Present Continuous Book for Elementary English Language Learners

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This printable book comes with specific present continuous language, making the content more engaging and relevant. By reading can repeatedly it will improve their comprehension and fluency over time. Students can review the vocabulary in a different context, which aids in retention.

Find activities withing the printable book, such as completing sentences or creating a text for each page which makes learning more interactive and enjoyable for young learners. Then, ELLs have to cut each page, punch the hole and use a book ring to put the book together.

Send the book home. Students will practice reading with their families.

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Present Continuous Games for Elementary English Language Learners

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Use the Printable games to reinforce the present continuous tense in a dynamic way. Students can repeatedly use the present continuous reinforcing their understanding. Many games involve speaking, listening, and interacting with others, which helps ELLs practice the present continuous in a communicative way.

 

This is a classic Bingo game that comes with 15 cards for the students to listen carefully to the sentences describing ongoing actions in the present continuous tense such as "She is jumping,".  They will have to recognize the tense when spoken. To mark their Bingo cards correctly, students need to identify the correct picture. There is a teacher’s mat for you place the calling cards as you say the tense sentence. You can also use this game for other tenses since it is in the base form of the verb.

This Domino game combines pictures and words. This game will game appeals to both visual and linguistic learners. Have your students practice the action-related vocabulary (e.g., "running," "eating," "dancing") as they match the picture with the correct word.

Grab a die and give it the players to play the board game. They roll a dice to determine how many spaces to move forward.  There are four challenge cards (each with a corresponding color on the path) where students have to answer a question "What are you doing?"—The player answers, "I am dancing". Each player chooses a game piece to move along the board.  I used fun foam pieces that I had left behind. The goal is to reach the end of the board first and get the most points. On my example: I landed on a dark blue space, answered correctly and won 4 points and got the corresponding token.

Letter tiles work well for spelling and sentence construction skill.  Use the sets of letter tiles with enough letters to form words and then write sentences later on their notebook. Use any of the cards from any of the games with the base verbs written on them to aid in spelling.

The matching picture and word mat is an activity useful for visual learners and younger students.  they take turns selecting a word and then finding the corresponding picture that matches the action in the picture.  Once they find a match, they can place the word and say a sentence in the present continuous reinforcing their speaking skills. Use this game with any other tense later on.

Solve the puzzle set as you scatter the pieces on a table or the floor. Make sure that the pieces are mixed up so that students need to think carefully about how to match them. This can be done individually or in small groups to match the verb to the picture in the present continuous tense.

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Present Continuous Worksheets for Elementary English Language Learners

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Using the Worksheets to teach the Present Continuous tense will reinforce the grammar concepts taught. Provide structured practice to help solidify students' understanding and recall of the tense.

Students can work on their own at their learning pace with these vocabulary worksheets.

Includes a mix of writing, reading such as sentence matching pictures with the idea to cater to the different learning styles that you might have in class.

These worksheets are designed to progressively increase in difficulty, allowing students to build their skills gradually. Choose the worksheets that are appropriate for your learners. There are: Fill-in-the-Blanks, Prompt-based Construction, Yes/No Questions, Wh- Questions, Negative to Affirmative Worksheets.

Different kind of worksheets will keep your students motivated and interested. Find matching the picture to the corresponding verb worksheets.

Make it more complex by having the learners write complete sentences for each picture.

Support your ELLs with worksheets to take home to complete on their won.

See how confidence in using the Present Continuous tense grow as your ELLs complete the diverse worksheets.

Expose your students to same material and practice exercises, leading to a more uniform learning experience.

Learning proper spelling maintains grammatical consistency.

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Present Continuous Small Cards for Elementary English Language Learners

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Handling and manipulating the Present Continuous small cards can make learning more interactive and engaging for the learners.

 

Cards can be used in sentence construction. Students pick a card and form a sentence using the Present Continuous tense, such as "She is doing homework."

Divide a large piece of paper or board into a grid with rows and columns. I used ABC and 123, you can make yours to suit your needs. Glue the small cards.

Students can a write sentence per grid- A1- He’s jumping rope.

Students can do Acting.  B2: DRINK! I am drinking coffee!

You can ask questions:  B1- Is she playing the guitar or the violin?

Students: She’s playing the violin.

Play BINGO. Students write 5 verbs or sentences from the grid. You call out the words or sentences. The first student to cross them out, wins.

Visual and tactile learning aids can help students better remember the structure and usage of the tense. Prepare a word display in an inflexible order. Just print the templates and assemble the display. I glued only the vertical spots on the horizontal structure. To put it together questions, just message me. Learners will move the strips to write the correct sentence to each small card.

Students can also write the sentences formed on their notebooks.

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Present Continuous Flashcards for Elementary English Language Learners

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Teach the Present Continuous tense to describe actions that are happening right now. This helps ELLs talk about their immediate actions. Achieving this tense will help students describe their daily routines and activities

Activity 1. Show a flashcard and have the students do the action and say the word. Do the same with as many flashcards as you can.

Students: dancing! Dancing! (as they do the action).

Activity 2. Place the eat flashcards on the board. Designate a student a flashcard. Ask questions.
Teacher: Are you eating cake?
Student: Yes, I am.

Activity 3. Make a grid on the board using the flashcards.
Teacher: B2!
Student: Dancing. They are dancing.
Teacher: She is opening her locker.
Student: C3!.

Activity 4. Place several flashcards on the board and write the questions words: Who, What; Where?
Teacher: CLIMB!
Students: Where is he climbing?
Teacher: He is climbing in Bolivia.
Students: Who is climbing?
Teacher: Peter is climbing in Bolivia.
Students: What is he doing?
Teacher: He is climbing a mountain in Bolivia.

Have the students write questions on their notebooks using the flashcards as prompts.

Activity 5. Collocations. Place three flashcards on the board.
Teacher: What are they doing?
Students: They are sitting.
Teacher: Where is he sitting?
Students: He is sitting on a bench.  (write on a bench)
Continue with the other two. Tell students that adding words to a verb gives more details to a sentence in Present Continuous.

Activity 6. Now, place only one flashcard on the board. I used studying. Have the students dictate words to make more sentences.
Students: Math!
Teacher: She is studying Math.

Activity 7. Place the flashcards on the board and say a wrong sentence on purpose for each flashcard.
Teacher: She is eating spaghetti.
Students: No! She is eating a hamburger.

Activity 8. Students write a 3x3 Bingo board on their notebooks. Place all the action flashcards on the board that you are working on. Students choose 9 action words and write them on each square. Take away all the flashcards from the board, mix them up and start calling the verb flashcards as you show each one to the class. Students cross out the ones that they have, the first student to do it shouts BINGO!

Activity 9. Routines. Place the get up flashcard on the board and mime getting up. Have the students mime getting up and say the sentence: I am getting up. Continue with more daily routines as you place the flashcards on the board.

Point to each flashcard and ask questions.
Teacher: What is he doing?.
Student 1: He is making his bed.
Say a name of a flashcard in random order and have a student come up and point to it and say a sentence.
Teacher: take!
Student 1: He is taking a shower. ( pointing to the flashcard)

 Present progressive spelling.

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