All Mixed tenses articles

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Emotional Treasure Hunt

Boost your students’ vocabulary and speaking skills with this engaging board game.

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Grammar & Vocabulary Practice: How were you feeling?

Reinforce the use of verb to be in past tense and help your students talk about thier emotions with this useful worksheet.

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Grammar Cards: Conditionals

Boost your students’ vocabulary with this useful collection of prepositional phrases.

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Grammar Cards: Using Prepositional Phrases

Boost your students’ vocabulary with this useful collection of prepositional phrases.

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Grammar Cards: Talking About Time

Help your students practise talking about time using different prepositions and time expressions.

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Grammar Cards: Talking About Locations & Directions

Help your students practise asking for and giving directions with this set of grammar cards.

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Grammar Cards: Pronouns and Personal Titles for Talking About People

Help your students practise talking to and about people using different pronouns and personal titles.

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Grammar Cards: Describing Objects, People & Places

Help your students practise describing objects, people, and places with this set of descriptive adjective cards.

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Grammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past Participle

Help your students learn the past participle form of irregular verbs.

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Grammar Cards: Regular Verbs in Past & Past Participle

Help your students learn the past & past participle forms of regular verbs.

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Grammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past

Help your students practice talking about Past Actions using irregular verbs.

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Grammar Cards: Talking About Habits & Routines

Help your students practice discussing Habits & Routines using different verbs, time expressions, and frequency adverbs.

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Lesson Share: Talking about the future

Jessica Rundell wins the lesson share competition with a lesson on future forms and how to choose the right one in conversation.

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Explain! Past perfect continuous

A speaking card game at intermediate level to practise the use of past perfect continuous.

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Grammar: have got

Scott Thornbury explains how 'have got' came to have its modern meaning and usage.

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The corpus principle – Songs

Jamie Keddie looks at how we can harness popular technologies, such as media players or lyric search sites, to illustrate language points in the classroom.

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Present perfect and past simple 5

A British English worksheet to put the conversations in the correct order to practise using the present simple and past perfect.

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Present Perfect and Past Simple 5

Put the conversations in the correct order to practise using the present simple and past perfect.

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Grammar: practising the present and past simple tenses

Imaginative suggestions for teaching the present and past simple tenses to children.

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Have you ever …?

An American English worksheet to play a game by asking and answering questions about experiences.