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Reviewing Tenses
Level: Any Level
Preparation:
- Print out three sentences (negative, positive, and question) of the tense you want to review.
- Cut each sentence into words.
The Activity:
- Students work in groups.
- Give each group of students words of a sentence and ask them to make the sentence.
- Draw a table on the board and ask students to tick sentences at suitable positiions, positive, negative, or question.
- Ask students to make rules of the tense.
Example:
- Three Sentences:
- I am a student.
- I am not a student.
- Are you a student?
- The Rules:
- TO BE at the present simple
I am a student. - Positive: S + am/is/are + O.
I am not a student. - Negative: S + am/is/are + not + O.
Are you a student? - Question: (Ques words) + am/ is /are + S + O?
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