Explaining some very odd behavior using simple past tense.

    Why were you digging a hole in your neighbor's garden?
    Why were you putting shaving cream on a mannequin in a store?
    Why were you carrying a hammer in the bank last Friday?

 Pairs of students ask each other "Why were you...?" questions. (They are all rather bizarre!) The object is for the partner to offer a believable reason or excuse to account for the strange behavior.

A typical conversation would go something like this:
    "Why were you handing out eggs in the library?"
    "It was for a special promotion."
    "What kind of promotion?"
    "Uhm, my uncle has a small grocery shop near the library. He wrote advertisements on the eggs and asked me to give them to people."
    "OK, I believe you. You get 8 points!"

 Students continue asking questions until they either believe or disbelieve the excuse.

    There are three other similar worksheets available. They are:

      Why Didn't You...? (Lesson Collection Set #1 - Lesson 7)
      Why Were You...? (see #18 below)     -and-
      Why Weren't You...? (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 5).

    Creating a hilarious conversation between Cupid and a disgruntled mortal while working with parts of speech, vocabulary, pronouns and singular versus plural nouns.
     This silly pair-work lesson will bring any class to life. And it's really short (about 10-15 minutes).
    In the story, a mortal is complaining to Cupid. It seems Cupid has shot someone with an arrow causing a one-way love relationship.
    Once students have filled in the information gaps, they begin reading their scripts. No one will be able to keep a straight face.
  Beneath the silliness, students will be working with grammar including parts of speech, pronouns and subject/verb agreement.

    There are five other similar worksheets. They are:

       A Call to Santa (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 19)
       Lost City of Ohmygosh (see #11 below)
       The Maitre d' (Lesson Collection Set #4 - Lesson 22)
       The Doctor's Office (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 13)    -and-
       Trick OR Treat! (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 19).

    Students navigate their way through a maze, taking "pop" quizzes about Valentine's Day along the way. This is a short but very active Valentine's Day lesson.
    Pairs of students race against other pairs to complete the maze. When students answer the quiz questions correctly, they have to say a popular Valentine's Day "Love Phrase" a few times. For example, "My Heart Is Yours."
    If they answer incorrectly, they have to say a longer "Love Phrase" many times, e.g., "You Are the Love of My Life."
    What students won't realize (since they're so busy getting through the maze), is that they will be working with singular vs. plural nouns, directions and lots of listening.

    Talk about being clumsy! Students will be falling, tripping, stumbling, slicing, banging, smashing, poking, spilling, kicking, dropping, bumping, crashing, slipping their way to a whole lot of fun!
    In small groups, students roll a die and move their marker to one of the squares. It may say: "Tripped in the bathtub," or "Slipped on a banana peel."
    During the game, students collect injury points (this is not good) but they may also have a chance to visit the hospital (this is good).
    They'll be so busy falling off things, smashing and stepping into things that they won't realize that they are working with past tense verbs and lots of new vocabulary.

    There's a similar lesson called:

       Aches & Pains (Lesson Collection Set #1 - Lesson 16).

    Exaggeration plays an important part in daily conversation. Plus it's fun. When asked:
    "How many times have you made a big mistake?"
You could say,
    "I've made a big mistake two or three times,"
but that's a pretty boring answer.
    Native speakers often exaggerate answers to indicate boredom, frustration or even anger. For example:
    How many times have you made a big mistake?"
    "I've made a big mistake a zillion times,"
 You decide, which is more fun: "I've read this page many times," OR
"I've read this page a hundred billion times!"
    While working with present perfect tense and with irregular verbs, students will be expressing themselves naturally and having a lot of fun.

    They'll also have a chance to ask third-person questions (How many times has he / she...?).

    Personal Profiles 3 + 4 is Part 2 of a four part series.
    In Part 1 of this series, students (in pairs) ask their partners detailed questions about birth, family and personal statistics (including blood type, astrological sign, etc.).
Personal Profiles 1+2 (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 9).

    In this section, students continue asking their partners detailed questions about:

      1) Educational Background:
        "What was the name of your elementary school?"
        "Who was your favorite teacher?"
         "What is one memory you have about your elementary school days?"

      2) Employment History (including part time jobs) and...

      3) Travel Experiences.

    There is no specific time frame for this lesson - it's often worthwhile to spread the activity over the course of several weeks or even months.
    Pairs of students really get to know each other well through these fun worksheets. There are many variations for this lesson - but the ultimate goal is to get students to talk about themselves and ask each other questions about their personal lives.

    Although this lesson is primarily a vocabulary review / development exercise, students with a large vocabulary will probably be challenged a bit with this lesson; students with a small vocabulary will learn lots of new words. Inherently built into this lesson are two important additional elements of practicing English; working with articles (a, an & the) as well as ordinals (1st, 2nd & 3rd).

    This lesson is really fun - even for those who don't know the meanings of the words. Pairs of students compete against each other to be the first to identify all of the opposites.

    Do your students know the opposites of these words?
      antagonist
      longitude
      ancestor
      bravery
      citizen

    There are 28 difficult noun opposites on the worksheet.

    All of the answers are printed in the Teachers' Instructions, thank goodness!!!

For similar (but easier) Opposite lessons, see:

      Easy Opposites (Lesson Collection Set #1 - Lesson 10)     -and-
      Mid-Opposites (Lesson Collection Set #1 - 24).

    The purpose of this lesson is to get students involved in imagining or speculating about the trash bag owners, i.e., how many people live in this apartment / house, how old they are, what their names are, what their hobbies are, what jobs they have, what kind of things they like or don't like, what kind of personalities they might have. There are no right or wrong answers, merely hints to guide students' imagination.

    Vocabulary development -- there are dozens of common, everyday household items illustrated on these worksheets. See how many students can identify them in English. This is also useful for working with speculative opinions, "I think the person who lives here is a young male because... ".
    The answer to Who Lives Here #1 is probably a young, working couple.
    Some of the items in the trash are:
    a parking ticket
    an unfinished crossword puzzle
    an empty bottle of sleeping pills
    a book titled Popular Children's Names -and-
    a bottle of hot tub cleaner

    Students can also practice the following phrases:
     might be, could be and must be as well as
     might have, could have and must have.
    There are four delightfully illustrated worksheets in this series. Two of them are offered here. The other two are found in Lessons #27a & 27b below.

    The purpose of this lesson is to get students involved in imagining or speculating about the trash bag owners, i.e., how many people live in this apartment / house, how old they are, what their names are, what their hobbies are, what jobs they have, what kind of things they like or don't like, what kind of personalities they might have. There are no right or wrong answers, merely hints to guide students' imagination.

    Vocabulary development -- there are dozens of common, everyday household items illustrated on these worksheets. See how many students can identify them in English. This is also useful for working with speculative opinions, "I think the person who lives here is a young male because... ".
    The answer to Who Lives Here #2 is probably two young single men.
    Some of the items in the trash are:
    a take out box of Chinese food
    cockroach killer spray
    a Baseball Today magazine
    a tube of acne remover -and-
    plastic forks and spoons

    There are four delightfully illustrated worksheets in this series. Two of them are offered here. The other two are found in Lessons #27a & 27b below.

    This lesson is a guaranteed hit with your students. In pairs, students first ask for a number between 1 and 5, between 6 and 10, between 11 and 15 - all the way to between 176 and 180.
    Each chosen number corresponds to a word on the worksheets. When finished, students read their horoscopes to their partners.
    There are five areas of fortune: Health, Money, Travel, Home & Family and Love & Romance. Within each section, there is a prediction and a warning. . . but unlike more serious fortune telling, these predictions are hilarious.

    Here's a typical fortune (from the Travel section):
       On the 7th day after the first of August, you will have a chance to swim to Tahiti and to stay at a dirty hotel for six nights. This could be the most boring trip of your life! Be careful of the taxi drivers because you could get a stomach ache.

    Students will be laughing so much that they'll forget that they are doing this lesson in English!

    We all know a lot of superstitions, some of them are reasonable, others are, well, just a little wacky.
    This pair work lesson gets students to create some really crazy superstitions. They are guaranteed to laugh a lot when they hear these good luck superstitions.

    Students will be having so much fun that they will barely notice the fundamental English skills they'll need to do this lesson. These skills include parts off speech, singular vs plural, countable vs uncountable nouns.

    There are four other similar worksheets. They are:

       A Call to Santa (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 19)
       Cupid's Solution (see #2 above)
       The Maitre d' (Lesson Collection Set #4 - Lesson 22)
       The Doctor's Office (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 13).

    A massive discussion generator, The Marriage Counselor gets students to role play a happily married couple (who have been bickering a lot recently) and a marriage counselor who tries to get them to talk about their problems.
    The problems that this couple share are fairly common ones that people bicker about. There are 36 "complaint" cards for the husband and wife, 18 each.
    For example, the husband says: "She's always late for everything and makes me wait for her," or the wife says: "He's always inviting friends to our house but he never tells me they are coming."
    Together, with the "counselor," the couple try to work through their problems.
    Complaining, agreeing, disagreeing, discussing and offering advice are all involved with this lesson. Students will have to listen carefully to each other and the counselor must keep a written record of the counseling session.
    The download includes several sets of cards and a Counselor's Report worksheet.

    There is a more difficult version available. It's called:

       Marriage Counselor Advanced (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 22).

    Looking for a lesson that keeps everyone busy or at least half an hour? This is guaranteed to raise the excitement level of your students.
    There are four Rambling Stories on this worksheet. In groups of four, students paraphrase one of the stories to another student. Afterward, students re-paraphrase the stories to other students, and again and again until all four students have heard and paraphrased the Rambling Stories.
    For lower-ability students, the stories could simply be dictated (great for spelling and pronunciation practice), nevertheless, your classroom will burst with energy (and a lot of noise, too!).

    More Rambling stories to keep your students active and excited while building fluency.
    The four Rambling Stories on this worksheet are different than the ones found in Ramblings 1, yet they will generate as much enthusiasm. Students, in groups of four, paraphrase the stories to another student, then these stories are re-paraphrased to another student, and again and again until all four students have heard and paraphrased and written down all the Rambling Stories.
    For lower-ability students, simply dictate the stories - this is a fun and natural way to work on spelling and pronunciation skills.

    Using real English to track the profit / loss of one's imaginary stock portfolio.
    There are three worksheets with this lesson, Week One, My Portfolio Update and My Partner's Portfolio Update.
    Using a current newspaper (and with a calculator on hand) students purchase five stocks. They must keep track of the name and code of the stock, the price per stock, the number of stocks purchased and a total amount of money spent. Then, in pairs, students share their purchase information with their partners.
    At a follow up time, students look at their stock performance (using the Update Worksheet). They have the option to keep the stocks, sell some or buy new ones. This is again shared with their partners using the My Partner's Portfolio Update Worksheet.
    Because this lesson is a real-life simulation of tracking stock, students become very animated as they watch their stocks rise and fall.

    Do you know who the stapler was invented by? Or when? Or where? How about paper clips? Or the disposable diaper?
  In groups of three, students ask and answers questions in the passive voice about the origin of common objects. For example:
    Student A: "Who was the stapler invented by?"
      "Was it invented by George W. McGill, Sir Elliot Bingham or Otto Hotchkiss?"
    Student B: "It was invented by (shows paper), wasn't it?"
    Student C: "It was invented by (shows paper), wasn't it?"
    Student A (to Student B): "Sorry, it wasn't invented by him. Please try again."
    Student A (to Student C): "Yes, that's correct!"

    There are six inventions in total, two for each of the three students.

    There are two other versions of this lesson available:

      Important Discoveries See Lesson 16b below -and-
      Classical Buildings See Lesson 16c below.

    Note: All three of the worksheets in this series are available for Tri-work (3 students) and Pair Work.

    Do you know who the polio vaccine was discovered by? Or when? Or where? How about radium? Or radio waves?
  In groups of three, students ask and answer questions in the passive voice about the discovery of important things. For example:
    Student A: "Who was Pluto discovered by?"
      "Was it discovered by Friedrich VanDerhorn, Winston Cray or Clyde W. Tombaugh?"
    Student B: "It was discovered by (shows paper), wasn't it?"
    Student C: "It was discovered by (shows paper), wasn't it?"
    Student A (to Student B): "Sorry, it wasn't discovered by him. Please try again."
    Student A (to Student C): "Yes, that's correct!"

    There are six discoveries in total, two for each of the three students.

    There is another version of this lesson available:

      Modern Inventions See Lesson 16a above.

    Note: All three of the worksheets are available for Tri-work (3 students) and Pair Work.

    Playing a game while practicing weather words in past, present and future tenses.
  In groups of four, students are each dealt five cards. Each card has a weather condition (sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, windy, stormy or partly cloudy). Each card also has one of the following cities illustrated on it: London, Paris, Sydney or New York. Each card is titled Today, Yesterday or Tomorrow.
    The students will be so busy playing this card game that they probably won't realize they are speaking English. And the more they play, the smoother they get!

    In pairs, students think of reasons (or excuses) to explain their actions. The grammar focus of this lesson is simple past tense.
  Each worksheet has eight (8) statements such as:
    "The concert started at 8:30 last night.
    Why did you arrive at 6:00?"

    To answer the questions, students need to listen to each other carefully as well as think of a good reason.

    There are three other similar worksheets available. They are:

      Why Didn't You...? (Lesson Collection Set #1 - Lesson 7)
      Why Were You...? (see #1 above)     -and-
      Why Weren't You...? (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 5).

    After my boyfriend cleaned me out, I broke out in a sweat and decided to lash out at him, but then I chickened out. I'm still a little bummed out but I guess it will all turn out OK someday.

    Although all of these verbs can stand alone (clean, break, lash, chicken, bum and turn), their meanings change substantially when combined with the preposition out.
    This lesson is made up of 24 cards, each containing a 2-word verb using out. In groups or as a whole class activity, students discuss the literal meaning as well as the figurative meaning of these words. Then, depending on the ability of the students, they could try putting the verbs into sentences.

    VIP Members of EFL4U.com (those who have purchased the lessons) can download both worksheets containing 48 cards.

    If you're looking for a lesson to really get your students jabbering on and on in English, this is it!

    There are two scenarios for this lesson, one (not so nice) implores the eight people packed into a rapidly descending hot air balloon to throw out two or three of the passengers. If they don't, everyone will die!

    The other scenario (nice) encourages eight volunteers to wisely select five or six among themselves (the most qualified people) to assist with disaster relief for a period of three weeks.

    This lesson includes three worksheets, two of them have character cards which the students use to role play and the third is the voting record sheet.
  Within groups of eight, students pair up and discuss which of the characters they feel should be able to ride the balloon and which should not. This is repeated with a second and finally with a third partner. Then the whole group must make a Final Decision.

    For a similar activity, see:

       The Lifeboat (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 09).

    These are not only very fun lessons, but they are also a game. Students of all ages will enjoy these Tic-Tac-Toe style activities. In pairs or small groups, students have to ask their opponent a question from the worksheet in order to place the marker. But, if the English grammar is incorrect, no marker can be placed.

    But, that's only half of the activity. The other half requires the other opponent to answer the question - not only correctly, but also with correct grammar. This ensures that students will need to listen carefully to each other.

    Normal Tic-Tac-Toe uses a 3 x 3 grid, but these worksheets introduce a 5 x 5 grid which takes a lot more time to finish.

    There are 8 similar worksheets available. They are:

       Criss-Cross Questions #2 (Present Tense - 20b)
       Criss-Cross Questions #3 (Mixed Tenses - 20c)
       Criss-Cross Questions #4 (Tag Questions Past - 20d)
       Criss-Cross Questions #5 (Tag Questions Present - 20e)
       Criss-Cross Questions #6 (Tag Questions Mixed) - 20f)
       Criss-Cross Questions #7 (Regular & Tag Questions Past - 20g)
       Criss-Cross Questions #8 (Regular & Tag Questions Present - 20h)
       Criss-Cross Questions #9 (Regular & Tag Questions Mixed - 20i)

    In this pair work lesson, students try to anticipate the verbs in an Aesop's Fable. Students have only half of the verbs written on their worksheets; they'll need to work closely with their partners to acquire the missing verbs.
    Also built into this lesson is a point system, the better students are at anticipating the missing verbs, the higher their scores will be.
    Not only is this lesson an excellent review of verbs and verb tenses, but it also has students working with ordinal numbers, from first to seventy-seventh!

    There is a similar worksheet available:

       The King Who Loved Stories (Lesson Collection Set #4 - Lesson 26).

    Once students understand how this lesson works, they'll have a really fun time trying to guess what their partner's answers are. But for them to be able to do that, they have to listen very carefully to each other.

    Each worksheet has eight different scenarios; at first, students simply read the scenarios and answer the multiple choice questions. Then students repeat the question to their partners but converting the question into a conditional first person question. For example, the first question on Worksheet A says;

"You are sitting at a counter in a coffee shop. All of the other seats are empty. A person comes in and sits in the chair next to yours. Would you:

      a) say: 'Please move to another seat?'

      b) finish your coffee and leave?

      c) do nothing?

      d) start up a conversation?"


    But when the partner asks this question to the partner, some changes need to be made. The question would then sound like this:

"If I was sitting at a counter in a coffee shop -and- all of the other seats were empty -and- a person came in and sat in the chair next to mine. . . Do you think I would:

      a) say: 'Please move to another seat?'

      b) finish my coffee and leave?

      c) do nothing?

      d) start up a conversation?"

    There's even a built in 'point system' to add a bit of competition to this lesson; a perfect score will result in 32 points. Students who score over 24 or so have a pretty good handle on their partner's behavior.

    Practicing the use of two-word verbs is the focus of this lesson. When finished, students will discover a delightful story. In pairs, students match the first and second half of common two-word verbs. But ...each student has only half of the sentence. They must listen carefully to each other and discuss whether or not the two-word verbs are appropriate to the content of the sentences.
    As students match each sentence, the story begins to unfold. They will begin to giggle as Mulla and his cousin travel from house to house.
    At the bottom of the worksheet is a two-word verb grid which makes this exercise much easier. Higher-level ability students could cover this grid or fold it back.

    Getting students to plan a trip is guaranteed to get them interested. In this lesson, they will be planning a 3-5 day bicycle trip (in pairs) and will need to work closely together.
    This lesson is immensely flexible in terms of language ability, very low-level to very high-level students can benefit from this lesson.

    This worksheet is a map, designed in complete detail and very realistic. Since the purpose of the trip is to enjoy the scenery and nature, students will need to avoid cycling through cities. Also, the route they plan should steer them away from things like the airport, the city dump, the state prison, the Motorcross Raceway, the nuclear power plant and Mosquito Marsh.

    Though this pdf file is in color, it will print nicely in black and white.

    In pairs, students compete against other teams to create a long Chain of Events.
  The conversation might go something like this:
   Student A: I'm so glad I did my homework last night.
   Student B: What would have happened if you hadn't done your homework last night?
   Student A: If I hadn't done my homework last night, I would have had to do it this morning.
   Student B: What would have happened if you had had to do it this morning?
   Student A: If I had had to do it this morning, I wouldn't have had time for breakfast.
   Student B: What would have happened if you hadn't had time for breakfast?
   Student A: If I hadn't had time for breakfast, I would have had to eat on the bus.
   Student B: What would have happened if you had had to eat on the bus?
   Student A: If I had had to eat on the bus, the bus driver would have become angry.

    The real beauty of this lesson is the way it creates energy among the students. As they literally build their Chains, they automatically watch the progress of the other groups which only encourages them to add more and more links.
    They'll be so busy adding to the Chains that they won't realize they are working with a fairly difficult grammar tense - Past Perfect Tense with Type 3 Conditionals!!

    And, perhaps more importantly, they WILL be able to do it!

    A fun way to practice future tense (Conditional Type 1 - will / won't ), students create a long Chain of Events.
  A conversation might sound something like this:
   Student A: I must remember to set my alarm clock tonight.
   Student B: What will happen if you forget to set your alarm clock tonight?
   Student A: If I forget to set my alarm clock, I'll oversleep tomorrow morning.
   Student B: What will happen if you oversleep tomorrow morning?
   Student A: If I oversleep tomorrow morning, I'll be late for school (work).
   Student B: What will happen if you are late for school (work)?
   Student A: If I'm late for school, I'll miss my first class.
   Student B: What will happen if you miss your first class?
   Student A: If I miss my first class, I won't take the test.
   Student B: What will happen if you don't take the test?
   Student A: If I don't take the test, I'll fail the class!!

    Students will be so busy adding to their Chains that they may not want to stop!!

    And more importantly, they'll be having a lot of fun.

    Building vocabulary of common objects; asking for information and favors; negotiating.
    There is one main worksheet for this lesson, and for younger or lower-ability level students, there are two additional worksheets to assist the students.
    In small groups, students have a list of 34 common items that they will have to collect in a given amount of time. To do this, they will need to ask other students in class if they can borrow an item. This request may involve a little trading, and since the groups are competing against each other as well as against the clock, there's going to be a lot of activity (and noise) for a while.
    This lesson is guaranteed to bring any class to life and it only takes about 25 minutes!

    Constructing a simple story.
    Students answer a question printed on the worksheet. This answer is folded back then they pass the paper to the left. At the same time, they receive another worksheet from the student on their right. They answer the next question, fold it under and pass it along to their left.
    After answering 13 questions, the story is complete. They unfold their accordion-looking papers and read the story aloud.
    Because so many different people are involved in creating the sentences, students will get a big laugh when they hear the final story. Even advanced students will enjoy this activity.     For similar a style lesson, see:

      The Alien Meets the Earthling (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 29).

    Two more great worksheets for students to speculate about. Very different than the first two but equally compelling. Students will have to look very carefully at the contents of the trashbags to pick up hints as to who "might" be the owner(s). There are so many little hints as to the people living here that students can help but be involved, especially as the clues start coming together!
    The answer to Who Lives Here #3 is probably an extended young family.
    Some of the items in the trash are:
    a hospital nurse's cap
    fishing lures
    quilting magazines
    coupon for baby food -and-
    a moving company pamphlet

    This is probably the home of an extended family of five; a father who loves fishing, a mother who is a nurse, a hard-of-hearing grandmother who loves to sew and make quilts, a young son who likes baseball and an infant who is teething. They probably have two dogs, one is large and the other is only a puppy. The parents are probably in their early 30s and they have recently celebrated their 6th or 7th anniversary where they went to a nice restaurant together while grandmother babysat. The family is probably preparing to move to a new city, possibly from California to New York.
    Who Lives Here? (#4) is probably the home of two female roommates in their early 20s. They might not be good cooks and are very busy. One of them is a waitress, the other one probably has a day job so she takes night classes at the university. One or both of them has a boyfriend. One of them wants to be a dancer. They follow the horoscope ­ one of them is a Cancer (June 22 ­ July 23). They like to watch TV and one or both of them likes to read about popular gossip.
    Similar lessons are:

      Who Lives Here? (#1 + #2) (see #8a and 8b above).

    Another great worksheets for students to about the owners. Students will have to look very carefully at the contents of the trashbags to pick up hints as to who "might" be the owner(s). There are so many little hints as to the people living here that students can help but be involved, especially as the clues start coming together!
    The answer to Who Lives Here #4 is probably two young females.
    Some of the items in the trash are:
    empty bottles of perfume
    high heels
    a Romantic Meals cookbook
    university flyer -and-
    an empty bottle of hair rinse

    This is probably the home of two female roommates in their early 20s. They might not be good cooks and are very busy. One of them is a waitress, the other one probably has a day job so she takes night classes at the university. One or both of them has a boyfriend. One of them wants to be a dancer. They follow the horoscope ­ one of them is a Cancer (June 22 ­ July 23). They like to watch TV and one or both of them likes to read about popular gossip.
    Similar lessons are:

      Who Lives Here? (#1 + #2) (see #8a and 8b above).

    Pairs of students will be kept busy asking and answering each other questions using pronouns and past tense irregular verbs.
  This is a tremendously flexible lesson worksheet, just about any grammar pattern can be targeted.
    Students ask Who, What, When, Where, Why and How questions to discover the missing letters from their worksheets. Partners create answers containing a hint as to the missing letters.
    There is a built in confirmation cipher with this lesson. After all of the missing letters have been revealed, students substitute the missing letters for the numbers in the boxes and, if all of their answers are correct, two common English proverbs will emerge per worksheet.
    Your students will not only be very busy for over half an hour but they'll be using real English and learning a few proverbs as well. This will give you time to monitor their progress and assist with any language problems.

    There are two similar worksheets available called:

       Animal Proverbs (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 25)     -and-
       Money Proverbs (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 24).

    Part 3 in the Rhyme Time Series. This set of words works with easy verbs. A great activity when the class needs a little pick-me-up. In small groups, students compete against each other to be the first to identify words that rhyme, for example:
       turn,  burn,  learn

The words from the worksheet are laid out randomly on a table, one student calls out a word and the others struggle to SLAP the other words that rhyme.

    For similar style lessons, see:

       Rhyme Time 1 (Lesson Collection Set #1 - Lesson 19)
       Rhyme Time 2 (Lesson Collection Set #2 - Lesson 1)
       Rhyme Time 4 (Lesson Collection Set #1 - Lesson 30)
       Rhyme Time 5 (Lesson Collection Set #4 - Lesson 23)    -and-
       Rhyme Time 6 (Lesson Collection Set #5 - Lesson 26).