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Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game- Intermediate Version

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Pupils sort verb tenses. In this English grammar lesson, students work with a partner to sort cards with verbs written on them into 3 piles including verbs with "ing," the infinitive form (meaning "want to"), and the infinitive form...
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Pendemonium: The Great African Surfari

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discover the importance of matching verbs to their subjects through a discussion of a whimsical video on verb agreement and a read aloud of the book, "To Root, To Toot To Parachute". They practice verb agreement in...
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Using Conjunctions – Mix & Match Cards 2- Test Your Grammar Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this grammar mix and match worksheet, students cut out 30 small rectangular cards and match them to the proper conjunctions. They work with the conjunctions so, because, and, but, and or.
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Jeopardy Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy.  For this foreign language lesson, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before....
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Sentence Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore and study what they already know about grammar and sentence structure to reinforce their mastery of assessing the eight parts of speech. They match a set of colored word cards with their correct part of speech and create...
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Verbs

For Teachers 5th
Review fifth-grade grammar using this resource. Learners identify what a verb is, identify verbs in sentences, and go on a treasure hunt. There  are also several suggestions for games they can play to practice using verbs.
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My Daily Routine

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...
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Improving Editing and Proofreading Skills

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore language arts by correcting grammatical errors. In this proofreading lesson, students identify the importance of editing their own writing and demonstrate their proofreading abilities by correcting several incorrect...
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Maggie's Adventures Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils, while in the computer lab, utilize technology to practice math, science, Spanish and grammar skills. They build on math skills and attempt to improve their grammar skills as well as make connections between English and Spanish...
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Daily Language Practice Builds Skills, Test Scores

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students develop their proofreading skills. In this daily language practice lesson, students improve their writing skills as they edit passages. The editing work encompasses capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
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What’s the Infinitive...? Test Your Grammar Skills

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, students read the definition of the infinitive or the basic form of a verb. They underline the verb in 20 sentences and write the infinitive form on the blank line next to the sentence.
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Traditional Remedies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover alternative medicines from around the globe.  In this world culture lesson, students read text from Africa, Ireland, Tibet and Tanzania discussing known remedies to diseases.  Students discuss with each other their...
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Animal Top Trumps

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students use adjectives to construct sentences. For this english lesson, students play a card game based on Top Trumps. They use superlatives and comparatives during the game.
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Punctuation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students complete punctuation activities. In this punctuation lesson, students write and analyze an unpunctuated sentence, and then discuss what is wrong with the sentence. Students rewrite the sentence using the correct punctuation....
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Using Determiners 1

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this using determiners grammar worksheet, learners read fifteen sentences containing noun phrases and decide if they are correct. If they aren't correct, students write each one again correcting it.
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How Does It Sound?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play game that uses the elements of grammar in an inappropriate way, and transform the inappropriate grammar into grammatically correct statements.
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Exercise

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students correct or revise any ambiguous or inappropriate pronoun-antecedent errors found in the sentences given. They review the attached sheet for assistance with the activity. There are 20 sentences to fix.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Troubling Tenses – Past Simple vs. ‘going to’ 2

For Teachers 5th - 12th
For this grammar skills worksheet, learners will complete 15 sentences in the past simple tense or containing the phrase "going to" by using either "yesterday" or "tomorrow".
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Professions in My Village

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars construct oral sentences including what they did  "before" and "after" the tsunami. In this ESL vocabulary development and verb tense practice lesson plan, students orally state what is illustrated on a flash card using...
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Family Album

For Teachers K - 12th
Kids of all ages discover their family histories through pictures. First, flip through the PowerPoint provided (or consider making one of your own). It should show pictures of your family and have clear, easy to understand sentences that...
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The Rooms in a Home

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Enhance your foreign language students' skills to describe a house. After reading a description of rooms in a house in their target language, they work to answer corresponding questions correctly. Additionally, they view a PowerPoint...
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Rehearsing the Fashion Show

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students edit written work about a fashion show.  In this fashion show lesson, students write a presentation piece and works in groups of 4,6, or 8 to edit what they have written.  Students rehearse by pair sharing and give their short...
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The City Life or the country Life: conventions: Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Reinforce knowledge of adjectives and adverbs by game playing. To better understand English conventions young writers, use flashcards to identify the base word and its comparative or superlative form.