Expansion Activities
written by Maria Spelleri
Advanced Level
Azar Grammar Series: Understanding and Using English Grammar, 3rd edition
Expansion Activities are interactive tasks and games that focus on the grammar covered in the tables of contents of the Azar textbooks or any comparable syllabus. You may download, reproduce and adapt the material to suit your classroom needs. Expansion activities are available as Word documents or PDF files.
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Chapter 1—Overview of Verb Tenses
A Tense Discovery
Chapter 2—Past Tense
Who is this baby?
Story in a Bag
Chapter 3—Present Perfect Tense
Present Perfect Songs
Chapter 4—Future Tense
Fortune Teller
Chapter 5—Adverb Clauses of Time
Creative Time-Clause Conversations
Chapter 6—Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject-Verb matching
Chapter 7—Nouns
Noun recall
Chapter 8—Pronouns
Analyzing Authentic Pronoun Use
Chapter 9—Modals, Part I
Modal Scenarios
Chapter 10—Modals, Part II
Name that Sound!
Get a Clue!
Talking about History's Mysteries
Chapter 11—The Passive
Design a Park Brochure
Avoiding Responsibility
Chapter 12—Reported Speech Forms in Noun Clauses
Message Relay
Chapter 13—Adjective Clauses
Identifying Adjective Clauses in Authentic Text
Chapter 14—Gerund and Infinitives, Part I
Unusual Jobs
Chapter 15—Gerund and Infinitives, Part II
Getting Things Done
Chapter 16—Coordinating Conjunctions
A Hands-On Demonstration for Avoiding Run-On Sentences
Chapter 17—Adverb Clauses
Kinesthetic Clause Building
Chapter 18—Reduction of Adverb Clauses
Rewriting a Text
Chapter 19—Connectives that Express Cause and Effect, Contrast, and Condition
Silent Review of Connectives and Their Patterns
Mad Libs with Connectives
Chapter 20—Conditional Sentences and Wishes
Chain of Conditions
Beginning: Basic English Grammar
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