For and Since for Time
For and Since in the present perfect tense. We use for in the present perfect with a period of time, for example: a few days, half an hour, two years. We use since in the present perfect with the time...
View ArticleHealth and Sickness Vocabulary
This worksheet is to help students put health and sickness vocabulary into context. They practice the present and the past tenses as well as the vocabulary.Students have to use their brains. They must...
View ArticleDescribing People
this is to practice describing a person through pair work. Students are to sit in pairs and ask about each other's family member (the way she/he looks). They are then to start a sentence with for...
View ArticlePast Simple Vs Present Perfect and Past Perfect
There are two exercises in this worksheet. First one is about ´past simple and present perfect´ and the second one is about´past simple and past perfect´. This is a useful worksheet to check your...
View ArticlePast Tenses
I prepared 24 mixed questions to exercise past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses. At the end of the worksheet, there is a joke which I took from one of my books. Wanted my worksheet to be...
View ArticleWriting Practice: Has Got/Hasn't Got
This is the worksheet I made while working on has got/hasn't got grammar. We have already learnt have got/haven't got, so I thought it would be smart to put some revision here too (see ex.6). Also this...
View ArticlePresent Simple Activities
Present Simple worksheet designed for beginners. Have your students practice the present simple in affirmative sentences and make questions with 'do' and 'does'. This may be used after a previous...
View ArticlePresent Perfect - Past Simple Transformations
It's a worksheet with sentences to be transformed using different patterns, based on Present Perfect - Past Simple. The transformation patterns are repeated with a few examples of each pattern. A good...
View ArticleBusiness English Oral Discussion/exam Questions
These short scenarios can be used as an oral exam or as discussion or role play exercises. They can be adapted to intermediate to advanced learners of ESL. These scenarios should be preceded by work on...
View ArticleFrom I Don’t Want to Talk about It to I Can’t Wait to Talk about It! Turning...
You have a class of talkers: they sit in small groups and will chat about anything and frequently about nothing, their speech filled with “like” and “you know,” devoid of any apparent meaning. But give...
View Article4 Essential Keys to Teaching Your Students Perfect Pronunciation
One challenge every ESL teacher faces is teaching his or her students correct pronunciation. The sounds a person instinctively makes have been a part of their brains since they were less than a year...
View Article7 Wonderful Ways to Increase Student Decision-Making and Participation
As teachers in the ESL classroom, we get to make all the rules, and we call the shots. Or do we? Isn’t it a relief when we let go, and let our students make some of the decisions or provide...
View ArticleInversion Presentation
This is a concise theoretical presentation of a grammar subject: Inversion. It can be used by upper-intermediate, advanced or proficient students for revising. A practice Inversion worksheet will...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Love You Like a Love Song by Selena Gomez
A listening exercise with a famous song teenagers love: Love You like a Love Song (Selena Gomez)While listening, the students have to complete the missing words (easy) or link the two halves of...
View ArticlePhrasal Verbs
Students have to read through the definitions of the phrasal verbs. Using their current knowledge, they have to put the correct phrasal verb in the sentence. The flags represent the meaning of the...
View ArticleQuestion and Answer Match Up
This is a very, very simple worksheet. I gave the students one question and one answer that did not match and they had to go around asking each other their questions until they got the appropriate...
View ArticleFamous People Crossword Challenge
This is a great activity to get students using the simple present and simple past tense (depending on who they have to make 5 clues about). Students are given one of the 10 famous people featured in...
View ArticleLearning The Time Presentation
Here is a simple straight-forward powerpoint presentation to help ESL learners to tell the time in English. There are 9 slides which go through all the main points on the clock with images. It also...
View ArticlePlaces Around Town Practise Worksheet
Here is a worksheet for ESL learners at a basic level learning the names for places around town. It helps them to put the names in a sentence when using the third person e.g. "In her town there is.."...
View ArticlePresent Simple VS Present Continuous Explanation Sheet (For Spanish Students)
I find that ESL learners often get confused between the present simple and the present continuous. They learn "skateboarding", "swimming", and "playing football" at school, but rarely the infinitive....
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