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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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.)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 & ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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