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Film English

The Beauty of a Second

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Add many seconds of beauty to your class with a short film and related project. The resource centers around a competition based on one-second segments of film, and the final compilation that came from the contest. Pupils identify...
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Understanding Simple Present Tense Verbs Using the Song 'Penny Lane"

For Students Higher Ed
In this music and grammar worksheet, students use the song, "Penny Lane" by the Beatles, to examine the use of simple present tense verbs. They listen to the song before completing 4 short answer questions. They record present tense...
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Present Simple Tense

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this present simple tense verbs online interactive learning exercise, learners read 34 sentences. Students choose the multiple choice verb that completes each blank in each sentence correctly.
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ESL Grammar: Present Tense

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students complete several sentence writing activities and speaking exercises that help them identify and use the present tense of verbs.
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Verb Tenses Exercises - Present Perfect Tense

For Students 6th - 8th
In this present perfect tense online worksheet, students complete sentences using the present perfect tense of verbs in a word bank plus the word "just." They listen to a YouTube video of U2's song, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm...
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Present Continuous Tense With Fool's Garden

For Students 4th - 7th
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students listen to the song "Lemon Tree" and type in the missing words from the lyrics. There are twelve fill-in exercises to complete and ten fill-in sentences to complete as a follow-up review of...
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Christmas Present Simple Present Continuous Mimes

For Students 7th - 11th
For this performing acts worksheet, students, working with a partner, choose one of twenty-eight actions to mime for their partner and see if they can say the sentence of what their partner is doing.
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Monkey and Rabbit Together

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Engage young ones and explain grammar with the folk tale Monkey and Rabbit Together. Using a list of verbs from the story, young readers work on verb participles and proper speech habits. The story itself is not included. Social studies...
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Film English

Everyday

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What would you do if you got an extra day every week? Partners share some information about their routines and lives and write compositions about one another based on the information. Each partner tries to guess what the other person...
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ESL: Verb Tenses

For Students 5th - 6th
In these verb tenses worksheets, students complete the fill in the speaking and writing activities on the worksheets to enhance their understanding of the present continuous verb tense and the rules for adding -ing to verbs. Students...
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ESL Present Continuous

For Students 4th - 5th
In this present continuous worksheet, students learn to form the negative for present continuous verb tense. Students write the negative form for each given example.
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Yellow Submarine – The Beatles – Notes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Enhance English language skills using the fan-favorite song, "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles. Scholars predict what the song is about then listen and mark specific words they hear. Playing the song again, participants unscramble...
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Technical English Mimes

For Students 7th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students, working with a partner, mime a variety of thirty mimes back and forth silently to see if their partner can guess which one they are acting out.
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Pronoun and Verb Practice

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this grammar practice worksheet, students complete 3 activities that help them use the pronouns he, you, they, she, we, I, and it. Students connect the pronouns to the predicates is, am, and are.
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What Do You Know About Scotland?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate global geography by researching the country of Scotland. In this cultural investigation lesson, students view images of Scotland on a computer and listen to audio interviews about Scottish citizens. Students identify...
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Never Been to Spain, A Lesson on the Present Perfect Tense

For Students 4th - 7th
In this song lesson worksheet, students learn about the song Never Been to Spainby Hoyt Axton. They learn about the song's background and the grammar and vocabulary in the song. Students answer 5 questions about that song.
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Narrating in Simple Past with Video

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
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The City Symphony- The Original Reality Show

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss the purpose of city symphonies that were used in the past. In groups, they compare and contrast the social systems of a school and city to create their own city symphony video together. They also write what is known as...
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Talking About the Past

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore communications by discussing deceased individuals. In this past tense lesson, students analyze which verbs to use when speaking of a person who is no longer living. Young scholars read a story about the race car...
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Who am I? - Target Language

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars, using present tense, ask simple questions in the target language. They answer verbally simple question in the target language using the present tense.
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Clowing Around: Ceramics

For Teachers K - 8th
Clowns are a big hit with kids! Explore a few circus related websites to get an idea of how clowns look and what they do. They then build sculpting skills by creating expressive clown faces out of clay. Web links, materials list, and...
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Hotel Problems

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts activity, students participate in a class activity in which one person reads a situation cards. The situations pertain to problems a guest might encounter in a hotel. Students mime the things they need while the...
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Muslim Arab/Spanish Connection

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch the video, 'El Cid.' They participate in teacher-led discussion about the beliefs, customs, goals, and heroes of both Spaniards and Moors. They create and present an artifact to the class showing the results of their...
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Writing a Storybook

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by creating their own stories in class. For this book making lesson, students read the story City Pig in class and create storyboard illustrations in order to analyze the story. Students utilize these...