Present Continuous Activities for the Toys unit

  This resource is also included here. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Toys-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-1865563

Understanding and using the Present Continuous tense allows learners to participate more fully in conversations about current activities related to toys in this case.

Flashcards work well in warm-ups, Show a Toy flashcard. Ask: “What is the girl doing?”

Then, have students take turns making sentences for other flashcards: The boy is playing with a teddy bear. The teddy bear is brown. It is small.

Present Continuous Statements. Small cards encourage independent learning.  It is can be used to build sentences.

Present Continuous Questions. Learners will ask what people are doing in pictures and have peers answer.

Use the cards as a prompt yes/no question-and-answer interactions between students.

These worksheets help students connect grammar structures with real-life vocabulary. Students identify actions using the present continuous tense.

Worksheets give students repeated exposure to key verbs through matching to the picture. This helps solidify understanding and recall.

Answering simple questions aids into written communication.

Describe the action on each space of the board game. Students say what the person is doing. If correct, they move one space. If not, they don’t.

Play sentence association game where students match a picture card to a sentence. It Supports Grammar Acquisition as It reinforces sentence structure, especially the subject + verb + ing form used in Present Continuous tense.

The cards are in the same format as in the complete resource. Put them all together and play with more cards. Check the blog post here: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/03/toys-unit-games-for-elementary-english.html

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