Grammar Games

This time we're to take a look at a couple of games that we can use in the classroom for practicing grammar

First we have a game where the teacher separates the board on different categories like clothes, animals, colors, etc...
On each the category the teacher puts pieces of paper with questions behind them and each is worth a determined number of points, the higher the number the more points its worth.
The teacher separates the classroom in two groups and the students have to pick a category, a number and then answer the question, if they their group gets the points, if they don't the other group gets a chance to answer the question and steal the points.
The game finishes when all the questions have been answered and the group with the most points wins.

Another kind of game we can play to have the students separated into groups, then the teacher gives a word and one student from each group has to run to the board and write a complete sentence (using the target language the teacher has been teaching) with the word the teacher gives.
When the first student finishes he/she runs back and the next one from the group runs to the board and writes a sentence the starts with the last word from the previous sentence.
The game finishes when all of the students from one group have written their sentence and the teacher checks to see if they are correct. I they are that groups wins, if their not the other group can finish while the first group tires to correct their sentences.

These are just a couple of games we can play with the students to help them understand the grammar. There are hundreds of different more games and also different ways to play the same game and still make interesting and competitive.

12 Grammar Tenses

There are 12 grammar tenses used for different situations in English and here we're going to see a little bit of them:

For the present, past and future forms we use only the main verb, in the past form we make it a past tense and in the future form we add the "will".
For the  present, past and future perfect forms we use the main verb in its past form and add "have" for present, "had" for past and "will have" for future.
For the present, past and future progressive we add the different forms of the verb "be" (depending on the subject) and add "-ing" to the main verb.
For the perfect progressive forms we add "-ing" to the main verb and in front of that "have or has been" for present, "had been" for past and "will have been for future".

1. Present: Main verb: I cook diner.
2. Past: Main verb in past tense: I cooked diner.
3. Future: Main verb + will: I will cook diner.
4. Present Perfect: Have or has + past participle of main verb: I have cooked diner.
5. Past Perfect: Had + past participle of main verb: I had cooked diner.
6. Future Perfect: Will + have + past participle of main verb: I will have cooked diner.
7. Present Progressive: Form of "be" verb + -ing of main verb: I am cooking diner.
8. Past Progressive: Past tense of "be" verb + -ing of main verb: I was cooking diner.
9. Future Progressive: Will + be + -ing of main verb: I will be cooking diner.
10. Present Perfect Progressive: Have or has + been + -ing of main verb: I have been cooking diner.
11. Past Perfect Progressive:\ Had + been + -ing of main verb: I had been cooking diner.
12. Future Perfect Progressive: Will + have + been + -ing of main verb: I will have been cooking diner.