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Articles on teaching There is/ There are
How to teach there is/ there are (with 25 practice activities)
Fun practice activities for there is/ are/ was/ were
The six blocks games in the fourth section of this article
Photocopiable there is/ there are classroom activities
and see the section below for ones including there was/ there were
There is/ are with countable nouns games for young learners – NEW
Problem hotels pairwork (There is/ are + lots of, a few, not much, not any) – NEW LINK
There is/ are/ isn’t/ aren’t personalised dice games
There isn’t a/ There aren’t any dice drawing game
Is there/ Are there and prepositions of location dice game
Describing countries with there is/ there are games
There is & there are guess the place
Is there/ Are there…? spelling games
Is there/Are there trivia quiz
There is/ There are and ordinal numbers spelling game – LINK FIXED
How many are there and ordinal numbers hangman
Is there/ Are there and ordinal numbers hangman
Challenges 1 Units 1 to 11 there is/ there are hangman
How many… are there? trivia quiz
Is there/ Are there plus prepositions mix and match (“Are there four socks in the zoo?”)
How many… are there? spelling games
Is there a…? Are there any…? coin drawing game
What’s in the…? There is/ There are… pick and draw drawing game
There is/ are and like/ don’t like games
How many are there pick and draw drawing games
There is/ There are stacking games
How many are there? games (with prepositions of position)
There is/ There are plus prepositions make me say yes game
There is/ There are numbers guessing game
There is/ There are How many board game
The environment There is/ are/ isn’t/ aren’t gapfill guessing
Problems with Have and There are speaking (for Market Leader Elementary but adaptable for other classes)
Problems with some and any speaking (ditto)
The natural world There is/ There are guessing
There is/ There are and preposition Halloween drawing game
Is there/ Are there Xmas drawing coin game
There is/ There are and Xmas vocabulary drawing game
Photocopiable there is/ are/ was/ were classroom activities – NEW SECTION
There is/ are/ was/ were household vocabulary roleplays
There is/ are/ was/ were and household vocabulary writing tasks
There is there are songs
There is Song by Beautiful South (link to lyrics and song on YouTube)
There is a frog song (kids song with animation on YouTube)
and search results for “there are” on A-Z Lyrics here
Related pages
Countable and uncountable nouns page
Updated 24 July 2026
