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Grammar can be a challenging subject to teach. It is often difficult to explain when and why certain rules apply. Busy Teacher has 4397 worksheets to help you teach your students grammar. This grammar worksheet has received a lot of positive feedback and does a nice job combining there is/are with prepositions of place. The worksheet is appealing to students because of its colorful image and useful for teachers because of the excellent gap fill exercise. If you are studying another topic in your classes, search for a different worksheet that your students will enjoy.
Recently ESL has moved away from teaching grammar through lectures and has begun to focus more on speaking practice. This new approach more closely mimics how native speakers learn a language. It is a critical shift and one that has been rather successful because students are learning English by using it rather than by memorizing material. This results in more rapidly improving fluency. There are so many exceptions to grammar rules that it seems foolish for students to memorize rules and exceptions for every structure. On the other hand, even using this approach, students need practice using what they have learned and these worksheets are creative ways to do just that.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Is Grammar?
English grammar is the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses and sentences. A text that contains more than one sentence is no longer in the realm of grammar but of discourse. The grammar of a language is approached in two ways: descriptive grammar is based on analysis of text corpora and describes grammatical structures thereof, whereas prescriptive grammar attempts to use the identified rules of a given language as a tool to govern the linguistic behaviour of speakers.
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Possessive Adjectives and Opposites: Elementary Level Possessive Adjectives and Opposites: Elementary LevelInsert the correct possessive adjective(like my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their) for the first two exercises and find appropriate antonyms= adjectives with opposite meaning for the third on ...
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Elementary
 
Beyonce's Success Story Beyonce's Success StoryI made it a couple of years ago but you can still use it to demonstrate differences between present perfect and past simple and try a similar exercise about Rihanna. It can also be used simply as ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
Business E-mails Business E-mailsA very thorough worksheet dealing with business e-mails: how to address different people depending on your relationship, giving reasons for writing, reminding the reader of any previous meetings, ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Song Worksheet: Song Worksheet: "Haven't Met You Yet" by Michael BubleFill in the blanks activity. Great song, people of all ages like it. Good to work Present Perfect Tense and Phrasal Verbs. I gave it to my Teen students and they sang along. Goog vocabulary with m ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Video Worksheet: God Created The DJ Video Worksheet: God Created The DJThis test is to be used with the very nice video called "Spin" which I found on "busyteacher.org". Thanks to Hass. There are three different exercises, the first to check the students know the dif ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Signs Of The Zodiac Signs Of The ZodiacThis is an intermediate/upper intermediate level worksheet.It can be used to teach personal adjectives indirectly or it can be used in revision lesson.You can support it with videos about zodiac. ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Song Worksheet & Household Waste Management Lesson Plan: Down By The River Song Worksheet & Household Waste Management Lesson Plan: Down By The RiverAn hour long lesson on Household Waste Management, using the lyrics and music of the song 'Down By The River'. These activities in this handout stretch listening, speaking, comprehension and writi ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
IF-Clauses (Types 1 And 2) IF-Clauses (Types 1 And 2)This worksheet consists of the rules for the first and second conditionals followed by an exercise (fill in the blanks). It also has a cartoon related to the same topic (if-clauses). You should pr ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Subject & Object Pronouns Subject & Object PronounsThis ws consists of 4 exercises to practise the use of subject and object ronouns. The students have to substitute the underlined words by using a subject or object pronoun; they have to choose fr ...
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Elementary
 
Ultimate Survival on a Deserted Island Ultimate Survival on a Deserted IslandThis is a fun discussion worksheet on ultimate survival/traveling. Students imagine they are on a deserted island after a ship crash. They need to do a lot of things (like create a shelter, find d ...
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Past Simple Presentation Past Simple PresentationPast simple presentation.You can use it for grammar lesson.There are some rules about Past simple, some examples of irregular forms in the Simple Past. Notice that you only use the irregular verbs ...
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Elementary
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