Grammar

Classroom Materials Teachers Guides Grammar Teaching Sample Grammar Exercises Classroom Activities

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Lessons Conditionals Unreal Conditionals Handout - A classroom handout with examples, explains second and third conditional sentences. Find Your Partner: Second Conditional - A matching activity with directions. Modals Find Your Partner: Modals - A matching activity for modals of inference, includes directions. Question Cards: Modals - A set of questions using present and past time modals. (For suggestions on how to use card sets, you might get some ideas from Ideas for Using Conversation Card Sets. Noun Clauses Recognizing Noun Clauses in Songs - A printable worksheet for classroom use, advanced students find the noun clauses in the lyrics to some popular alternative songs. I recommend giving one copy to each pair of students and asking them to work together. Answer Key for Recognizing Noun Clauses in Songs - My first time through the lyrics, I think I found 15 noun clauses. Needless to say, I had missed some. Like five, I think, assuming I'm still not missing any. Save yourself the surprise of discovering the noun clauses during class; print the answer key. Error Correction: Noun Clauses - Ten sentences for error correction. (Only sentence number five is correct.) Passive Voice A Passive Voice Race Game - A competitive team race game for high intermediate and advanced learners, includes directions. Simple Past and Past Progressive Scrambled Sentences: Simple Past and Past Progressive - See Ideas for Using Scrambled Sentences for activity suggestions. Simple Present and Present Progressive Simple Present and Present Progressive Classroom Activities and Ideas - a long list of suggestions and techniques for teaching simple present and present progressive.

Teacher’s Guides Teacher's Guides are practical aids for teachers using the Azar textbooks. They contain teaching suggestions, expansion activities, exercise answers and background notes on grammar and usage. Beginning Teacher's Guide for Basic English Grammar Intermediate Teacher's Guide for Fundamentals of English Grammar Advanced Teacher's Guides for Understanding & Using English Grammar

Conjunctions Grammar Practice    Neither Nor Either Too So But Exercise    Despite vs In Spite Of / Though    Conjunctions Practice    Conjunctions Exercise    Conjunctions Worksheet Gerunds and Infinitives - Ing vs To    Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise    Gerunds and Infinitives Worksheet    Infinitives vs Gerunds Exercise    Gerund vs Infinitive Worksheet    Gerund or Infinitive Exercises (2)    Gerund Infinitive Worksheet If Clauses    If Clauses Exercise    If or Unless Exercise    If Conditionals Exercise    If Clauses Worksheet Modals / Auxiliaries    Can vs Be Able To Worksheet With Vocabulary and Tenses    Must vs Need To / Mustn't Needn't / Have To    Can vs Could Exercise    Modal Verbs Exercise    Modal Auxiliaries with passive voice    Modal Verbs With Passives Pronouns    Personal Pronouns Worksheet    Reflexive Pronouns Worksheet    Relative Pronouns Exercises    Possessive Pronouns Exercise    Indefinite Pronouns Worksheet    Indefinite Pronouns Exercise    Who vs Which Beginners Exercise

All Parts of Speech Color Coded Parts of Speech -- A Kinesthetic Lesson? Mad Libs Books at BookCloseouts.com Ruth Heller World of Language Books at BookCloseouts.com EdWorld at Home Basics: The Parts of Speech -- found at Education World Parts of Speech Screen Saver -- found at PocketBasics.com It's downloadable, and it's FREE! Sentence Structure Teaching Sentence Structure as Family Units Grammar Games Grammar Rock Grammar Gorillas at Funbrain.com -- an on-line game for identifying parts of speech Grammar Rock Items at Amazon.com Grammar Rock -- found at The Unofficial Schoolhouse Rock Website Lyrics to each of the eight parts of speech songs plus the subject and predicate song.