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Helping Verbs: Grammar for ESL/ELL
English language learners act out verbs, discuss their importance in constructing grammatically correct sentences, and then learn about helping verbs. They use helping verbs in a sentence then discuss how they are different from action...
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Can you write?
In this ESL worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle using action verbs. Illustrations are included for six clues needed to complete the puzzle.
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Can - for Ability
You can do it! Practice action verbs and using can for ability with a series of activities designed for English learners. Kids jump, stomp, and turn as they discuss the things they can and can't do.
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ESL: Action Verbs: Using Hands
In this ESL action verbs activity, students match verbs to pictures and fill in blanks in sentences with verbs that describe something done with hands.
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Actions - Present Continuous
What are you doing? Why, studying the present continuous tense, of course. Language learners engage in activities and exercises that provide them with practice crafting and answering questions using the present continuous tense.
University of Hawaiʻi
Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time
When you ask a fourth grader to write a sentence in the past perfect progressive tense, there might be some confusion. But with a presentation that features several different verb tenses, along with examples and a handy timeline, your...
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Action 1- ESL
In this ESL action words worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing things. Students match the pictures to the verbs that describe them.
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Actions
In this action words worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict an action. From 4 choices, students select the word that best describes the action. This is intended for ESL use.
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Word Scramble: Actions
For this ESL word scramble activity worksheet, students practice their problem solving skills as they unscramble 12 action words.
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Present Time: ESL
Review the basics with your ESL students. This presentation covers basic English Grammar focusing specifically on simple present, present progressive, adverbs of frequency, and short answers. This is a content review and intended to...
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ESL Action Verbs Matching Worksheet
In this ESL action verb matching instructional activity, students match a clip art picture of a person performing an action to the sentence that names it. They complete 5 examples.
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Look, See & Watch
Help your ESL students learn the difference between "look," "see," and "watch" with this practice worksheet. Ten questions provide sentences for English learners to complete, as well as the multiple choice options. The verbs are...
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Begin & Start
Complete the sentences with "begin" or start" in this multiple-choice worksheet. After a lesson on context clues in your ESL class, use this activity as a class assignment to reinforce their skills, or as a quiz to assess their learning.
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ESL Actions Matching Game Worksheet
In this ESL action word/verb worksheet, students examine 10 pictures of actions such as rollerblading, taking photos, reading a comic book, and swimming. They match the pictures to the words or phrases that describe them.
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ESL: Actions Word Search and Collocation
In this action word worksheet, students find a set of 19 action words in a word search puzzle, then match nouns with verbs. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Hop! Jump! Turn!
Students demonstrate action words, express meaning through mime, and demonstrate memory and aural comprehension skills. They view action words through pictures, and act them out.
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Drill - Sentences with 'do'
For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite fifteen sentences using the action verb be. Students study the example given for each category of sentences.
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ESL Actions- Matching Worksheet
In this ESL actions/verbs matching worksheet, students match 10 words to the picture that shows the action. They see words such as walk, dance, swim, and play.
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ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
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My Worksheet- Action (What Is He/She Doing?)
In this action words worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students read the question "What is he/she doing?" and write the action word that describes the picture.
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Actions Match 1
In this ESL action word vocabulary worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict actions. Students match these with the words that describe them.
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Beginning Daily Activities Unit
Begin each day with a warm-up that has ELLs focusing their minds on a skill that will be taught that day. Focusing on verbs, each daily lesson reinforces study and self-management skills, helps learners become proficient in working with...
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Look at Us!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
Start off your young English language learners with this packet of materials, which covers three weeks of instructions. After completing the unit, kids will have practiced the letters K through Z, read several story books, talked with...
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Verbs 1
In this ESL verbs vocabulary worksheet, learners analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing different activities. Students match these pictures to the verbs that describe them.