Help your students understand the building blocks of language. Choose some of the links below to start creating an online beginners’ class (CLB 1-4) on English grammar.
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Grammar lesson plans and resources
Lesson plans
A natural pair: nouns and adjectives
Understand how to use and combine two related parts of speech.
Describing actions: verbs and adverbs
Introduce your students to two connected parts of speech: verbs and adverbs.
Resources
Links to helpful external resources …
General grammar
- Easy English Boana: What are parts of speech? (YouTube video.)
- Ellii: Grammar Targets videos (Short and easy-to-understand videos with practice sections.)
- Learning Chocolate:
- Grammar (Practice the vocabulary for a wide variety of grammar issues.)
- Parts of speech (Game to guess the parts of speech.)
- TEFL Handbook: Parts of speech, ESL lesson plan for beginners (This lesson plan is classroom based but could easily be adapted for online learning.)
Verbs
- Games to Learn English:
Pronouns
Subject pronouns
- Ellii: Subject pronouns (Video introducing subject pronouns)
- Grammar Monster: Grammar test on pronouns (Scroll down to decide which type of pronouns to test.)
- Wordwall (Multiple games):
Object pronouns
- Ellii: Object pronouns (Introductory video.)
- Wordwall (Games to practice object pronouns or to compare them with subject pronouns):
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A natural pair: Nouns and adjectives
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Describing actions: Verbs and adverbs
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