How often do your young learners study grammar? Always, often, sometimes, or never? Frequency adverbs are very common for talking about things like daily routines and how often we do certain actions. Our NEW Adverbs of Frequency lesson gives students ample speaking and writing practice with this grammar target! (more…)
There are three ways to express the future tense in English: will, be going to, and the present progressive. We’ve got a NEW grammar lesson on the Simple Future that covers when and how to use the three future forms! (more…)
The English language has many modals—words that come before verbs and provide extra meaning such as ability, necessity, possibility, etc. The modals of ability, can and could, are useful for students to learn early on. We’ve created a new Modals of Ability lesson that centers around a common theme: hobbies and leisure activities! (more…)
A lesson on there is / there are is useful for low-level students for many reasons. It uses the simple present, a very common verb tense. It demonstrates subject-verb agreement. It introduces students to prepositions of place (since we often mention a location in this type of sentence). And students will also learn vocabulary on food and containers in our There Is / There Are lesson! (more…)
Whenever people ask my daughter about her trip to Myrtle Beach she always mentions the seafood buffet. It had crab legs and prawns and lobster. But like most buffets that cater to families, it also had chicken fingers and pizza! (Should I mention all-you-can-eat ice cream?)
Here is a fun activity to try with your students if you’re doing a food-themed unit. This activity is useful for practicing countable and uncountable nouns. You can also use it to review “some” and “any”.
1. Introduce the word “buffet” to your students. Help them with the proper pronunciation of this word. (more…)
