Grammar Workshop
This webpage is a selection of grammar videos and free downloadable PDF exercises. It is mainly focused on general English grammar but is still important in building good grammar awareness and correct use.
Tense Review
Tense Review Exercises – [All 12 grammar tenses]
Exercise Sheet:This worksheet provides valuable practice on improving your understanding of the English Tense system. It includes two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced level). Watch the video for an explanation on the 12 tenses.
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Passive Grammar Constructions
Passive Grammar
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides an overview of all tenses of the passive. It includes the structures, rules and example sentences. In addition, there are two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for a clear explanation of the passive.
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Conditionals / If Clauses
Conditionals / If Clauses
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides an overview of the five conditionals (zero, first, second, third & mixed). It includes the structures, rules and example sentences. In addition, it includes two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for more information on conditionals.
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Present Perfect Simple
Present Perfect Simple
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides an overview of the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous, It includes the rules and example sentences. In addition, there are two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for a clear explanation of the present perfect simple.
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Past Continuous (progressive)
Past Continuous
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides an overview of the past continuous and past simple. It includes the structures, rules and example sentences. In addition, there are two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for more information on the past continuous.
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Past Perfect Simple
Past Perfect Simple & Continuous
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides an overview of the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous. It includes the structures, rules and example sentences. In addition, there are two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for more information on the past perfect.
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Future Tenses
Future Tenses
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides an overview of the future tenses: will / going to/ future continuous / future perfect. It includes the structures, rules and example sentences. In addition, there are two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for more information on future tenses.
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Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides valuable practice on phrasal verbs It includes two practice worksheets (intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for a detailed explanation on phrasal verbs.
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Idioms
Idioms – idiomatic phrases
Exercise Sheet: This worksheet provides valuable practice on idioms. It includes two practice worksheets (high intermediate & advanced). Watch the video for a detailed explanation on 24 of the most common idioms.
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Paying Downloads
Tense Review (3 lessons: analysis, gap fill, speaking)
This is a great lesson to introduce / revise English Tenses. Lesson 1: students discuss a number of sentences & identify the tense & reason for use. Give out Tense handout (here) to consolidate. Lesson 2: tense review gap fill. Lesson 3: speaking exercise with lots of questions using the tenses. Example Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
Language Review
A really helpful worksheet to revise the key meta-language used by teachers in the classroom.
Language Revision Worksheet: The Basics
This lesson is a basic worksheet to revise key meta-language used by teachers in the classroom. It’s a great lesson to do at the beginning of EAP course because it is helpful revision of key terms that students are expected to be aware of. The lesson focuses on parts of speech, nouns (countable/uncountable), verbs (participles), pronunciation (syllables/stress) and punctuation (see example). Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
Academic Grammar Lessons
Passive Practice Worksheet
The basics of passive construction, use and rules – full explanation on web page
Passives: The Basics
This is a worksheet that provides an overview of the basic passive structures, the rules and tense exercises. It also includes a speaking activity. A nice lesson to revise the basic structures and use of the passive. Level ***** [B1/B2]
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Download: Informal Passive Practice Worksheet
Passive Practice Worksheet
More advanced passive structures – ‘impersonal passive’ and ‘to infinitive passive’. Also nominalisation (verb to noun) structures. Full explanation on web page
Academic Passive Structures & Nominalisation
An introduction to the impersonal passive structure ‘it is said that…’ , to infinitive passive form ‘ it is claimed to be…’. and how to nominalise verbs to nouns to show formality in writing. This worksheet provides key information and 10 writing questions.. Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] Example / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
Nominalisation Practice Worksheet
How to change verbs to nouns to make writing more formal…full explanation on web page
Nominalisation (verbs to nouns)
An introduction to nominalisation. This worksheet shows the basics of nominalising, practices changing verbs to nouns and includes three exercises from guided through to freer practice. This is a good writing practice activity with a fair amount of challenge for all levels.. Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] Example / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
Relative clauses
Aim: To support students in their understanding and use of defining & non-defining relative clauses.
Time: 60 minutes plus homework task.
Defining & Non-Defining Relative Clauses [new 2020]
This lesson is to support students in their understanding and use of defining & non-defining relative clauses.The lesson includes four tasks of guided practice and two tasks of freer practice (see worksheet example) Time: 60mins. Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] / Webpage link. / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
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Cause & Effect Language
Aim: To support students in their understanding and use of cause & effect language.
Time: 60 minutes plus homework task.
Causes, Effects & Related Language [new 2020]
This lesson helps improve students’ awareness of cause and effect language. It includes a language review section, lots of guided practice and freer paragraph writing practice. (see worksheet example) Time: 60mins. Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] / Webpage link. / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
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Compare & contrast
Aim: To support students in their understanding and use of compare & contrast language.
Time: 60 minutes plus homework task.
Comparatives & Superlatives [new 2020]
This lesson helps improve students’ awareness of compare and contrast language. It includes a language review section, lots of guided practice and freer paragraph writing practice. (see worksheet example) Time: 60mins. Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] / Webpage link. / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
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More Grammar lessons
Cohesion & Coherence
This worksheet helps to consolidate what ‘cohesion’ is with a focus on pronouns, word forms and summary nouns. It also includes a coherence sheet on key connections and two practice activities [webpage]. Example Level: ***** [B2/C1] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
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Parallelism Worksheet: 8 exercises
This worksheet provides an explanation of the key concepts of ‘parallelism’ and provides an error correction exercise to practise the key concepts. An awareness of this writing element really helps establish unity and readability in sentence structure. Example worksheet. Level: ***** [B1/B2/C1] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
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Academic Style: 20 key features to writing
This lesson brainstorms academic style / formality in writing. Teacher conducts feedback using visual highlighting and explaining the concepts. It follows with 10x practice exercises. Time: 60mins Example Level ***** [B1/B2/C1] / Webpage link. / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
Error Correction Practice & Answers
Teachers or students: This is a much harder worksheet of 12 sentences with 3 or 4 mistakes in each sentence. It includes answers. Good introduction to the correction code [webpage]. TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
Grammar & Vocabulary lesson
Noun Phrases Worksheet
This lesson is a worksheet to highlight what noun phrases are and provides valuable practice. It focuses on the key concepts of quantifiers, adjectives and nouns, noun + noun, noun + preposition and noun phrase combinations (see example). Level ***** [B2/C1] / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP
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