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Sometimes students tell me that they would like to do a revision lesson. I ask them what they would like to revise and they say, "Verbs, of course". Then I say, "What aspect of verbs would you like to revise?" and they reply, "Oh, you know - the past, the present, the future, and things like that." I say, "So you would like to revise the tenses?" and they say, "Yes". Here is a tense revision activity that requires minimal preparation and materials.

Language level: Elementary to Intermediate (A2-B1)

Learner type: Young learners; Teens; Adults

Time: 25 minutes

Activity: Writing sentences

Topic: Grammar

Language: The tenses

Materials: None

The English tenses (26419 downloads)
Lesson plan outline

1. Ask a volunteer students to draw a picture of an unhappy person on the board.

2. Ask your students to give the unhappy person a name and invent details about his or her lifestyle. Ask questions such as: What does he/she do? Where does he/she live? Is he/she married? Etc.

3. Elicit as many reasons as possible from your students to explain why the person is unhappy. Write these on the board. You can make suggestions too. Make sure you get a sentence for each of the following:

* To be (e.g. ... because it's Sunday night)
* The present tense (e.g. ... he has to go to work tomorrow)
* Present continuous (e.g. ... it's raining / his girlfriend is giving him a hard time)
* Present perfect (e.g. ... he has lost his cat / he has been dumped)
* Will/won't (e.g. ... his vegetarian wife won't let him eat sausages)
* Can/can't (e.g. ... he can't afford to go on holiday)
* Has got (e.g. ... he's got toothache)

4. Ask your students to copy the sentences (if they haven't already done so) and then rub the board clean, but leave the unhappy face intact.

5. Now ask your students if they believe in time travel. Tell them that everyone is going to travel exactly one year into the future. Rub out your unhappy person's sad mouth and replace it with a happy one.

6. Ask your students to close their books and recall (from memory) all the reasons that the person was unhappy a year ago. Write these on the board with the altered language. For example:

* It was Sunday night
* He had to go to work the next day (but he's on holiday at the moment).
* It was raining (but now it's sunny).
* He had lost his cat (but he found it again).
* His vegetarian wife wouldn't let him eat sausages (but they got divorced).
* He couldn't afford to go on holiday (but now he's rich).
* He had a headache (but he feels great now).

7. Finally, ask your students to describe the grammatical changes that took place during the transition. Write these on the board.

Present simple → Past simple
Present continuous → Past continuous
Present perfect → Past perfect
Will → Would
Can → Could
Have got → Had

Follow ups

Ask students to write a story about the character. What has he been doing during the last year? Why is he so happy?

Make a note of all the language that arose by photographing the whiteboard. You will then be able to make gap fills or other exercises for students to revise the points in question.

Variation

After step 2, ask students to recall and write down all the questions you asked about the unhappy person.

Comment

English teachers are sometimes asked why the Present Perfect is called the Present Perfect when it refers to things that happened in the past. Hopefully, this activity answers that question: Those past actions have an immediate and direct effect on a present state. In this case, Barry is unhappy (now) because:

* He's been fired.
* His dog's been run over.
* He's been arrested for a crime he didn't commit (so he says.)

During the second part of the activity, students are able to compare the Present and Past Perfect, and perhaps this can clarify things further.

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Sometimes students tell me that they would like to do a revision lesson. I ask them what they would like to revise and they say, "Verbs, of course". Then I say, "What aspect of verbs would you like to revise?" and they reply, "Oh, you know - the past, the present, the future, and things ...

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Active or passive voice? Online quiz on the use of the passive voice in English. Twenty-six multiple-choice questions illustrating when to use the passive and correct forms with different tenses.

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U.S. carbon dioxide emissions surged 3.4 percent in 2018, but that doesn't stop climate change deniers from peddling their "climate change is a hoax" snake oil [" U.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked 3.4 percent in 2018," Politics & the Nation, Jan. 8]. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climate Assessment reports late last year made it clear that the world must cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least 45 percent in 12 years to preserve any hope of maintaining a livable planet.

Twelve years. All of humanity should be tackling the climate change problem as though their lives depend on it - because they do. Do climate-change deniers not have children and grandchildren? For what reason are they willing to forfeit the welfare of future lives?

Two immediate needs are to convert energy systems from fossil to clean-energy technology and to tax fossil fuels at their source. Converting world energy from fossil to clean energy would stimulate economies and negate the need for developing countries to rely on fossil fuels to build their economies.
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The writer is a climate change adviser and board member of World Information Transfer, a nonprofit organization promoting environmental health and literacy.

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A treasure trove of free English ESL handouts pdf & doc, slides, video quizzes with reading & listening comprehension exercises, vocabulary & grammar practice

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I want to share a few pics that I am planning to use in today's elementary classes to practise Picture Description. I published this activity last year and it worked so well that I guess I'll be forever using it. So here it is again!

For this activity the students are sitting in pairs, one student facing the board and the other with his back to the board. Using the OHP, a picture of people performing something is displayed. Now, the person seeing the picture has to describe it in as much detail as possible and the other person has to draw the picture. Allow them four or five minutes and then choose the best picture. Below are some of the photos I'm going to use and some expressions they need to use. (note: we have just begun describing photos, so right now I am teaching the basics. Hopefully, I'll be teaching the contents in this photocopy soon ( Click to see it)

Introduce the photo: This photo shows.... I can see

Location: on the left/right , in the middle, at the front/back

The people (appearance and actions) She looks sad. He is reading

Your opinion: I think.... I like it because...

Easy Peasy! Have a nice weekend!

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1. Introduction

The photo/picture shows ...

It was taken by/in ...

It's a black-and-white/coloured photo.

2. What is where?

In the foreground/background you can see ...

In the foreground/background there is ...

In the middle/centre there are ...

At the top/At the bottom there is ...

On the left/right there are ...

Behind/In front of ... you can see ...

Between ... there is ...

3. Who is doing what?

Here you decribe the persons in the picture or you say what is happening just now. Use the Present Progressive.

4. What I think about the picture

It seems as if ...

The lady seems to ...

Maybe ...

I think ...

... might be a symbol of ...

The atmosphere is peaceful/depressing ...

I (don't) like the picture because ...

It makes me think of ...

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Tips and Example how to describe pictures in English

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Nearly every day somebody comes to the blog looking for a V For Vendetta lesson plan. I have talked about how much I liked the film but until now I haven't had the chance to write about a lesson that could be used to teach EFL/ESL stuff.

Many of you might question why I keep on insisting on using things such as films, songs and video games to teach. Isn't learning a serious enterprise ? I grew with comics, movies and video games and I believe that many of the things that make me the person I am today have their roots in these media. For example my political education cames as much from comics such as 2000AD as anything I learnt in school. They taught me more about the horrors of racism, class consciousness and the dangers of authoritarianism than anything than was then available in the British educational curriculum of the 70's and 80's.

1 Tell students that they are going to see a scene from a film which depicts an important event from British history ( Guy Fawkes's attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605). They have to take notes on what they see and hear in order to do some research of their own.

2 Ask students to see the first scene form the movie (preferably on DVD with the English subtitles) and take notes.

3 Students get together in pairs or groups and discuss their notes. Show the scene again.

4 If students have access (I wish, sigh) at the school they then go off for ten minutes and find out as much as they can about the event. Otherwise ask them to do this for homework.

5 Students the report back to the class/teacher on what they learnt.

6 Ask students to talk about the coups, rebellions, revolts or revolutions that have happened in their country in the last hundred years (you may have to work on the vocabulary before starting the discussion).

7 Ask them to make a timeline.

8 Ask students to discuss whether violent social change is ever justified.

Next lesson

9 Show a short scene from the later part of the film (for example chapter 18 to 19) and ask the how the world shown in the film is different/similiar to the one we know today.

10Students discuss their answers in groups.

11 For homework ask students to watch the film at home.

What is its basic message?
What evidence does it give to support it?
Do you agree? Why/why not?

12 Students discuss their answers in pairs then in groups then as a class.

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. "

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Ejercicio traducción presente simple inglés. Rellena los huecos y comprueba las respuestas. Ejercicio con auto-corrección.

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This is the second of four exercises to practise making all forms of the past simple.

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Q - Present simple vs continuous - Exercise 1.pdf

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En ocasiones, algunos aspectos de la gramática inglesa que creíamos tener dominados nos la pueden jugar y hacernos cometer errores inesperados; por ejemplo, podemos caer con alguna de las trampas del presente simple. Para que esto no ocurra, es muy importante tener nuestros conocimientos gramaticales al día y practicar de vez en cuando para que no se nos "oxiden".

Por eso, hoy te proponemos el repaso de dos de los tiempos básicos del inglés: el present simple y el present continuous. Además de ver un resumen de las reglas fundamentales, vamos a ponerlas en práctica con ejercicios de present simple y present continuous para repasar de manera activa. Let's go!

Las normas del present simple y el present continuous

Para empezar, vamos a recordar cuál es el tiempo verbal que debemos usar en cada caso. A continuación te explicamos algunos trucos para diferenciar el presente simple y presente continuo:

Empleamos el presente simple en inglés para...

Hablar de cosas que suceden de manera habitual. En este caso, suele ir acompañado de adverbios de frecuencia. I drink milk every day. He goes to the gym often. I walk in the park on Sundays.

Referirnos a afirmaciones generales o a hechos científicos. I like chocolate. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. Adults don't know everything.

Para eventos que van a ocurrir con seguridad en un futuro próximo. The train arrives at 6:12. Does the conference start next Monday?

Para dar instrucciones, esto es, en modo imperativo. Open the door. Please finish your homework.

Por otro lado, el presente continuo en inglés sirve para...

Describir acciones que están sucediendo al mismo tiempo que hablamos. He is having dinner right now. Is it raining?

Hablar de cosas que están ocurriendo en la actualidad, aunque no sea en este mismo momento. She is currently looking for a flat. Are you studying a lot these days?

Hablar de eventos ya definidos que ocurrirán en un futuro próximo. I'm not going to Samantha's party next weekend. Are you working next week?

Ahora, vamos a practicar un poco con estos ejercicios. Solo tienes que completar las frases propuestas con la forma adecuada de presente simple o continuo del verbo entre paréntesis. Encontrarás las soluciones más abajo pero recuerda, ¡no vale hacer trampas!

1) I _____ (work) for the Government.

2) The sun _____ (set) in the west.

3) The milk _____ (boil) already. Can you turn off the stove?

4) Peter is sick, so he _____ (not work) tomorrow.

5) I _____ to the radio in my way to work every morning.

6) I have a chronic condition, so I _____(take) a pill daily.

7) Who is that girl? Why _____ she _____ (dance) alone?

8) My mother _____ (say) she's 55, but nobody _____ (believe) her.

9) Where _____ you _____(work)?

10) Listen! They are _____(play) that song you really like.

11) I have cabin fever, I really _____(want) to go outside.

12) My grandparents _____(love) each other so much -it's very sweet!

13) I _____(stay) at this hostel during my next trip.

14) Please, stay quiet. I_____ (try) to work here!

15) My cousin _____(have) really long hair.

16) I often _____(sing) in the shower - I just can't help it!

17) It looks like Carlos _____(come) to the party tonight.

18) Right now I _____(spend) time with my sister.

19) Pedro _____(travel) to Madrid for work a lot.

20) Ssshhh! The baby _____(sleep).

Soluciones

1) I work for the Government.

2) The sun sets in the west.

3) The milk is boiling already. Can you turn off the stove?

4) Peter is sick, so he isn't working/is not working tomorrow.

5) I listen to the radio in my way to work every morning.

6) I have a chronic condition, so I take a pill daily.

7) Who is that girl? Why is she dancing alone?

8) My mother says she's 55, but nobody believes her.

9) Where do you work?

10) Listen! They are playing that song you really like.

11) I have cabin fever, I really want to go outside.

12) My grandparents love each other so much -it's very sweet!

13) I'm staying at this hostel during my next trip.

14) Please, stay quiet. I'm trying to work here!

15) My cousin has really long hair.

16) I often sing in the shower - I just can't help it!

17) It looks like Carlos is coming to the party tonight.

18) Right now I'm spending time with my sister.

19) Pedro travels to Madrid for work a lot.

20) Ssshhh! The baby is sleeping.

Para seguir practicando

¿Te ha sabido a poco? Si quieres seguir haciendo ejercicios de presente simple y continuo o repasar cualquier otro aspecto de la gramática inglesa, en internet puedes encontrar muchísimas páginas gratuitas para practicar. Te recomendamos que pruebes alguna de estas tres para empezar:

· BBC Learning English. La famosa cadena inglesa tiene un portal de lo más interesante para aprender inglés, con un montón de ejercicios. Está diseñado fundamentalmente para estudiantes intermedios y avanzados y aprovecha las noticias de actualidad para practicar.

· Curso-inglés. Este curso online es muy completo y tiene más de 100 lecciones y ejercicios para todos los niveles, desde principiante hasta avanzado. También te ofrece la opción de registrarte para ser parte de su comunidad.

· La Mansión del inglés. En este portal podrás encontrar ejercicios, libros para descargar, diccionarios de idioms y slang y mucho más.

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Task description & scene summary

The task is about grammar, vocabulary, listening skills and understanding the music video. It improves the student comprehension.

Children love music videos, especially teenagers. I created this video for my students and I focus on grammar, vocabulary and listening. It make improve the student comprehension.

Video length: 3 minutes 29 seconds

Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution License

First published: 2018-02-11, 12:46:09 (GMT+1)

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1)

Put the words in order: don't anything. I feel doing Today like

2)

Fill the gap: Don't feel like ________________________ my phone

3)

Fill the gap: 'Cause today I ________________________ I'm not doing anything

4)

Fill the gap: Throw my hand in my ________________________

5)

Fill the gap: 'Cause in my ________________________ I'm the freakin' man

6)

Fill the gap: I ________________________ it 'cause I can

7)

Fill the gap: I just wanna lay in my ________________________

8)

Fill the gap: So leave a message at the ________________________

9)

Fill the gap: Tomorrow I'll ________________________ do some p90x

10)

Fill the gap: I might mess around and get my college ________________________

11)

Fill the gap: But sorry pops you'll just have to ________________________

12)

Put the words in order: up feel phone. Don't picking like my

13)

Fill the gap: No I ain't gonna ________________________ my hair

14)

Fill the gap: I'll just strut in my ________________________ suit

15)

Put the words in order: anything. not I 'Cause I'm doing swear today

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song - English ESL video lesson

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Learn English in a fun way with the music video and the lyrics of the song "Radioactive" of Imagine Dragons