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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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Shopping On Holiday

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This free printable ESL / EFL worksheet aims at developing reading comprehension together with basic skills in writing / spelling.

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UNIT: Reading / Writing

TASK: Close (gap-filling)

PURPOSE: Practice using homophones

LEVEL: Intermediate

Identifying and using appropriately some widely used homophones (words that have the same or similar pronunciation, but different meaning and sometimes different spelling) is a difficult task not only for elementary level students, but also for intermediate level learners of English as a second or as a foreign language.

The more practice you offer your students, the better.

This particular handout can be used to support lessons build around either traveling / holiday or shopping topics. The exercise offers to read a story about going on holiday to Turkey and buying souvenirs. The text contains 17 sentences with missing words.

While filling the gaps, the learners will practice recognising and using correctly  up to 10 pairs of homophones, such as read – red, see – sea, were -where, two – to, buy – by, etc. The lay-out of the exercise allows for easy group-discussion of the answers, as every sentence is positioned on a separate line and numbered.

This also provides a teacher with an opportunity to set up a class discussion on appropriate layouts for written texts: if your learners would like to write their own story about a recent holiday, they must not start each sentence from a new line, but write the text as a whole paragraph. To make the exercise even more engaging for your learners, brain-storm what countries they have visited and what souvenirs are commonly brought from those countries.

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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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A Sightseeing Holiday In Paris

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UNIT: Writing

TASK: Proofreading / Writing

PURPOSE: Practice using the Past Simple forms of irregular verbs

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

Memorising the Past Simple verb forms of a number of commonly used irregular verbs and getting confident in using them in spoken and written language is one of the most difficult tasks for an ESOL / ESL / EFL learner. The more practice you offer your students, the better.

This particular worksheet will provide your learners with a list of 13/14 widely used irregular verbs with both Present Simple and Past Simple forms. The first task sets the learners to match the corresponding forms of the irregular verbs themselves which helps to recognise the verbs in a written text, remember their forms and spelling. Let you students keep the handout in their folders for further revision.

The second task reinforces identifying the target irregular verbs, as well as introduces a basic proofreading activity where the learners are to recognise that all the verbs in the text are used in their Present Simple form, which is a wrong choice for the narration, therefore the verbs are to be replaced with their Past Simple forms. At this point you might want to recap using present and past tenses in narrations: participation in a discussion will most surely develop your learners’ ability to make own conscious choice of an appropriate tense in their future attempts at  composing similar texts.

Whilst the third task does not provide for much freedom in writing, it allows the learners to concentrate on the accurate use of the target irregular verbs rather than considering own ideas, vocabulary, word order and other language points.  A free writing could be a great follow-up or extension activity, when the students are asked to write about their own / friend’s sightseeing holiday (following the task pattern and/or including a certain amount of the target irregular verbs).

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