This free Powerpoint presentation helps students understand the differences between the present simple and the past simple and how to use both tenses correctly. The lesson plan includes exercises that encourage speaking practice as well as quizzes and learning assessments. There are lots of opportunities for students to practice talking using both tenses in question and affirmative forms.
This free 60 minute Powerpoint lesson plan provides an engaging and dynamic introduction to pronouns. Pronouns can be difficult to master for beginners and elementary students. They will benefit from the clear visual examples of the uses and and grammatical structures involved with the various pronouns in this lesson. The exercises will also help give students valuable practice using the range of pronouns in English in an authentic way.
These exercises help students practice using the future with ‘will’ and review how the form is used. These a very simple fluency exercises that elicit responses using ‘Ask me…’ questions to model the form before asking students direct questions. Students can also practice responses using ‘I don’t know…’. This can Read more…
These exercises can be used to either introduce students to the past continuous, or consolidate existing knowledge. The past continuous is used to talk about actions or activities happening at a particular moment in the past. It is typically used to talk about things that happened at the same time, Read more…
These simple question prompts help students practice fluency and pronunciation using the future with going to. Students must respond in complete sentences, which exercise their linguistic agility using the for. Your students give authentic answers and can practice using phrases like ‘I don’t think that…’, ‘I don’t know if…’ and Read more…
These fluency exercises help students practice in the use of the simple future with going to and consolidates their understanding of imperatives. Using realia to illustrate the actions is a good idea when teaching elementary students, but this exercise can be equally effective if you have the confidence to model Read more…
These simple fluency exercises gives students practice alternating between past and present tense forms. Aside from students getting fluency, accuracy and pronunciation practice, these exercises helps students consolidate their knowledge of irregular verb tenses. It is also a useful way to introduce or consolidate new vocabulary and practice the different Read more…
These simple question and answer exercises helps students practice fluency, accuracy and pronunciation with either short answers or long answers. Students also practice their listening skills as they have to focus on the questions before giving their answers. You can adapt this exercise for any topic you choose to further Read more…
These simple fluency exercises help students practice their fluency and accuracy using the verb structure ‘know how to’. Students practice using the question form and listening to the response before practicing full sentence responses themselves. They are encouraged to use the correct intonation with their replies to help them develop Read more…
These really simple fluency exercise introduce students to the simple gerund form. The verb ‘to like’ can be followed by both gerund and to infinitive, so in this exercise, the question prompts elicit full sentence responses using both gerund and to infinitive forms. For negative answers, encourage students to use Read more…