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If you are looking for worksheets on questions and short answers, you have found the right page. There are 455 ESL worksheets that specifically deal with this topic. Here is one such worksheet that other busy teacher have found useful. Students start out reviewing the necessary sentence structure, practice forming positive and negative sentences, complete an exercise on word order, and finish with a question and short answer section that you can have students use for speaking practice. To make the exercise easier have students work with a partner when completing the worksheet too. It is possible that you will not find exactly what you are looking for but you can adapt the worksheets you find or simply use them as inspiration for your own.
Since learning a language is about communication, it is important that students are able to ask and answer questions. When practicing a basic question or sentence structure, model dialogues might sound a bit unnatural so consider using interview type activities instead. Once students have reached a more advanced level, they will be able to have conversations that more closely resemble those of native speakers. With increased vocabulary, conversations will flow more easily and students will be able to come up with a wide variety of answers even when asked simple questions. Never forget the importance of speaking practice in ESL classes.

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GRAMMAR TIP:What Are Questions?
A question may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or else the request itself made by such an expression. This information is provided with an answer. Questions are normally put forward or asked using interrogative sentences. However they can also be formed by imperative sentences, which normally express commands: "Tell me what two plus two is"; conversely, some expressions, such as "Would you pass the salt?", have the grammatical form of questions but actually function as requests for action, not for answers, making them allofunctional. (A phrase such as this could, theoretically, also be viewed not merely as a request but as an observation of the other person's desire to comply with the request given.)
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Question word 'HOW'

Question word 'HOW'

• » Questions and Short Answers
    This five-page worksheet practices and revises the question word ‘How.’ It consists of seven exercises: (Complete the questions/Write questions with ‘How much&r ...
1 Views 9,208 ElemPre-Int
Vocabulary Worksheet

Vocabulary Worksheet

Hanum Maulida
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  This worksheet is for elementary grade school and for beginners in learning English. It aims to improve and help students practice English as well as an assessment tool in teaching and l ...
1 Views 14,981 Elem
Simple Past Tense Quiz - Grammar - Verb

Simple Past Tense Quiz - Grammar - Verb

Sandila Ramadhani
  This grammar practice worksheet focuses on the use of the Simple Past tense. It's all about simple past tense, quiz, question, practice, grammar, verb, multiple choice, etc. Students obs ...
1 Views 16,782 Pre-IntInt
Guess Who Game

Guess Who Game

Martha Juliana Fernandez
•Questions and Short Answers, ,
  This warm-up activity uses pictures of famous people in history. Students have to ask questions to guess the character using the given information, making it easier to ask about the pers ...
1 Views 9,316 ElemPre-Int
100 Discussion Questions!

100 Discussion Questions!

Robbie
•Questions and Short Answers,
    Great for adult learners, this list of 100 discussion questions with sample answers comprises five topics with 20 questions and answers per topic. They include Unit 1 = English & ...
1 Views 12,041 All
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The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Quiz

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Quiz

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    Use this fun multiple-choice quiz to test your children's knowledge of Queen Elizabeth II and the Platinum Jubilee. There are nine multiple-choice questions for children to answe ...
2 Views 8,092 ElemPre-IntInt
Giving Advice: Health

Giving Advice: Health

Jeff Genet
  This YouTube video-based lesson contains lots of visuals for talking, telling, and retelling stories. Vocabulary building, warm-up, listening and discussion questions, fill-in-the-blanks ...
1 Views 18,727 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
WH QUESTIONS

WH QUESTIONS

marcia costa bonamin
•Questions and Short Answers,
This resource teaches and practices the order and use of the most common WH questions: HOW, HOW MUCH, HOW MANY, HOW OLD, HOW FAR, HOW OFTEN, HOW LONG, WHAT, WHAT TIME, WHAT COLOR, WHICH, WHEN, ...
1 Views 15,446 Pre-Int
Halloween Homophones Lesson – ESL Spelling and Writing Worksheet

Halloween Homophones Lesson – ESL Spelling and Writing Worksheet

Jennifer Thompson
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  This ESL Spelling and Writing Halloween worksheet is a lesson on homophones and homonyms and teaches students the difference between which, witch, and -wich. It follows a short animated ...
1 Views 18,337 BegElem
A.I. Bot Interviews Billie Eilish

A.I. Bot Interviews Billie Eilish

Candice Soldatelli
•, Questions and Short Answers, ,
  This ppt presentation has a link to a video with singer Billie Eilish being interviewed by Vogue Magazine A.I. Bot. Students can practice both listening and speaking (B1 level) working w ...
1 Views 11,658 Int
Holiday Travel

Holiday Travel

Jeff Genet
•Questions and Short Answers, , ,
  This fun, animated lesson is about holiday travel. This lesson is perfect for listening (there's an animated YouTube video link), speaking (discussion questions), vocabulary building and ...
1 Views 20,227 All
Introduction Cards

Introduction Cards

•Questions and Short Answers, , ,
  This worksheet contains 16 cards which you can use whenever your students are practicing how to introduce themselves and giving personal information. You need to cut them out and give on ...
1 Views 25,417 BegElem
Question Words

Question Words

Ba Nguyen
• » Questions and Short Answers
  This sheet is for practicing question words in English. Students make a sentence with the underlined words or phrases. Reading the sentences out loud helps with learning how to make an i ...
1 Views 6,604 Pre-Int
My Family Worksheet – Music Video Lesson for Children

My Family Worksheet – Music Video Lesson for Children

BusyTeacher Contributor
•Questions and Short Answers, ,
  This worksheet is used with a fun, pop music video to get students singing and dancing in English. It also includes fast finisher activities for those students who tend to whizz through ...
1 Views 11,197 Beg
Tag Questions

Tag Questions

•Questions and Short Answers,
  What are 'Tag questions'? (Or 'Question Tags'). How can we use them? This resource contains grammatical explanations with the proper use of ‘Tag questions’. It includes examp ...
1 Views 16,516 IntAdv
Asking Information Question Formation Exercise

Asking Information Question Formation Exercise

Fernando Crespo
• » Questions and Short Answers
  This worksheet helps students practice forming and asking information (or Wh-) questions. The set of sentences has underlined words to provide the information to answer the questions &nb ...
1 Views 13,112 Elem
Mr. Popper's Penguins – Movie

Mr. Popper's Penguins – Movie

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  Mr. Popper's Penguins is a comedy with penguins doing silly things which are fun to watch. On this worksheet the class watches a few scenes in the movie, beginning and ending with design ...
1 Views 8,536 ElemPre-IntInt
Reader – Language about color and fruit

Reader – Language about color and fruit

Helen Close
  This simple reader/worksheet booklet is for complete beginners with little or no English. Colors are introduced as well as simple sentence structures. It can be used by teachers who have ...
1 Views 12,149 Beg
1 Hour Worksheet for Adult English Learners

1 Hour Worksheet for Adult English Learners

RobbieEnglishTeacher
•Questions and Short Answers, ,
  This 1-hour lesson for adult learners is centered on the topic of Diet & Fitness. It covers reading, speaking, listening, vocabulary, writing and comprehension. It also includes acti ...
1 Views 64,115 Pre-IntIntAdv
Everyday Instructions – How do I ask?

Everyday Instructions – How do I ask?

Helen
  This A5 booklet for adult beginners and elementary students is about helping to make appointments or phone emergency numbers. Instructional, it can be used for role-playing, with student ...
1 Views 60,609 BegElemPre-Int
Task Cards to Get Talking

Task Cards to Get Talking

•Questions and Short Answers,
  This worksheet has cut-out pieces with easy questions for students to practise speaking. It includes various verb forms: have got, to be, Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect and ...
1 Views 8,611 ElemPre-Int
Beginners' Reader

Beginners' Reader

Helen Close
•Questions and Short Answers, , ,
  This useful reader/worksheet is for very beginners both young and old who have absolutely no English. Print it as an A5 booklet and teach with the words, pictures and your actions a ...
1 Views 9,100 Beg
Guess My Job

Guess My Job

Khatuna Tavartkiladze
•Questions and Short Answers,
  Students take turns by taking a card with a job on it. The rest of the students have to ask ‘yes and no’ questions and guess what the job is. Students can discuss the aspects ...
1 Views 33,082 ElemPre-Int

"Did You Use To?" + 10 Vocabulary For Adult Learners

RobbieEnglishTeacher
30-50 Minute Speaking Lesson! Great for adult learners to: - Speak using 'Did you use to ... ?' - Learn 10 common vocabulary/expressions Lesson Includes 4 Parts: 1. Interview teacher as a class ...
2 Views 52,210 ElemPre-IntInt
Greetings & How Are You for ESL Beginners

Greetings & How Are You for ESL Beginners

Ewane
• » Questions and Short Answers
Greetings & How Are You for Beginners. This worksheet is a PowerPoint presentation to help young beginners to learn how to introduce themselves in the English language, how to greet, and how ...
1 Views 25,570 BegElem

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