-IBLE vs -ABLE
This worksheet is about -ible and -able suffixes which are frequently mixed in the words. Although a lot of grammar books do not pay attention to this fact, this grammar rule is of immense importa ...
Word Formation (from Adjective to Noun or Verb)
More practice with word formation. The students have two exercises: in the 1st one they have to fill in the blanks with the correct noun from the given adejctive; in the 2nd one, they have to give ...
Word Formation (from Noun to Verb or Adjective)
This worksheet consists of 32 sentences to practise word formation. In the first exercise te students have to fill in the blanks with the correct adjective from the noun in brackets. In exercise t ...
Word Formation (from Verb to Noun or Adjective)
This worksheet consists of two exercises. In the 1st one the students have 18 sentences with blanks and verbs in brackets. They have to write the correct form of the noun. In the 2nd one they have ...
Word Formation: Derivatives From The Root Word USE
There are numerous derivatives from the root word USE. This exercise aims at the consolidation of these expressions. There are examples of: useful, useless, usefulness, misuse, abuse, disuse, abus ...
Word Formation Activity
33 sentences to practise the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. The students have to fill in the blanks with the correct from of the words in brackets, so they have to decide which pa ...
Word Formation Worksheet 2
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising word formation. There are simple explanations followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to form new words using the suffixes a ...
Song Worksheet: Consider Me Gone by Sting
I designed this worksheet when I was training my students at word formation for one of the first modules of a CAE coursebook. It was meant as a follow-up to the activities for word formation at FL ...
The Greek or Latin Roots for -ped- Quiz
A vocabulary quiz using the Greek or Latin root (-ped-) for decoding some of our English words, for example: biped, tripod, pedicure, peddler,pedal, pedestrian,impediment, quadruped, centipede, an ...
Words That End In -GRY
It's about very rare word ending that appears in only a couple of words in the English language. We have stopped counting how many times we have received this question by email… "There are ...
Adjective Formation Worksheet
A 2-page worksheet, suitable for intermediate students, on adjective formation. It includes explanations and example sentences at the top of the page followed by 3 exercises in which students are ...
Word Families Worksheet
It is a comprehensive worksheet on the word families and is best for the students of intermediate level and above. It also helps practise the formation of nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs from ...
Negative Prefixes Word Search
This is a Pre-Intermediate/Intermediate word search puzzle for teaching and revision of the prefixes used to form a negative form of an adjective. List of words used in this word search: IMPOLITE ...
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