples of incorrect sentences are ones using an infinitive or partial infinitive Make the bed! English, like many languages, has several different past tenses. The teacher will need to prepare the story in advance. Draw or find pictures that create a logical or illogical!
Place them in a jumbled order on your whiteboard. Practice your punctuation skills with this interactive game for kids. Complete a range of fun activities related to the use of question marks, full stops, exclamation marks, commas and apostrophes. Sentence Structure. Check out this fun conjunction game for kids and learn more about sentence structure. Use joining words such as so, because, while, and after to complete a range of activities. Carefully read the sentences, find the best answers and see if you can complete all the interactive challenges.
Present Continuous. This page provides a wealth of ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets to help you teach your students about the present continuous tense. You will also find a variety of entertaining miming, drawing and memory games to help your students practice the present continuous structure. Present Perfect. These productive ESL grammar activities are ideal for teaching or reviewing the various uses of the present perfect tense.
The page offers activities to practice giving news about recent events and talking about change. There are also games and worksheets about present perfect time expressions, question and answer forms and error correction. Present Perfect - Ever and Never. On this page, there are fun grammar activities, games and worksheets to practice the present perfect for experience.
There are resources to help students learn how to ask and answer present perfect 'Have you ever? Students can also learn to talk about their experiences using never, been and done. Present Perfect - For and Since. In this section, you will find enjoyable ESL grammar activities, worksheets and games for practicing the present perfect with for and since. Students can learn how to use 'for' and 'since' with time words and expressions and practice asking and answering 'How long have you?
Present Perfect - Just, Yet and Already. This page provides you with engaging grammar activities, games and worksheets to help your students practice the present perfect with 'just', 'yet' and 'already'.
Present Perfect vs. Past Simple. These engaging ESL grammar activities and games help to illustrate to students how the present perfect and past simple are different and how to use both tenses together. Present Perfect Continuous.
These ESL grammar activities and games help to teach or review the present perfect continuous. You will find speaking activities and miming games to help students practice present perfect continuous question and answer forms as well as time expressions used with this tense. Present Simple Affirmative and Negative. This page offers fun ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets that give students extensive practice of present simple affirmative and negative statements.
There are resources to help students learn how to identify the rules and verb forms associated with the present simple. Students can also learn how to describe routine activities and habitual actions using the present simple and adverbs of frequency. Present Simple Passive. Here you will find grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets to help teach the present simple passive.
There are resources to help students learn how to use the present simple passive to describe processes, objects, facts and commonalities. Present Simple vs. On this page, you will find ESL grammar activities to help teach students the present simple and present continuous together. These resources help to illustrate to students how the present simple and present continuous tense are different and help to highlight how to use each tense.
Present Simple Wh Questions. These fun ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets help students to learn and practice how to ask and answer present simple Wh questions with the verb 'to be' and 'do'. Students can also practice present simple Wh questions about habits, daily routines and personal information as well as questions in the third-person singular.
Present Tense Review. On this page, you will find present tense review grammar games, activities and worksheets that help students review and consolidate their understanding of the present simple, present continuous, present perfect simple and present perfect continuous. Question Words. Here are some grammar ESL activities, games and worksheets to help you teach your students question words.
The resources also help students practice using question words to form a variety of questions. Relative Clauses. These enjoyable grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets help to teach your students about defining and non-defining relative clauses.
After each group has submitted a sentence to a shared class doc, study them together. Give awards for the strongest sentence. Add a brain-based aspect by color-coding grammar elements. Find a simplified version of this build-a-sentence grammar activity that you can use to get started here. Help students identify grammar skills in writing by asking them to go on a scavenger hunt for specific concepts.
They can look through a common text or choice reading books. For example, you might ask students to find a sentence that uses an attribution tag with correct punctuation. Teachers can guide this activity to keep the class well paced. Set a timer and give each group who finds an example a point in the game, not the grade book.
If you prefer, students can play at their own pace. Just create a page of directions with space for students to write the examples they find in their reading. This approach frees you up to provide small group support. Students will enjoy a light-hearted game of silent telephone, reminiscent of the telephone ice breaker game where players whisper ideas to their neighbors until the reaches the last player in line.
In telephone grammar, the first person writes a grammar concept on a slip of paper and passes it to the next student. No talking allowed! The second student reads the paper, puts it on the bottom of the pile, and writes an example on the next clean paper.
That student passes the stack to the next person, who puts the example on the bottom of the pile and writes the grammar term he or she thinks best applies to the example written by the previous student. See below — the example also includes a connection sketch. The goal is to finish the game and have the original grammar concept emerge. If the end concept is different than the beginning, ask students to talk about why. Exploring perspectives will give you insight as to whether they are confused or if the examples do have multiple acceptable concepts associated with them.
Troubleshooting: If students have issues selecting grammar concepts for the game, determine the topic for them at the beginning. Takes too long to complete?
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