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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.
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Similes
Similes are a great way to get your writers thinking about descriptive details. They read a brief explanation which covers clichés and the general wording of a simile. Then, learners try a few on their own. First, they complete nine...
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Song Lessons: I Wanna Be Like You
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's swing rendition of Robert and Richard Sherman's "I Wanna Be Like You" offers young grammarians an opportunity to examine verb tenses, noun clauses, gerunds, and prepositions.
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Sentence Construction: What is a Sentence?
What must a sentence contain in order to be complete? What different types of sentences exist? Look at declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences with this 17-slide presentation. Several example sentences are shown, and the...
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Using Gustar
Expressing that you like something in English is quite different from expressing that you like something in Spanish. Clarify gustar for your class with the information included here. Pupils can read the information on the webpage to find...
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Present Simple 'Wh' Questions with 'Be'
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite questions with a being verb. Students complete sentences with the correct form of the word.
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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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Yikes! More verbs: Intransitive Verbs
In this transitive and intransitive verbs worksheet, students identify each verb type in sentences. In this short answer and fill in the blank worksheet, students answer fifteen questions.
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Conventions: Verbs
Fifth graders study verbs. For this grammar lesson, 5th graders access the web site known as www.wideworldofverbs.com reviewing the verbs in each sentence and write five sentences using the correct usage of verbs.
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Am, Is, and Are
In this am, is, and are activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences and phrases with the words am, is, or are after words and about pictures. Students complete 20 activities total.
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Subject Following Verb
Choosing what form of a verb to use can be confusing when the subject of the sentence follows the verb. Here's a worksheet that models for pupils how to think ahead to decide whether the verb should be singular or plural. Because the...
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Helping Verbs
In this helping verbs instructional activity, students underline the complete verb and circle the helping verb in each sentence. Students complete 10 problems.
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Auxiliary Verbs and the Verb "To Be" in Questions
In this auxiliary and "to be" verb worksheet, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct verb. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Subject & Verb Agreement
In this subject/verb agreement worksheet, students choose the correct form of the verb to agree with the subject. Students complete 20 problems.
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Verb Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the word that is in the correct verb tense and then label the tense of verbs given. Students complete 16 problems.
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Eighth graders evaluate writing samples for subject-verb agreement and make necessary changes. They correct verb phrases and create simple sentences using pronouns as subjects. In groups, they correct writing samples and submit at the...
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Using Modal Verbs to Problem Solve - Discussing a Difficult Situation
Students focus on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice in the past tense while discussing and solving a difficult problem.
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Regular and Irregular Verbs in German
Young scholars review formation of present tense of regular verbs learned in German 1. Students complete a worksheet after viewing a PowerPoint show. They watch a second portion of the PowerPoint show about the peculiarities of irregular...
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Subject-Verb Agreement
In this subject and verb agreement activity, students read ten sentences and from the two word choices in parentheses, circle the best completion for the sentence.
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Present Simple Verbs: Letter Gap Fill
In this present simple verbs activity, students read a letter to Jackie from Sara and fill in twelve blanks with the appropriate verbs from the word bank that completes each one grammatically correct.
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Online ESL Quiz: Auxiliary Verbs
In this ESL worksheet, students will select the correct auxiliary verb from two choices to best complete a sentence. This quiz is on online, interactive quiz.
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"To Be" Question and Answer Match
For this question and answer worksheet, students, working with a partner, practice matching eight "To Be" questions with their appropriate answers.
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Jack of All Tails
After reading the book Jack of All Tails, learners complete vocabulary activities, play charades, consider a list of questions, and complete a list of verbs. There are also several suggestions for how to connect this language...
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Subject-Verb Agreement exercise 5
For this recognizing present tense verbs worksheet, students choose the correct present tense verb form to agree with the subject and compete sentences. Students choose twenty-five multiple choice answers.