Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Subject Verb Agreement
This site has a ten question quiz which provides a way to print results with a name and course. Explanations are provided for incorrect answers. Based on material by Evelyn Farbman and Houghton Mifflin, used by permission.
Better English Lessons
Better English: Irregular Verbs Quiz
Ten questions to test your knowledge of irregular verbs. The base form is given, and you are to select the past tense for these verbs.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Verb Forms
This interactive provides the base words of irregular verbs and asks students to type the past and past participle tenses of them in boxes.
English Zone
English Zone: Verb and Preposition Combinations
With this 10 question multiple choice practice quiz, students select a preposition to fill in the blank and get a score based on their responses.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Word Based Games for Esl Students
Games that focus attention on different trouble spots in English language learning: irregular words, homonyms, prefixes, and more.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Expresiones Con Tener
Great exercise for practicing idiomatic expressions using the verb, "tener." Based on the context of each sentence, the student selects the words from a drop-down menu that completes the appropriate expression. Immediate feedback...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Conditionals
Use this handout to understand the different types of conditional ("if") clauses which appear in the English language and the verb tenses which should be used with each type of conditional. The examples are very clear in this explanation...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chinatown Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 2nd grade unit based on the story Chinatown by William Low from the Harcourt Trophies series. There are several lessons on the suffixes -er and -est, linking verbs has, have, and had, and...
Read Works
Read Works: A Bit About Buttons
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is all about buttons including where they came from. uses for buttons, and fun facts about buttons. It is followed by comprehension questions based on Common Core standards.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Verbals Are
Verbals are verbs disguised as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Verbals come in three forms: gerunds, infinitives, and participles. Gerunds are verbs that end in "-ing" and function as nouns. Participles end in "-ing," "-ed," "-d," "-t,"...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wow! That Captures It!
Students learn how motion capture (mo-cap) technology enables computer animators to create realistic effects. They learn the importance of center of gravity in animation and how to use the concept of center of gravity in writing an...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive or Indicative (Part 1)
Great practice for reviewing the subjunctive and indicative tenses. Determine which verb tense to use in a sentence based on the tense that is used in the main clause. Choose the present or past subjunctive form, or the present,...
Other
Mark's English School Online: Esl Games
A commendable teacher-created site by an American ESL educator based in Japan. Includes a nice variety of ESL/EFL games for younger students for learning the past tense or verb usage playing basketball, punctuation playing golf, or new...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: News Flash: The End of the Cold War
This lesson plan is an inquiry into events that occurred during the Cold War era. It is a technology-based project on one event that occurred during the Cold War(1945-1991). The Cold War describes the tense and hostile relationship...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Words With Multiple Meanings
This lesson introduces common words with multiple meanings.
Curated OER
Charlotte's Web by e.b. White
Word games with Wilbur! This site contains an interactive game based on E.B White's book "Charlotte's Web." The student can drag words into the barn to find correct nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, and more! A fun way to assess...
Curated OER
Charlotte's Web: Pick the Perfect Word Game
Word games with Wilbur! This site contains an interactive game based on E.B White's book "Charlotte's Web." The student can drag words into the barn to find correct nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, and more! A fun way to assess...