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Verbs exercises - present simple quiz: choose the correct form. Elementary and intermediate level exercises esl

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English Vocabulary

There are two common ways of telling the time.
1) Say the hour first and then the minutes. (Hour + Minutes)

6:25 - It's six twenty-five

8:05 - It's eight O-five (the O is said like the letter O)

9:11 - It's nine eleven

2:34 - It's two thirty-four

2) Say the minutes first and then the hour. (Minutes + PAST / TO + Hour)
For minutes 1-30 we use PAST after the minutes.

For minutes 31-59 we use TO after the minutes.

2:35 - It's twenty-five to three

11:20 - It's twenty past eleven

4:18 - It's eighteen past four

8:51 - It's nine to nine

2:59 - It's one to three

When it is 15 minutes past the hour we normally say: ( a) quarter past

7:15 - It's (a) quarter past seven

When it is 15 minutes before the hour we normally say: a quarter to

12:45 - It's (a) quarter to one

When it is 30 minutes past the hour we normally say: half past

3:30 - It's half past three (but we can also say three-thirty)

O'clock

We use o'clock when there are NO minutes.

10:00 - It's ten o'clock

5:00 - It's five o'clock

1:00 - It's one o'clock

Sometimes it is written as 9 o'clock (the number + o'clock)

12:00

For 12:00 there are four expressions in English.

Telling the time video

Asking for the Time

The common question forms we use to ask for the time right now are:

What time is it?

What is the time?

A more polite way to ask for the time, especially from a stranger is:

Could you tell me the time please?

The common question forms we use to ask at what time a specific event will happen are:

What time...?

When...?

What time does the flight to New York leave?

When does the bus arrive from London?

When does the concert begin?

Giving the Time

We use It is or It's to respond to the questions that ask for the time right now.

We use the structure AT + time when giving the time of a specific event.

The bus arrives at midday (12:00).

The flight leaves at a quarter to two (1:45).

The concert begins at ten o'clock. (10:00)

We can also use subject pronouns in these responses.

It arrives at midday (12:00).

It leaves at a quarter to two (1:45).

It begins at ten o'clock. (10:00)

AM vs. PM

We don't normally use the 24-hour clock in English.

We use a.m. (am) for the morning and p.m. (pm) for the afternoon and night.

3am = Three o'clock in the morning.

3pm = Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Telling the Time - Practice Exercise

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Try our interactive games to practice telling the time at: Telling the Time 1 and Telling the Time 2.

Check out our grammar notes about using prepositions of time.

Cómo decir la hora en inglés (for Spanish Speakers)

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The best way of teaching the present tenses is to compare and contrast them. These ideas will show you how to do the even more difficult task of combining them in practice activities, all of them done in simple and entertaining ways.
There are many well-known and fun activities for the Present Continuous, such as ones involving miming and ones using pictures of crowded street scenes. There are also quite a few things you can find in photocopiable activity books for the Present Simple, such as timetables where students have to fill the gaps in by asking each other questions. However, by far the easiest and clearest way of showing the meanings and uses of the Present Simple and Present Continuous tenses is to contrast them. Perhaps the main reason why this approach isn't used more in the classroom is that it can be difficult to find speaking and writing activities with a natural mix of the two tenses. These activities aim to do away with that lack once and for all!
1. Mimes plus
Give students a list of Present Continuous sentences that they can mime to their partners for them to guess, e.g. "You are eating bread and jam." You can add the Present Simple to this by choosing actions that some people do every day (e.g. "You are eating spicy food" and "You are blowing your nose") and asking them to go on to discuss how often they do those things and why. This is more interesting if it is a topic that is linked to cultural differences, e.g. table manners.
2. Mimes plus Two
Another way of combining Present Continuous mimes with the Present Simple is to ask students to mime actions that they do in their real lives (perhaps choosing from a list with sentences like "You are taking a shower"). The people watching the mimes have to make a Present Continuous sentence to describe the action and also make a true Present Simple sentence about the person miming and that action (e.g. "You take a shower every morning" or "You sometimes take a shower but you usually take a bath").
3. Definitions game
Give students a list of words and ask them to choose one and describe it with just sentences using the Present Simple and Preset Continuous. For example, if the word is "breathe" they could say "I do this many many times every day" and "Everyone in the world is doing this now except some divers."
4. 20 questions
With the same list of words as in Definitions Game above, students ask each other Present Simple and Present Continuous Yes/No questions until they guess which of the words their partner chose. Possible questions include "Are you doing this now?", "Is anyone in this class doing this now?", "Are many people in this city doing this now?", "Do you do this every day?" and "Do you do this more than twice a week?"
5. Postcards
Ask students to imagine that they are writing a postcard while they are sitting on the balcony of their hotel room, on the beach or outside a café. They should naturally use the Present Continuous to describe what is happening at the moment they are writing (e.g. "The sun is shining" or "The children are playing beach volleyball") and the Present Simple for their daily routine while on holiday (e.g. "I spend most of the day next to the swimming pool" or "I have breakfast in the same café every morning"), but you could also specifically ask them to stick to those tenses. Alternatively, you could give them sentence stems that should get them using those two tenses, e.g. "All around me..." or "In the evenings..." You can then get students to read other people's postcards with a task to do as they are reading, for example to guess which place the person writing was supposed to be in or to choose the best holiday.
6. Chain postcards
Especially if you have prepared sentence stems for the start of each line of the postcard, you can combine the ideas in Postcards above with the famously fun game Chain Writing (= Consequences). Each person fills in the first line of a postcard, e.g. completing "I am writing to you from..." with "... the best holiday resort ever" or "... the hills of Tuscany". They fold over the paper so that the next person can't see what they have written and pass it to the next person for them to continue the postcard. They continue writing and passing until the postcards are finished, then they are passed one last time and opened for general hilarity and a discussion about which postcards make most sense, sound like the best holiday and/or are funniest.
7. Present Simple and Continuous taboo topics
The strange thing about the use of the Present Continuous to talk about the present is that we actually rarely use it in conversation, and least of all to ask typical textbook questions like "What are you wearing?" In fact, questions like "What kind of underwear are you wearing?" are basically taboo. We can take advantage of this by giving a list of such taboo Present Continuous questions mixed up with similarly taboo Present Simple questions like "How often do you shave your armpits?" If we sprinkle in a few more typical and harmless questions such as "What time do you usually get up?", we can ask students to rank the questions from 5 points (taboo) to 1 point (easy to answer), then decide on which ranking of question they want to be asked. How many points they actually get depends on how well they answer the question. For example, if they ask for a four point question (usually uncomfortable to answer but not really taboo) and kind of answer it but with lots of pausing and some avoiding of the question, their partners can decide to reward them with two points (half the total of four points that they could have got).
8. Ask and tell
Students make Present Continuous and Present Simple questions, then flip a coin to see whether they will have to answer the question themselves (tails = tell) or be allowed to ask the question to someone else (heads = ask). This is more fun that it sounds because many present tense questions are quite personal and the person who has made the question will often be dismayed by having to answer their own question. You can make this more risqué and add vocabulary by suggesting words and expressions that they can or must include in their questions, e.g. "snore" and "itchy". Alternatively, they could roll a dice to decide which tense they should use in their questions (e.g. Present Simple if they throw a one, two or three), or the topic they should ask about (e.g. families if they throw a one).
9. Time zones
If you give students a list of countries in different time zones, they should be able to make sentences about what is probably happening there right now, as well as their impressions of what daily life is like, e.g. "People are probably coming home from bars about now. I think they often stay up until very late but sleep after lunch" to describe their picture of Spanish life. Their partners should listen and guess the country.
10. Guess the person
You can also get the students to describe and guess different kinds of people from what they are (probably) doing now and their routines, e.g. "your mother-in-law" from "She texts my husband several times a day" and "At this time she is probably doing a flower arrangement class."
11. Describe a photo
Perhaps the most natural situation in which to use a mix of the two tenses is to describe a photo containing people that you know, for example "The person standing next to my brother is his girlfriend. She lives in Canada, so they only meet a few times a year."
12. Tour guides
A group of people who probably use the two tenses together more than the rest of us is tour guides, for example to explain what is happening in a painting and how many people come to see it every day. The same language is fairly natural to describe Tower Bridge opening, Big Ben striking twelve, and a herd of wildebeest running across the plains. You can use this situation by asking students to guess the tourist site from the descriptions and then make up their own descriptions for other people to guess from, or with roleplays in which the people on the tour keep on asking more and more questions.
13. Test your classmates
Students test each other on the present dress and actions and routines of their classmates with questions like "What is George wearing on his feet?" and "Does Ronaldo often wear glasses?" Students will need to have their eyes closed when they are being tested, and they might need to check some of the answers with the person who the question is about.
14. Sentence completion
Give students incomplete sentences for them to complete to give true personal information, e.g. I am feeling __________, I often feel __________, I rarely __________ and My brother is __________. Students read out just the part they have filled in (e.g. "cook" or "hungover") and their partners guess which sentence they put those words in.
15. Discussion questions
You can easily make discussion questions with the Present Simple and Present Continuous, e.g. "What things are getting better in your country?" and "Do people in your country pay attention to government campaigns? Why/why not?" You can also use both tenses for sentences that students should agree or disagree with, e.g. "People buy brands because they think they are better quality" and "People are slowly becoming more ecologically friendly in their lifestyles." Alternatively, you can give questions which aren't written in those tenses but should elicit answers that are, e.g. "Describe the changes in the economy of your country at the moment."

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This WAS WERE QUIZ is a fun grammar exercise to review how to use was and were to make past simple sentences with the be verbs 'was' and 'were'. This was were exercise has 10 questions and each question will show you a past simple sentence with was/were missing. Simply choose was or were to complete the sentence. Ready? Take The Quiz Below!

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Use the Edit tab to insert images, any text such as names, numbers, percentages and emojis🔥. Teachers can spin the wheel to use as a random name picker for the classroom combined with a second wheel with a particular question.

You could spin a wheel to decide between job offers, what game to play or which movie to watch. The possibilities do not stop there, as spinner wheels are definitely more interesting when you use two or more...

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What makes Spinner Wheel stand out from other spin wheel sites is the ability to add and save up to eight wheels on a page.

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¿Sabrías distinguir qué tiempo verbal es el que oyes?¿Recuerdas cómo se hace un enunciado negativo?

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This game is for practicing past tense English verbs. It is intended to be used by ESL (English as a second language) students, to review past participles. The aim of this game is not to explain or communicate the concept of past tense, rather it is just to practice using past tense. The concept of past tense is difficult to illustrate visually and really is better explained by a teacher in a classroom. So, this game is really just intended as a tool to practice verbs and sentences in past tense. The language used is quite basic, but I think it covers almost all of the basic past tense verb forms (regular and irregular) and a few more difficult ones.

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This is all about what we like and what our favourite things are. Students first read the small text and then tick the correct answers according to the text. Then thy write their own favourite things. Hope you enjoy. Feel free to change, amend accordingly.

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1) The boy ........ in his bedroomlast night. a) be b) is c) was d) were e) being f) are 2) We ........ to the cinema last weekend. a) went b) go c) going d) are going e) was going f) gone 3) ....... you eat pancakes last night? a) Do b) Were c) Did d) Done e) Are f) Is 4) The children dind't ........ the flower pot. The cat did it. a) broke b) broken c) breaking d) break e) was broken f) had broken 5) Did you ......... carrots in the supermarket last afternoon? a) had bought b) were buying c) was buying d) bought e) buy f) is buying 6) The past simple of 'cut' is... a) cutting b) were cutting c) cut d) was cutting e) is cutting f) had cut 7) The past simple of become is... a) became b) become c) was becoming d) has become 8) She ......... in the swimming poll many days last summer. a) swim b) swam c) swum d) were swimming e) had swum f) swims

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1) The boy ........ in his bedroomlast night. a) be b) is c) was d) were e) being f) are 2) We ........ to the cinema last weekend. a) went b) go c) going d) are going e) was going f) gone 3) ....... you eat pancakes last night?

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Past Simple - Regular and irregular verbs activity

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LiveWorksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the teacher.

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Jobs: occupations 1 - vocabulary exercises

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Jobs - occupations: elementary vocabulary exercises. Free interactive exercises - esl.

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Vocabulary exercises to help learn different types of jobs.

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Objects to take on holidays or vacations.

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Listen and match (Escucha y une los muebles)

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Possessive adjectives and pronouns worksheet

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Palabra perdida - Arrastra y suelta las palabras en la posición correcta dentro de la oración.

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Some nouns in English are countable - we can use them in singular and plural forms. Some are uncountable - they only have one form.
We often use a/an with singular countable nouns and some with plurals. We can also use some with uncountable nouns.
I've got a steak, some red chilli peppers, some potatoes...
OK, well, I've gota lemon, an apple ... and some chicken breasts.
I'd likea blue pen, please.
What are examples of countable nouns?

Here are a few:

OK, so for things you can count, like one pen, two pens ... Why did you say a pen, not one pen?

We often use a/an before singular countable nouns. Before words that start with a vowel sound, we use an, and before words that start with a consonant sound, we use a.

So is one wrong? As in Would you like one drink?

It sounds as if you're saying one (not two). If you're offering someone a drink, you'd say Would you like a drink?

But someone who works in a café might say, So that's one coffee and two lemonades.

So it's usually a or an for singular countable nouns and a number or some for plurals. How many is some?

It can be any number more than one.

I got some new jeans at the weekend. (a pair of new jeans)
Some teachers left at the end of the year. (we don't know how many)

Is some or a number always used with plurals?

No, have a look at these examples

I'm frightened of dogs. (dogs in general)
Strawberries have a lot of vitamin C. (strawberries in general)
I've got some garlic and some butter.
I'm looking for information about early rock and roll.
I haven't got enoughpaper.
You have to getpermission from the head teacher.
Do you want somecake?
What about uncountable nouns?

These are nouns that don't have a plural form.

So, I can use some with uncountables too?

Yes, we use some with both countables and uncountables.

How do I know whether a noun is countable or uncountable?

A dictionary will tell you. Usually dictionaries use symbols [C] for countable and [U] for uncountable.

Just a minute. You said cake was uncountable. What about I made a cake this morning?

Yes that's correct, but there's a difference in meaning.

I made a cake this morning. (a whole cake - countable)
Do you want some cake? (a piece of cake - uncountable)
A box of chocolates. (individual chocolates - countable)
I'd like some chocolate too. (a piece or pieces of chocolate from a bar of chocolate - uncountable)

I thought coffee and lemonade were uncountable too.

Yes, they are usually.

I love coffee with hot milk. (uncountable)
(uncountable)
I'll have a coffee, please. (a cup of coffee, countable)

Wow, so it's more complicated than I thought.

No, they're not really very difficult.

OK, they're easy. It's a piece of cake!

Yes, simple! A piece of cake!

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Some nouns in English are countable - we can use them in singular and plural forms. Some are uncountable - they only have one form. We often use a/an with singular countable nouns and some with plurals. We can also use some with uncountable nouns. I've got a steak, some red chilli peppers, some potatoes...

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This lesson you will learn how to tell the difference between a countable and uncountable noun

If there is a "a"/"an" in front of the word or "s" at the end of a word, then this word will be a countable noun.
Example of telling what is a countable noun
If you see "a motorbike" or "motorbikes", the word "motorbike" must be countable.

oranges, carrots, onions, pineapples, pears, bananas, sweets, noodles, tomatoes, mushrooms, grapes, strawberries, apples, eggs, snacks, potato chips, vegetables, cakes, pounds

bread, lettuce, milk, cheese, rice, beef, oil, garlic, meat, salt, ice-cream, sugar, pork, food, water, chicken(meat), butter, soup, tea, coffee, money

Sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable

egg, ice-cream, lettuce, coke, chocolate, chicken,

many, a few, few(close to zero), fewer

much, a little, little(close to nothing), less

Words used with both countable and uncountable nouns

some, a lot of (=lots of) , plenty of, enough, any, more

When we want to count the uncountable nouns, you have to put a phrase in front of the word.
Examples:
a bar of white chocolate, 3 bars of white chocolate

a bottle of milk / juice, four bottles of milk / juice

A jar of coffee / jam, three jars of coffee / jam

a carton of milk / juice, 4 cartons of milk / juice

a bowl of ice, a few bowls of rice

"Milk" and "jam" are uncountable, but "carton", "bottle" and "jar" are countable.

You cannot say 1 milk, 2 milks, but you can say "1 bottles", "two jars".

Sing = singular

pl = plural

Print the lesson on countable and uncountable nouns

To print the lesson on countable and uncountable nouns right click on a white space and choose print. You can click on the printer icon just below and to the right of the contact us menu button at the top of the page.

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Countable nouns uncountable nouns learning using pictures

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Countable and uncountable nouns English grammar lesson. Learning the difference between countable nouns uncountable nouns with examples and pictures

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There are twelve bananas in the fridge. There are ____ bananas. Is there ____ pizza in this restaurant? Patricia wants ____ orance juice, she's thirsty. Wow, look at the table! There are ____ things to eat!! Can I have ____ soup, please? There is ____ pasta in the fridge. Let's make some sauce! Don't buy apples, there is ____ fruit at home! Can I have ____ lemonade, please? There aren't ____ pancakes. Are there ____ milkshakes?

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There are twelve bananas in the fridge. There are ____ bananas. Is there ____ pizza in this restaurant? Patricia wants ____ orance juice, she's thirsty. Wow, look at the table! There are ____ things to eat!! Can I have ____ soup, please? There is ____ pasta in the fridge.

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For - English Grammar Today - a reference to written and spoken English grammar and usage - Cambridge Dictionary

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Your adult ESL students barely managed to politely smother their sighs and suppress the glaze from creeping across their eyes when they realized that today's grammar lesson would be a review on comparative adjectives. You know they need the practice, and if pressed, they're likely to admit it even if only in their heads. Still, this is not the time to bust out a worksheet, no matter how funny the questions on it may be. Yes, you're teaching adults, so your students realize the importance of the lessons, but you still want to get them engaged and talking, right? So let's do this!

What are comparative adjectives?

We use comparative adjectives to compare and describe the differences between two nouns (or pronouns). Adult ESL students tend to appreciate that there are simple but explicit rules to follow when using comparative adjectives, such as adding - er to the end of a one-syllable adjective or employing not as ___ as to demonstrate a slight difference. If explicit rules and worksheets ARE what you are looking for, you'd love my comparative adjectives grammar guide resource.

So why would you want an activity when you've already got the worksheets? Just as our taste buds hunger for something different, our students crave a break in the routine. The following activities will get them sitting up in their seats and take some of that performance pressure off you.

Activity #1: On the Spot Comparisons

Goal: Students link two possibly unrelated nouns together in a descriptive sentence with a comparative adjective.

Preparation: Create a stack of noun cards. These can be simply a noun spelled out on each card, an image to represent the noun or an image with the term. Now is the perfect time to incorporate a little review of previously studied vocabulary words into your grammar review activity! Click here for animal cards!

How to play:

Put students together in groups of 2-4. Give each group a stack of noun cards. Have one student from each group shuffle the cards and pass out an equal number to everyone in the group.

Choose, appoint, or otherwise have students decide who will go first. A quick round of paper-rock-scissors is usually accepted as a fair way to decide on the first player.

The first student sets their card in the center of the table, face up. The remaining students take turns placing a noun card of their choice next to it and creating a comparative sentence to link the nouns. These sentences can use the nouns as given, like "An elephant is not nearly as small as a hamster." Or, they could change the noun slightly for a sentence such as "A tiger's tooth is sharper than a frog's toe.

Once a comparative adjective has been used, students may not use it again. If someone makes a grammar mistake related to comparative adjectives or cannot think of a sentence to make, they forfeit their turn. I prefer not to penalize students for making grammar mistakes unrelated to comparative adjective rules. I want them to feel free to dive into their creativity and use more complex sentences rather than sticking to very simply formulaic sentences.

Whoever uses up all their cards first wins.

Groups that finish first can be encouraged to write down some of their favorite sentences that they or their group members said to later share with the rest of the class. Don't miss the subscriber freebie at the end of this article-it is perfect for this activity!

Activity #2: Fascinating Facts & Opinions with Comparative Adjectives

Goal: Students use the context of sentences to guess the missing comparative adjective.

Preparation: For page 1, make a half-page list of facts that incorporate comparative adjectives but leave a gap where the comparative adjective should be. Instead, provide the adjective in its base form. On the bottom half of the page, list an equal number of facts with the comparative adjectives underlined, highlighted, or in bold.

On page 2, reverse it. Page 1's bottom sentences go on the top with the comparative adjectives replaced with blank lines. Page 1's top sentences go to the bottom of page 2 with the missing comparative adjectives in the sentences marked. Now is a great time to use facts to go with whatever theme you have recently taught!

How to Play:

Pair up students with one as Student A and one as Student B. Give students the corresponding handout.

Student A reads aloud the first sentence from the top of their page, filling in the gap with the comparative adjective they think should be there. If they have guessed correctly, they win 5 points. (Remember, Student B has all the answers at the bottom of their page.) If Student A's guess is incorrect, they can try twice more. If they guess the second time correctly, they win 3 points. Third time is the charm? They get one point. But, if they missed all three times, Student B reads the sentence to them with the correct comparative adjective.

Now switch. Student B does the same with the first sentence at the top of their page. Repeat back and forth until they've completed all the sentences or time is up.

The winner is the one who won the most points.

Activity #3 Survey Says

Goal: Students ask questions using comparative adjectives, record answers, and write a one-sentence summary for the results of each question.

Preparation: Create a handout with questions and model answers (if your students will survey another class) for each. For example, Which do you think is smaller, an elephant or a whale? I think an elephant is smaller than a whale. Which language do you think is more difficult, Chinese or Tagalog? I think Tagalog is more difficult. Having model answers makes it easy for your students to give any necessary prompts to someone who is struggling to answer. If planning to have students survey others in another class, set up a begin and end time with the teacher of that class.

Be sure to choose a class that is either equal to or above yours in proficiency level and ask the teacher of that class to do a quick review on answering a comparative question with a full-sentence answer. I've found that telling the other class that part of the reason for the activity is for your students to practice speaking and that they should refuse to answer until the student has spoken the full question helps prevent students from rushing through to finish first. Having your students join another class for a speaking activity is great for those reasons.

Surveying another class

Tell students that they will practice using comparative adjectives in a speaking activity with students from another class. Point out that practicing/reviewing is helpful for everyone, so they must make every attempt to get the other students to give full-sentence answers.

Surveying within your own class

Tell students that they will practice using comparative adjectives in a speaking and listening activity with their classmates. Remind them that they must take the time to listen to each other's answers in full.

How to do the activity:

Give each student your handout. First, have them fill in the blanks with the comparative form of the given adjectives. Next, they must ask as many students as possible all the questions. You can also have them choose a certain number of questions to ask based on the amount of time you want them to speak to each person.

Students go from person to person, ask the questions on their handout and record the answers.

Once students have spoken with everyone or the time is up, have them write a short summary of their survey results. You may wish to provide some example sentences as a model for them to work from.

Pair up students and have them share their results.

Should grammar class be all activities all the time?!

You don't need to throw out worksheets entirely. They have value, especially in an adult learners' classroom. They are like staple food. They're reliable and dependable, and we take comfort in them. Activities are the side dishes that make it all taste that much better. They complement rather than replace the main dish, and we just might prefer them when that main dish has been overcooked.

Read more about grammar in adult ESL!

Comparative Adjectives: Resources Made for Adult Learners

If you need a comparative adjectives refresher and/or want a guide that spells out all the rules for your students, take a look at my Comparative Adjectives Grammar Guide & Worksheets resource. I also have task cards (printable) and BOOM cards (digital + self-checking).

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3 Fun Speaking Activities for Comparative Adjectives | Rike Neville

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Your adult ESL students barely managed to politely smother their sighs and suppress the glaze from creeping across their eyes when they realized that today's grammar lesson would be a review on comparative adjectives. You know they need the practice, and if pressed, they're likely to admit it even if only in their heads.

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Commom superlative and comparative adjectives

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Game to practice vocabulary and adjectives

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Superlative Adjective Exercises | Games4esl

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Practice making English sentences with superlative adjectives with these superlative adjective exercises. Includes both online exercises and PDF worksheets.

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A Site for ESL Kids and Teachers - Free Worksheets, PPT, Games and more...

This superlatives grammar game replaces the old game. The old video game practiced superlatives. This new game teaches children about superlatives. For example: Superlative adjectives are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality (the tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest). Review superlatives such as: smallest, biggest, fastest, slowest, cleanest...

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Superlatives Spin the Wheel Game | ESL Superlatives Quiz

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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
Student will use comparative and Superlative adjectives when comparing two and three nouns

Speech therapy, English language, grammar, spelling, reading, vocabulary,
Nouns and adjectives
Carol Smith Activities

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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Student will use comparative and Superlative adjectives when comparing two and three nouns Speech therapy, English language, grammar, spelling, reading, vocabulary, Nouns and adjectives Carol Smith Activities |

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Should or shouldn't online worksheet for Elementary. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf.

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You can set this page as a homework task for a group of students; doing so will give you a record of who has completed the task. Visit the teacher's section for more information.

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This is a mini game for practising prepositions in English. It is suitable for English as a second language students rather than native speakers. The prepositions are generally basic and the vocal is quite low level.

A preposition is a word or phrase that shows a relationship between 2 things in a sentence. For example the sentence "The book is on the shelf" contains 2 objects (book and shelf) and the preposition 'on' denotes a relationship between them. Other examples of preposition include 'under', 'by', 'with', 'without', 'because of'. In this game, all the preposition used are prepositions of place which means that they describe where objects are in relation to other objects.

The aim of this game is to give students an opportunity to practise prepositions in a way that has a clear visual context. And in a way that is interactive with immediate feedback. Students can actively move objects and see them positioned according to a preposition; it is hoped that through this, students can get a more concrete understanding of prepositions and their meaning. Each time a student reads and understands a preposition and then moves the object accordingly, they are re-enforcing the meaning in a realistic context.

To play the game a student just has to read the sentence and then move the matching object to the correct position. The objects can be moved with their a mouse or by touch using a mobile device. A total of 9 scenes are used in this game: front room, bathroom, bedroom, fridge, park, cafe, classroom, TV and office. These were chosen in the hope that they provide real-life context and match situations in which students may actually hear and use prepositions in their daily life. The prepositions used in this game include the following: in, on, under, above, next to, right, left, behind, in front of and between. For each of the 9 scenes there are 12 objects that must be positioned correctly; once this has been done, the student proceeds to the next scene. The scenes get progressively more difficult both in terms of the language and the time allowed.

If you think this game is too fast or too difficult for your students' English level, then you can play in 'slow' mode. To play slowly, just click on 'slow' at the title screen, or change the settings by clicking on the button in the game.

This game is made in Javascript using the CreateJS framework. If you have any comments, questions or feedback, then please use the form below to post a message or send me an email using the contact form linked at the top of the page.

Audio by Jason Wright - Crazy Uncle with a Mic

Please leave any comments below.

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This is a simple game for ESL students to practice prepositions in English. Listen to the audio and then move the correct item to the right positions.

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Cuestionario - Una serie de preguntas de opción múltiple. Presiona la respuesta correcta para continuar.

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Prepositions of place online worksheet for 2ª medio. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf.

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Prepositions of place + Places in town worksheet

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Prepositions of place online worksheet for grade 3. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf.

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Exercise 1

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Finished time: ago, yesterday, in 2005, on Tuesday, last week, 8 April, last holidays, Unfinished or recent time: never, ever, since, today, recently, yet.

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Simple Past: She studied English 2 years ago, He bought a new book yesterday, They finished the homework last night, I visited Rome in 2017, Peter drank a glass of coke last night , We slept 8 hours last night , In July, I travelled to Europe., Last Sunday, I visited my parents., We watched that movie three days ago., I went to Rome when I was 5 years old., Present Perfect: She has studied English for 2 years, He has bought 3 books since March, They have just finished their homework, I have been in Rome 3 times so far, Peter has already drunk 3 glasses of coke, We have just woken up , We have been friends since we were 4 years old., The children have already studied Question tags., Have you ever visited Europe?, I have never studied Chinese.,

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Simple Past: She studied English 2 years ago, He bought a new book yesterday, They finished the homework last night, I visited Rome in 2017, Present Perfect:

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Spotify (Present Perfect or Past Simple)

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Cada oveja con su pareja - Toca en la respuesta correspondiente para eliminarla. Repite hasta que todas las respuestas se hayan ido.

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Simple Past Tense (Regular-Irregular Verbs) worksheet

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What did you do last weekend? (Past simple) - A1 English listening test - Test-English

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English listening comprehension practice test for beginners and elementary students (CEFR A1 level). The past simple: Last weekend.