Sentence Strips Part 1

(download the set below)

My favorite materials are ones that can be adapted to many grammar points.

These sentence strips are a great example of that.

Using the 100 most commonly used verbs in English, I wrote positive sentences in the simple present in a variety of grammatical persons.  The orange sentences are irregular verbs.  The green sentences are regular verbs.

Students can change the subjects, for example, "she" to "you", the "we" to "I".

She eats breakfast. ------->  You eat breakfast.
We eat breakfast.  ------->  They eat breakfast.

Students can change the positive sentences to negative sentences.

I eat breakfast.  ------->  I don't eat breakfast.

Students can change the sentences to any tense you are working on:

I eat breakfast. ------->  I ate breakfast./I didn't eat breakfast.
I eat breakfast.  -------> I am eating breakfast./I am not eating breakfast.
I eat breakfast.  ------->  I will have eaten breakfast./I will not have eaten breakfast.

Students can make -wh questions:

I drink beer.  ------->  What do you drink?
He eats breakfast on Sunday at his mom's house.  ------->Where does he eat breakfast?
He eats breakfast on Sunday at his mom's house.  ------->  When does he eat breakfast at his mom's house?

Download the first set of sentence strips at Google Documents here.

Two Houses

Two Houses is a simple picture that can be used in many ways. You can use one or both pictures in either order.

A few ideas:

Level checks:  Check for vocabulary.  Ask prospective students questions about the houses using increasingly advanced grammatical structures to assess level.  Ask them to speculate what might have happened to the house.  Ask them to compare this house to their own house or apartment.

Making Requests:  Role play a conversation with a repairman.  Could you fix the roof?  Would it be possible to plant new flowers?  Will you replace the windows?

Future Using Going To:  He is going to replace the roof.  They are going to landscape the yard.  She is going to buy a new door.

Simple past:  Explain what repairs were made to the house.  Add past time clauses.  A few days ago, they fixed the roof.  Last week, they cut the grass.  They didn't paint the fence yesterday.

Subject + Be + a location:  The door is under the window.  The bush is in front of the house.  The chimney is on top of the house.  The fence is around the house.

Subject+be+adjective:  The windows are broken.  The windows are not broken.  The grass is cut.  The grass is not cut.

Using this and that:  This house is old.  That house is new.

Using these and those:  These windows are broken.  Those windows are fixed.

Colors:  Put students in groups of two.  Student A tells student B to color various parts of the house.  The roof is black.  The fence is yellow.  The bush is green.

Used to/Use to:  The window used to be broken.  The grass didn't use to be cut.

Download here from Google Documents as a .jpg.