Esl Activities To Try

Activities to try
Activities to help your students understand pronunciation, stress and intonation may include the following:
✓ Use a map of local train stations and streets to practice sayingplace names. You can swap the names for phonemes and see if students recognize them.
✓ Play a homophones games. Homophones are words which sound exactly the same but have different meanings, such as hereand hear. Say the word and see if students can come up with both spellings and meanings. You’ll be surprised to find that students often don’t know that certain words are supposed to sound the same.✓ Have your students put on a mini-play. Drama is fun and encourages students to use good intonation.
✓ Play ‘I spy’ using phonemes instead of letters of the alphabet.

Looking at types of adverbsThe first adverbs students learn are often adverbs of frequency that tell you how often something takes place. They’re words such as:
✓ Always
✓ Generally
✓ Often
✓ Sometimes
✓ Occasionally
✓Hardly ever
✓ Never
Other kinds of adverbs describe:
✓ Time: nowadays, today.
✓ Degree: quite, rather.
✓ Place: somewhere, here.

Tense Names
Past Present Future
Simple I ate I eat I will eatContinuous I was eating I am eating I will be eating
Perfect I had eaten I have eaten I will have eaten
Perfect continuous
I had been eating I have been eating I will have been eating

1stperson singular 1
2nd person singular and plural you
3rd person singular he/she/it
1st person plural we
3rd person plural they
Present Simple
He/she/it likes/goes/wants
Present continuous
I amlooking/driving
You/we/they are looking/driving
He/she/it is looking/driving
Present Perfect
He /she/it has gone/has sold
Present Perfect continuous
He/she/it has been going/has been selling
Iam/’m (not) here.
You/we/they are/’re (not) here.
He/she/it is/’s (not) here.
Am I here?
Are you/we/they here?
Is she here?





modal verbs
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