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 183 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.
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.
A/An/The PPT for Japanese Students
Articles is one of the most complicated lessons I have done so far. Hope this ppt would help other bilingual teachers.This power point is very simple to use as I have added pictures and sent ...
Animals
This is meant to be for the 1st graders.It is about twelve Animals. The main idea of the worksheet is to recognize the animals, match the pictures with the corresponding words and after that the s ...
"We Always Have a Choice...."
Speaking activity worksheet for practising different ways of expressing imaginary situations. It also can be used as a role-play activity or as a writing task. It is a good way for communication ...
The Beach Trip - Basic Test
Children will be very happy to complete these easy exercises while teachers can know how well their young pupils learn the basic grammar concepts. Work with easy numbers, choose undetermined artic ...
Article Test
Here you will find an excellent worksheet or a test for your students. It is intended to test English articles, that is a , an, the or the zero article. With open-cloze, circling and gap filling e ...
Use of Articles with Place Names
It's a powerpoint presentation "Use of articles with place names".It's colourful and captivating! The presentation contains basic rules and exercises for practice.It can be used in English lessons ...
Grammar Race
Here’s another fun and engaging strategy in teaching grammar. A very integrative approach level 2 grammar teachers can use in their review lesson. Contents in this activity were all taken ...
Grammar and Vocabulary Test for ESL Learners
It is a multiple-choice test of grammar and vocabulary for 12-14 year old ESL learners. It tests Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Articles: a,an, the, some, zero article; Direct/Indirect speec ...
The Usage of Articles
Summary of some general and more detailed usage and abusage of articles a/an/the and no article. These are only grammatical rules (without any exercises). The set is taken from 'Practical English ...
Frequency Adverbs: A Coloring Activity
Color it! Who says that coloring only appeals to kids? Not at all. Believe it or not, big guys in my class enjoyed doing it while trying to master their grammar lesson on adverbs of frequency. ...
A / An [For Greek Speakers]
This worksheet is about the indefinite article. There are three exercises with different level of difficulty. In the first exercise, images of the nouns mentioned are provided to make the task mor ...
Definite and Indefinite Articles
This presentation contains some basic information about articles - definite and indefinite articles and zero article. When we use definite article - the with place names and when we use no article ...
Facts about Mother Russia
you can revise knowledge about articles and break famous stereotypes about Russia. It consits of three questions and 7 facts about Russian culture, nature, geography, language...Here you find answ ...
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