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Verb Tense Exercise 17
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding present and past tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Verb Tense Exercise 6
For this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Theme of Exploration
Guide your learners to develop themes in Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Here is a handy resource that poses abundant higher-level thinking questions on topics in the books from...
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Algebra Practice
Here is an algebra practice worksheet in which learners use their problem solving skills to solve six questions. They are requires to find the values of the letters in each of the equations.
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The Phone is for You/Wrong Number
Review basic phone etiquette with your English language learners. There are two example conversations shown. Now, create a few examples of your own!
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Could You Do Me a Favor?
Could you do me a favor? Use the list of scenarios to create mini conversations with a partner. The prompt gives a scenario (like you are broke), and you have to decide what kind of favor you would ask a friend. Perhaps you would ask to...
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I Should Have Studied Harder
What are three regrets that you have (or have had)? Use this question to spark discussion in your English language learners. There are two examples provided.
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On the Other Hand
Do you live in the country, city, or suburbs? Use this conversational starter to discuss the advantages and disadvantages to living in a certain area. There's a small chart for your learners to take notes.
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Would Rather
Design mini conversations around deciding what you and a friend would prefer to eat, drink, do, etc. While the example conversation isn't very descriptive, you could easily provide a better model for your English language learners to...
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Do You Mind Turning the Music Down?
Now that your English language learners are building their vocabulary, it's time to practice linking it all together to form entire thoughts and questions. Use this worksheet to inspire conversation based off of the prompts provided....
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Role Play: Shopping, Buying a CD
Build English fluency by pairing up your English language learners and providing them with this short conversational piece about shopping for a CD. One learner takes on the role of Sue, and the other takes on the role of Bob. Before...
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Speaking Practice
Review the past and present tense! Two short speaking practices are included on this worksheet. The speaker pairs up with a partner to practice the first activity and finds a new partner to practice the second activity.
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Writing Review 3
After reviewing basic capitalization and punctuation rules, give your young grammarians this four-question quiz to assess their understanding of the most basic English language conventions.
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ESL: Commonly Confused Words-Quiz 19
Designed for your advanced English language learners, this commonly confused words quiz contains 20 multiple choice options. The user reads the sentence and decides which option best fits in the space provided.
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Yay! It's a sentence fragment instructional activity that focuses on a specific topic. Interest your learners with the topic of earthquakes and volcanoes. They read 18 examples and decide whether the example is a sentence or fragment.
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Signal Words Exercise 2
Learners complete 20 short answer questions using the signal words but and because in a story. This is related to the Harry Potter books but may be completed without reading them.
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Signal Words Exercise: Harry Potter (But)
Have your class complete 20 sentences about Harry Potter that contain the signal words "but" or "therefore." If students have not read any Harry Potter books they can make something up that makes sense.
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Writing Transitions: However, Nevertheless, Still, Despite That Nonetheless, Even So
Use a writing transitions worksheet to help your class sharpen their writing skills as they read several examples, and rewrite seven sentences using the words however, nevertheless, still, despite, nonetheless, and even so appropriately.
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Signal Words: Exercise 3 Harry Potter
Practice predicting what will happen next in a reading by learning to identify words that give hints about what is going to happen in a story. Students complete 12 sentences that contain the word despite with information about events in...
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Mechanics: Section 2, Letter #2
Here is a letter thanking a kind host, but there are a few mistakes which need to be corrected. Learners read the letter, assess each underlined section, and chose the best fix for each spelling, capitalization, or punctuation problem...
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Mechanics: Section 2, Letter
Proofreading is an important skill to master. Prepare your young writers by having them complete this online activity, where they read a formal letter and correct the underlined spelling, capitalization, and punctuation mistakes. They...
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Mechanics: Section 1, Sentences
These 10 sentences are a mess. Have your young editors examine each, then correct any spelling, capitalization, or punctuation errors. This is an online learning exercise and can be used as a quiz, completed as a class, or at an...
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Mechanics: Section 2, Letter
This letter to Dr. Ramirez is full of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors. It's up to your lucky learners to find and fix them all. They pay close attention to the underlined phrases, then use the multiple choice options to...
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Mechanics: Section 1
Your class can get online and practice editing with this online activity. They read a letter, then examine each underlined section noting if there is or isn't a mistake to be corrected. They then choose the best fix to the proble:...