Category Present Simple

Picture-bound Travel Adventure

September 9, 2015 · by · in Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Advanced, Characteristics, Countries, Full Lesson Plans, Going to, Holidays, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Speaking, Training Teachers, Verb tenses, Vocabulary, Writing

Intermediate- level EFL students work in groups to write and tell a creative, cohesive travel adventure based on the people and places they select from pictures.

Visual Verb Variations

July 6, 2015 · by · in Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Advanced, Beginner, Full Lesson Plans, Intermediate, Level, Materials, Past Simple, Present Simple, Uncategorized, Verb tenses, Verbs, Vocabulary, Worksheets, Writing

Building vocabulary is fundamental to literacy and creative writing. This lesson gives teachers a visual model to help their students build verb alternatives and, thereby, refine their choice of alternative words so that the verb effectively describes their thoughts.

WH-Questions and Simple Present Tense Practice

February 22, 2015 · by · in 4 Skills, Activities and Games, Beginner, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Materials, Present Simple, Reading, Speaking, Uncategorized, Verb tenses, Worksheets, Writing

The communicative approach to language learning is prioritized in Ecuador, and, therefore, we try to promote classroom speaking practice with our counterpart local teachers and their students. Our students don’t have many opportunities to interact with English visitors, even in the largest cities of Cuenca and Quito, so it’s important for PC TEFL volunteers to provide practice at school. In […]

How Often Do You…?

February 22, 2015 · by · in Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Beginner, Flash Cards, Full Lesson Plans, Level, Listening, Materials, Present Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Speaking, Uncategorized, Verb tenses, Verbs, Writing

This post has instructions for a game that gives students practice asking questions using “How often do you…?” do a particular activity and answering the questions using adverbs of frequency.

companion dog

Love on a Leash

February 2, 2015 · by · in 4 Skills, Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Animals, Beginner, Full Lesson Plans, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Materials, Present Simple, Reading, Speaking, Verb tenses, Vocabulary, Worksheets, Writing

While dogs, “man’s best friends,” have long occupied a special place in US homes, keeping a dog as a pet in Ecuador is a relatively new custom. Certainly dogs have worked in the fields for centuries, but many Ecuadorians and other peoples are unaware that dogs have a remarkable ability to bond with humans. This makes […]

chance encounter

Chance Encounters

February 2, 2015 · by · in 4 Skills, Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Advanced, Beginner, Can and Can't, Countries, Family, Full Lesson Plans, Grammar, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Materials, Negative Statements, Past Simple, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Reading, Speaking, Sports and Activities, Verb tenses, Vocabulary, Writing

This activity uses pictures of a wide range of people for whom students will write dialogues that might occur if the individuals had a chance meeting somewhere in the world. The lesson plan is adapted from one created by Allegra K. Troiano, Senior English Language Fellow (ELF), US Embassy.

Chicago Food Tour Cultural Exchange

January 26, 2015 · by · in 4 Skills, Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Advanced, Countries, Food, Full Lesson Plans, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Locations, Materials, Past Simple, Prepositions of Place, Present Simple, Reading, Speaking, Training Teachers, Uncategorized, Verb tenses, Vocabulary, Worksheets, Writing

We love food, especially food that stimulates and surprises! EFL students and teachers are usually surprised to learn that the US population comprises every nationality on Earth. Realizing how diverse our country is–waves of immigration have been our history–many EFL learners understand that our language varies across the nation, not to mention internationally. This lesson […]

Pastimes

Pastimes Mingle

January 20, 2015 · by · in 4 Skills, Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Advanced, Feelings and Emotions, Full Lesson Plans, Grammar, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Materials, Past Simple, Present Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Reading, Speaking, Sports and Activities, Training Teachers, Verb tenses, Vocabulary, Worksheets, Writing

In this activity and lesson plan, adapted from an article from the US Department of State’s English Teaching Forum 2014, No 2, students mingle and interact, in pairs and then with the rest of the class, as they discuss pastimes.

Interview

Getting to Know You

August 6, 2014 · by · in Adaptable Activities, Advanced, Beginner, Full Lesson Plans, Intermediate, Listening, Past Simple, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Speaking, Training Teachers, Uncategorized, Writing

Doing interviews  in class or at teacher-training workshops gives participants the chance to learn about each other and is an appropriate activity for low to advanced language levels. Moreover, teachers,  moderators, and trainers can use this activity to evaluate the participants’ proficiency level during their presentations and make adjustments to the class or workshop agenda […]

Cooking to Learn Unit Project

August 5, 2014 · by · in 4 Skills, Adaptable Activities, Countable/Uncountable, Food, Full Lesson Plans, Grammar, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Materials, Present Simple, Reading, Speaking, Uncategorized, Verb tenses, Vocabulary, Writing

This is a final project for a Backward Design unit lesson plan focused on food vocabulary and giving instructions. Groups of three to four students record videos in which they prepare culinary treats they will bring to class.

Can and Can’t Unit Project

August 4, 2014 · by · in 4 Skills, Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Advanced, Can and Can't, Full Lesson Plans, Intermediate, Level, Listening, Present Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Reading, Speaking, Training Teachers, Verb tenses, Writing

This out-of-class activity, which encourages students to become autonomous learners, would be the final unit project for a Backward Design lesson plan for “can” and “can’t” usage. The activity requires students to work in groups as they prepare and present a poem or conversation that uses “can” and “can’t” grammar.

Human Sentences

February 24, 2014 · by · in Adaptable Activities, Beginner, Can and Can't, Comparative and Superlative, Conditional, Future Simple, Going to, Intermediate, Irregular Verbs, Must/Have to/Should/Ought to, Negative Statements, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple, Past Simple, Prepositions of motion, Prepositions of Place, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Pronouns, Questions and/or Short Answer, Verb tenses, Writing

This activity is a great way to practice forming sentences. It allows the students to work together and not feel embarrassed if they make a mistake. It can work for big classes too!

Conjugation Relay

February 21, 2014 · by · in Adaptable Activities, Future Simple, Going to, Intermediate, Irregular Verbs, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple, Past Simple, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Reading, Verb tenses, Vocabulary, Writing

This game is fantastic for reviewing verb conjugations and great for big classes. Students have to work in teams to try and conjugate verbs as quickly and correctly as possible.

Daily routines in present continuous and simple

February 18, 2013 · by · in Beginner, Daily Routine, Intermediate, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Reading, Worksheets, Writing

This worksheet combines the vocabulary for practicing daily routines with the grammar goal of discerning which form of present tense should be used in a sentence. There are two worksheets per page. Made by Romania PCV Jessica Brookins.

Present Continuous or Simple Worksheet

June 18, 2012 · by · in Beginner, Present Continuous, Present Simple, Reading, Worksheets, Writing

Students are asked to complete the sentences with the correct form of a verb, either in present simple or present continuous. There are two worksheets per page.

Daily Routines Worksheet with Word Bank

June 17, 2012 · by · in Beginner, Daily Routine, Present Simple, Reading, Worksheets, Writing

Students fill in a paragraph about their daily routine using vocabulary from a word bank. There are two worksheets per page.

How well do you know your classmates?

June 17, 2012 · by · in Activities and Games, Beginner, Listening, Materials, Present Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Speaking, Verb tenses, Worksheets

An interactive worksheet for students to practice the present tense by interviewing one another.

Where is Thumbkin?: Introduction to “to be” & pronouns

June 17, 2012 · by · in Beginner, Full Lesson Plans, Present Simple, Pronouns, Verb tenses

A great lesson plan to introduce younger students to “to be” and personal pronouns.

“Where is my…?”

June 16, 2012 · by · in Activities and Games, Beginner, Prepositions of Place, Present Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Speaking

A “hot or cold” game but with questions instead of having them move around the room.

American History

June 16, 2012 · by · in Beginner, Full Lesson Plans, Intermediate, Present Simple, Writing · Leave a comment

In this lesson plan, students will be exposed to American History while also learning how to use “to Be” and “to Do,” and using connector words such as “and,” “because” and “then” for complex sentence creation.