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Action Verbs
As you are teaching the parts of speech, introduce your action verbs lesson with this helpful PowerPoint. The 19 slides in this presentation walk students through the different types of action verbs, including: present, past, and future...
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Action Words
From asking to yelling, this app teaches action verbs through images. Users listen to each word and tap the picture that corresponds with that verb. Just touch the screen to get started!
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Non-Action Verbs
A verb is something you do — but can you always see the action? Use a slideshow presentation to clarify the differences between verbs that describe actions, and verbs that describe senses, preferences, and emotions.
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Helping Verbs: Grammar for ESL/ELL
English language learners act out verbs, discuss their importance in constructing grammatically correct sentences, and then learn about helping verbs. They use helping verbs in a sentence then discuss how they are different from action...
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Present Tense Verbs
In this recognizing present tense verbs in sentences worksheet, learners choose the correct action verbs, that agree with the subjects, to complete sentences. Students write 15 short answers.
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Verbs: English Grammar
In this recognizing action verbs worksheet, students read sentences and then identify and circle the action verbs. Students circle nine action verbs.
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Can you write?
In this ESL worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle using action verbs. Illustrations are included for six clues needed to complete the puzzle.
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Using a Computer to Write a Letter: Verbs
Review the procedure of using a word processor to write a letter. Writers read 20 sentences that are each missing one action verb. They use the words in the word bank to complete the sentences.
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ESL: Action Verbs: Using Hands
In this ESL action verbs worksheet, students match verbs to pictures and fill in blanks in sentences with verbs that describe something done with hands.
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Actions - Present Continuous
What are you doing? Why, studying the present continuous tense, of course. Language learners engage in activities and exercises that provide them with practice crafting and answering questions using the present continuous tense.
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Actions in Progress
English language learners will find this practice particularly helpful. They match the sentences to their visual depiction. In the second exercise, they fill in the missing words. They use the sentences in the first activity to discover...
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Action Verbs
In this recognizing action verbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks with present and past tense verbs from a list to compete sentences. Students finish five sentences.
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ESL Action Verbs Matching Worksheet
In this ESL action verb matching worksheet, learners match a clip art picture of a person performing an action to the sentence that names it. They complete 5 examples.
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ESL Actions Matching Game Worksheet
In this ESL action word/verb worksheet, students examine 10 pictures of actions such as rollerblading, taking photos, reading a comic book, and swimming. They match the pictures to the words or phrases that describe them.
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ESL: Actions Word Search and Collocation
In this action word activity, students find a set of 19 action words in a word search puzzle, then match nouns with verbs. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive activity in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early speakers,...
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Hop! Jump! Turn!
Students demonstrate action words, express meaning through mime, and demonstrate memory and aural comprehension skills. They view action words through pictures, and act them out.
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ESL Actions- Matching Worksheet
In this ESL actions/verbs matching worksheet, students match 10 words to the picture that shows the action. They see words such as walk, dance, swim, and play.
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Thanksgiving Lesson
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.
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Beginning Daily Activities Unit
Begin each day with a warm-up that has ELLs focusing their minds on a skill that will be taught that day. Focusing on verbs, each daily lesson reinforces study and self-management skills, helps learners become proficient in working with...
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Actions Match 1
In this ESL action word vocabulary worksheet, learners examine 7 pictures that depict actions. Students match these with the words that describe them.
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Verbs 1
In this ESL verbs vocabulary instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing different activities. Students match these pictures to the verbs that describe them.
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Past Time
How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.
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Grammar Games and Activities
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises.