As far as zero articles are concerned, there are 28 worksheets available at this time. Busy Teacher is always adding more worksheets and you are welcome to upload your own worksheets too. Here is an example of the types of worksheets you can find on this part of the site. The worksheet lays out the rules for when to use articles and when articles are not needed. You can use this to help you structure your lesson plan and explain the uses of articles to your students. There is a short practice activity but not for practicing zero articles so you will have to create your own practice activity or consider using another worksheet from this section. Just look around to see what is available. Once your students have learned definite, indefinite, and zero articles, be sure to do some mixed article practice activities to check that students clearly understand how to use each type of article correctly.
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Zero article is a speaking behavior where the article the or a is not used.
The definite article is sometimes omitted before words such as prison, school, bed, and (in standard non-American dialects) hospital, hence: She is in hospital. He was taken to prison.
when this is a generalisation rather than a specific location.
This five-page grammar guide is a detailed explanation on the use and omission of the definite article. ‘THE’. It can be used from intermediate levels but also for English as ...
This worksheet consists four exercises to practise and help students differentiate between the use of the definite article "the" and the indefinite articles "a" and "an". It’s suit ...
The worksheet focuses on use articles with geographical names. The students discover the rules of the article use watching the video about natural wonders of the world. Students focus on the rule ...
This worksheet is appropriate for reviewing and practicing articles "a", "an", "the" and "zero"articles. It contains a lot of questions to test students previous knowledge. It is suitable for elem ...
This worksheet is about likes and dislikes and the use of the zero article. Students have to learn and repeat a few words and a few verbs, they can tell the class what they like and what they don' ...
This worksheet is devoted to the use of articles in the famous song by the Beatles. It's got only one task that is inserting the articles where necessary. The worksheet will work especially good w ...
This worksheet is mostly devoted to working with articles and word order on the basis of the song. It contains several tasks and wolud be a good warm up as well as a good material to analyze the u ...
This worksheet is devoted to articles and can be used as a warm up or as a test for your students. It includes several common proverbs which many students were taught in their childhood, though I' ...
This is a worksheet for revising articles at pre-intermediate level. There are 2 different exercises in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with the correct article and choos ...
This is an articles gapfill on the lyrics of Disney Channel's Jessie Theme Song. For students aged 8 to 12 aproximately. Play the video of the theme: Hey Jessie! And make the pupils listen an ...
It is a set of 3 exercises to practise the definte and indefinite articles. Students are expected to fill in the blanks in the text with a, an, the where it is necessary. This worksheet is good fo ...
The topic of this worksheet is talents. Students learn vocabulary for typical leisure time activities. They learn how to use can and can't, the definite article "the" and the "zero" article. The w ...
In this worksheet, ss learn the names of classroom items. They have to listen and repeat the words. They can colour the items. The worksheet also presents the zero and indefinite articles. Ss have ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
There are 3 tests of different levels for practising the usage of articles with geographical names. It contains tasks like "fill in" and "underline" tasks. It is a basic introduction to articles ( ...
The worksheet is about articles and prepositions of time and place. It is a basic introduction to articles (definite, indefinite, zero) and to the basic prepositions of time and place. The exerci ...
It includes a set of activities for comprehension on the movie Gifted Hands: Ben Carson's Story. It can also be used as a practice test after watching the whole movie. The worsheet contains Gramma ...
I 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 ...