Reviewing Tenses

Level: Any Level

Preparation:

• Print out three sentences (negative, positive, and question) of the tense you want to review.
• Cut each sentence into words.

The Activity:

• Students work in groups.
• Give each group of students words of a sentence and ask them to make the sentence.
• Draw a table on the board and ask students to tick sentences at suitable positions, positive, negative, or question.
• Ask students to make rules of the tense.

Example:

• Three Sentences:
  • I am a student.
  • I am not a student.
  • Are you a student?
• The Rules:
  • TO BE at the present simple
    I am a student.
  • Positive: S + am/is/are + O.
    I am not a student.
  • Negative: S + am/is/are + not + O.
    Are you a student?
  • Question: (Ques words) + am/ is /are + S + O?