Lesson Plans:
ESL Ideas         (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional)
(B) Given a list of verbs, students locate and highlight as many verbs as possible in a newspaper article.
(I, T) Students practice changing verb tenses by rewriting sentences beginning with "Yesterday, . . . Today, . . . and Tomorrow, . . . "
(T) Students practice conjugating irregular verbs and writing sentences using various forms of each verb.

Present Simple
(B) Lesson uses structure of the present simple followed by an online self-checking quiz

Simple Present For Beginners
(B) Lesson provides reading dialogue and example table using simple present tense followed by online self-checking quiz

Grammar Check
(I, T) Activities include descriptions of verb tenses followed by online self-checking practice quizzes

Grammar Review Lesson: The final Scene
(I, T) Students use the final scene of a film to generate grammar review questions and explanations using a wide variety of tense forms

Verb Tenses
(I, T) Active and passive tense verb chart

Avoid Verb Tense Errors
(I, T) Charts include past, present, and future tense verbs.  Each is divided into simple, progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive.

Sequence of Tenses
(I, T) Handout describes simple present, present perfect, simple past, past perfect, future, and future perfect including sentence examples

Verbs with Helpers
(I, T) Handout describes recent past (present perfect), distant past (past perfect), present continuous action (present progressive), past continuous action (past progressive), and other helping verbs (modals) including supporting examples

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