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English language learners often forget when and where to include articles in their sentences but these words are important to master in order to achieve a high level of English. There are 110 worksheets that you can give your students for extra practice using articles and these are sorted into several different categories to make your search simpler. Here is a worksheet that practices not only articles but also countable and uncountable nouns. You will need to introduce and practice the material before completing the three activities outlined in this file. Students will enjoy the variety of games and the worksheet will enable you to evaluate their overall understanding of the material at the end of class or as a review activity at the beginning of the next lesson. There are more worksheets to choose from if this is not quite what you are looking for so take your time reviewing them.
Articles are often overlooked or misplaced by English language learners so it is important to give them sufficient practice with word order. Another way you can help students learn articles is to introduce nouns with a or an; instead of drilling book, consider using a book instead. This will help students when it comes to forming sentences because they will say “I want a book.” rather than the common, incorrect answer “I want book.” Other articles will obviously need to be introduced in a different way but getting students accustomed to using articles in sentences will make it easier for them later on in the course.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Are Articles?
An article (abbreviated art) is a word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. Articles specify the grammatical definiteness of the noun, in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope. The articles in the English language are 'the' and 'a/an'. 'An' and 'a' are modern forms of the Old English 'an', which in Anglian dialects was the number 'one' (compare 'on', in Saxon dialects) and survived into Modern Scots as the number 'ane'. Both 'on' (respelled 'one' by the Normans) and 'an' survived into Modern English, with 'one' used as the number and 'an' ('a', before nouns that begin with a consonant sound) as an indefinite article. The word some is thus used as a functional plural of a/an. "An apple" never means more than one apple. "Give me some apples" indicates more than one is desired but without specifying a quantity.
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Articles Worksheet Articles WorksheetThis is a worksheet for teaching articles.Students are asked to complete the sentences with: a, an, the or zero article.The worksheet is available in both colour and black and white version and th ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
TO BE & A/AN Worksheet TO BE & A/AN WorksheetYou can use it to practice all the forms of TO BE and a/an. There are pictures to illustrate the meaning of the sentences. There is an example to illustrate exactly what should be done. I use this ...
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Elementary
 
Test on Articles 2 Test on Articles 2Aimed at pre- and intermediate ss. There are about twenty sentences to practice, different rules are included. You can also use it when you have five or so free minutes in the end of the lesson.
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Final Test [kids]: Jobs, Numbers, Prepositions of Place, Articles Final Test [kids]: Jobs, Numbers, Prepositions of Place, ArticlesThis is a test for kids. Children are gonna love this because it's colorful and has lots of pictures.Forget the ordinary tests, they might be boring or too hard for children. Use this on ...
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Complete Beginner
 
Articles Test (Pre- and Intermediate Level) Articles Test (Pre- and Intermediate Level)This is quite a good test to check your students' level of knowledge. Different examples of the use of articles are included (about 40 sentences). There are easy examples and quite difficult ones. ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Definite Article Use & Omission: Intermediate Worksheet Definite Article Use & Omission: Intermediate WorksheetThis is a worksheet for teaching or revising definite article.There are two activities in which students are asked to read each sentence and find out if the definite article is correctly used, tic ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
A or An (Complete Beginners) A or An (Complete Beginners)I have a pupil who is a complete beginner in English. So there was a problem for me to find very-very easy worksheets. I decided to make some of my own. Here is one of such works - there are only ...
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Complete Beginner
 
Elementary Exam Paper (adult learners) Elementary Exam Paper (adult learners)This worksheet includes an exam for adults with elementary level. Contents: verb TO BE (Pres.S.), Present Simple, Possessive 's, adverbs of frequency, articles a/an/the, prepositions of time in/on ...
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Elementary
 
Articles And No Articles: Maze Articles And No Articles: MazeI made this maze so you can use it to teach Definite Article, Indefinite Article, and Zero Article.You can use the second maze as answer key or use it like I did with the silent way depending on c ...
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Complete Beginner Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Countables x Uncountables Countables x UncountablesWorksheet on countables/uncountables, some/any, few/little, How much... is there?/How many... are there?, a lot of, many/much. I help the students describe the first fridge with vocabulary previou ...
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Complete Beginner Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Food, Indefinite Articles, Verb To Like Worksheet Food, Indefinite Articles, Verb To Like WorksheetHere's a 3 page worksheet with several activities on food vocabulary, some and any, indefinite articles and verb to like.Suitable for elementary students who are asked to complete affirmative, neg ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
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