When you students struggle with word order, take the time to review this with them using one of the 51 word order worksheets available in this section. Browse through this section to find something that your students will enjoy or use these worksheets as a basis for your own. Here is a resource to refer to when talking about word order. The material may be a little overwhelming for your students but the scrambled sentences on the last three pages can be great practice if students have difficulties with word order. There are other scrambled sentences and word order worksheets to look at as well as an article that talks about teaching word order so stick around and explore all that Busy Teacher has to offer.
There are many common word order mistakes that English language learners make even as their overall fluency and level increase. You cannot stress the importance of word order enough so be sure that students understand the position of words in a target structure before sending them off to do practice activities. Not everyone supports the idea of giving students incorrect material but this would be one method of checking to see if students understand correct word order. You could create a worksheet with some incorrect sentences and ask students to make corrections to them. To make this more challenging, ask students to correct the incorrect sentences and include some sentences without errors so they have to be even more attentive when reading. Of course the best method of teaching word order is to include it in your introductions; take preventative measures when it comes to word order and you will have fewer problems to deal with later on in the course.
In linguistics, word order typology refers to the study of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how different languages can employ different orders. Correlations between orders found in different syntactic subdomains are also of interest. The primary word orders that are of interest are the constituent order of a clause—the relative order of subject, object, and verb; the order of modifiers (adjectives, numerals, demonstratives, possessives, and adjuncts) in a noun phrase; and the order of adverbials. Some languages have relatively restrictive word orders, often relying on the order of constituents to convey important grammatical information. Others, often those that convey grammatical information through inflection, allow more flexibility which can be used to encode pragmatic information such as topicalisation or focus. Most languages however have some preferred word order which is used most frequently...
Composition_5
A fun activity which allows kids to be creative and compose their own sentences by selecting 5 nouns, 5 verbs and 5 adjectives. This can be accompanied with a very innovative test of composition w ...
Past Simple Positive, Negative and Interrogative Drill
PowerPoint presentation to practice positive, negative and interrogative forms of the verbs in the Past Simple Tense. Students are given positive sentences in the Present Simple Tense which should ...
Question Words
This PowerPoint presentation contains several short poems based on special questions. They are easy to remember and focus on different question words. Some of them may be familiar to you while the ...
Present Simple Questions
This worksheet contains different types of exercises to help students with general and special questions in Present Simple Tense. Exercises are graded by difficulty level starting from the easiest ...
Clauses of Contrast
These three exercises will help your students to practise clauses of contrast. Your students will have to choose the correct word ( e.g. However / Although), fill in the blanks and rewrite sentenc ...
Sentence Construction SV and SVO
My worksheet is neatly designed for very basic sentence structure. It is suitable for adults just starting to learn English. My students are the corporate businessmen but their level of English i ...
Question Words: Reading
This is an introductory level reading packet for question words. This includes 5 short reading activities and related questions, for students to practice and identify the meanings of who, what, w ...
Sentence Building Worksheet
Suitable for online or classroom teaching, it is a how-to for teachers whose objective is to consolidate grammar terms and get students to creatively use the language. For revision purposes elicit ...
Tale by Oscar Wilde "The Selfish Giant"
This worksheet is useful for reading in the 6th form. It is interesting because of the language used by O.Wilde. It gives a chance for students to understand the difference between classical and m ...
Transformation: Grammar Exercises
Useful sheets for revising transformation in English structures at an intermediate level. It includes changes passive/active, reported/direct speech, joining sentences through relative pronouns, ...
Entry Test
This worksheet is an entry test divided in comprehension, grammar and vocabulary. It has multiple choice exercises, gap filling and brief comprehension exercises. It also contains an exercise to f ...
Writing Practice: Has Got/Hasn't Got
This is the worksheet I made while working on has got/hasn't got grammar. We have already learnt have got/haven't got, so I thought it would be smart to put some revision here too (see ex.6). Also ...
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