Lesson Plan
Film English

Serial Taxi

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the murder mystery genre through film, discussion, and writing. The plan features several activities centered around a two-minute video that include collaboration, writing, and prediction. After the lesson plan, individuals write...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Strong Descriptive Writing: James and the Giant Peach

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Support your writers! Clear procedures and appropriate support make this a superb resource for elementary writing instruction. Ready your class to compose original descriptive paragraphs inspired by the episode in Roald Dahl's James and...
Interactive
Curated OER

Verb Tenses Exercises - Present Perfect Tense

For Students 6th - 8th
In this present perfect tense online instructional activity, 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...
Interactive
Curated OER

Modal Verbs

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this verbs online interactive instructional activity, students choose the most appropriate modal verb that grammatically completes 10 sentences.
Interactive
Curated OER

Past Tense Verbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this interactive grammar worksheet, students listen to a musical clip of the Beatles song "No Reply" and fill in the missing words in the lyrics. Each word is a past tense verb. There are 20 fill-in's to complete.
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Curated OER

Strong Verb Image Makers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use description language to clarify ideas and create vivid images in an essay focusing of strong verbs. They discuss weak verbs and explore that the better image the words create, the better the reader understands the text.
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Curated OER

Horse Character: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Animals oftentimes elicit various characteristics which make them symbolic or representative of human feeling, action, or emotion. The class creates horse characters out of clay to show character action and symbolism. This is a great...
Worksheet
Usborne Publishing Ltd

Little Red Riding Hood Worksheet

For Students 1st - 3rd
Designed to be used after a reading of The Little Red Riding Hood, this instructional activity asks kids to match thought bubbles with pictures, to order events, and to form the past tense of selected verbs.
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Vivid Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore parts of speech by collaborating in groups. In this verbs lesson, students examine several boring sentences with their class and define verbs which can spice the sentence up. Students collaborate in pairs to enhance...
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Curated OER

Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students analyze English by completing a handout regarding grammar rules. In this verb lesson, students identify what a verb does, where to use it in a sentence and what a verb fragment is. Students complete a worksheet based on subject...
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Curated OER

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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

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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Curated OER

ESL Grammar: Questions & Future Tense

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this English Language grammar worksheet, students complete the several speaking and writing exercises that help them learn how to form and use questions in the future tense.
Worksheet
Curated OER

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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Lesson: A Garden Party of My Own

For Teachers K - 5th
Kids look at a beautiful work of art to practice grammar, make connections from life to art, and sketching. They identify all the parts of grammar they see in the image, discuss what they see and do on a picnic, and then draw an imaged...
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Talking About the Past

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students 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. Students read a story about the race car driver Michael...
Activity
Tune Into English

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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Quiet On The Set... Take 1...Action!!

For Teachers K
Students complete an activity with the book Step by Step by Bruce McMillan. In this verb lesson, students create a list of action verbs from this book and more to use in their own writings. They will create stick puppets to act out the...
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Curated OER

Action!!!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a good game to play with your charges. Pairs of pupils roll a die and choose the corresponding numbered card. They read the card and perform the action verb written there until the teacher calls out time.
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Demonstrative Pronouns

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this demonstrative pronouns worksheet, students study the picture and complete the sentence by writing the correct demonstrative pronoun. Students then write a related sentence using the correct demonstrative pronoun with the...
Interactive
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English Exercise - Past Simple Affirmative

For Students 8th - 11th
In this past simple verb tense interactive instructional activity, students watch a video fo Paul McCartney's, "Yesterday." They fill in 9 blanks in the lyrics of the song, They write the past simple form of 25 verbs. They submit...
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Classics for Kids

"Mars" from The Planets

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Gustav Holst's The Planets provide young musicians an opportunity to examine how composers can create a suite: a collection of smaller pieces grouped to explore a single topic. After listening to "Jupiter," they examine "Mars" in...
Organizer
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Two-Word Verbs Definition

For Students 4th - 6th
In this two-word verbs definition worksheet, students read the definitions of 21 two word verb combinations. They see two word verbs such as back out, call off, find out, and look out, with the definition next to the words.
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Narrating in Simple Past with Video

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.