Another activity is available from the AllEnglish collection for you to use in practice or in your classrooms.
Here’s a hint: less is used with non-count nouns; fewer is used with count nouns. They both mean a lower quantity.
This is free to use. Just remember to credit AllEnglish as the reference.
Practice combining words to make contractions with this activity. Here’s another activity to practice the difference between contractions and possessives.
Watch this video for suggestions on how to use a or an correctly.
Here are links to more activities to practice a or an:
Sources on the internet state, and I agree, that the standard is to call it Daylight Saving Time (no -s on saving)
I recommend just remembering this, but some people like rules, so here’s my attempt:
Consistent with the rule that nouns that function as adjectives are never plural (except the word sport, as in sports bar, or sports team), if you put the gerund (noun) saving in front of the word time, there is no need for an -s ending on saving.
Click here for an activity to practice this rule.
However, the rule is challenged when you use the word saving to modify bond or account, which become savings bond and savings account.
In marketing and consumer materials, the word savings is used as a plural noun as seen in these examples: “Storewide Savings” and “Mega Sale Savings“.
Incidentally, in 2010 in the United States (but not all states), Daylight Saving Time begins on November 7, 2010 at 2:00 am.
Answer: Make lists!
If you’re a student, and your teacher has been telling you that you need to practice more, or you need to work on your vocabulary (you know who you are!), make a list! This will help you with classification as well as vocabulary growth. Do you need to go to the grocery store? Make a list! Would you like to learn what’s going on in your neighborhood this weekend? Make a list!
Teachers, if you have an additional 2 minutes in class, it’s easy to have students divide into partners that compete to write the longest list. It helps students organize their thinking for classification essays, builds their vocabulary, and adds a little friendly competition to make the class a little more challenging.
Click here for the link that describes one version of this activity.
Here’s an activity you can use to practice the difference between the Past Simple and the Past Progressive. Remember: use the past simple if the action happened once in the past; use the past progressive if the action happened over a period of time in the past.
Past Simple and the Past Progressive
This activity is also available in PDF.
In my experience, it’s always been easier to teach the future with will after a couple of grueling semesters of drilling irregular past forms and mastering the verb to be with the present participle for the present progressive. The ease of this verb tense is a welcome change.
Learning the future with will is like a vacation! So, as summer comes to an end, and you think about your future classes, here’s an activity to help you practice changing verbs from the present simple tense to the future tense.
Test yourself: Write a sentence in which both the subject and the object are noun clauses. One thing to remember is that noun clauses can appear in declarative and interrogative sentences, so don’t forget to punctuate correctly.
Examples:
Practice with this Noun Clause Activity. (also in PDF)
Although it’s not the most frequently studied verb tenses, the present perfect progressive is used quite frequently in speech.
It is used to describe the beginning of an ongoing action in the past that is continuing now and will continue into the future. Here is an activity to help you recognize how it is used in everyday speech.
When deciding whether to use the past simple or the past progressive, consider this:
The past simple is used to describe an action that happened once and now it’s finished. The past progressive describes an ongoing action in the past that is now finished.
Read this dialogue and decide which verb tense fits the context better:
Past Simple vs. Past Progressive
This activity is also available in PDF.
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