Use six different tenses in English | Games to learn English Students often learn just one piece of grammar in a lesson. Most of them master that day’s subject and move on to the next. But, when the time for revision comes, they often don’t remember what they’ve learnt. For example, two weeks ago my class encountered an exercise in which several tenses were revised. First, they demanded that I re-explain the grammar and then they seemed really confused about what form they should use. ADVERT: That was why I decided to stop there and prepare several exercises and a clear mind map. The second infographic is much more detailed. Now that your students understand the grammar, they have to use it as soon as possible. If you cannot do the exercise online, you can try the following paper version of the quiz. six tenses worksheet You can find more exercises to practise different tenses at Five Tenses and Five Tenses additional exercises.
Classroom activities to teach narrative tenses Are you looking for new grammar games for the classroom? Multiple winner of the TeachingEnglish blog award Mike Astbury shares some resources to download, print, and use in your class. What are narrative tenses? Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past. You can often find them in stories, textbooks, spoken accounts and in descriptions of past events. The following are examples of narrative tenses: Past simple: 'We left for the airport on an exceptionally sunny day.' Past continuous: 'The sun was shining and it was really hot by midday.' Past perfect: 'It had been sunny on and off for the previous fortnight.' Past perfect continuous: 'We had been waiting at the airport for what seemed like an eternity.' Activities to practise narrative tenses The following games are designed to help students practise narrative tenses and don’t require teacher supervision. The games use 16 cards, which tell a short story when combined together. A. B. These are card templates. C. D.
English Grammar Tenses: Stories, Exercises and Answers Welcome to the English Grammar Tenses – The Ultimate Resource! One of the easiest ways to teach and learn grammar is through stories. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses So we at Really Learn English made this huge collection of stories and exercises available for you, completely free of charge. You can read the stories online, download the story PDF files, print and use them by yourself or with your students, and check the answers using the answer key. All we ask in return, is that if you find this resource useful, please link to it and share it with your students, colleagues, and anyone else who may benefit from it. Thanks for your support! What does TENSE Mean? A tense is a form of the verb which shows the time at which an action happens. It comes from the Latin word "tempus", which means "time". Click here for the full article on what tense is. Please share this page with others: For example: Lisa dances every day. Simple Present Story 1 Mr.
Simple present tense | English Grammar The simple present tense is one of several forms of present tense in English. It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements. The simple present tense is simple to form. Just use the base form of the verb: (I take, you take, we take, they take) The 3rd person singular takes an -s at the end. The simple present tense is used: To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth) To give instructions or directions:You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left. Be careful! Examples For habits He drinks tea at breakfast. For instructions or directions Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water. Forming the simple present tense: to think Notes on the simple present, third person singular In the third person singular the verb always ends in -s:he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks. Examples
Verb master board game Verb master board game is intended to replace drills. The aim of this game is to help students learn to form verb tenses. While drills are boring, board games are interesting and fun. Thus, students practise the grammar forms and enjoy it. The great advantage of the Verb master game is the fact that the game is nearly universal. Print the following board game. You can download the pdf file here: Verb master game – pdf file The great advantage of the game is, that you can arrange students into various groups of various sizes. Ask students to find something that will serve as a counter. Tell students what tense they have to form, for example, present continuous. I always prepare the keys for each group and I hand them out before the game starts. 1. 1. 1. 1. Verb master board game is designed to help students practise forming verb tenses in English.
Gerunds and Infinitives: rules, exercises and quizzes What is the difference between gerunds and infinitives? When should you use each? Let's start from the beginning. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses A gerund is a noun made from a verb. For example: In the sentence "I swim every day", the word "swim" is a verb. In the sentence "I like swimming", the word "swimming" is a noun. Therefore, "swimming" is a gerund. Second example: In the sentence "She reads several books a week", the word "read" is a verb. In the sentence "Reading is important", the word "reading" is a noun. Therefore, "reading" is a gerund. The word "gerund" actually comes from the Latin word gerere, which means "do". You could say this actually makes sense: the gerund describes an action, something you do. Gerunds are often used when actions are real or completed. Examples: (Note how the main underlined verb relates to real or completed actions.) She stopped smoking. What is an Infinitive? Example Sentences: "I want to swim." Part I
teaching verb tenses with timelines | Luiz Otávio Barros Timelines for teaching verb tenses are great. Seriously. I’ve been telling teachers to use timelines for as long as I can remember, but, strangely enough, they’ve often played a lesser role in my own classroom practice. I believe this has a lot to do with my baffling inability to make sense of anything that bears the slightest resemblance to a map or a diagram. Now, what do the poor students have to do with that? So a few years ago, I decided that it was time to put away my fear of shapes and patterns and dust off my old, long-forgotten verb tense timelines. In hindsight, I’m glad I did. My highly heterogeneous group of Upper Intermediate students (B1+ish): 1. I had taught this particular level many times before and the other students’ performance was nowhere near as good. Here’s an overview of the most commonly used timelines, taken from englishpage.com, the best place for timelines (and verb tenses!) Thanks for reading.
Low-preparation games to practise present simple questions in English Cristina Cabal, winner of the British Council's TeachingEnglish blog award, has collected her favourite games for practising the tense that isn't always as simple as its name. One of the first things people learn when they study English is the present simple form of verbs. However, learners often forget to add the -s ending to the third person singular: Eva walk to work every day or produce grammatically incorrect questions either by forgetting the auxiliary verb: Eva walks to work every day? or by neglecting to drop the -s ending after adding the auxiliary verb in the question: Does Eva walks to work every day? Learning grammar is not enough when learners must use the language in real life. These are some of my favourite activities to practise asking questions using the present simple. Game 1: Infinitive cards Materials: a deck of playing cards. In a deck of 52 playing cards there are 13 ranks (hearts, queens, numbers...) and four suits (hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds). How to play to work