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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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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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Helping Verb Test
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, learners answer 20 multiple choice questions regarding helping verbs. Students may check their answers immediately.
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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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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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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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Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive worksheet 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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Verbs of Action
In this ESL verbs of actions learning exercise, students will analyze the activities pictured. Students will choose the correct verb that is depicted in each of the ten photographs.
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ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
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ELD Lesson Plan: Courage
What is true courage? Your class can explore the answer with these three Houghton-Mifflin stories ("Hatchet," "Passage to Freedom," "Climb or Die," and "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle"), which feature courageous characters and...
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Action Verb Practice Test
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 20 multiple choice questions regarding action verbs. Students may check their answers immediately.
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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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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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That’s Amazing!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)
That's Amazing! is the theme of an English language development unit created by Houghton Mifflin. Following a speak, look, move, and listen routine, scholars delve into topics; seasons, weather, animals, landforms, telling time,...
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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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Actions
In this action words worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict an action. From 4 choices, students select the word that best describes the action. This is intended for ESL use.
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Action
In this ESL verb worksheet, students will focus on action verbs. Students will complete 10 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and vocabulary from the secondary column.
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ESL Matching Actions Worksheet
In this ESL action word matching worksheet, students match a clip art picture of an action such as running, eating dinner, or swimming, and match it to the appropriate words.
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Verbs
For this ESL verb worksheet, students will focus on words of action. Students will complete 6 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and vocabulary from the secondary...
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ESL Irregular Verbs Matching Worksheet
In this ESL irregular verbs worksheet, learners examine 10 small, colorful clip art pictures of actions before matching them to the proper form of the verb that describes them.
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Verbs
In this verbs worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict actions. Students match these to the verbs that describe each picture.
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ESL Verb Writing
In these verb and writing worksheets, students use the pictures of the various actions to help them write sentences about the actions in each picture.
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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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English Simple Perfect Tenses
Quiz class members on the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses with a helpful grammar presentation. Before learners practice their skills, they view the definition of each tense, complete with correct examples and...