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Teacher Articles on English Grammar (Page 3)

21 negotiating in English games

Games for presentation, intensive practice and freer practice of useful phrases for this most difficult and critical of Business English skills.

Stimulating activities to practise the passive voice

Category: English Grammar Topic: Passive Voice
Fun classroom speaking activities for be + past participle.

How to teach the Past Simple tense

Category: English Grammar Topic: Past Tenses
Issues, teaching ideas and games for "wanted, "passed", "did", "went", "saw" etc.

How to teach It is/ They are

Category: English Grammar Topic: Present Tenses
Issues with "It is…"/ "They are…" or their contracted forms, plus how to present and 11 stimulating practice activities

Fun practice for comparative adjectives

Stimulating speaking activities for adjective plus more or -er

Teaching Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Category: English Grammar Topic: Nouns
A look at ways to teach countable and uncountable nouns

Ways of Expressing the Future in English

Category: English Grammar Topic: Future Forms
A look at seven ways of expressing the future in English

Video tasks to practise past tenses

Activities to teach past tenses using video

Fun video tasks to practise Present Simple and Present Continuous

Category: English Grammar Topic: Present Tenses
Ways of practising the present simple and continuous with video

Fun video tasks to practise future tenses and conditionals

Video tasks that can be used when practising future tenses and conditionals

Putting the Grammar back into Christmas

Category: English Grammar Topic: General
Putting the seasonal cheer back into grammar

Irregular plural noun forms: A handout

Category: English Grammar Topic: Nouns
A handout on nouns which can be used to help students understand irregular plural noun forms.

Who is he? / Who is she? - A guessing game

Category: English Grammar Topic: Present Tenses
A classroom activity to review and practice making statement sentences using the third person singular of present tense verbs and making questions using the auxiliary verb do or using interrogative pronouns such as what.

Changing Wh-questions with do, does, or did into indirect questions - a handout

Category: English Grammar Topic: Questions
A handout on changing Wh-questions with do, does, or did into indirect questions

Navigating Classroom Objects with Prepositions: A Lesson Plan

Category: English Grammar Topic: Prepositions
A lesson plan for English language teachers to teach young learners how to identify the location of objects in a classroom using prepositions.

Changing Wh-questions with the be verb to indirect questions - a handout

Category: English Grammar Topic: Questions
A teacher handout covering changing Wh-questions with the be verb to indirect questions

Teaching the five W's - Who, What, Where, Why, When

Category: English Grammar Topic: Questions
A short lesson plan on teaching students interrogative pronouns

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