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"Arm Wrestling with My Father" by Brad Manning
Brad Manning’s essay, “Arm Wrestling with My Father,” is used as the basis of an AP Language and Composition exercise. Readers identify the purpose of the essay, analyze the essay structure, evaluate the diction, and unpack the analogies.
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Preparing for the WPE
Prepare your soon-to-be graduates to take the Writing Proficiency Examination given at Cal Poly. These slides cover everything from the various types of questions to writing thesis statements. This is more like an overview than a...
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Verbs Rule!
Students practice writing and speaking using conventional grammar, usage, and sentence structure. Students practice as a whole class and then demonstrate their knowledge in written activities. Handouts and worksheets are imbedded within...
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The Scoop on Summer
Third graders write a noun that names a place they spent their summer vacation, a verb telling one activity they did, and use those words to write a complete sentence. Finally, they use an ice cream cone graphic organizer as a guide to...
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Savoir and Connaitre
Students explore the conjugation of the two verbs savoir and connaitre and the differences between them. They discuss the verbs and how to use them correctly. Students complete a worksheet on which they write the two verbs connaitre and...
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Creative Dialogues en Espanol
Students create a character that could be included in a dialog from stories about Isabel. They use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the characters. Students work in groups to create a new character and draw an illustration. They...
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Expressing the Future
In thisfuture tense learning exercise, learners read the differences between expressing the future through present simple and present continuous verb forms.
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What Do You Want to Do? 3
In this ESL verbs worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict a specific action. Students match each picture with the verb or verb phrase that best describes each action shown.
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Action 1- ESL
In this ESL action words worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing things. Students match the pictures to the verbs that describe them.
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Verbage!
Young scholars play a game wherein they act out verbs and adverbs in a sentence. They read a sentence, define the verb to a partner and move from one end of the play area to the other doing the action in the sentence. They grab another...
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Quel temps fait -il?
Pupils converse about the weather in French focusing on the conjugation of the verb "faire". They identify types of weather using French vocabulary while viewing a weather video then complete a set of four practice activities.
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Picture Match
For this ESL action verbs worksheet, students will focus on basic vocabulary development using action verbs. Students will complete 4 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct action...
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Loves and Hates
In this verb activity worksheet, students match the definitions and the words in the first exercise. Students then match the verbs with the words. Students write any other words that go with the verbs. Students then divide the activities...
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Editing Worksheet
In this editing worksheet, students must read a letter and correct verb tense errors. Students must be able to identify correct verb tenses and edit errors.
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Future Time (Occupations)
In this verb usage worksheet, students recognize the future tense while identifying people and their jobs. Students are given ten statements and ten occupations which they are to match.
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Simple Past Survey
In this simple past ESL worksheet, students will focus on answering questions using the simple past tense. Students will respond to 8 simple past questions by responding in the positive or the negative.
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Matching
In this ESL verbs worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students match these pictures with the verbs that describe them.
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Using Drama as a Resource for Giving Language More Meaning
Students revise and provide spoken and written practice of modal verbs in the past for criticism.
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Collocations-- Nouns
In this verb and adjective worksheet, students choose the best word from a word bank to complete each of 14 sentences. This is from the UK and intended for ESL adults, but is usable by others.
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Present Perfect
In this learning exercise, students answer five short answer questions that require the proper use of present perfect tense. Next, they make required changes to fifteen sentences to place them present perfect tense. The next ten...
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Actions 2
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict actions. Students match these with the verbs that describe them.
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Actions
In this ESL verbs word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict various actions. Students read the question and answer it in a complete sentence that tells about the action in the picture.
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I Can...
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict children in action. Students match these with sentences containing the verbs that describe them.
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Pluperfect
In this pluperfect worksheet, students review and discuss how pluperfect verbs are formed and fill in the gaps with the correct verb in five sentences or phrases.