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Verb patterns

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Elementary+/A2
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Grammar
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45-60 min
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Overview

In this elementary-level ESL lesson, students will revisit and practice some common verb patterns, which are crucial at this learning stage. The lesson is structured to deepen their understanding of how different structures follow verbs, such as infinitives or gerunds. Grasping these patterns is essential for students to form sentences correctly and improve their overall fluency in English.

The lesson starts with a boardwork suggestion to help you present these verb patterns. We then move on to several low-resource classroom activities focused on collaborative speaking and writing tasks. To wrap up the session, we've included a fun group game designed to review and reinforce the verb patterns learned.

Lesson Outline
Activities
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Boardwork
1Infinitive or -ing?
2Verb pattern gap-fill
3True or false?
Games
1Dice: Verb patterns
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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

The students review some widely used verb patterns appropriate to elementary-level.

Start by using the diagram to highlight these three common verb patterns. After that, step through the grammar points, providing examples of some common verbs that fall into each group.

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Infinitive or -ing?

A pairwork writing activity where the students work on statements that use the target grammar for the lesson.

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Verb pattern gap-fill

The students have to apply what they have learned about verb patterns to complete this gap-fill grammar activity.

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True or false?

Students use verb patterns to create statements about themselves that they will use to try and trick a classmate.

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Classroom games

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Dice: Verb patterns

Players have to make sentences using a combination of verbs that have been decided by the throw of the dice.

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