Grammar Activities

Activities marked JHS may be more suitable for lower level high school students.

Adjective Activities

• Adjective Dice Roll JHS Roll dice and name many kinds of things
• Apples to Apples - Adjective and Noun Card Game
• Back to Back JHS Stand back to back and describe each other.
• Taste Adjective Game!
• 20 Questions Game (Guessing Nouns Using Adjectives)

Adverb Activities

• Chores (Find Someone Who ...) [Frequency Adverbs]
• Habits - Find Someone Who... (Frequency Adverbs
• In the manner of the word (Charades) [Adverbs]
• The Greatly Revered Adverbs of Frequency Game JHS

Comparative Activities

• Comparatives and Superlatives - Animal Card Game
• Best of All JHS
• Comparative Picture Game JHS
• Crazy Comparatives at High Speed Like A Cheetah JHS
• Ranking JHS
• Superlative Complements JHS
• Variation Diagrams JHS
• Visual Perception of Length JHS
• Who has the Longest Legs JHS

Conditional Activities

• Chain of Events JHS
• Conditional Chain JHS
• Conditional Connect JHS
• Conditional Identities JHS
• Finish Conditional Sentences JHS
• Fraction Fun JHS Mix and match conditions and results to make sentences.
• If I had a million dollars (2nd Conditional)
• If I Were JHS
• If You Had the Chance JHS
• Only If JHS
• Superstitions JHS

Contraction Activities

• Common Reductions

Future Tense Activities

• Celebrity Schedules JHS
• Character signature JHS
• Climbing Through a Postcard JHS
• Dream Vacation Interview JHS
• Fortune Telling JHS
• Fortune-Teller JHS
• Future Tense Tarot Cards JHS
• Going to the Moon JHS
• MASH Game JHS
• Next Week's Schedule JHS
• Palm Reading JHS
• Plans for a Trip JHS
• Resolutions JHS
• Spin - a video lesson (Past & Future Tense)
• Tarot Cards - Reading the Future
• TV Newspaper Schedule JHS
• The Me I Want to Be JHS
• The World Tomorrow JHS
• What Will You Do With It JHS
• What's Next JHS
• Who's Who JHS

Imperative Activities

• Gimme Gimme Game JHS Ask students to bring you objects.
• International Signs JHS Ask for the English meaning of common signs.
• Teach The ALT To Cook JHS Write instructions for a recipe or other task.
• Ten Tasks JHS Tell groups to do easy tasks.
• The Spoiled Prince JHS Give orders, students follow for points.

Infinitive Activities

• Apartments JHS
• Catch a Thief JHS
• Infinitives
• Verb Block JHS

Past Tense Activities

• Running Dictation JHS Assemble and read a story. Difficult vocabulary.
• Spin - a video lesson (Past & Future Tense)

Past Interrogative Activities

• Canadian Go Fish Game (Simple Past: "Did you ~?")
• Liar! Liar! JHS
• What's Your Alibi JHS Two students prepare alibis for a fictional crime. The class asks questions to find inconsistencies.
• Yes/No Heads Up 7 Up JHS Elaborate way of practicing questions and answers.
• Yes/No Race JHS Try to get "yes" answers from the teacher.

Past Positive Activities

• Chain Story JHS Continue story by making one sentence each.
• Cocktail Party JHS Make up what you did last weekend and share with others.
• Did I or Didn't I JHS Write 5 sentences, partner guesses which is false.
• Moods JHS Show pictures of funny facial expressions. Students make up explanations.
• Picture the Past JHS Draw a picture and write sentences about it.
• Pictures into Stories JHS Narrate pictures.
• Piling up Events JHS Each student repeats the previous sentences and adds their own.
• Putting Stories in Order JHS Make a story from pictures.
• This is the House That Jack Built JHS Make story following the same pattern.
• Tic-Tac-Took JHS Practice irregular verbs with tic-tac-toe worksheet.

Past Progressive Activities

• A Day in the Life JHS Guess what someone did the previous day.
• Golden Mask Mystery JHS Solve a crime by reading suspect statements.
• Movie Magic JHS Describe the intro scene to Raiders of the Lost Arc.

Passive Voice

• The Flying Twins! [silent comics] (Passive Voice)

Perfect Tense Activities

• Before and After JHS
• Bragging Rights JHS
• Changes Shmanges JHS
• Deprivation JHS
• Find Someone Who JHS
• Have/Haven't game JHS
• Liar! Liar! JHS
• Mickey's Schedule JHS
• Oh! No! My...! JHS
• Only You JHS
• Peculiar Actions JHS
• The Present Perfect House of Horrors JHS
• There is a Time and Place... JHS
• To Tell a Lie JHS

Preposition Activities

• Mike's House (House Vocabulary) [Prepositions]
• Picture Whisper JHS Use chain whispers to describe and draw a picture.
• Preposition UNO
• Where are the aliens? JHS Preposition worksheet with aliens.

Present Tense Activities

Present Interrogative Activities

• Are You From... JHS Find partner, ask question.
• Are you Kitty-chan JHS Find partner, ask question, sign paper.
• Collecting Signatures JHS Find partner, ask question, fill in worksheet.
• Do You Have It JHS Guess who has a coin using "Do you have it?"
• Find your Group JHS Find partner, ask questions, make group with identical answers.
• Guess Who I Am! JHS Gather questions and answers to guess character.
• Interview Bingo JHS Students ask questions to prompt answers on their bingo sheet.
• Virus Game JHS Simple game to practice questions and answers.
• What Do You Want JHS Students guess the teachers secret words from a bigger list.
• Who in the World Are You? JHS Find partner, ask questions, fill in worksheet.
• Yes/No Heads Up 7 Up JHS Elaborate way of practicing questions and answers.

Present Negative Activities

• Dummy JHS Erase body parts that the dummy doesn't need.
• English Soccer Game JHS Practice present positive & negative in pairs with a worksheet.

Present Positive Activities

• Card Collecting JHS Say the same sentence 6 times to get a set of cards.
• Likes and Dislikes JHS Write what you like/do and the class guesses who wrote what.

Present Progressive Activities

• Charades JHS Act out a word or phrase using only gestures.
• Class Concentration JHS Class game, find pairs of students doing the same activity.
• Picture Whisper JHS Use chain whispers to describe and draw a picture.
• Three Part Relay JHS Group relay involving charades.
• Wacky Drawing Race JHS Students draw your sentences on the board.
• Why! That's The Sound Of... JHS Play recorded sounds and get students to guess what is happening.

Pronoun Activities

Demonstrative Pronoun Activities

• Black Magic JHS
• Character Switch JHS Make new identities and find someone by asking questions.
• Empire JHS
• Liar! Liar! JHS
• Match It ES 3 - JHS 1 Janken and ask questions to get a matching pair.
• My Buddy and Me JHS
• Pair Work Card Game JHS
• Pictionary ES - JHS The classic drawing game.
• The Great Pen Case Heist JHS

Personal Pronoun Activities

• Do you Like Her? JHS
• Famous People JHS
• Pronoun Song Game JHS
• She's From Outer Space JHS
• Verb and Pronoun Race JHS

Relative Pronoun Activities

• Animalmania JHS
• Back in the Day! (Relative Pronouns)
• Betting Game JHS
• Cube of Fortune JHS
• Curious George JHS
• Pop Culture Survey JHS
• Relative Clause
• Relative pronoun karuta JHS
• This is the House That Jack Built JHS Make story following the same pattern.

Subjunctive Activities

• Subjunctive Mood Board Game