These present perfect activities cover the different uses of the tense for talking about past experiences, recently completed actions, past actions connected to the present etc. Teaching Online You can find online present perfect exercises and activities at our online-focused site LearnHip.com. Present Perfect – Past Participles Present perfect crossword Use the present perfect forms […]
Which article (a, an, the or no article) do the subjects of these photographs take? Click on a picture to open the slideshow.
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As well as helping students to remember the names of different items, this memory game (sometimes known as Pelmanism) is also great for practising prepositions of position. Before playing, point at some of the different unturned cards and try to elicit from the students how they could describe the position of the cards. For example on […]
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Here’s a quick idea for reviewing and uncovering clothes vocabulary and practising the second conditional. Brainstorm as many different types of clothes as possible starting with the head and working down. Write all this vocabulary on the board in columns labelled Head / Top / Bottom / Hands and Feet. You could use our clothes […]
Here’s a photoset designed to elicit third conditional sentences expressing regrets. Each photo shows a non-ideal situation which may now be regretted. Remind your students of the form, ie., wish with past perfect – I wish I had gone to bed earlier, I wish I hadn’t drunk so much wine last night. Then show each […]
Dictation exercises are useful for promoting the noticing of new forms, developing hearing skills, presenting new language, and checking spelling. In a standard dictation activity, a shortish text is selected and then read slowly to the class who attempt to write it down verbatim. The dictation can be repeated as many times as needed. This […]
Some days it feels just too hot to sit in the classroom. If you have a nice patch of ground nearby, why don’t you take your students outside and allow the change of scenery to stimulate their imaginations? Here are ten outdoor activities which need little or no preparation. Scavenger hunt Make a list of items for […]
A page where I gather funny English video clips to bring some jollity to the classroom. One way to use videos like these is to divide the class into small groups and show each group a different video. Then have individuals form new groups with their counterparts who saw different videos. Students then tell each other […]
