Grammar Lesson Plans Focusing on Tenses
These free ESL grammar lesson plans focus on learning tenses through a variety of methods. Each grammar lesson includes objectives, copyable materials for classroom use and a short lesson overview.
These lesson plans help students learn to use English tenses and conjugate with confidence. Many of the lessons focus on using related verb tenses during conversation, rather than focusing simply on correct verb conjugation. Each lesson includes lesson objectives, step by step instructions and copyable handout materials for in-class use.
Students who are often very familiar with standard object questions can have problems with subject questions, indirect questions, and question tags. This exercise uses a quiz to help students identify and improve their understanding of the differences i0 structure among the various question forms.
Lesson plan and exercises for ESL classes focusing on the future with will and going to.
Making conditional statements are an important part of fluency. This lesson focuses on helping students improve their recognition of the structure and use it in conversation.
Intermediate level lesson focusing on the use of question tags. Question tags not only help students confirm information, but they also help them hone their auxiliary verb recognition and usage skills.
Intermediate level lesson focusing on the differences between the standard object question and the sometimes confusing subject question.
Intermediate to upper intermediate lesson focusing on identification and written production of sentences based on the correct usage of time expressions.
Many students often confuse the usage of the modals 'must' and 'have to'. While meaning is generally maintained in incorrect usage in the positive forms, a mix-up in the negative forms can cause confusion. This lesson uses daily routines and an interviewing game to help students master these important modal forms.
Intermediate level lesson aimed at inductively reviewing names and structures of basic tenses.
Intermediate level lesson plan focusing on passive voice oral production skills through recycling language in stages.
Intermediate lesson focusing on the identification of a variety of time signifiers - expressions which could work in given Simple Past or Present Perfect setences.
Conversation Lesson Plan focusing on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice to discuss a difficult situation.
Lesson aimed at helping ESL students integrate the past continuous into their writing and speaking.
Intermediate level ESL lesson plan focusing on the use of present perfect and present perfect continuous