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Have fun learning online with these cool science games. It's free and easy to use so just scroll down the page, find a game you like the look of and give it a go!

Learning about living things is a very important part of science. Humans like yourself are part of this group and the more you can learn about how your body works the better. There are also lots of games & activities to do with other living things such as animals & plants.

This selection of games & activities include some of the physical processes that control our everyday lives. Find out how electricity works, how our eyes use light to see, how forces such as friction work and the physics behind how the earth sun & moon behave.

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Have fun learning about solids, liquids and gases by experimenting with different forms, using different conditions to change them from one form to another.

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From the Book Jacket: Meet Norman. Norman is normal - perfectly normal. That's until he grows a pair of wings! Norman loves his new wings, but he's worried about what everyone will think. After all, they're definitely NOT normal. He decides to cover them with a coat, but hiding such a big part of his life makes him feel miserable. Can Norman find the courage to be himself? This is a bold and uplifting book about daring to be different and celebrating what makes you - YOU! Why It's On My Bookshelf: This is such a creative refreshing story about differences. I love the message that true happiness is being yourself and being proud of your unique qualities. You don't have to hide who you are to be accepted by others. And if you trying to keep things about yourself hidden - you end up feeling miserable. I love the play on the words "Perfectly Normal" in this story. We can teach our kids there is no such thing as PERFECT or NORMAL. What works is being yourself. It's the only way to happiness.
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In an increasingly hyper-competitive and individualised world where isolation and loneliness are more and more prevalent, the role of universal values such as altruism, authenticity, community, compassion, creativity, determination, fairness, honesty, generosity, kindness, optimism, respect, responsibility, self-respect, tolerance, and wisdom in education is becoming increasingly important. Short films are a wonderful and engaging medium through which to introduce values into the classroom and to encourage students to reflect on values.
How to Become a Better Person
How to Become a Better Person created by Tracy Foster for The School of Life is a lovely animation which explores the values and virtues important in the modern world. The film is beautifully narrated by the popular philosopher and writer Alain de Botton.

You can watch the film below and see a lesson plan here.
Educate the Heart
Educate the Heart is a stunning animated poem narrated by the spoken word poet Shane Koyzcan which examines the role of compassion, kindness and fairness in our schools and educational systems.

You can watch the film below and see a lesson plan here.
Wisdom
Wisdom is a video trailer for the book of the same name, Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman, which features a number of famous writers, actors, activists such as Judi Dench, Robert Redford, Desmond Tutu, and Roasamunde Picher explaining what wisdom means to them.

You can watch the film below.
Kindness
Kindness is a short film by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Thought Bubble which illustrates in a moving way why kindness is the most important human quality.

You can watch the film below and see a lesson plan here.
Success
Success a short film by Lara Lee for The School of Life which explores the nature of success and proposes that success is not about being rich and famous but rather connected with more mundane and unheralded things such as listening to a child, filling your mind with interesting things, and knowing when to put your arm around someone.

You can watch the film below and see a lesson plan here.
The Notebook
The Notebook is a a beautiful short film by Greg Gray which tells the story of how a young boy "saves" time for his busy mother so she can go and see him perform in his school play. The film helps parents examine what is really important and valuable in their lives.

You can watch the film below and see a lesson plan here.
Saving Grace
Saving Grace is a short film by Toad's Caravan commissioned by the charity Mary's Meals which provides 860,000 free meals every school day to hungry children. Saving Grace tells the story of 10-year old orphan Grace, who lives in poverty in Malawi. Grace has to forage and beg for food for her and her siblings, and as a result, can't go to school. The animated film explains how by providing a free meal at school, Mary's Meals can enable more children to go to school, eat, learn, and break the poverty cycle for future generations.

You can watch the film below and see a lesson plan here.

I hope you enjoy the short films and lesson plans. Are there any short films related to values that have worked well with your students? Let me know in the comments below!

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I don't know about you, but when I sit through a faculty meeting or professional development session of any sort, I start getting antsy by the 30-minute mark. If you can relate, just imagine how your students must feel when they've been sitting for too long. Educational brain breaks are the perfect way to help your students redirect their energy and focus when they start to fade.

I find it super-beneficial to incorporate quick mindful, physical, and mental check-ins with my students as a regular part of my classroom routine. These breaks include all types of movement, yoga and breathing exercises, as well as jokes, quick videos, and more. The activities I use have helped me throughout my lifetime, so I love sharing them with my students. Here are my favorite educational brain breaks that are sure to increase productivity and give your kids a much-needed way to unwind before the next lesson.

Mindful Educational Brain Breaks

1. Use transition times for mental check-ins

Transitions are a big part of the elementary school day. When I first started teaching 19 years ago, I was surprised by just how much time it takes to get ready for specials or to bring students back from centers. It's hard not to feel like that's lost time. That's why using transition time for mental health check-ins is such a game changer. Mental health check-ins can help students get in touch with their emotions, refresh and recharge, acknowledge and cope with negative thoughts and overwhelming feelings, and be more focused throughout the day.

2. Pretend to breathe like an animal

Source: Stephanie Sanders

This video shows students how to pretend to breath like some of their favorite animals. The snake breath involves hissing while slithering from side to side, while the whale breath has students pretend to breathe out through a blowhole! Tap into creativity by picking other interesting animals and acting them out through breath.

3. Do a 10-minute guided meditation

These guided meditations are educational and are perfect to use as brain breaks whenever you and your students just need to breathe. Catch your breath with any of these 20 guided video meditations.

4. Practice "focus ball" breathing

Walk your kids through the following exercise: Stand or sit with legs and feet together. Bring your palms together in front of your chest. Keep your fingertips touching as you pull your palms apart, forming a ball with your fingers. Press your fingertips together until you feel the muscles in your hands and arms activating. See if you feel your core tighten too. Now close your eyes and as you breathe in, inflate your ball, and as you breathe out, flatten the ball by pushing your palms together. (Repeat these instructions for 60 seconds).

Learn more: Mindful.org

5. Try the old ear-nose switcheroo

This is a quick and easy challenge to reset the brain. Instruct kids to touch their left ear with their right hand and at the same time touch their nose with their left hand. Then have them switch their hands and touch their right ear with their left hand and their nose with their right hand. Switch back and forth a few times. Then have them close their eyes, take a deep breath, and blow it all out.

Learn more: YouTube: Ear-Nose Switch

6. Take a yoga break

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Inspire kids to move, stretch, and practice mindfulness with yoga. These printable yoga cards make it easy to incorporate yoga into your educational brain breaks. Each page includes a picture and description of the pose, and each page includes poses of increasing difficulty from level 1 to level 5. And don't worry, it's not a huge time commitment. The sequence on each card is designed to take only a few minutes.

7. Stretch it out

It's never a good idea to spend too much time sitting in one position. Allow kids to take a break and bring some flexibility back into their spines. Have them stand with their feet shoulder-distance apart. Put their left hand on their hip and raise their right hand overhead. Lean to the left and stretch their arm as far as they can to the left. Repeat on the right side. Then stand tall and slowly roll down one vertebra at a time until their hands reach the floor (or at least their shins). Have them take a deep breath then slowly roll back up. Repeat as necessary.

Learn more: Mom Junction

8. Focus on sound

Have kids sit quietly with their eyes closed. Ring a chime or gong. Have them listen carefully to the chime, feeling the vibration in their body as the sound reverberates and then slowly fades. Tell them to breathe slowly and deeply as they focus on the sound.

9. Do a quick mindfulness activity

Mindfulness activity cards provide great educational brain breaks. Stash a pack in your desk and pull them out whenever you need them. Each card will give a prompt for kids to try that will let them refocus and recharge. Perfect for moments when you need to bring down the energy in the room.

Buy it: Mindfulness Cards for Kids at Amazon

10. Chill out with this cross-body exercise

Have kids stand tall and cross one leg in front of the other while pressing the outsides of their feet together. Now have them cross their arms over each other at the wrists. Clasp their hands and curl their arms into their chest. Take a few breaths, and uncross and cross the opposite way for a few more breaths.

11. Float with jellyfish

When you really need to take the energy in your room down a notch, turn off the lights, set a timer, and put on a calming video. For example, Cat Trumpet put together a jellyfish aquarium video where kids will find themselves under the brilliant blue sea in the middle of a swarm of jellyfish. They'll be mesmerized by the slow, fluid motions and lulled into calmness by the soothing music.

12. Break out the hot hands

This is a good break when you sense a weariness in the air. Have kids rub their hands together vigorously until they warm up. Tell them to close their eyes and place their hands over their eyes. Instruct them to breathe deeply as they clear their minds and refocus.

13. Try cat and cow poses

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Have kids start on all fours and then give them the following instructions to complete the cat and cow yoga poses: Place your shoulders over your wrists and hips over your knees. Arch your back to the sky and tuck in the tailbone (cat pose). Let your head fall between your arms. From there, sink the belly towards the ground, and lift the chest and chin (cow pose). Gently alternate between the two poses while breathing deeply.

14. Do nothing for two minutes

Never underestimate the power of stillness. When the energy gets a little ramped up, and it's time for the entire class to take a pause, have them drop everything and glue their eyes to the screen as you show this countdown. The gentle lulling of the waves and the sight of the sun sparkling off the water will reset their nervous system in a jiffy.

Learn More: Calm

15. Spread your wings (in slow motion)

Walk your kids through this winged movement: Sit cross-legged on the floor. Stretch your arms down by your sides with your palms facing inward toward your body. Slowly raise both arms while rotating hands forward. When your arms reach shoulder level, your hands should be facing forward. Continue raising arms, slowly rotating palms so that by the time hands are overhead, palms are facing each other. Slowly lower arms, repeating the rotation (palms facing each other, palms facing forward, palms facing sides) until they are once again resting at your sides. As you raise and lower your arms, stretch them as long as you can, as if you are scraping the sides of the room and the ceiling. Repeat slowly three times, breathing deeply.

Physical Education Brain Breaks

16. Play Silent Ball when you have downtime

You can play a quick game of Silent Ball anytime, anywhere. Play a quick three-minute game right before dismissal or before transitioning to a new activity. All you need is a small squishy ball. The rules are simple: 1) stay quiet and 2) don't drop the ball when passing it around. This activity is one of those educational brain breaks that builds a positive classroom community, fosters friendly competition, and boosts nonverbal communication. Enjoy the silence.

17. Line up in unique ways

Kids are very social and curious beings. Most of them love to chat with one another at any chance they can get. Lining up to leave the room for anything is the perfect chance for them to mix and mingle. Make a more productive use of this time by having students line up in special ways. Some fun ideas include lining up in alphabetical order by name, by birth date, or by height order.

18. Just jump!

Sometimes kids just need to bounce their energy out. Have them pretend they are bouncing on a mini-trampoline (this will keep their movement on a vertical plane instead of all over the room), and give them a couple of minutes to let loose!

19. Take a cue from the stadium

Here's one for a group of kids-start the wave! Beginning at one end of the room, kids stand up and throw their arms overhead, bringing them back down as they return to their seats. Each row follows until you reach the other end of the room. Amp it up by encouraging your kids to tap their feet or tap their hands on their legs so that they are in constant motion. This activity works great on Zoom too!

20. Stir the pot

Have kids visualize they are standing in front of an enormous cauldron. Inside the cauldron is an ooey-gooey pot of caramel. Take hold of a large stirrer and plunge it to the bottom of the pot. Slowly begin to stir in a clockwise direction. Have them use their whole body to help get a full range of motion in their wrists and shoulders. Instruct them to throw their hips into the action. After a minute or two, reverse the direction.

21. Make it rain

Conjure up a rainstorm! Sitting or standing at a desk or table, have kids tap one finger on the desk, then two, then three, then four, then their whole hand until you all feel like you're in the middle of a deluge. Work your way backward from five down to one as the storm ebbs away.

22. Energize with these

First, instruct kids to touch their left elbow to their right knee, then touch their right elbow to their left knee. Switch back and forth, going slowly at first, building speed until they are going at a vigorous pace. Next, do some windmills by standing tall with their feet shoulder-width apart and their arms stretched out. Bend at the waist and touch their right hand to their left toes, then their left hand to their right toes. Switch back and forth.

23. Make X's and O's

Walk kids through the following exercise: Sitting in a chair with your feet on the ground and legs together, curl your body into your lap, folding yourself into a tiny O shape. Next, open your arms and legs wide, forming an X shape with your body. Pull back into an O shape, then back out to an X shape. Repeat three times.

24. Energize in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Get hearts pumping with a quick sequence of exercises. Call out five actions for your students to do as quickly as they can. For instance, five jumping jacks, four push-ups, three sit-ups, two squat jumps, and one tree pose.

25. Take a cruise on an imaginary skateboard

Have your kids line up next to a wall and place one hand on the wall. Tell them to plant the foot closest to the wall and swing the other leg, as if pushing off the ground on a skateboard. Start slowly, with tiny swings, moving up to power pushes. Repeat on the other side.

26. Take a break to groove

Music is a great way to reset the mood in a room and raise the energy level. Put on a fun song and have a 30-second freestyle dance party. Here's a big list of school-appropriate songs for kids.

27. Or take it to the next level

Teach your kids the steps to popular dances such as the Cha-Cha Slide, the Macarena, or the Kidz Bop Shuffle.

28. Ramp up with a round of cherry pickers

This easy activity will get your students' hearts pumping and give their brains a boost. Have them jump up off the ground, then down to the floor into a push-up position. From there, instruct them to hop their feet up into a frog position, then pop up to a standing position.

29. Clap on, clap off

When you say "clap on," kids clap their hands vigorously together. When you say "clap off," they stop as quickly as they can and freeze. Or follow along with this a fun video.

30. Skip it out

When the energy is fading and kids need to get their blood flowing, put on a peppy song and pull out the imaginary jump ropes. Have kids skip or jump rope in place until the song ends.

31. Make like a blender

Tell kids it's time to make fruit smoothies. Ask them to pretend they are in a blender and they are strawberries (or blueberries or bananas, etc.). Dramatically pour orange juice or yogurt into the air in front of you. Tell kids when you flip the switch that they need to wiggle and jiggle (separately, not together) until they are each individually blended up. Start with a slow speed, moving up to medium speed, fast speed, and finally turbo speed. And then reverse it! Start at turbo speed and go back to slow speed.

32. Celebrate with a silent cheer

This activity is perfect for the end of an activity or a sustained amount of work time-especially for kids who are learning remotely. Let kids stand up and silently cheer and gesture in celebration. How animated can they get?!

33. Do a full-body workout

This kid-friendly exercise video is great for your body and brain! Kids can follow along through a set of workout moves that will get their blood pumping.

34. Play popcorn

Students will all be sitting in their chairs, and at any time, a student can jump up and say, "Pop!" Once they do, that student remains standing. If two students pop up at the same time, everyone takes their seats, and the game starts over. How quickly can the entire class pop without having to start over?

35. Hit the wall

Pushing against a solid object is a good way to displace extra energy from your body. Have kids stand facing a wall with their arms stretched out in front of them, palms on the surface of the wall. Push the wall away with all their strength for a count of ten. Relax for five seconds, then push again. Other activities they can do at the wall include calf stretches and wall push-ups.

36. 3, 2, 1 blastoff!

Instruct kids to stand and then squat down with their hands on the ground in front of them. All together, count down 3, 2, 1. When you get to zero, they should push up like a rocket, jumping as high as they can-letting all of their energy burst from their center.

37. Quick as a snap, wink

This is a quick and easy refocusing activity. Tell kids to snap their left fingers while they wink their right eye. Switch to snapping their right fingers while winking their left eye. This activity is particularly effective for younger learners who may find both activities challenging.

38. Balance break

A great way to get kids out of their chairs is to practice balance. Have them hop on one foot. Then up the ante by having them stand on one foot and bend their other knee out in front of them.

39. Tabletop push-ups

Kids can use their desk, a chair, the side of their couch-anything really. Have them place their hands on the table and focus their eyes in the center, moving down slowly and pushing back up.

40. Try some facial gymnastics

Have kids get their silly on for 30 seconds. Tell them to wiggle their eyebrows up and down as fast as they can. Then try to raise one eyebrow at a time.

Mental Brain Breaks That Are Educational

41. Take a comedy break

Comedy is a great release when the atmosphere is feeling a little intense. Show a funny video clip or have kids volunteer to tell a joke or pose a few silly riddles. We have compiled a number of jokes by theme on WeAreTeachers for kids of all ages for guaranteed laughs. For example, your students will love one of our most recent additions, 34 Cat Jokes for Kids. From there, you can find dog jokes, seasonal jokes, food jokes, and much more.

42. Share fun facts

In addition to joke compilations, we have plenty of fun fact lists on our site with themes that will thrill your students. Plus they're an educational way to teach your students new information during brain breaks. Get started with these fun feline facts to accompany the jokes above. Meow!

43. Practice another language

Source: startasl.com

Teach your kids the alphabet in sign language. Use brain breaks to practice by singing the ABCs while signing the letters. Then practice vocabulary words by spelling them out loud while signing the letters.

44. Find out how it's made

Remember that classic Sesame Street video about how crayons are made? We watched in awe as crayons rolled off the assembly line, wrapped in paper, and then slipped into those familiar cardboard boxes. Kids today are just as fascinated by how things are made! Here are our favorite videos about how things are made-from fireworks to LEGO.

45. Take a doodle break

According to researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, downtime is essential for brain health. Kids need time for their growing brains to integrate and process the vast amount of information they receive each day. In other words, it is actually beneficial to give our kids time to allow their minds to wander. Try this: Set a timer for three to five minutes and let kids silently doodle with pencil and paper or a dry-erase board and marker while soft, calming music plays in the background.

Learn more: Sage Journals

46. Try a directed-drawing activity

Directed drawing activities walk your students through the process step-by-step so anyone can create their very own masterpiece. Teachers can lead the session by drawing on the whiteboard or chart paper while students follow along. Even better, there are plenty of videos on YouTube that lead the lesson, giving you a little break too. We have done the work and gathered some our favorite free directed-drawing activities for kids. Grab your favorite art supplies and get creative!

47. Gather your favorite GIFs

Make a slideshow of your favorite GIFs and have your kids act them out. Funny animals are a good place to start!

48. Find the object

Kids don't even have to get out of their seats for this one, but they can! Have one student start by finding an object and saying, "I see something beginning with the letter [fill in the blank]." The first person to guess the item correctly gets to choose the next object. This can be a fun one to play on Zoom too! You can have kids add in additional clues to help.

49. Clap for a little call-and-response

Pep things up with a little call-and-response clapping. It's simple to do and is often used in the classroom to get students' attention. Simply clap out a pattern that your kids will repeat back to you. Switch out the pattern a few times until everyone is focused and engaged. Alternatively, try a vocal call-and-response. Sing out a few riffs and have kids echo the tune back to you.

50. Color yourself mellow

Even grown-ups have picked up on the coloring craze as an excellent way to calm down and zone out. Put on some nice mellow background music, set a timer, and pass out some of these free mandala coloring pages.

51. Try a brain-break spinner

One way to make sure educational brain breaks are effective is to change up activities. Check out these online movement spinners for Wheel of Fortune-type games that help you add variety to brain breaks!

53. Would You Rather?

Students of all ages love participating in Would You Rather? videos, which can be found all over YouTube these days. Each video is approximately 8 minutes long, and students are given two scenarios where they choose which one they would rather participate in. Topics range from food items to activity choices to places to visit and more. As students choose the scenario, they move to either the right or left side of the room. Students then perform 30-second rounds of a specified exercise before repeating the process with another choice. Some of our favorite Would You Rather? channels include PE with Mr. G, Phonics Man, and Fix and Play. Students love when their teacher participates with them in the fun!

Learn more: PE With Mr. G

52. Write it out

Don't underestimate the power of journaling or creative writing. Give your kids a 5- or 10-minute break to open up a page of their notebook and write about anything they'd like. They don't have to share it with the class or do anything else with it; just use the quiet time to focus on something they love and want to write about.

Educational Video Brain Breaks by Grade Level

54. Brain-break compilations by grade level

If you are looking for a sample of brain breaks suitable for your students by grade level, look no further. We have created separate links of 25 videos each for individual grades at the elementary level. Go down the list and find your favorite!
Kindergarten Brain Breaks First Grade Brain Breaks Second Grade Brain Breaks Third Grade Brain Breaks Fourth Grade Brain Breaks Fifth Grade Brain Breaks
What educational brain breaks do you love? Share them in the comments!

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Quick, easy educational brain breaks that will help students re-energize, refocus, and give their brains a much-needed boost.

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ELT Concourse: a free training course for TKT: modules 1, 2 and 3

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Selection of excellent educational maths and literacy games, organised by topic and age group - Topmarks

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Phonics Games for the Classroom and Home - Phonics Bloom

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Super Simple Songs

Sing along with Noodle & Pals as they move and groove, while learning the names of parts of the body. This song introduces the body parts, head, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, teeth, chin, cheeks, neck, chest, back, stomach, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, legs, knees, feet, and toes!

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The Date Chart

A daily weather chart resource, with an option for varied weather descriptions.

LO: Y1: To recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years

This resource is designed to be used as part of a morning routine.
1. Choose the weather, (if you don't like the first suggestion keep clicking on the weather symbol to loop through the choices).
2. Choose the day of the week.
3. Choose the date.
4. Choose the month.

NB: This resource also shows you the short date.

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A handwriting demonstration tool

This tool lets you replay your handwriting and stores it for later.

Handy hints:

I found this a great tool for after lunch calm down handwriting. I like to put on acoustic guitar music, (Rene Aubry or Søren Bødker Madsen are great).

It works on tablets, prop them up and give the children their handwriting books.

It allows the teacher to walk around the room and watch the children as they work, giving feedback.

Please note, words only save on the device you are using.

Save a set of words during lunch so that you're ready when class begins.

Why not model digit formation in Reception / Year 1.

Morning routine: Why not leave it running on your IWB as the children come in?

Have fun!
HAVING TROUBLE LOADING? Please try this version.

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ESL board games are a great way to get your students using new language. They are fantastic to allow freer practice of targeted grammar structures but also to allow more realistic use of language through conversation.

We have created a growing number of online interactive board games that can be used in online classes or in class on interactive whiteboards to allow students to play games in groups or as a class while saving on paper and preparation time.

These interactive board games are ideal to play on online zoom classes. To do so, first open the game you would like to play in your browser. Then in Zoom just click the "Share screen" button and select to share your browser or share your desktop. Students can play in pairs or individually. For larger groups share the URL with students and let them play in breakout rooms.

Can and Can't - Practice speaking about ability with this board game.

First Conditional - First conditional board game where students finish the sentences.

Gerunds and Infinitives - Practice gerunds and infinitives with this speaking activity.

How often do you...? - Practice adverbs of frequency and question forming using this interactive board game.

Past Simple Regular Verbs - Practice spelling of regular verbs with this interactive board game.

Present Perfect - Practice the present perfect with this speaking focused board game.

Should / Shouldn't - Practice giving advice using should/shouldn't

Superlatives - Practice speaking using superlatives with this game.

Used to - Practice speaking about when students were younger

What are you going to do tomorrow? - Practice for future plans.

All About You - Get to know your students with this fun icebreaker board game.

Alphabet - Practice the alphabet with the young learner with this interactive board game.

Animals - Practice vocabulary related to animals with this game. Ideal for B1+ (lower intermediate+)

Clothes and Fashion - Practice speaking about clothes and fashion. (Intermediate and above)

Family - Practice family members with this board game.

Food - Practice speaking about food and food vocabulary.

My Favourite - Practice speaking using "My favourite ___ is ..."

Sports - Talk about sports and sports equipment.

Shopping - Discuss shopping with this board game for B1/B2.

Travel - Discuss questions around the topic of travel. Ideal for students Lower intermediate and above B1+

Valentine's Day - Use this board game to talk about Valentine's Day. B1+

Weather - Practice saying what the weather is like with this fun board game.

What time is it? - Practice telling the time.

Irregular Verbs Ludo - Practice the most common irregular verbs with this interactive game of Ludo. This can be played with 2 players or more. Students move their pieces around the board while saying and writing the irregular verbs on the board.

Alphabet - Practice the alphabet with the young learner with this interactive board game.

Animals - Practice animals with this board game.

Clothes - Practice clothes and accessories vocabulary with this board game.

Colours - Practice saying colours.

Daily Routines - Practice daily routines with this interactive board game.

Days of the Week - Practice days of the week with this board game.

Family - Practice family members with this board game.

House and Furniture - Practice vocabulary and speaking with this board game.

Sports - Talk about sports and sports equipment.

Jobs - Practice common jobs with this board game.

My Favourite - Practice speaking using "My favourite ___ is ..."

Transport - Practice different types of transport with this game.

Weather - Practice saying what the weather is like with this fun board game.

What time is it? - Practice telling the time.

Division - Practice division with this fun maths board game.

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More Online ESL Speaking Games

Discover more Math/number activities.

Math Skills - Practice addition, subtraction, division and multiplication with this fun online game.

How Many? Counting Game - Practice counting, numbers and 'there are' / "there is" with this fun interactive counting game.

Addition Challenge - A quick fire addition maths game that will help your students practice quick thinking with numbers and addition in English or any target language. A fun no prep warmer/cooler for class.

Number Match - A simple multiplication challenge to get students thinking and multiplying in English. A great warmer to get your students thinking and focused!

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Each topic has 10 pictures (Beginner) or 20 pictures (Intermediate) with their accompanying written texts and spoken English recordings. There are 56 Beginner topics and 58 Intermediate topics to choose from. All the topics are free to use. They are suitable for adults, students and children starting to learn English as a second language.

Each item in a topic consists of the text (both the written English text and an audio recording of a English person speaking the word / words) with a picture that illustrates that item. The illustrations are very simply and nicely drawn so there will be no confusion as to what is being shown. The texts are available to see and hear on all product pages in this brown info sign below the main interface.

The language for each topic is carefully selected to match the language of the curriculum for English as a second language. This means that if you are at school you should see the same language you are learning there for any particular subject.

Once a topic is selected at the beginning of a session at English Activities it will be remembered when you move between games and other activities. So you only need to choose a topic once and can then do multiple lessons, play multiple games and take multiple tests without having to select your subject topic again.

There are currently 56 Beginner topics and 58 Intermediate topics to choose from. These range from single English words (for instance "Body - parts of the body" or "Food - fruit"), short phrases (eg. "Time - what time is it?") to whole sentences ("People - appearance", "Home - helping at home"). An example topic is given below:

Parts of the body

See the help box below for instructions on choosing a topic here at English Activities.

English topics English lessons English games English tests English vocabulary

How to choose your English topic at English Activities

Click on the "1. Start" button in the top navigation bar - that brings you to this topic selection page. On the topic selection page you will see that the topic selection is divided up in different ways:

1. Beginner or Intermediate (the arrow at the bottom of the red sign)

2. By whether they contain words or sentences (second column)

3. Into simple categories (right hand of page)

Choose either Beginner or Intermediate level topics in the red sign. Now the categories for that level will load. Click on any sign to view the topics that fit the category description. For example, if you choose the Beginner category 'Animals' you will see a choice of two topics: "Animals - pets" and "Animals - farm". When you click on the name of the topic, the pictures, writing and spoken English for that topic will load (once the topic has loaded it will be available for all activities and will not have to be loaded again).

With the topic loaded you can choose whether to proceed with the lesson for that topic, or to go straight to the games page.

The 56 beginner topics are:
Activity - daily routine , Activity - hobbies , Activity - holidays , Activity - sports , Animals - farm , Animals - pets , Body - hair colour and style , Body - parts of the body , Body - the head , Colours , Family - members , Family - my siblings , Food - drinks and snacks , Food - fruit , Food - groceries , Food - restaurant , Food - vegetables , Go - means of transport , Go - on holiday , Go - where? , Go - which way? , Grammar - adjectives 1 , Grammar - adjectives 2 , Grammar - prepositions 1 , Grammar - prepositions 2 , Grammar - verbs 1 , Grammar - verbs 2 , Home - helping at home 1 , Home - helping at home 2 , Home - in the garden , Home - my room , Home - rooms in the house , Numbers - 1 to 10 , Numbers - 11 to 20 , Numbers - to 100 (1) , Numbers - to 100 (2) , People - appearance , People - clothes 1 , People - clothes 2 , People - health problems , People - jobs , People - portraits , Place - homes , Place - meeting places , Place - places in town , Place - shops , Place - where I live , School - activities , School - classroom objects , School - subjects , Time - autumn and winter , Time - spring and summer , Time - what time is it? , World - environment , World - European countries , World - weather

The 58 intermediate topics are:
Accommodation , Adjectives , An accident , Appearance , Bathroom , Bedroom , Cafe , Calendar , Clothes , Colours , Countries , Daily routine , Dining room , Dwellings , Eating and drinking , European countries , Facial features , Family members , Fruit and veg , Garden , Getting there , Groceries , Health problems , Helping at home , Hobbies A , Hobbies B , Holiday activities , Holiday places , Jobs , Kitchen items , Living room , Lost property , Means of transport , Measurement , Media , Meeting places , Numbers to 100 , Numbers to 20 , On the table , Parts of the body , Pets , Places , Places in town , Prepositions , Rooms , School subjects , School uniform , Shops , Signs , Sports , The Classroom , The environment , Time , Verbs , Weather , Which way , Work experience , Workplaces

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Welcome to anglomaniacy.pl! This is a site for kids learning English filled with fun activities, games, songs and worksheets that can help them with their English. This is also a resource site for English teachers. You will find here tons of free, ready-to-print teaching materials, as well as language resources to use online.

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English resources for kids and teachers. Tons of activities, games, printables to learn and teach vocabulary and grammar in a fun way.

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Interactive games, puzzles, activities and exercises aimed at learning and teaching English and other subjects online.

Create your Own Activities

Put together your own shareable online activities.

Use the scrambled sentence maker to make fun jumbled word activities.

Create a card set. Great for refreshing vocabulary, grammar prompts and conversation questions.

Make a matching activity. Match the item from the left column with the correct item from the right column.

Create test questions with multiple options.

Create gapfill or cloze questions exercises.

Create a shared online board game for up to 8 players.

Create a hidden picture quiz. Reveal the picture one numbered square at a time.

Create a scatter sheet word guessing game. Great for reviewing vocabulary and encouraging fluency.

Conversation Questions

A huge deck of random questions which can also be selected by topic with sets of themed conversation starters. You can also find a random topic generator here which works as a more free-form conversation starter.

Other Activities

Displays 8 random pictures to prompt creative story telling and writing.

Guess the sound quizzes. Great for picking up everyday vocabulary.

A variety of photosets designed to elicit suitable grammar and vocabulary.

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Make predictions about the future with this fun 'rune' generator.

Players have to describe a photograph or use their creativity to describe an imaginary picture.

Puts together a random verb and preposition to test knowledge of phrasal verbs.

Test your ability to recognise and produce different English language phonemes.

Find suitably sized articles for creating your lesson.

Make the longest word you can from the randomly chosen letters.

Test your vocabulary with these picture quizzes.

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Lots of online-teaching ideas from elsewhere on the web.

ESLgames.com

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1. My dream house

I dream to live in a
private house
somewhere in the quite
suburb of the city.
There are 2 bedrooms, 2
bathrooms, 2 living
rooms, a study, a
kitchen, a recreation
room, a gym, a balcony
and a swimming pool.

3. This is my bedroom. It is very big and bright.

THIS IS MY BEDROOM. IT IS VERY BIG AND
BRIGHT.
There is a big bed near
the wall, a table with
two chairs near my bed
and a T V opposite the
bed.
I like minimal but with
style.

4. This is my living room

THIS IS MY LIVING ROOM
There is a big sofa,
There are white, black
and green pillows on
the sofa. There is a
furry brown carpet on
the floor. There are
brown curtains on the
windows. My living
room is cozy and
stylish

5. My living room

MY LIVING ROOM
There is also a T V set in front of the sofa and a
lamp near it.

6. This is my kitchen

THIS IS MY KITCHEN
There is a modern
kitchen set in my
kitchen. There are
shelves, cupboards,
a sink, a microwave
oven, an oven, a
fridge, a freezer, a
table and some
chairs in my
kitchen.

7. This is my bathroom

THIS IS MY BATHROOM
There is a toilet pan, a bath, a
shower, 2 a sink and a mirror in
my bathroom.

8. my library

MY LIBRARY
This is my library with such
masterpieces as
Shakespeare, Margaret
Mitchell and L.N Tolstoy.

9. This is the break room. There is a pool table, a large sofa, TV and two armchairs

THIS IS THE BREAK ROOM. THERE IS A
POOL TABLE, A LARGE SOFA, T V AND T WO
ARMCHAIRS

10. This is my dining room

THIS IS MY DINING ROOM
There is a table in the
middle of my dining
room. There are six
chairs around the table.
There are pictures on
the wall. There is also a
wooden chest of
drawers, a vase and
candles on it.

11. This is my swimming pool. You can swim in it and sunbathe nearby.

THIS IS MY SWIMMING POOL. YOU CAN
SWIM IN IT AND SUNBATHE NEARBY.
opposite the swimming pool has a
wooden table.

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What is a noun?

A noun is a word which names a person, a thing, a place or an idea.

Have a look at this picture - the words we have for everything in the picture that we can name are nouns.

Here are a few of the things we can name:

All of these words are nouns.

So are all nouns the same? Should we clump them all together in our definition above and leave it at that? Or do different nouns have different characteristics? Can we separate or classify them in some way? Well, in fact we can classify them in quite a few different ways. Let's have a look at some of these now.

The first way we can classify nouns is as concrete or abstract.

Concrete nouns

The nouns we listed above, house, man, grass, sweater, sunlight and sky, are all concrete nouns. This means that we can perceive the things they represent with one of our five senses. So we can either see, hear, feel, taste or smell them. Here are some more examples of concrete nouns:

Abstract nouns

Abstract nouns are the opposite - we can't see, hear, feel, taste or smell the things they represent with our five senses. These kinds of noun are often ideas or concepts. Here are a few examples:

Proper and common nouns

As well as being either concrete or abstract, all nouns are either proper or common. Proper nouns refer to a specific person, place or thing (and begin with a capital letter). Have a look at this sentence:

Mark has a very good friend called John, and they live in a small house near the Sydney Opera House. Their friendship is strong.

The nouns Mark, John and Sydney Opera House are proper nouns - they refer to a specific person, place or thing. In other words, we're not just talking about some random person or place, but we know exactly which specific person or place we're talking about. The nouns friend, house and friendship are all common nouns - they don't refer to a specific person, place or thing. Unless they come at the beginning of a sentence, we don't start them with a capital letter.

You may have noticed that we've seen a few of our examples more than once now. We've described:

Sydney Opera House as both a concrete noun and a proper noun

friend as both a concrete noun and a common noun

friendship as both an abstract noun and a common noun

So all nouns fit in to more than one category. They are either proper or common, and either abstract or concrete. Next we'll see two more "either/or" classifications.

Singular and plural nouns

So far we've seen that all nouns are either concrete or abstract, and either proper or common. The next either/or way of classifying nouns is into singular and plural. Most nouns can be either singular (only one) or plural (more than one). Have a look at these two sentences:

All of the nouns in the first sentence ( baby, foot, hand) are singular. In the second sentence we have made them all plural ( babies, feet, hands).

Making plural nouns

With most nouns we simply add "s" to say that there is more than one. With some nouns, though, there are different rules:

A lot of nouns don't follow these rules and have irregular plural forms, for example:

With some we change the vowel sound completely (mouse - mice; tooth - teeth)

With some the singular and the plural are the same

With some which end in -o we add -es (hero - heroes; potato - potatoes)

Some just have a different plural form altogether (child - children)

At the beginning of this section we said that most nouns can be singular or plural. There's a reason we didn't say that all nouns can be singular or plural, and it has to do with the last either/or classification, which we're going to see next.

Countable and non-countable nouns

The last either/or way to classify nouns is into countable and non-countable.

Countable nouns (sometimes called unit nouns) are, as you might guess, nouns that we can count.

Non-countable nouns (sometimes called mass nouns) are nouns that we can't count.

So what do we mean exactly by "nouns that we can count"? There's a very easy way to demonstrate this. Let's take the noun apple and see what happens when we start to count apples:

This seems to make sense - we can count apples in this way. But does it work with all nouns? Let's take another one, water, and find out.

This sounds a little strange - it doesn't seem like we can count water in the same way that we can count apples. So what's the difference between apples and water that lets us count one but not the other? Well, the difference is that we can't easily divide water up into individual units in order to count it. To do this we'd have to do something like put it into glasses, or think of it in drops:

Now it sounds better - but that's because we're counting glasses or drops of water and not water itself. Here are some more examples of countable and non-countable nouns. Try counting each of them and see if you agree with our classification:

Countable, non-countable, singular and plural

Now, let's think back to the last section where we talked about singular and plural nouns. Can we make any sort of relationship between countable/non-countable and singular/plural nouns?

If we think about it, being able to count a noun must mean that we can have more than one of it (2 apples, 3 chairs). This means that countable nouns can be either singular or plural. But if we can't count something, this means that we can't make it plural. As we've seen, it makes no sense to add "s" to water and say "2 waters". So non-countable nouns can't be made plural. And that's why in the last section we said that most nouns can be made plural, not all nouns.

Nouns which are both countable and non-countable

Some nouns can be both countable and non-countable, depending on how we're using them. Have a look at these sentences:

In the first sentence "work" is a concept that we can't count. But in the second sentence we're using the noun "works" to mean individual paintings, which we can count. So in the second sentence "work" is countable. Here's another example:

I like sandwiches with cheese and lettuce.
Many different cheeses are made in the UK.

The same thing applies here. In the second sentence we're using "cheese" to mean individual types of cheese which, again, we can count. So unlike all our other classifications, which were very clear-cut, here we have to think a little more about how we're using the noun before deciding how to classify it.

Possessive forms of nouns

Every noun has what we call a possessive form. This is the form the noun takes when we want to say that it "owns" something. What do we mean by this? Well, let's have a look at a few nouns:

Each of these nouns can own something or, if you like, have something that "belongs" to it. President Obama could own a dog, for example, the baby could own a toy and the caterpillar could (and probably does!) own some legs. So we could say:

But this is a quite long-winded way to talk about ownership, or "possession", so instead we can say:

What we've done here is change the nouns to their possessive forms to show that they own something. How have we changed the nouns exactly? Well, as you can see, with these nouns we've added an apostrophe and an "s". All possessive forms are made with some combination of apostrophe and "s". Let's have a look at some different cases to see what different combinations of apostrophe and "s" we need to add.

Singular nouns not ending in "s"

To change singular nouns (and non-countable nouns) not ending in "s" to their possessive form, we add an apostrophe and an "s".

Mark's car is new. (meaning - the car of Mark)
My friend's house is big. (meaning - the house of my friend)
This information's usefulness is questionable. (non-countable - meaning - the usefulness of the information)

Singular nouns ending in "s"

Some singular nouns end in "s". To change these to their possessive form we normally just add an apostrophe:

The bus' wheels were dangerously flat. (meaning - the wheels of the bus)
Tess' children all lived away from home. (meaning - the children of Tess)

...although adding an apostrophe and an "s" is also okay:

The bus's wheels were dangerously flat.
Tess's children all lived away from home.

Plural nouns not ending in "s"

Remember we saw earlier in this lesson that some plural forms of nouns are irregular, like "sheep", "children" and "mice". To make the possessive form of these we add an apostrophe and an "s":

The children's dinner was getting cold. (meaning - the dinner of the children)
The mice's tails were pink. (meaning - the tails of the mice)

Plural nouns ending in "s"

To make most nouns plural, remember that we just added "s" or "es". To make the possessive forms of these we just add an apostrophe:

The birds' nest was in the tree. (meaning - the nest of the birds)
The books' authors had a party. (meaning - the authors of the books)

Possessive or contraction?

Forming possessives is not the only reason we use apostrophes and "s". We also use an apostrophe and an "s" when we form a contraction of a word. A contraction happens when we make two words into one by replacing one or more of the letters with an apostrophe. So, for example, instead of saying:

...we would normally say:

What we've done here is combine two words into one, replacing the beginning of the word "has" with an apostrophe to make it easier to say. (In formal writing we don't normally use contractions).

Can you see how this use of apostrophe and "s" is different to a possessive form of a noun? Remember we use possessive forms of nouns to say that they own something. In the example above "John" doesn't own anything.

Let's move on now to the last two types of noun that we're going to look at - collective and compound nouns.

Collective nouns

Collective nouns talk about a group of people or things. The collective nouns are underlined in the following sentences:

The things these nouns represent are made up of many individual parts - the team and the audience are both made up of many people and a flock is made up of many sheep. But a team as a whole is one thing, as is a flock and the audience. So are these nouns singular or plural? Well, the answer is both, depending on the context and how you view them.

Let's look at the example of "the team" above. In this sentence they are acting together in unison (to try and win the game). So in this case we view the team as one thing and the noun is singular. But we can imagine that after the game the members of the team all go their separate ways and we could say something like "The team got in their cars and went home." The noun here is plural because the members of the team are acting individually, not in unison. (If it was singular we would have said "The team got in its car").

Compound nouns

We make compound nouns by sticking two words together to make a noun. Some of these we write all as one word, others we write with a hyphen, and still others as two separate words:

Some of these, like football, we don't really think of as being made up of two words at all - they are used so commonly that our minds just "see" one word. For the two other types, how we write them often comes down to preference. For example, we could choose to write city-state or city state.

Most compound nouns are made up of two nouns, like "tablecloth" (table + cloth) and "housewife" (house + wife), or an adjective with a noun, like "whiteboard" (white + board). Some, though, are made from other combinations of words, for example a noun and a verb like "sunrise" (sun + rise), or a preposition and a verb, like "input" (in + put).

To make compound nouns plural, we add "s" if we write it as one word. If it is hyphenated or two separate words, we only make the word that there is more than one of plural.

That's all we're going to say about nouns at the moment, but we'll see them again before long when we talk about building clauses and sentences. For now though, let's leave our nouns and press on with the other parts of speech.

Recap

Here's a summary of the main points from this lesson.

Nouns are words which name a person, a thing, a place or an idea.

Concrete nouns are nouns where we can perceive the things they represent. Abstract nouns are nouns where wecan't perceive the things they represent.
computer, car (concrete)
friendship, envy (abstract)

Proper nouns refer to a specific person, place or thing. Common nouns don't refer to a specific person, place or thing.
John, France (proper)
plant, presentation (common)

We make most nouns plural by adding "s". Some nouns with certain endings have different rules for making the plural form, and some have irregular plural forms.
house - houses
fox - foxes
goose - geese

Countable nouns are nouns that we can count and can be either singular or plural. Non-countable nouns are nouns that we can't count. They can't be plural. Some nouns can be both countable and non-countable, depending on how we use them.
apple (countable)
water (non-countable)
cheese (both)

We use the possessive form of a noun when we want to say that it "owns" something.

Collective nouns can be singular or plural, depending on the context, and talk about a group of people or things.
audience
herd

We make compound nouns by sticking two or more words together
tablecloth
city-state

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Nouns (3) - Singular and plural nouns

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ESL Grammar Worksheets: Count/Noncount Nouns

Count/Noncount Nouns (1) - Count nouns with "many", and noncount nouns with "much"

Count/Noncount Nouns (2) - Review of count/noncount nouns with many/much

Count/Noncount Nouns (3) - Using "a lot of" with both count and noncount nouns

Count/Noncount Nouns (4) - Count/noncount nouns with "many", "much", and "a lot of"

Count/Noncount Nouns (5) - Count nouns with "a few", and noncount nouns with "a little"

Count/Noncount Nouns (6) - Count/noncount nouns with "some"

Count/Noncount Nouns (7) - Count nouns with "There are" and noncount nouns with "There is"

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Verbs
List of 100 Common Verbs
Verbs (1) - an introduction to verbs

Verbs (2) - introduction to Be Verbs (am, is, are)

Verbs (3) - extra practice with verbs

Nouns and Verbs - practice differentiating nouns and verbs
List of Irregular Verb Forms - Present, Past, and Past Participle Irregular Verbs - Past and Past Participle Quiz
ESL Grammar Worksheets: Adjectives
List of 100 Common Adjectives
Adjectives (1) - an introduction to adjectives

Adjectives (2) - opposites

Adjectives (3) - fill in the blank with an adjective

Adjectives (4) - adjectives and the nouns they modify

Comparative Adjectives (1) - an introduction to comparative adjectives (adj. + er)

Comparative Adjectives (2) - more practice with comparative adjectives

Comparative Adjectives (3) - more vs. -er

Comparative Adjectives - As-As (1) - introduction to the "as - adjective - as" pattern

Comparative Adjectives - As-As (2) - use either more/-er or as-adjective-as to compare two things

Comparative Adjectives - As-As (3) - compare different things using comparative adjectives

Comparative Adjectives - Not as-as - use this pattern to say the oppposite of "more + adjective"

Superlative Adjectives (1) - introduction to superlative adjectives, using adjective + est

Superlative Adjectives (2) - more practice with superlative adjectives

Irregular Adjectives - some irregular adjectives, and their comparative and superlative forms

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Adverbs

Adverbs (1) - an introduction to adverbs

Adverbs (2) - fill in the blanks with a suitable adverb

Adjectives and Adverbs - identify adjectives and adverbs, and the words that they modify

Irregular Adverbs (1) - an introduction to some irregular adverbs

Irregular Adverbs (2) - hard/hardly and late/lately

Adverb Games - a couple of simple, printable activities that make learning adverbs fun and interactive!

Each of the worksheets below includes clear and simple explanations of the different tenses, along with basic exercises to help students understand when and how to use them correctly.

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Present Tense

Present Tense Worksheet 1 - an introduction to present tense

Present Tense Worksheet 2 - adding -s to verbs

Present Tense Worksheet 3 - adding -s and -es to verbs

Present Tense Worksheet 4 - "don't" vs. "doesn't"

Present Tense Worksheet 5 - fix the mistakes in these present tense sentences

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Present Continuous Tense

Present Continuous Worksheet 1 - an introduction to present continuous tense (present progressive tense)

Present Continuous Worksheet 2 - using Be Verbs in present continuous sentences

Present Continuous Worksheet 3 - adding -ing to verbs

Present Continuous Worksheet 4 - is it "present tense" or "present continuous tense?

Present Continuous Worksheet 5 - practice making negative sentences

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Past Tense

Past Tense Worksheet 1 - an introduction to past tense

Past Tense Worksheet 2 - practice recognizing past tense verbs

Past Tense Worksheet 3 - more practice using past tense

Past Tense Worksheet 4 - fix the mistakes in these past tense sentences

Past Tense Worksheet 5 - using "didn't" to make negative past tense sentences

Past Tense Worksheet 6 - fix the mistakes in these past tense sentences

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Future Tense

Future Tense Worksheet 1 - an introduction to future tense

Future Tense Worksheet 2 - use "will + verb" or "won't + verb" to complete the sentences

Future Tense Worksheet 3 - use "will + verb" or "won't + verb" to complete the sentences

Future Tense Worksheet 4 - practice writing future tense sentences

Future Tense Worksheet 5 - practice using past tense and future tense correctly

ESL Basic Tense Review Quizzes

Tense Review Quiz 1 - a simple quiz in which students write the correct form of the verbs in the blanks

Tense Review Quiz 2 - write a suitable verb in each blank

Tense Review Quiz 3 - write questions and answers using different tenses

Tense Review Quiz 4 - identify the tenses of different sentences

Tense Review Quiz 5 - write sentences (and negative sentences) using the different tenses

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Past Continuous Tense

Past Continuous Worksheet 1 - an introduction to past continuous tense (using the word "during")

Past Continuous Worksheet 2 - an introduction to past continuous tense (using the word "when")

Past Continuous Worksheet 3 - more practice with past continuous tense (using the words "while/as")

Past Continuous Worksheet 4 - fill in the blanks to complete the past continuous tense sentences

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Present Perfect Tense
List of Past Participles
Present Perfect Worksheet 1 - an introduction to present perfect tense

Present Perfect Worksheet 2 - using present perfect tense with "already" and "not yet"

Present Perfect Worksheet 3 - using present perfect tense to describe experiences and accomplishments

Present Perfect Worksheet 4 - using present perfect tense to say how many times you have done something

ESL Grammar Worksheets: Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Present Perfect Continuous Worksheet 1 - introduction to present perfect continuous tense

Present Perfect Continuous Worksheet 2 - answer the questions with present perfect continuous sentences, using "lately/recently/these days"

Present Perfect Continuous Worksheet 3 - use the information provided to write several present perfect continuous sentences

Present Perfect Continuous Worksheet 4 - fix the mistakes in these present perfect continuous sentences

These worksheets introduce students to the passive voice, embedded questions, relative clauses, and more advanced aspects of English grammar.

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