A selection of English ESL mistakes ppt slides

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

Common mistakes in translation, using different phrases and collocations. 

2d-4th slides are about uncountable nouns and usage of verb in the 3d form: advise, money, knowledge

5th-7th slides are about common misspelling. 

8th - 11th - common phrases that you are saying wrong

12th-13th - fun/ funny

14th - translation of the phrase "Что с тобой случилось?"

15th - translation of the phrase"Сколько это стоит?"

16th - translation of the phrase"Я хожу на курсы английского"

17th - translation of phrases that are connected with studying

18th - difference "What does she look like?/ How does she look?"

19th - difference "into/ in to"

20th - difference "then/ than"

21st - difference "affect/ effect"

22d - 23d - difference "less/ fewer"

24th - difference "compliment/ complement"

25th - difference "lose/ loose"

Using animation and pictures

Common mistakes

It\'s a really helpful way to make your students realize their common mistakes and work on them. 

Here\'re such mistakes as spelling of basic words, Present Simple, would like, plural forms of nouns, There is/are, basic prepositions, some/any.

Mistakes Correction practice

this slide show can be used as warming up or closing activity when Ss learn simple past and present perfect. Ss identify the mistake in each sentence and find the correct word. 

find the mistake

- 25 sentences with explanation -

This boardgames deals with: present continuous, verb to be, present simple, many/much, some/any, can, have to, must, there be, double negative, adverbs of frequency, possessives.



A player rolls the dice and goes ahead the corresponding number of squares. Click on the number, and the player corrects a sentence. Click on the "check" button. If it's right, the player keeps the square; if it's wrong, the player returns to the square s/he was before rolling the dice.



Hope your students have fun. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

Boardgame - Correct the Mistakes

this ppt could be used to show the common mistakes that young learners make in grammar.

silly mistakes in grammar

This infographic depicts most common spelling mistakes. You can use it as a classroom poster. In addition, it may help you revise spelling with your students and see if they find these particular words confusing. They will first see the misspelled word and then the correct version, illustrated in a sentence.

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Top 20 Spelling Mistakes

36 slides - students read the sentence and correct it. They should correct prepositions, verb tenses, adverbs, countable/uncountable, etc.



It's editable, so you can delete slides that your students don't need to review, or haven't learned. You can also change the sentences.



Hope your students have fun. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

Correct the mistakes 1 (Game)

Each slide shows a tweet or piece of text written by Trump or his administration. Students must correct his spelling mistakes. Best for French learners of English because one spelling mistake is a French name. But this slide can be deleted in the download.

Correct the American president's spelling mistakes

This is a simple slide show review of simple past tense. There will be incorrect sentences. The students are required to spot what is the mistakes contain on the sentence whether it is grammatical or spelling mistakes. You can use this in a classroom using timer to make the game more interesting or you can also use this in a one-on-one question and answer session.

Spot the Mistakes - Present Simple Review

Answer the quiz by playng like a game
open in presentation mode and only use the left click of the mouse

Answer the quiz by playng like a game
open in presentation mode and only use the left click of the mouse

FUN QUIZ, spot the grammar mistakes

The presentation contains an entry quiz and supplementary exercises to eliminate the mistakes typically made by speakers of the Russian language. The students work on gap-fill exercises and make sentences using prompts. The covered topics are: 1) The first conditional 2) Embedded (indirect) questions 3) ED, ING adjectives, 4) Use of the verb BE and the verbs agree, depend, mean, seem, etc. 5) Non-reflexive verbs (feel, relax, concentrate, meet, etc)

Common mistakes of Russian speakers in English

In this presentation you'll find examples of sentences in Present Simple and Present Continuous. Students have to find the mistakes in sentences, correct them and tell the teacher in which tense is the sentence written.

39 MISTAKES English ESL powerpoints