With so many verbs to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down your focus. This section has 356 worksheets to practice verbs that can help you. There are flashcards, practice activities, and creative worksheets that can make studying verbs more enjoyable for you and your students. For a simple worksheet appropriate for elementary learners, consider this one that focuses on using the verb to be. It has a number of different activities that can give students the extra practice they need to feel confident using this verb. There are many other worksheets to choose from so look through this section to find something your students will enjoy.
Students will be learning new vocabulary words continuously. Beginners start off being inundated with unfamiliar words, intermediate learners consciously study more challenging words relating to a wider array of topics, and advanced learners increase their vocabulary mostly by exposure to more English material. Advanced learners have the benefit of being able to guess the meaning of words based on the context of sentences while other learners often struggle to do this. Verbs are an integral part of any language and as such there are a huge number of them. Another worksheet on this site examines over eighty words with the same basic meaning of the word 'said'. That is a lot of different words with very similar meanings and is a great way to emphasize the fact that learning a language is a never ending process.
A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. In languages where the verb is inflected, it often agrees with its primary argument (the subject) in person, number and/or gender. With the exception of the verb to be, English shows distinctive agreement only in the third person singular, present tense form of verbs, which is marked by adding "-s" (I walk, he walks) or "-es" (he fishes). The rest of the persons are not distinguished in the verb (I walk, you walk, they walk, etc.).
Irregular Verbs
Here is a list of irregular verbs with a very interesting graphic. A nice trick. Activites can be assigned around it, like making sentences out of one form each or it can be hung in c ...
Forms of the English Tenses: Past and Present
A good reminder of the form of the English tenses. In the paper are shown the forms of: Simple Present, Present Progressive, Past Simple, Past Progressive, Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfe ...
Routine Verbs
this is a power point presentation with a lot of routine verbs for all levels as students usually have problems memorizing routine verbs. The verbs are not organized in a cronological order bu ...
Uses of Hot Verbs Make Do Get and Take
This presentation is meant to help teachers to teach different uses of verbs like Make,Do,Take and Get. The activities associated to these hot verbs are shown through colourful and meaningful pic ...
Basic Grammar and Vocabulary Drilling
This animated Power Point presentation may prove a good grammar and vocabulary drilling for starters. It focuses on the Present Simple forms of the verbs ‘to be’, ‘can’ and ...
Stative Verbs - I'm Loving It
A student asked me to explain if "I'm loving it" was grammatically correct! I found this great blog post (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/im-loving-it-grammar.aspx) and used it as a basis for ...
Identify the Verbs -Elementary Worksheet
This verb worksheet can be used as a warm-up activity to identify the verbs or as a revision of different verbs. This is a very simple worksheet for revising verbs. To learn more about verbs pleas ...
Verbs in Space
A coloring activity which will helps kids to distinguish verbs from nouns. Elements of fun as well as learning. This can be accompanied with the verb song to either reinforce the concept or as an ...
Regular/Irregular Verbs
In my perspective, this w/s will help the beginners and help them understand the concept of regular and irregular verbs better with small simplified definitions and small areas of activity where a ...
Complete List of the Irregular Verbs
A complete list of the irregular verbs (with Greek translation). Suitable for Greek students and not only, as you could easily replace the Greek translation with another one, or you could erase it ...
Miscellanea 4
Four activities about conditional clauses, passive voice, reported speech and verbal tenses. The first activity is about reported speech. Students will transform the sentences from direct speech t ...
Basic English Test
It is a basic test about verb to be, prepositions of place and cardinal and ordinal numbers. It can be used as a previous test or as a review.It is suitable for elementary learners. You can also ...
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