English Verbs & Tenses Smash vs TenseBuilder Usage & Stats
This app makes grammar fun! Improve and test your verbs and basic tenses with this fast game and course for ESL beginners. Learn and practice for IELTS and TOEIC, study by yourself and have fun with "English Verbs Smash". Smash the correct words before the sentences drop to the bottom in this highly addictive game. Learning English grammar has never been so fast, fun and easy.
This paid version is without advertising and all features are unlocked.
COURSE CONTENTS:
1) 500,000+ question and answer sentence combinations
2) 120 of the most common verbs
3) Regular and irregular verbs
4) Present Simple Tense
5) Present Continuous Tense *
6) Past Simple Tense
7) Present Perfect Tense **
8) Using contractions and negatives
9) Using auxiliary verbs (helping verbs)
*For relevant verbs. Some English verbs are not used in the Present Continuous.
**For experiences (“Have you ever…”).
Verb Smash is an innovative course in English grammar that teaches questions and answers using auxiliary verbs, contractions, negatives, regular verbs and irregular verbs in four of the most common tenses of the English language.
This revolutionary new interactive game includes over 500,000 unique question and answer sentence combinations for practicing the present simple tense, present continuous tense, past simple tense and present perfect tense with real life examples.
By playing this fun verb game you will learn the different conjugations (sometimes described as V1, V2, V3 and the gerund) of 120 of the most common regular and irregular English verbs. You will also learn the auxiliary verbs (“helping verbs”) that form correct English sentences.
With our massive database of sentences you will learn the verb forms and their correct use in context with the modern English language.
If you make mistakes our intelligent system will correct and perfect your grammar as if you had a real teacher with you to guide you through your English course!
This course is ideal for secondary, high school, university or adult ESL/EFL students. It is also perfect for supplementing TOEIC or IELTS studies, business English courses or communicative English courses.
The course is in British English but also includes commonly used words in American English with the intention of helping students of “International English”.
Verb Smash has been designed by serious professional teachers and game designers so that you can learn English easily, quickly and effectively in a fun way.
Have fun and learn English faster than ever before. Get smashing!
- Apple App Store
- Paid
- Education
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Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle.
Winner - 2012 2nd Best Educational App by Let's Talk SLP
Winner - 2012 Best Teaching App by TeachHub.com
Winner - 2012 Best Education App by TeachersWithApps.com
TenseBuilder is designed to help students learn how to identify and use correct tense forms by playing movie quality animated videos to demonstrate past, present and future tense. 48 video lessons (will expand to 58) are in place to help give students a deeper understanding about the purpose of tense. Special attention is paid to the past tense of irregular verbs.
Students will learn how to sequence events and how to differentiate between events that will happen, events that are happening now and events that have already happened. Students will also identify correct written verb forms and drag them to complete sentences.
Students have the opportunity to record their sentences in their own voice to improve their receptive and expressive language skills and promote carryover of these target verb forms to their conversational speech.
Tense Builder offers a unique environment for improving a student's ability to understand tenses and use verb forms properly.
FEATURES
-48 target verbs with matching animated movies
-Movies employ humor to engage student
-Video modeling for each verb and tense form used
-Each verb has separate animated lesson to show past, present and future tense
-Option to focus on a particular tense
-Ability to address past tense developmentally, by first teaching regular past -ed forms and then moving to irregular past.
-Includes receptive task, where student taps the correct image to match a sentence, and an expressive task where student drags the correct verb form to complete the sentence
-Intuitive drag and drop to create sentences
-Words are spoken as they are being dragged for emerging readers
-Record feature allows students to record sentences in their own voice
-Save and email recorded sentences
LANGUAGES
- English
REQUIREMENTS
- Compatible with iPad
- Requires iPad 5.0 software update
TenseBuilder is part of "The Builder Series" of award winning education apps. Mobile Education Store has won over 40 app awards and has been named educational developer of the year in 2011 and 2012.
Mobile Education Tools is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 3-6, 6-10
Categories: Special Needs, Education
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- Paid
- Education
Store Rank
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