Teacher Articles on English Grammar (Page 2)

Teaching tips and classroom activities for wh word + main verb questions, including subject question games.

Fun classroom activities for past tenses for hypothetical situations, including linking to the same structures in conditionals

Embedded questions games and teaching tips

Using Total Physical Response (TPR) games involving movement to practise grammatical forms such as Present Continuous, prepositions and future tenses.

Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for "at the moment", "often", "once every two weeks" etc with Present Simple and Present Continuous.

Teaching tips and classroom activities for time expressions with narrative tenses and Used to.

Teaching tips and classroom activities for future times like "in two days", "within five working days" and "by the end of this week", including common issues with future time expressions.

Teaching tips and classroom games and activities for time expressions with at, in, on, no preposition etc

Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for regular and irregular plural nouns.

The big list of regular English plurals ending in -s, -es and -ies, arranged by level

Teaching tips and classroom activities for plurals without -s like "children", "sheep" and "alumni"

Teaching tips and game ideas for short answers like "Yes, I do", "No, he hasn't" and "Yes, there are"

Teaching tips and classroom games/ activities to present and practise Yes/ No questions like "Is this umbrella yours?" and "Did you have a good time?"

Teaching ideas and stimulating practice activities for adjectives with more, most, -er and - est.

Intensive classroom practice activities of superlative adjectives and related language

Teaching techniques and classroom activities for adjectives that end in ed and ing like bored/ boring and tired/ tiring.

Interactive classroom activities for can and can't for ability, focussing on language that students really need.

How to make 'can' and 'can't' lessons really useful for students, including how to identify and deal with common problems with the language of ability.

Simple and fun ways of teaching and practising "my", "your", "his", "her", "its", "our" and "their", with 16 possessive adjective games.

Teaching ideas for presenting and practising the differences between "like" for preferences and "would like" for desires etc, including many speaking games.

Teaching tips on and activities for expressions like "usually", "twice a week", "once every two weeks" and "every morning".

Teaching tips and interactive classroom activities for "There is/ are" and its negative and question forms.

Interactive classroom activities for using both present tenses together, comparing and contrasting their uses. Including speaking activities with minimal resources, ideas for worksheets, and possible uses of technology.

Interactive games for speaking practice of am/ is/ are + ing.

Mainly oral classroom practice activities for routines, habits and other meanings of the Present Simple, including describing processes.