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Animal Facts: Fill in the Blank with the Correct Form of the Present Simple, Affirmative or Negative
Students fill in the blanks to make the animal descriptions true. Some verbs are negative and some are affirmative. All are in present simple. Follow-up exercise: students invent their own fill-in-the-blank sentences for their classmates.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Beginning Multiple Choice Test
This may be used as a placement exam, final exam or simply for practice to review basic question structures and answers before continuing with the present simple/continuous. Many common mistakes are taken into account so that it should be easy to "separate the men from the boys" when the test is corrected and to find out which areas need more prac...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Blizzard Text
This is an original text about some kids on an excursion in a blizzard. I wrote it to help them practice the weather vocabulary with the past simple/continuous. There are questions for them to answer on the second page and they have instructions to make some of their own questions and write a summary as well.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 17
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Connector Text
This is a description of a summer holiday written in the first person. It is to serve as an example of an essay with special emphasis on the use of conjunctions to make the writing more interesting. There are a great many conjunctions to be identified, explained and consequently used by the students. The second page is a question follow-up to be ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 21
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Dialogue: Going Out to Eat
A dialogue which can be used to practice normal English conversation. Students may be asked to give a summary (oral or written) after practicing it, or they might write their own dialogue using some of the vocabulary. I would follow up with a dictation and/or translation using expressions from the conversation in the next class.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 19
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Dictation, Present Perfect Emphasized
Twelve sentences (or pairs of sentences) to be dictated to students to reinforce the use of the present perfect with some of its accompanying terms: just, ever, still, yet and already. Have the students correct their own sentences in English (one person can go to the board).
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 4
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Fill in the Blank with the Future
I made this as an exam to test the students� use of some of the future tenses: shall, will, to be going to, present simple and present continuous. There are ten situations and ss must decide from the context which form of the future is best for each case. At the end, there is a small translation section for teachers of Spanish students which can ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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First-Time Traveller Text
This is a short text which emphasizes the Present Perfect. It is designed for students who have already started studying this tense. After the text (which may be used first as a listening exercise), there are thirteen comprehension questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 41
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Future Fill-in
These situations are slightly more difficult than the other fill-in worksheet I�ve submitted on the future. Students must fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb, be it using Shall, Will, To Be Going to, Present Simple or Present Continuous.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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Making Comparisons
Students must draw their own comparative conclusions about the descriptions. Using the information given, an evaluating sentence has to be written that uses a comparative (including equality)or superlative form. The last sentence may be written in the past; otherwise, all tenses are in the present and most are with the verb TO BE.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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