Less than $5 Adult Education Grammar Activities (by price, low to high)

Do your students have trouble determining when to use "I" or "Me"? This easy-to-follow PowerPoint includes: Simplified Rules for Using"I" and "Me" Easy to follow Examples Peer Workshopping Activity This to-the-point presentation is for individual, small, or whole group introduction and review.. Make learning to use "I' or "Me" easy!

Fun and interactive activity for students to relate real life writing to the use of comma rules. Have plenty of magazines, brochures, or newspapers on hand for students/small groups to cut out comma examples and paste them under the correct comma rule headings. Group or individual activity is enjoyable to students, who will discuss rules as they work! (Reminder: review the 3 Kinds of Writing PowerPoint and Using Commas in Writing to help students understand the different guidelines for academic, creative, and journalism writing, along with comma rules).

Help students understand and master the four kinds of sentences with this fun, interactive, activity! Students use brochures, magazines, newspapers, etc... to find real life writing examples of the four basic kinds of sentences: Simple Compound Complex Compound-Complex Great small group activity that gets students discussing rules, reading, and sentence varieties!

Four puzzles (crossword, maze, word search, double puzzle) with solutions that use St. Patrick's Day vocabulary. Fun reinforcement for vocabulary or to celebrate the Irish holiday!

Fun game to practice present perfect. This is my go-to game when I need to drill some grammar into my students. It's by far the most efficient grammar game. I love it because it's no prep, just PRINT AND GO. And my students love it because it doesn't feel like learning when, in fact, they do a TON of learning. We can easily spend the whole lesson playing battleship and they still want to play even after the bell rings.

It's also a great activity for substitute lessons or when I'm in a time press and don't have much time to prepare for a lesson.

How to play:

• It can be played in pairs or in small teams
• Hide your ships in the left field. They mustn't touch.
• Try to hit the enemy ships in the right field.
• If your enemy hits your ship, indicate that in the left field. If you hit your enemy's ship, mark it down in the right field. If you miss, mark it down as well. If you hit your enemy's ship, have another go.
• To win, sink all of your enemy's ships before he sinks yours.

Contains:

• detailed instructions
• 1 battleship sheet
• student sheet contains simplified instructions

The sheet focuses on:

• present perfect - affirmative and negative sentences, questions

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Battleship - Present Tenses

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Fun prepositional activity to get kids up and moving! Insert a map of your school campus, have kids illustrate their path, and travel the school as kids write sentences with prepositions that match their walk. Before teaching, use chairs and have students actively demonstrate prepositions: Stand beside the chair, go over the chair, in front of, behind...

Play with Palindromes includes 13 fun palindromes that read the same forward as backward. Uses visual images, an optional word bank, and fill in the blanks to play the palindromes game. Word Bank includes: mom tenet radar eve noon kayak level racecar stats eye dad redder SOS Extra Resource slide includes online links to palindrome books, lists, YouTubes. Fun learning activity! Use to explain, review, and assess.

30 unique Halloween themed task cards focused on the use of irregular verbs in past simple. Each task card contains a picture prompt. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Collaborative crossword as a bonus!

Contains:

• 30 unique task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 10 Kaboom! cards
• 3 answer sheets for Scoot
• instructions
• keys
• a collaborative crossword

This product focuses on the use of irregular verbs in past simple, it contains affirmative sentences.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Kaboom! Game

• print out and cut up the numbered sentence cards and Kaboom! cards, laminate (optional)
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and finishing or making a sentence using cues and picture prompts
• if they say it right, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back, feel free to use as many (or as few) Kaboom! card as you wish
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Scoot Game

• use the numbered sentence cards, each student gets a recording sheet
• place one card on each student's desk. If you have fewer students than cards, feel free to not use the whole deck.
• plan a route, make sure your students understand which way they are supposed to move
• start the game by having each pupil write the answer to their card on their answer sheet
• when students are finished, call out "SCOOT" and they move to their neighbour's desk where they write the answer to the card on that desk
• call out "SCOOT" again, students move again, continue until students have answered all the cards
• answer sheets can be corrected with the whole group, in pairs or collected for a later correction

Collaborative Crossword

• students work in pairs, each pair gets 1 crossword sheet cut in half
• to work out the crossword, students need to tell each other clues - definitions of vocabulary from their part of the crossword
• once the crossword are finished, students need to work out what the secret message is

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A fun way to introduce compare and contrast writing through collaborative learning and peerworkshopping for elementary, ELL, and emergent writers. Includes: Group exercise for working with compare and contrast Interactive comparing/contrasting essay writing assignment Handouts for group/individual listings (graphic organizer) Slide by Slide writing guide: intro, bodies, conclusion Easy to follow examples Thesis Intoduction Relationship Words handout Peer workshopping component Scoring rubric for grading Diploma for mastery of compare and contrast essay Great way to get students to discuss concepts and skills. Easy introduction for lower level learners. Also, great icebreaker activity! Students will be excited about compare and contrast writing Meets CCSS.

Make end mark punctuation easy to use for students! 13 slide pdf has student examples, peer workshopping activities, tips for writer as reader, reading with emotion, clarity, and meaning, as well as dangling and misplaced modifiers.Includes "Dear Jack" letter as a fun punctuation piece and "That Is" to get students to think about how punctuation affects meaning.Also, comes with Peer Workshopping End Punctuation Mark Check List handout.Great for introducing basic skills for emergent writers or for reviewing basic skills for test prep. Meets CCSS ELA.

Fun game to practice HAVE GOT / HAS GOT and to BE. This is my go-to game when I need to drill some grammar into my students. It's by far the most efficient grammar game. I love it because it's no prep, just PRINT AND GO. And my students love it because it doesn't feel like learning when, in fact, they do a TON of learning. We can easily spend the whole lesson playing battleship and they want to keep on playing even after the bell rings.

It's also a great activity for substitute lessons or when I'm in a time press and don't have much time to prepare for a lesson.

How to play:

• It can be played in pairs or in small teams
• Hide your ships in the left field. They mustn't touch.
• Try to hit the enemy ships in the right field by making sentences.
• If your enemy hits your ship, indicate that in the left field. If you hit your enemy's ship, mark it down in the right field. If you miss, mark it down as well. If you hit your enemy's ship, have another go.
• To win, sink all of your enemy's ships before he sinks yours.

Contains:

• detailed instructions
• 5 battleship sheets at various different difficulty levels
• each sheet contains simplified instructions

The 5 sheets focus on:

1. to be - present simple, easy (affirmative and negative sentences)
2. to be - present simple, more difficult (affirmative and negative sentences, questions)
3. have got / has got, easy (affirmatives sentences)
4. have got / has got, medium (affirmative and negative)
5. have got / has got, difficult (affirmative, negative, questions)

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Battleship - Present Tenses

Battleship - Present Perfect FREEBIE

Fun game to practice present simple and present continuous. This is my go-to game when I need to drill some grammar into my students. It's by far the most efficient grammar game. I love it because it's no prep, just PRINT AND GO. And my students love it because it doesn't feel like learning when, in fact, they do a TON of learning. We can easily spend the whole lesson playing battleship and they want to keep on playing even after the bell rings.

It's also a great activity for substitute lessons or when I'm in a time press and don't have much time to prepare for a lesson.

How to play:

• It can be played in pairs or in small teams
• Hide your ships in the left field. They mustn't touch.
• Try to hit the enemy ships in the right field.
• If your enemy hits your ship, indicate that in the left field. If you hit your enemy's ship, mark it down in the right field. If you miss, mark it down as well. If you hit your enemy's ship, have another go.
• To win, sink all of your enemy's ships before he sinks yours.

Contains:

• detailed instructions
• 5 battleship sheets at various different difficulty levels
• each sheet contains simplified instructions

The 5 sheets focus on:

1. present simple, easy (affirmative sentences)
2. present simple, medium (affirmative and negative sentences)
3. present simple, difficult (affirmative, negative sentences and questions)
4. present continuous, easy (affirmative, negative)
5. present continuous, difficult (affirmative, negative and questions)

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Kaboom is a fun game to practice reflexive pronouns, 75 cards in total. It can be played in small groups or with the whole class. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains multiple choice statements, students choose between OBJECT and REFLEXIVE pronouns.

How to play:

• print out and cut up the cards
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and reading the sentence
• if they choose the correct pronoun, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Contains:

• 60 pronoun cards
• 15 Kaboom! cards

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Modal Verb Kaboom Game - Must, Mustn't, Not Have To, Needn'tIrregular Verb Rhyming Kaboom Game (EFL / ESL / Speech Therapy)

Fun game to practice past simple and past continuous. This is my go-to game when I need to drill some grammar into my students. It's by far the most efficient grammar game. I love it because it's no prep, just PRINT AND GO. And my students love it because it doesn't feel like learning when, in fact, they do a TON of learning. We can easily spend the whole lesson playing battleship and they want to keep on playing even after the bell rings.

It's also a great activity for substitute lessons or when I'm in a time press and don't have much time to prepare for a lesson.

How to play:

• It can be played in pairs or in small teams
• Hide your ships in the left field. They mustn't touch.
• Try to hit the enemy ships in the right field by making sentences.
• If your enemy hits your ship, indicate that in the left field. If you hit your enemy's ship, mark it down in the right field. If you miss, mark it down as well. If you hit your enemy's ship, have another go.
• To win, sink all of your enemy's ships before he sinks yours.

Contains:

• detailed instructions
• 6 battleship sheets at various different difficulty levels
• each sheet contains simplified instructions

The 6 sheets focus on:

1. was / were (affirmative and negative sentences, questions)
2. past simple - regular verbs, easy (affirmative and negative sentences)
3. past simple - regular verbs, medium (affirmative, negative sentences and questions)
4. past simple - regular verbs + to be, difficult (affirmative, negative)
5. past simple - irregular verbs (affirmative, negative)
6. past continuous (affirmative, negative questions)

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Help students understand and find dangling and misplaced modifiers with this easy to follow and use presentation:

Includes:

definitions

examples

group activities

peer workshopping

students' examples of project

media links

Everything needed to teach, understand, practice, and master dangling and misplaced modifiers. Great for homeschool, flipped classes, independent study, writing centers, GT, AP, adult learners, ESL/ELL, and simple grammar brush up. Students will enjoy illustrating the wacky sentences!

Kaboom is a fun game to practice modal auxiliary verbs, 75 cards in total. It can be played in small groups or with the whole class. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Focused on the troublesome modal verbs MUST, MUSTN'T, NOT HAVE TO, NEEDN'T.

How to play:

• print out and cut up the cards
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and reading the sentence
• if they choose the correct modal verb, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Contains:

• 60 modal verb cards
• 15 Kaboom! cards

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Practice irregular verbs AND teach about the history of Thanksgiving with this set of 30 unique Thanksgiving themed task cards focused on the use of irregular verbs in past simple. When put in the correct order, the task cards tell the story of the very first Thanksgiving - starting with Pilgrims leaving England in search of religious freedom. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains:

• 30 unique task cards
• 2 number sheets to help students put the task cards in the right order
• instructions, incl. printing instructions
• keys

This product focuses on the use of irregular verbs in past simple, it contains affirmative sentences.

INSTRUCTIONS:

• task cards can be used as a whole class activity or in groups, depending on the size of your class
• if used as a group activity, print out as many sets as the number of groups

1. print out (see printing instructions) and cut up the task card, print out the pages with numbers
2. put the task cards (1 set) in a receptacle of your choice
3. pupils take turns pulling out a card and making sentences - they fill the gaps with the right form of the verbs in brackets (all missing verbs are IRREGULAR VERBS in PAST SIMPLE)
4. if they say it right, they get to keep the card
5. if they get it wrong, they put it back
6. the next pupil takes a turn; repeat until all task cards are handed out
7. (if done as a group activity, hand out the rest of the sets at this point)
8. once all the task cards are handed out, students put them in the correct order to create a story about the origins of Thanksgiving
9. they place the task cards in the right place on the pages with numbers
10. to check if they got it right, students flip the cards - the resultant picture should be that of a turkey
11. students flip the task cards back and read out the story in the correct order

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Five different fun and fast Mad Libs with Valentine's themes! Strengthen grammar and vocabulary skills while celebrating Valentine's Day. Comes with 10 colored image sheets for group play and 10 black and white images for individual play and coloring. Guided words sheets include: candy, chores, dates, friends, food, hobbies, occupations, physical activities and more... Excellent group and individual Valentine's Day activities!

Contains 13 different Tic-Tac-Toe boards and a Connect 3 Sides Game. Printable, no or low prep. Irregular verbs are grouped into sections by their alphabetical order. Even students who have only just started learning irregular verbs can play!

Product contains:

* 13 Tic Tac Toe boards

• 2 boards contain verbs starting with the letters B - G
• 2 boards G - L
• 2 boards L - S
• 2 boards S - W
• 4 small boards covering all the verbs
• 1 big "monster" board covering all the verbs

* Connect 3 Sides Game (check out the preview for detailed instructions)

• game board in 2 different sizes
• 80 colour coded verb cards
• a list of 80 irregular verbs in alphabetical order (colour coded)

List of 80 irregular verbs included in this product:

be, become, begin, bite, break, bring, build, burn, buy, catch, choose, come, cost, cut, dig, do, draw, drink, drive, eat, fall, feel, fight, find, fly, freeze, get, give, go, grow, have, hear, hide, hit, hold, hurt, keep, know, learn, leave, lie, lose, make, mean, meet, pay, put, read, ride, ring, run, say, see, sell, send, set, sing, sink, sit, sleep, smell, speak, spell, spend, stand, steal, stick, sweep, swim, take, teach, tear, tell, think, throw, understand, wake, wear, win, write

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Task cards to practice Present Perfect - BEEN and GONE. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains:

• 30 task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 15 Kaboom! cards
• 2 answer sheets for Scoot
• 12 sentence dominoes
• instructions
• keys

INSTRUCTIONS:

Kaboom! Game

• print out and cut up the cards, laminate (optional)
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and finishing the sentence - they need to select the correct option or make a sentence using cues
• if they say it right, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back, feel free to use as many (or as few) Kaboom! card as you wish
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Scoot Game

• use the numbered Kaboom! sentence cards, each student gets a recording sheet
• place one card on each student's desk. If you have fewer students than cards, feel free to not use the whole deck.
• plan a route, make sure your students understand which way they are supposed to move
• start the game by having each pupil write the answer to their card on their answer sheet
• when students are finished, call out "SCOOT" and they move to their neighbour's desk where they write the answer to the card on that desk
• call out "SCOOT" again, students move again, continue until students have answered all the cards
• answer sheets can be corrected with the whole group, in pairs or collected for a later correction

Sentence Domino

• print out and cut up, laminate (optional)
• to be used in pairs or small groups - print out a few copies
• pupils look for pairs - BEEN / GONE sentences with the corresponding clue sentences - which they place next to each other creating a line of matching cards

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