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Monkey Forest Day Out: Writing

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UNIT: Writing

TASK: Matching / Proofreading / Writing

PURPOSE: Practice using the Past Simple forms of irregular verbs in a written text

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This free printable worksheet will provide learners of English with an opportunity to practice applying 16 commonly used irregular verbs in a written text about a family day out. A basic matching activity will help to learn or recall the target verbs. This task can be more interactive if you decide to use Irregular Verbs Cut Up Cards to support the activity. Locating the target words in a written text will build up learners’ awareness of the different forms of irregular verbs in relation to present and past simple tense of the story. The final task will encourage the learners to apply their knowledge of the target irregular verbs in order to rewrite the text changing the tense which the story is written in. This activity will not not provide for much freedom in writing, but it will allow the learners to concentrate on accurate use of the target irregular verbs rather than considering own ideas, vocabulary, word order and other language points.  A free writing task will be a great follow-up or extension activity for more confident learners, when they are asked to write about their own day out following the task pattern and with the requirement to include a certain number of irregular verbs in the text.

One of the most challenging tasks for ESOL / ESL / EFL learners is to memorise different forms of a number of commonly used irregular verbs and get confident in using them in spoken and written language. The more practice you offer your students the better. Look through our collection of similar worksheets and choose one to match your lesson: Grammar / Irregular Verbs

Should you like to carry on working on this particular topic, consider using other free worksheets based on the same story: Monkey forest Day Out: Listening or Monkey forest Day Out: Reading. For a range of activities based on other stories within similar topics, check out resources under the holiday and traveling tags in the box on your left.

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Bonfire Night: Irregular Verbs

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UNIT: Reading / Writing

TASK: Gap filling

PURPOSE: Practice using forms of irregular verbs

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This ESL / EFL worksheet helps develop and improve reading and writing skills by offering learners of English to practice using two forms (Infinitive or Present Simple Tense form and Past Participle or Past Simple Form) of ten commonly used irregular verbs. Each of the verbs is to be used appropriately in a set of three sentences written in Present and Past tenses. The sentences are based around information on Bonfire Night celebration also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The answers are provided on a separate page.

This activity can be used alongside other activities on the same topic.

Consider using irregular verbs cut up cards to pre-teach the target words or to check your learners knowledge in the end of the same lesson or during one of the following lessons as a follow up activity:

Irregular Verbs: Cut Up Cards

Would like to offer your learners more practice on using irregular verbs? Have a look at other similar activities and worksheets on the Irregular Verbs page under Grammar menu: there are many to match ESL / EFL lessons on other topics:

Grammar / Irregular Verbs (page)

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Irregular Verbs: Cut Up Cards

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UNIT: Any

TASK: Matching

PURPOSE: Learn two forms of some irregular verbs

LEVEL: Lower intermediate and any above

DESCRIPTION:

This particular set of cut up cards offers two forms (Infinitive and Past Participle) of thirty most commonly used irregular verbs. The cut up cards are designed to support any ESL / EFL activity based around learning and practicing using irregular verbs. The cards can be used as a full set or by chosen groups to pre-teach or reinforce target irregular verbs needed for a listening, speaking, reading or writing task in the beginning of a lesson or check the material in the end of a lesson.

To teach groups of irregular verbs which your students are unfamiliar with, you might want to use coloured copies of the cards, explaining that the verbs of each category are colour-coded: Infinitives or Present Tense forms on green cards and Past Participle or Past Simple Tense forms on orange cards. To recap groups of familiar irregular verbs, consider making the task more complicated by using black-and-white or grayscale copies of the cut up cards, so that the learners could rely on their knowledge to recognise which category, Infinitive or past Participle, each of the verbs belongs to.

Use these irregular verbs cut up cards together with the following worksheets:

My Journey to Manchester (writing)

A Sightseeing Holiday In Paris (writing)

We Go In For sport Every Day (writing)

or any other worksheets and activities based around using irregular verbs and posted on the following page under Grammar menu:

Irregular Verbs (page)

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A Letter To A Pen-friend

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UNIT: Writing

TASK: Completing a table / Proofreading / Writing

PURPOSE: Practice using capitals letters

LEVEL: Elementary / Lower Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This worksheet is designed for beginner learners who work on basic writing skills. The exercises offered by the handout allow for teaching and learning using capital letters for punctuating sentences as well as for proper names, such as names of people, countries and cities. The resource can be used to support ESL / EFL lessons based around personal details and / or writing a simple letter.

The first activity offers to read a simple letter to a pen-friend. At this point the teacher might want to recap / introduce a basic letter layout. The learners are supposed to identify that only lower-case letters are used throughout the letter, which is wrong.

The second activity requires to provide answers on the use of capital letters. This could be either a whole group mind-storming activity or a small group discussion followed by the whole group feedback. To reinforce the knowledge and to make notes, the learners are asked to complete a table with the examples from the texts, which would serve as illustration of the target categories of proper names where a capital letter must be used.

The third activity offers a simple writing task, which includes a basic proofreading exercise. To complete the task, the learners should read the letter in order to identify all the errors in the use of capital letter (these can be underlined, circled or highlighted). Next, the learners are to write down / copy the letter using capital letters appropriately. As an extension task, more confident students may write a letter of their own following the pattern. This could be either a letter to their own pen-friends or a reply to the Alisha’s letter.

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My Journey To Manchester

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UNIT: Writing

TASK: Matching / Proofreading / Writing

PURPOSE: Practice using the Past Simple forms of irregular verbs

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

A new addition to the collection of resources supporting teaching and learning of irregular verbs in an ESOL / ESL / EFL classroom. Working on the three activities offered by this worksheet, the students will practice identifying the target verbs in a text, matching the Present and Past Simple forms of 20 widely used irregular verbs and using appropriate verb forms in a written text.

The first task aims at recognising the verbs in a text, and at the same time it allows for introducing a simple proofreading activity where the learners are expected to realise that the Present Simple verb forms are used throughout the text, which is not the best choice for a text that is more likely to narrate the past events. The learners are supposed to come to the conclusion that the verbs are to be replaced with the corresponding Past Simple forms. Yet, it’s important to point out that the infinitives can not be changed.

Completing the table in the second activity is an effective approach to learning the target vocabulary, as soon as active matching and writing down supports memorising of the pairs of words together with their spelling. This will be reinforced by using the target verb forms while writing down an amended text in the third activity.

Would like to use similar activities in order to offer your learners more practice? Have a look at the collection of worksheets based around irregular verbs.

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We Go In For Sport Every Day

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UNIT: Writing

TASK: Labeling / Ordering / Completing a table / Writing

PURPOSE: Practice using the Past Simple forms of irregular verbs

LEVEL: Basic / Lower Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

The earlier you start teaching Past Simple forms of irregular verbs to your learners, the better as it will give them plenty of time to grow confident and apply their language skills both  orally and in written with more accuracy. This worksheet offers your students 6 most commonly used irregular verbs and a simple practice activity to help memorise them.

Reinforce the target vocabulary for sport activities with a basic labeling activity. Recap the names of the days of the week while working on a basic reading activity: re-order 5 sentences to construct a short story about one’s week starting from Monday to Friday. Pre-teach or check the knowledge of the forms of the target irregular verbs through completing a table, and finally practice using them in written sentences through copying down the second activity sentences following the correct order of sentences and replacing the Present Simple verb forms with the corresponding Past Simple forms from the table.

As an extension or a follow-up task, you might want to ask your learners to compose about 5 sentences of their own to tell about their participation in sport activities during their usual week.

This activity also provides scope for  reviewing words for places and adjectives to describe them: you might consider following the second (reading) activity with oral questions and answers, e.g. Where do I teach my son to ride a bicycle? and/or What is the park like?

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