Grammar Ideas
9 fun this and that games
Alex Case
Nine stimulating this and that classroom practice activities, including drawing games, active TPR games, flashcard games and a memory game
Alex Case
Nine stimulating this and that classroom practice activities, including drawing games, active TPR games, flashcard games and a memory game
How to teach predictions with will and going to
Alex Case
Teaching the contrast between future forecasts with will and future forecasts with going to
Alex Case
Teaching the contrast between future forecasts with will and future forecasts with going to
11 fun irregular plurals activities
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice activities for irregular plurals from “women” to “bacteria”, including irregular plurals communicative activities
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice activities for irregular plurals from “women” to “bacteria”, including irregular plurals communicative activities
10 irregular plurals games
Alex Case
Fun competitive activities for nouns which don’t take -s like “women”, “children”, “mice” and “crises”
Alex Case
Fun competitive activities for nouns which don’t take -s like “women”, “children”, “mice” and “crises”
How to teach future predictions
Alex Case
How to present different language to make forecasts about the future
Alex Case
How to present different language to make forecasts about the future
15 fun like and would like activities
Alex Case
Stimulating practice for desires and preferences with “like” and “would like”
Alex Case
Stimulating practice for desires and preferences with “like” and “would like”
11 fun passive voice games
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom practice for be + past participle, including passive voice communication games
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom practice for be + past participle, including passive voice communication games
13 fun superlative practice activities
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom practice of adjectives with -est and most
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom practice of adjectives with -est and most
How to teach regular plurals
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice of nouns with -s, -es and -ies, including regular plurals games
Alex Case
Stimulating presentation and practice of nouns with -s, -es and -ies, including regular plurals games
Fun Future Predictions Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom practice for predictions with will, might, going to, etc, including future predictions games
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom practice for predictions with will, might, going to, etc, including future predictions games
17 Fun Comparative Practice Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom drilling and speaking activities for adjectives with “-er” or “more”, including comparative adjectives communication games
Alex Case
Stimulating classroom drilling and speaking activities for adjectives with “-er” or “more”, including comparative adjectives communication games
12 Adverbs of Manner Games
Alex Case
Entertaining practice activities for “slowly”, “quickly”, “thoroughly”, etc, including adverbs of manner speaking and writing games
Alex Case
Entertaining practice activities for “slowly”, “quickly”, “thoroughly”, etc, including adverbs of manner speaking and writing games
21 fun Present Perfect and Past Simple practice activities
Alex Case
Stimulating controlled practice activities to help students compare and contrast Past Simple and has/ have + PP, including many Present Perfect and Past Simple speaking games
Alex Case
Stimulating controlled practice activities to help students compare and contrast Past Simple and has/ have + PP, including many Present Perfect and Past Simple speaking games
21 Fun Present Perfect Continuous Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating activities for “has/have + been + v+ing” for actions connecting the past and the present, including Present Perfect Continuous games
Alex Case
Stimulating activities for “has/have + been + v+ing” for actions connecting the past and the present, including Present Perfect Continuous games
18 Fun Comparative and Superlative Activities
Alex Case
Stimulating practice combining comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives, including both comparative and superlative drilling games and communicative practice
Alex Case
Stimulating practice combining comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives, including both comparative and superlative drilling games and communicative practice
How To Make Teaching Grammar Fun Again
Altiné Moumouni
English grammar can be challenging for ESL learners, so it’s essential to find ways to make it fun and easy for your students to digest
Altiné Moumouni
English grammar can be challenging for ESL learners, so it’s essential to find ways to make it fun and easy for your students to digest
7 Tips for Teaching Grammar
Altiné Moumouni
Altiné looks at how you can make learning grammar more enjoyable and effective.
Altiné Moumouni
Altiné looks at how you can make learning grammar more enjoyable and effective.
Tips for Teaching Prepositions
Joe Essberger
Some of the key points to understand when teaching prepositions, with tips to make your teaching even more effective
Joe Essberger
Some of the key points to understand when teaching prepositions, with tips to make your teaching even more effective
could, would, should Modals
Joe Essberger
Listen as German-born actress and singer Marlene Dietrich demonstrates her perfect command of English modals.
Joe Essberger
Listen as German-born actress and singer Marlene Dietrich demonstrates her perfect command of English modals.
Classroom Practice Of A/An
Alex Case
Activities for intensive practice of the two indefinite articles and the difference between them.
Alex Case
Activities for intensive practice of the two indefinite articles and the difference between them.
7 Games For Have/Have Got
Alex Case
Fun activities for “I have…”, “He has…”, “Have you got…?” etc, most of which also work well in adult beginner classes.
Alex Case
Fun activities for “I have…”, “He has…”, “Have you got…?” etc, most of which also work well in adult beginner classes.
Speaking Activities For Present Perfect With Unfinished Times
Alex Case
Fun oral activities for a use of Present Perfect that controlled practice is particularly important for.
Alex Case
Fun oral activities for a use of Present Perfect that controlled practice is particularly important for.
Speaking Activities For “Yet” And “Already”
Alex Case
Oral practice for present perfect with “yet” and “already”.
Alex Case
Oral practice for present perfect with “yet” and “already”.
10 Present Perfect For Experiences Activities
Alex Case
Speaking activities for the simplest use of has/have + past participle.
Alex Case
Speaking activities for the simplest use of has/have + past participle.
Interactive Practice For Present Continuous For Arrangements
Alex Case
Ways of practising the future meaning of Present Continuous For Arrangements through students speaking and writing to each other.
Alex Case
Ways of practising the future meaning of Present Continuous For Arrangements through students speaking and writing to each other.
Continuous Aspect Activities
Alex Case
Ways of combining the Present Continuous, Past Continuous and Future Continuous so that students can get a feel for the links between those three tenses.
Alex Case
Ways of combining the Present Continuous, Past Continuous and Future Continuous so that students can get a feel for the links between those three tenses.
Fun 1st Conditional Practice
Alex Case
Stimulating ways of practising “If + Present Simple, Will” sentences in the classroom.
Alex Case
Stimulating ways of practising “If + Present Simple, Will” sentences in the classroom.
Fun Activities For The Second Conditional
Alex Case
Stimulating ways to practise the imaginary situations and advice, negotiations and moral dilemmas meanings of the second conditional.
Alex Case
Stimulating ways to practise the imaginary situations and advice, negotiations and moral dilemmas meanings of the second conditional.
Adverbs Of Frequency Games
Alex Case
Motivating activities to practise expressions like “once a week” and “hardly ever”.
Alex Case
Motivating activities to practise expressions like “once a week” and “hardly ever”.
Essential Time Expressions
Alex Case
Common time expressions that students often misunderstand or are unaware of
Alex Case
Common time expressions that students often misunderstand or are unaware of
Fun Practice For The Simple Past
Alex Case
Drilling games and communicative activities for intensive practice of the Past Simple
Alex Case
Drilling games and communicative activities for intensive practice of the Past Simple
7 fun activities for mixed future tenses
Alex Case
Ideas on how to practise two or more future tenses together in ways that make their different meanings clear
Alex Case
Ideas on how to practise two or more future tenses together in ways that make their different meanings clear
Practice activities for “Going to”
Alex Case
Ideas for fun activities practising “going to for plans” and “going to for predictions with present evidence”
Alex Case
Ideas for fun activities practising “going to for plans” and “going to for predictions with present evidence”
15 fun activities for Present Simple/Present Continuous
Alex Case
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.
Alex Case
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.
Past Continuous activities
Alex Case
Amusing ways of giving students intensive practice of the Past Progressive tense
Alex Case
Amusing ways of giving students intensive practice of the Past Progressive tense
Explaining the Present Perfect Continuous
Alex Case
How you can give your students simple explanations to help them understand when and how to use the present perfect continuous.
Alex Case
How you can give your students simple explanations to help them understand when and how to use the present perfect continuous.
Countable and uncountable noun games
Alex Case
1. Picture difference Students ask each other “Is there any milk?” or “Are there any sandwiches?” to find the differences in their pictures. This is best done with photocopies of drawings which have been changed with tippex and pen, but is also possible with two completely different pictures from magazines. A variation that works well […]
Alex Case
1. Picture difference Students ask each other “Is there any milk?” or “Are there any sandwiches?” to find the differences in their pictures. This is best done with photocopies of drawings which have been changed with tippex and pen, but is also possible with two completely different pictures from magazines. A variation that works well […]
Fun activities for prepositions of time
Alex Case
1. Prepositions of time SNAP Prepare playing cards with the preposition of time replaced with a gap, with at least two different prepositions in the pack and approximately the same number of cards for each preposition- for example, 10 cards with “at” missing, 10 cards with “in” missing, plus maybe 10 cards with “on” missing. […]
Alex Case
1. Prepositions of time SNAP Prepare playing cards with the preposition of time replaced with a gap, with at least two different prepositions in the pack and approximately the same number of cards for each preposition- for example, 10 cards with “at” missing, 10 cards with “in” missing, plus maybe 10 cards with “on” missing. […]
Fun activities for practising A, An and The
Alex Case
1. Disappearing text Put a text on the board including examples of the meanings of articles that you have presented or are going to present, and have one student or team of students read it out loud. They then choose one word and that is covered or erased. The next person or team must then […]
Alex Case
1. Disappearing text Put a text on the board including examples of the meanings of articles that you have presented or are going to present, and have one student or team of students read it out loud. They then choose one word and that is covered or erased. The next person or team must then […]
Yet another 15 games for Reported Speech
Alex Case
1. Reporting the whole course Students report something someone in the class (including the teacher) said, and the other students try to guess or remember who said it. This is nice near the end of a course or as part of a revision lesson. 2. Tell on his errors Students watch a segment of a […]
Alex Case
1. Reporting the whole course Students report something someone in the class (including the teacher) said, and the other students try to guess or remember who said it. This is nice near the end of a course or as part of a revision lesson. 2. Tell on his errors Students watch a segment of a […]
15 variations on Grammar Reversi
Alex Case
Grammar Reversi is a game first described, I believe, in More Grammar Games by Paul Davis and Mario Rinvolucri and that I have used in almost every adult and teenage course I’ve had since discovering it. It is a variation of the game Othello, redesigned for language practice. The original game, Othello, is similar to […]
Alex Case
Grammar Reversi is a game first described, I believe, in More Grammar Games by Paul Davis and Mario Rinvolucri and that I have used in almost every adult and teenage course I’ve had since discovering it. It is a variation of the game Othello, redesigned for language practice. The original game, Othello, is similar to […]
More Reported Speech games
Alex Case
I always used to get stuck for interesting games that involved Reported Speech and so tended to skip through that unit of the book quite quickly and then spend far too much time on the First Conditional just because it is so much fun. Not anymore! After sitting down for some serious brainstorming the last […]
Alex Case
I always used to get stuck for interesting games that involved Reported Speech and so tended to skip through that unit of the book quite quickly and then spend far too much time on the First Conditional just because it is so much fun. Not anymore! After sitting down for some serious brainstorming the last […]
Fun ways of practising Reported Speech
Alex Case
Alex Case offers 15 ideas for getting learners to use indirect speech
Alex Case
Alex Case offers 15 ideas for getting learners to use indirect speech
Practising third and mixed conditionals
Alex Case
1. Options tree Students tell their partners about big decisions they have made in their life, and then decide with their partner how their life would have branched off from where it went if any of those decisions had gone the other way, drawing them on the page like an upside down tree. To add more […]
Alex Case
1. Options tree Students tell their partners about big decisions they have made in their life, and then decide with their partner how their life would have branched off from where it went if any of those decisions had gone the other way, drawing them on the page like an upside down tree. To add more […]
15 fun activities to practise will for predictions
Alex Case
1. Video predictions Stop the video as something is about to happen and see if students can predict what it will be, such as what the character will see when they enter the room or who will end up killing who. Make sure that you only need to watch a short segment to find out […]
Alex Case
1. Video predictions Stop the video as something is about to happen and see if students can predict what it will be, such as what the character will see when they enter the room or who will end up killing who. Make sure that you only need to watch a short segment to find out […]
15 fun games for the Present Continuous
Alex Case
From miming to brainstorming, from searching to racing. Great games for Present Continuous
Alex Case
From miming to brainstorming, from searching to racing. Great games for Present Continuous
15 fun Present Perfect activities
Alex Case
Here are fifteen fun ways to elicit, present and practise the Present Perfect.
Alex Case
Here are fifteen fun ways to elicit, present and practise the Present Perfect.