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This section is full of worksheets that can help your students practice forming and using tag questions. There are currently 29 tag questions worksheets to choose from so you are bound to find something your class will enjoy. This is a clever worksheet that combines the classic game, tic-tac-toe, with tag question practice. It would be appropriate for learners of any age from pre-intermediate on up. The lesson notes include directions, variations and even more practice activities so using this in your classroom will be simple. If this is not quite what you had in mind, there are other worksheets available too.
Tag questions are not incredibly challenging when it comes to sentence structure but they are often not taught in basic ESL courses. Whether or not you include them in your class depends on the ability and interests of your students. When forming tag questions, students must first create a grammatically correct statement and then add on a logical tag ending to form the question. Without learning tag questions, students will still be able to convey the same ideas. “You mailed it, didn’t you?” can easily be replaced with “Did you mail it?” to get the same response. The meaning is the same, only the delivery and stress is altered.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Are Tag Questions?
A question tag or tag question is a grammatical structure in which a declarative statement or an imperative is turned into a question by adding an interrogative fragment (the "tag"). For example, in the sentence "You're John, aren't you?", the statement "You're John" is turned into a question by the tag "aren't you". The term "question tag" is generally preferred by British grammarians, while their American counterparts prefer "tag question". Tag questions are more common in colloquial spoken usage than in formal written usage. They can be an indicator of politeness, emphasis or irony. They may suggest confidence or lack of confidence; they may be confrontational, defensive or tentative. Although they have the grammatical form of a question, they may differ from questions in that they do not expect an answer. In other cases, when they do expect a response, they may differ from straightforward questions in that they cue the listener as to what response is desired.
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Question Tags Worksheet III Question Tags Worksheet IIIQUESTION TAGS: worksheet for pre-/intermediate/+ intermediate students: The worksheet contains detailed information about the usage of question tags (positive, negative tags, which question tags t ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Tag Questions: PowerPoint Presentation Tag Questions: PowerPoint PresentationThis is a fully animated PowerPoint presentation with audio for teaching or revising tag questions.Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to choose the correct option to complete the ...
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rated by 5 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Question Tags Question TagsThese are the sentences which show how question tags are formed in different tenses. Necessary words, which are of big importance for this rule, are underlined. It can be used for explaining the r ...
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rated by 4 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Question Tags Question TagsThis is a worksheet with 21 questions where students have to fill in the gaps with an appropriate question tag. Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Past Simple and Modals are used ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
 
Tag Questions Elementary Worksheet Tag Questions Elementary WorksheetThis is a worksheet for teaching tag questions. The first page is basically just a grammar guide and the second page has 2 simple activities to go with it.The worksheet is available in both colour ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Elementary
 
Question Tags Presentation Question Tags PresentationThis is a short presentation on question tags. It also includes a few sentences for practice - each sentence is illustrated with a clipart by Phillip Martin. I usually combine this presentation wi ...
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rated by 9 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Question Tags Worksheet II Question Tags Worksheet IIThis is a 2-page worksheet for teaching question tags.There is a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by 4 different activities in which students are asked to complete sentences with ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
WH- Question Words WH- Question WordsA brief handout explaining some question words; what, who, when, where, how much. Contains 1 real world example question for each question word, with picture aids. Intended for day 1 complete begi ...
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rated by 5 teachers

Complete Beginner
 
Making Questions Making QuestionsThis worksheet is for beginner or elementary - pupils make a question to the answer. Teacher can use it as a test or revision of present simple. Pupils can correct it themself and choose the right ...
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rated by 11 teachers

Elementary
 
Question Exercises Question ExercisesThis is the second part of the worksheet connected with types of questions. Here you can see exercises to practice the rules in the grammar guide. The exercises are not difficult, they are aimed a ...
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rated by 7 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Questions Grammar Guide (types of questions) Questions Grammar Guide (types of questions)This grammar guide tells about four main types of questions in English (general, alternative, special (including the question to the subject), alternative and disjunctive questions). The rules of ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Question Tags Question TagsThis worksheet provides good exercises to practice question tags. Present Simple (do/does/to be/can are included). It is for those who have just started to practice this grammar topic and know Pre ...
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rated by 17 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Question Tags Worksheet Question Tags WorksheetA short grammar guide on question tags and two exercises in which students find the correct question tag to complete the sentences and match the correct question tag with the statements.Recommende ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
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