Sentence Building with verbs BE & HAVE - Present Tense - BOOM CARDS

Do your students need practice forming complete sentences and questions? This Boom Card deck helps students master word order in sentences and questions using verbs BE & HAVE. All sentences are in the Present Simple Tense. Students drag words into the blanks to build accurate positive, negative, and question forms.

With 30 self-checking cards, this resource is NO PREP — no printing, no laminating. Use on laptops, tablets, iPads, Chromebooks, or Smart Boards. Boom Cards™ auto-grade responses, saving you time while giving students immediate feedback.

Click HERE to try out the first few cards.

Skills Practiced

• Positive sentence word order
• Negative sentence word order
• Question word order

What’s Included

• A link to access 30 Sentence Building Boom Cards on the Boom Learning™ platform

Why Teachers Love It

Strengthen Present Simple grammar with a fun, interactive resource that supports ESL beginners, ELL newcomers, and elementary learners. This activity works perfectly for warmups, small group instruction, grammar centers, homework, or sub plans.

For more teaching strategies, explore this blog post: 5 Engaging Activities to Practice Sentence Building in ESL .

Perfect For Teachers Searching For

• Present Simple BE and HAVE practice
• Sentence word order activities
• Self-checking ESL grammar resources
• Interactive grammar Boom Cards™
• Digital ESL/EFL centers and distance learning
• Forming positive, negative, and question sentences
• Drag-and-drop ESL grammar activities

How Teachers Use This Deck

• Warmup: Project cards for whole-class sentence building.
• Centers: Assign 8–10 cards as a grammar station.
• Monitoring: Use Boom reports to track student progress.
• Differentiation: Focus on BE first, then introduce HAVE.

Pair It With

For more Present Simple grammar practice, pair this set with Present Simple: Sentences & Questions – Boom Cards™ . Together, these decks provide comprehensive sentence building practice.