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Lie & Lay
When do you use "lie," and when do you use "lay"? Use this learning exercise in your ESL class to find the difference. Ten questions provide sentences with blanks for English learners to complete with the two verbs, often in different...
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Question Words
Practice interrogative pronouns with your ESL class in this activity. Ten questions provide parts of interrogative sentences for students to complete with words like "what," "who," and "how." The worksheet would be a great class quiz or...
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Begin & Start
Complete the sentences with "begin" or start" in this multiple-choice worksheet. After a lesson on context clues in your ESL class, use this activity as a class assignment to reinforce their skills, or as a quiz to assess their learning.
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ESL Quiz #10
Match a set of slang words/phrases to their literal meanings and fill in blanks in sentences to complete.
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Idiom Workout
Teach your learners that identifying a phrase as an idiom isn't an insult! Providing an ample definition of the term "idiom," as well as three categories of popular idioms ("get the..." "in a..." and "on the..."), the activity prompts...
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Shakespearean Puns
Tickle your funny bone with a activity that presents five famous puns drawn from Shakespeare's Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing. Readers identify the play on words as a homographic or homophonic pun.
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Achieve, Cope & Manage
In this grammar activity, students choose the appropriate action verb, achieve/cope/manage, to put in ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Good & Well
In this grammar activity, students choose the appropriate adjective/adverb, good/well, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Am, Are & Is
For this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate helping/linking verb, am/are/is, to place in fifteen sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Interesting & Interested, etc.
While just a quick review of word usage, this ten question activity could be a great filler activity. Learners could hone their vocabulary and spelling skills using this quiz which can be done both online or as a worksheet.
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Seem & Look like
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate helping verb, seem or look like, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Coordinating Conjunctions
As a review of coordinating conjunctions, this short activity could be useful. Learners are required to use a coordinating conjunction to combine two sentences in this 8 question worksheet.
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Speak & Talk
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate action verb, speak or talk, to place in ten sentences making each one grammatically correct.
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Must & Can
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb, can or must, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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No & Not
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate adjective or adverb, no or not, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Family
For this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate family or extended family member to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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May or Might
For this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb, may or might, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Above & Over
For this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate preposition, above or over, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Hundred and Hundreds
In this grammar instructional activity, students choose the appropriate word, hundred or hundreds, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Except & Except For
In this grammar learning exercise, students choose the appropriate word, except or except for, to complete each sentence grammatically correct.
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Prepositions after Nouns
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate preposition in ten sentences that make each one grammatically correct.
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Mixed Modals
In this grammar learning exercise, students choose in ten sentences the appropriate mixed modal of the action verbs may and can that make each sentence grammatically correct.
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That
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate pronoun or pronoun phrases to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Taxonomy Concept Map
Reinforce learners' knowledge of scientific taxonomy with a helpful concept map instructional activity. Using a word bank, young biologists fill in the blanks to complete the description of organism classification.