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• Irregular Past Simple, Part 1
• Irregular Past Simple, Part 2
• Irregular Past Participle, Part 1
• Irregular Past Participle, Part 2
• Present Simple Positive with 'be'
• Present Simple Negative with 'be'
• Present Simple Yes / No Questions with 'be'
• Present Simple 'Wh' Questions with 'be'
• Present Simple Mixed Exercise 1 with 'be'
• Present Simple Mixed Exercise 2 with 'be'
• Present Simple Positive 1
• Present Simple Positive 2
• Present Simple Negative 1
• Present Simple Negative 2
• Present Simple Yes / No Questions
• Present Simple 'Wh' Questions
• Present Simple Mixed Forms 1
• Present Simple Mixed Forms 2
• Present Simple Mixed Forms 3
• Present Simple Mixed Forms Be and Other Verbs
• Present Simple Spelling Changes
• Present Continuous Positive and Negative 1
• Present Continuous Positive and Negative 2
• Present Continuous 'Wh' and 'Yes / No' Questions 1
• Present Continuous 'Wh' and 'Yes / No' Questions 2
• Present Continuous Mixed Exercise 1
• Present Continuous Mixed Exercise 2
• Present Continuous Mixed Exercise 3
• Choose the Present Simple or Present Continuous Exercise 1
• Choose the Present Simple or Present Continuous Exercise 2
• Choose the Present Simple or Present Continuous Exercise 3
• Present Perfect Positive
• Present Perfect Negative
• Present Perfect Questions
• Present Perfect All Forms Mixed Exercise 1
• Present Perfect All Forms Mixed Exercise 2
• Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 1
• Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 2
• Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 3
• Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 4
• Present Perfect Continuous Positive and Negative
• Present Perfect Continuous Questions
• Choose the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous 1
• Choose the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous 2
• Choose the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous 3
• Past Simple Positive and Negative with 'be'
• Past Simple Questions with 'be'
• Past Simple All Forms with 'be' Mixed Exercise
• Past Simple Positive Irregular Verbs (exercise 1)
• Past Simple Positive Irregular Verbs (exercise 2)
• Past Simple Negative
• Past Simple 'Yes / No' Questions
• Past Simple 'Wh' Questions
• Past Simple All Forms Mixed Exercise 1
• Past Simple All Forms Mixed Exercise 2
• Past Simple All Forms Mixed Exercise 3
• Past Simple All Forms Mixed Exercise 4
• Past Continuous Positive and Negative
• Past Continuous Questions
• Past Continuous Mixed Exercise 1
• Past Continuous Mixed Exercise 2
• Past Simple or Past Continuous Exercise 1
• Past Simple or Past Continuous Exercise 2
• Past Perfect Simple Positive and Negative
• Past Perfect Simple Questions
• Choose the Past Perfect or the Past Simple
• Past Perfect Continuous Positive
• Past Perfect Continuous Negative
• Past Perfect Continuous Questions
• Past Perfect Simple or Past Perfect Continuous
• Past Perfect Continuous or Past Simple Exercise 1
• Future Simple Positive
• Future Simple Negative
• Future Simple Questions
• Future Simple or Present Simple Exercise 1
• Future Continuous Positive
• Future Continuous Negative
• Future Continuous Questions
• Future Perfect Positive
• Future Perfect Negative
• Future Perfect Questions
• Mixed Future Perfect Exercise
• Future Perfect Continuous Positive
• Future Perfect Continuous Negative
• Future Perfect Continuous Questions
• Mixed Future Perfect Continuous Exercise
• Mixed Future Forms Exercise
• Make the first conditional
• Make the second conditional
• Make the third conditional
• Make the zero conditional
• Make the first, second and third conditionals
• Write your own endings to conditional sentences (PDF)
• Mixed Tense Reported Statements
• Present Simple Reported Statements
• Present Continuous Reported Statements
• Past Simple Reported Statements
• Present Perfect Reported Statements
• Future Simple Reported Statements
• Reported Yes/No Questions
• Reported Wh Questions
• Mixed Reported Questions (PDF)
• Reported Requests and Orders
• Reported Speech Mixed Exercise 1
• Reported Speech Mixed Exercise 2
• 'Say' and 'Tell'
• Passive with the Present Simple
• Passive with the Past Simple
• Passive with the Present Perfect
• Passive with the Future Simple
• Passive with mixed tenses
• Passive with verbs with two objects
• Passive in subordinate clauses
• Defining Relative Clauses 1
• Defining Relative Clauses 2
• Defining Relative Clauses 3
• Defining Relative Clauses 4
• Modal Verbs of Ability 1
• Modal Verbs of Obligation 1
• Modal verbs of Probability 1
• Modal verbs of Probability 2
• Causatives Exercise 1 (Have / Get Something Done)
• Causatives Exercise 2 (Have Someone Do Something / Get Someone to Do Something)
• Ergative and Unaccusative Verbs
• Embedded Questions in Statements
• Indirect Questions 1
• Indirect Questions 2
• Indirect Questions 3
• Time Prepositions 1
• Time Prepositions 2
• Place Prepositions 1
• Place Prepositions 2
• Verbs + Prepositions 1
• Verbs + Prepositions 2
• Adjectives + Prepositions 1
• Participle Adjectives (ED and ING Adjectives) 1
• Participle Adjectives (ED and ING Adjectives) 2
• Adverbs or Adjectives 1
• Comparative Adjectives 1
• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 1
• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 2
• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 3
• Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 4
• Let and Make Exercise 1
• Make or Do Exercise 1
• Make or Do Exercise 2
• Make or Do Exercise 3
• Make or Do Exercise 4
• Used To Exercise 1
• Used To Exercise 2 ('used to' or 'would')
• Used To Exercise 3 (be used to verb+ing)
• Phrasal Verbs Exercise 1
• Phrasal Verbs Exercise 2
• Phrasal Verbs Exercise 3
• A Little / A Few Exercise 1
• Bed / Home / Work / Town Exercise 1
• Superlatives with The and No Article Exercise 1
• Some and Any Exercise 1
• Some and Any Exercise 2
• Articles with Geographical Names Exercise 1
• Articles with Geographical Names Exercise 2
• As and Like Exercise 1
• Linking Words of Contrast (However / Despite / Although)
• Linking Words of Reason (Because / Since / As / Due to / Owing to)

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These free English Grammar Worksheets or practice sheets are an excellent way to improve your grammar. 

You can  download  and  print them off  as PDFs so they are excellent grammar resources for the classroom if you are a teacher. 

All the worksheets can be accessed through the links below and they are all  with answers . They are also available as interactive  online grammar quizzes .

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Adverbial clauses.

• Adverbs of Concession and Manner
• Adverbs of Cause and Reasons
• Adverbs of Time
• Adverbs of Condition

Conditional Clauses

• The Zero Conditional  
• Type 1 Conditional Clauses
• Type 2 Conditional Clauses
• Type 3 Conditional Clauses
• Mixed Type Conditionals
• Mixed Exercises (Part 1)
• Mixed Exercises (Part 2)
• Intermediate Worksheets 1  
• Intermediate Worksheets 2
• Intermediate Worksheets 3
• Intermediate Worksheets 4
• Advanced Worksheets 1
• Advanced Worksheets 2
• Advanced Worksheets 3
• Advanced Worksheets 4
• Defining and Non-defining

Present Simple

• Mixed Forms
• Affirmative
• Interrogative (Yes / No Questions)
• Interrogative (Question Words)
• More exercises
• Worksheets from the Web

Present Perfect Simple

Present perfect continuous, past simple.

• Affirmative (Regular Verbs)
• Affirmative (Irregular Verbs)

Past Continuous

• Uses of the Past Continuous

Past Perfect

• Interrogative (Questions Words)

Past Perfect Continuous

Future simple.

• Affirmative ('will' & 'be going to')

Future Perfect Simple

Future perfect continuous.

• Interrogative

Sentence Structure 

• Identifying Phrases and Clauses
• Identifying Clauses  
• Identifying the 8 Parts of Speech
• Converting Active to Passive Voice  
• Substitution
• Direct and Indirect Objects
• Subject and Object Complements
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
• Used to (repeated past actions)

Nouns and Pronouns 

• Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
• Sentence Nominalisation Practice
• Relative Pronouns
• Gerund or Present Participle
• Common vs Proper Nouns
• Demonstrative Adjectives (this, that, these, those)
• Quantifiers
• Types of Adjective 1
• Types of Adjective 2
• Possessive Adjectives
• Indefinite Adjectives
• Predicate Adjectives

Direct & Indirect Speech 

• Converting Direct to Indirect Speech  

Confusing Words 

• Affect vs Effect
• Be/Get Used To
• Hanged vs Hung
• Either or Neither

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• Irregular Verbs
• Gerunds and Infinitives
• Modals (could, should, would)
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Prepositions
• Articles (a, an, the)
• Passive Voice
• Other Grammar points

> PRESENT

• Present Simple (I go, I work…)    1   |  2   |  3   |  4
• Present continuous/progressive (I am doing)   1   |  2   |  3
• Present Perfect tense (I have been, he has played…)    1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7
• Verb To Be  – Present Simple (am, is or are)    1   |  2   |  3
• Negative form   1   |  2   |  3   |  4  |  5   |  6
• Be + Going to    see exercise
• Past Simple tense (I did, I was, I went, I worked…) 1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7
• Past Simple Tense: to be (was / were)  1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9
• Past Perfect (I had played)  1   |  2   |  3
• Past Perfect Continuous (I had been playing…)   see exercise

> FUTURE

• Future Simple (I will)  1   |   2   |  3
• Future Simple (I’m going to)   1   |  2
• Future Progressive (=continuous) (I will be playing)  1   |  2
• Future Perfect (I will have played)  1   |  2
• Future Perfect Continuous (I will have been playing)  1   |  2   |  3

> CHOOSING THE RIGHT TENSE

• Present simple or Present continuous   1   |  2
• Present simple or Present perfect continuous   1   |   2
• Present perfect simple or continuous   1   |  2
• Past simple or Past continuous    1   |  2
• Past simple or Present Perfect  1   |  2
• Past simple or Past Perfect  1   |   2
• Do or Make?  1   |  2   |  3
• Contracted negative forms of to be  (present simple tense)    1   |  2
• Have or has?    1   |  2
• Be or Have?  1   |  2
• Verb + ing  1   |  2   |  3
• Don’t or doesn’t?  1   |  2   |  3
• Have to (negative form)  see exercise
• The imperative 1   |  2   |  3   |  4
• Phrasal verbs (coming soon)

IRREGULAR VERBS

• Irregular verbs: put the missing form of the verb   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9
• Complete the sentences with the verb in the appropriate form   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7
• Infinitive, past simple or past participle?   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9   |  10

GERUNDS & INFINITIVES

• Gerund or infinitive?  1   |  2   |  3   |  4

MODALS (COULD, SHOULD, WOULD…)

• Could, should or would?    1   |  2   |  3
• Modals: choose the right answer  1   |  2   |  3
• Modals of ability  see exercise
• Can, can’t, could or couldn’t  1   |  2
• Must  1   |  2   |  3   |  4

ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

• Adjective or adverb?   1   |  2  |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9   |  10   |  11   |  12
• Make adverbs from adjectives  1   |  2
• Find the right adverb  see exercise
• Adverbs of frequency  1   |  2
• Find the right adjective  see exercise
• Compound adjectives  1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9   |  10
• Adjectives in ED or ING  1   |  2   |  3
• Order of Adjectives  1   |  2
• Possessive adjectives  1   |  2
• Comparative and superlative adjectives  1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6
• Comparative of Superiority   1   |  2   |  3
• Comparative of inferiority  1   |  2
• Comparison with as/as  1   |  2
• Superlative adjectives  1   |  2   |  3
• Object pronouns   1   |  2   |  3   |  4
• Subject Pronouns  1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5
• Personal pronouns: mixed exercises  1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9   |  10
• Possessive pronouns (mine, yours, their…)   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6
• Reflexive pronouns (myself, herself…)  1   |  2  |   3   |   4
• Relative pronouns (that, who, which, whose)   1   |  2   |  3
• Demonstrative Pronouns (This / That / These…)   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6
• Indefinite pronouns  1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6

PREPOSITIONS: at, on, in, for…

• Find the prepositions   1  |  2
• Contrary prepositions   see exercise
• Mixed prepositions exercises   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9   |  10   |  11   |  12   |  13   |  14
• Fill in the blanks with prepositions   1   |  2   |  3   |  4
• For or Since   1   |  2
• Plural of nouns    1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9   |  10

ARTICLES (A, AN, THE)

• a or an?    1   |  2   |  3
• a/an: correct or false?    see exercise
• a, an or nothing?   see exercise
• a, an or the?   1   |  2   |  3   |  4
• a, an, the or nothing?   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6
• the or nothing?    1   |  2   |  3   |  4
• Asking questions   1   |  2   |  3   |  4
• Answering simple questions   1   |  2

PASSIVE VOICE

• Passive or active?  see exercise
• Put the verb to the past participle   see exercise
• Passive voice mixed exercises   1   |  2   |  3   |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8
• Choose the correct answer   1   |  2
• Change active voice to passive voice  see exercise
• Find the missing word   see exercise
• Write passive sentences using the Present perfect   see exercise
• Write passive sentences using the Past Simple tense  see exercise

OTHER GRAMMAR POINTS

• There, Their, They’re  1   |  2
• There is or There are?  1   |  2   |  3
• Used to  1  |  2   |  3   |  4
• Much or Many   1   |  2
• How much or How many    1   |  2
• Too, too much or too many    see exercise
• Much, many or a lot of    see exercise
• Its or It’s  1   |  2   |  3   |  4

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• T056 - Past Tense Simple and Progressive
• PREP015 - Phrases with prepositions
• PREP014 - Prepositions
• PREP013 - Prepositions
• PREP012 - Prepositions AT, IN, ON
• T055 - Past Tense Simple and Progressive
• AD014 - Comparison of Adjectives
• WO003 - Word Order
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• T053 - All Tenses
• T052 - Past and Past Perfect Tense
• T051 - Tenses - Sentence Building
• AD013 - Adjective or Adverb
• GI014 - Gerund and Infinitive
• GI013 - Gerund and Infinitive
• GI012 - Gerund and Infinitive
• RS013 - Reported Speech
• RS012 - Reported Questions and Commands
• RS011 - Reported Speech
• RS010 - Reported Speech
• T050 - All Tenses
• T049 - A Cycling Holiday - Past Verb Forms
• T048 - Past Tense Simple and Progressive
• T047 - All Tenses
• PA016 - A Local Sports Centre - Passive Voice
• T046 - All Tenses
• PA015 - Verb Tenses - Active or Passive Voice
• T045 - Present Perfect Simple and Progressive
• T044 - Past Simple and Present Perfect (Simple and Progressive)
• QN002 - Ask for the underlined words
• T043 - Past Tense Simple and Progressive
• T042 - Present Tense Simple and Progressive
• PREP011 - AT, FOR, FROM, ON, TO
• T041 - Present Perfect Simple and Progressive
• T040 - Narrative Tenses : An Emergency Landing
• PREP010 - Prepositions: IN, AT, ON, BY, FOR
• T039 - Ways of Expressing Future Tense
• RS009 - Reported Commands
• RS008 - Reported Questions
• PREP009 - Prepositions : IN, AT, ON, BY, FOR
• QN001 - Ask for the underlined words
• T038 - Present Tense Simple and Progressive
• IF012 - IF Clauses - Type 3
• IF011 - IF Clauses - Type 2
• IF010 - IF Clauses - Type 1
• RC005 - Relative Clauses - Combine the TWO Sentences
• RC004 - Relative Pronouns
• T037 - Present Perfect Simple and Progressive
• MOD008 - Modal Verbs
• IF009 - IF-Clauses - All Types
• T036 - Past and Present Perfect Simple
• T035 - All Tenses
• T034 - All Tenses
• GI011 - Gerund and Infinitive
• PREP008 - Prepositions
• IF008 - IF-Clauses - Conditional 1
• Q004 - Quantifiers : LITTLE , A LITTLE , FEW , A FEW
• GI010 - Gerund and Infinitive
• RS007 - Reported Speech
• PA014 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• PA013 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• QT001 - Question Tags
• T033 - Irregular Verbs : Complete the table
• T032 - Irregular Verbs : Complete the table
• Q003 - SOME, ANY and compounds
• MOD007 - Modal Verbs
• T031 - Tenses - Sentence Building
• T030 - Tenses - Sentence Building
• PA012 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• PA011 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• T029 - All Tenses
• PREP007 - Prepositions
• PREP006 - Prepositions
• PA010 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• T028 - Past and Past Perfect Tense
• T027 - Past and Present Perfect Simple
• GI009 - Gerund and Infinitive
• T026 - Present Perfect Tense Simple and Progressive
• T025 - Present Perfect Tense Simple and Progressive
• T024 - Past Tense Simple and Progressive
• T023 - Past Tense Simple and Progressive
• T022 - Present Tense Simple and Progressive
• ART007 - Definite and Indefinite Articles
• T021 - Present Perfect Simple and Progressive
• PA009 - Active and Passive Voice
• T020 - All Tenses
• AD012 - TOO and ENOUGH
• Q002 - Quantifiers: EVERY, EACH , ONE , OTHER , OTHERS , ANOTHER
• GI008 - Gerund and Infinitive
• Q001 - SOME, ANY, EVERY , NO and compounds
• RC003 - Relative Clauses - Combine the TWO Sentences
• RS006 - Reported Speech
• PA008 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• PA007 - Passive Voice - Fill in the correct verb form
• T019 - Future Tenses
• MOD006 - Modal Verbs
• ART006 - Definite and Indefinite Articles
• ART005 - Definite and Indefinite Articles
• GI007 - Gerund and Infinitive
• PREP005 - Prepositions
• IF007 - Expressing a wish
• T018 - Past and Past Perfect Tense
• AD011 - Adjective or Adverb
• RS005 - Reported Speech
• WO002 - Word Order
• WO001 - Word Order
• MOD005 - Modal Verbs
• GI006 - Gerund and Infinitive
• ART004 - Definite Article THE
• PA006 - Passive Voice - Make sentences using the tenses in brackets
• PA005 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• PA004 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• PA003 - Passive Voice - Change from active to passive
• AD010 - Adjective or Adverb
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Five grammar and vocabulary revision games and exercises

Apart from being a teacher of English, I’m also a student of other languages. It means that I can experience the teaching as well as learning process first-hand. I observe myself, students and other teachers, and try to draw conclusions. One of them concerns revising vocabulary and grammar. Some time ago I noticed that as a student I enjoy and most of all need revisions at my Spanish lessons. I believe that they are an integral part of every lesson and special attention should be paid to them. If you develop a routine of revisions, your students will quickly get used to them and try to be prepared for every lesson. Here are some of our favourite grammar and vocabulary revision games and exercises.

Quizlet is an app which enables you to create sets of words for your classes. Students can access them on their smartphones or other electronic devices and practise by doing various exercises/games generated by the app. It’s a modern solution for flashcards and a fantastic tool for learning vocabulary. All our students love it and now can’t imagine studying new words in a different way! See these getting started videos and quick guide for students provided by Quizlet here . How do we use it for in-class revisions? It’s simple. We print English words from the created sets and at the beginning of the lesson students need to build one sentence with two flashcards (we encourage them to be creative). If you work with groups, make them build and ask each other questions with words provided. The other way we use it is to play a Taboo-like game . Students work in pairs and each of them has a few flashcards. One student tries to describe the word/phrase they have without using any keywords and the other guesses what that word or phrase is. This way students have a chance to use new vocabulary and you can check whether they know when and how to use it properly. This turns out to be a very dynamic activity and students come up with various ways of guiding each other to the right expression!

Get the Teacher’s account on Quizlet to get statistics on which items your students have problems with and focus on them during revisions

2. STORY CUBES

These are small cubes with images on all their walls designed to trigger ideas and stories. The basic idea behind Story Cubes is that you need to roll 9 dice and tell a story combining all 9 images that starts with “once a upon a time…”. Really simple and straightforward but does magic! There are various Story Cubes sets. Start from the original and explore – we recommend the Actions pack and Clues mix. We use Story Cubes quite often during our classes, not only for vocabulary revision games. We give them to our students and they have to prepare a story (sometimes just sentences) based on images as well as words we provide them. It’s real fun as students can combine various ideas and create crazy and sometimes illogically amusing stories. What’s more Story Cubes are a perfect tool to be used for grammar revisions. For example, you can make your students build conditional sentences relating to a few images from the cubes or practise past simple and past continuous tenses for story telling.

If you have less advanced students, try using 6 (or fewer) cubes instead of 9 at the beginning 

Dixit is a game which consists of a set of cards with very colourful and dreamlike illustrations. Our students really like them as they can build a lot of stories around them. Very often, they have to choose one card and using the words from the last class they need to build a story or describe cards to each other. They are also perfect for practising past tenses when telling stories. You can basically let your students use all tenses using the cards, depending how you setup the task, for example:

• Tell your students to pick one random card, look at the picture and tell what’s going to happen next.
• Ask your students to choose one card and describe what is happening in the picture and how it makes them feel ( present continuous vs present simple ).
• Use the card as a prompt for students to tell a story based on what they see in the card ( past simple  +  past continuous ).

Play the game with your students using the original rules  to practice storytelling and introduce a bit of competition

4. TRANSLATION TASKS

Apart from vocabulary revision games, we’re also fans of translating sentences for revising. It may be seen as an old-fashioned way, but it will help intermediate/upper-intermediate students learn how to use new language in context. The most common way we do it is:

• Give students 5-10 sentences in their mother tongue. They all should contain underlined words/phrases which you would like them to revise. Students need to translate sentences and recall English equivalents of the words from previous classes (if you want to make it more challenging, include various grammar points).
• Provide students with 5-10 gapped sentences which they need to fill with English equivalents of the phrases in their mother tongue provided in brackets after the gaps. It is a less demanding version of the usual translation exercise, i.e. suitable for less proficient students.

Let your students amaze you and don’t require from them a one-to-one translation. It is all about conveying a message and students will come up with various surprising ways of saying the same thing.

5. GAPPED QUESTIONS

In order to make your students practise new words/phrases while speaking, it is also a good idea to give them gapped questions which they have to complete with the provided words which appeared during previous lessons. After completing them, students answer them. Avoid using closed (yes/no) questions when creating such a revision for your students. Depending on your students level you may:

• Provide all the possible answers in a box
• Give 20-30% more options than needed and make your students use the correct ones
• Do not give students possible answers but develop the task in such a way that only one lexical class would fit (e.g. prepositions or verbs)
• Create a multiple choice exercise with 3-4 answers for each gap

Make sure that students can infer the meaning of the sentences without the removed words

How about you? What kind of methods for reviewing language work for your students? Share you favourite ones in the comments below so we can use them during our lessons.

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Hi, I use Kahoot and Jeopardy to revise grammar and vocabulary.

Do you use Kahoot during the lesson or assign kahoots as homework? I heard about the services but have never tried it out. What’s your opinion about it and which feature you like the most?

Kahoot is better to use for warming up, revision and closing! Mostly I used it for these 3 purposes!

My high school and adult ESL students LOVE Kahoot. It is good for fostering a little competition between students. I mostly use it in class to review vocabulary and grammar structures. I also use it for special holidays like Christmas or Halloween. Students can also download the app and play alone to review alone. ű

The main restriction is that every student needs a mobile device or computer that is connected to the internet. In a smart classroom or with students who have data on their phones it is easy. But sometimes it doesn’t work because the technology isn’t working or adequate.

Hmm, I’ve heard of Kahoot but never really tested it out extensively. It seems like a lot of work designing those quizzes/games but I guess I need to look into that. Thanks for the recommendation.

Kahoot live (played in groups) always works great in class. Ss cooperate, are motivated, and have fun. Even a “boring” fill in the gaps grammar revision exercise becomes exciting 🙂

I’ve already heard about this service, and really want to try it out. But I can’t imagine how to play it with the whole class (not every student has a device connected to the Internet). I’ll be thankful if you share your experience!!

Hi there! I liked Quizlet very much. But I didn’t understand if I have to pay. It seems to have an upgrade, but I’d like you to tell me if I can or not create lessons for free.

Well, you can create sets and assign to classes or just make them publicly available with the free account. The paid teacher mode removes the limit of classes you can create and gives you some stats on how your students progress and their score. I think it’s quite useful as you can see what words and phrases you should revise with your students.

Thanks a lot, Stan!

It’s a can of worms, Stan 🙂 Once you you show it to your students, they will never want to do anything else.

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