Grammar can often be very difficult to teach and just as difficult to learn - but Busyteacher.org has 11,239 printable grammar worksheets in different categories. Whether you're looking for worksheets on a specific topics, like movies, nationalities, or music; or on a specific area of grammar, like tenses, gerunds, prepositions, or modal verbs, BusyTeacher.org has got you covered. All 11,239 of our printable worksheets are completely free to download without registering or logging in, and every single one of them was created and submitted by fellow ESL teachers from around the world.
The worksheets below will help you supplement your lessons, and will also provide additional practice for your students. Our worksheets serve as great gap fillers during lessons, to help your students retain the grammar learned during the lesson. In addition, you can print out each worksheet for your students to take home, so they can continue to practice in their free time. The worksheets below are unique in that they come in various styles. Some are purely for grammar practice, some are colorful with several illustrations for young learners, and some have sound files or are in power point presentation format. You can sort the worksheets below by most popular, latest, and most downloaded.
The worksheets also show which level of ESL learners they're for, which will make your search for a suitable worksheet for your class a breeze. Some of the worksheets aren't limited to just one level or category. You may find that a worksheet can be used for beginner and/or intermediate students. When you find a worksheet that looks useful to you, just click on the thumbnail of that worksheet and preview it before downloading. These worksheets are great for the current style of ESL communication-based education, where you and your students practice language together, rather than just working in a lecture format. As you probably know, using this format is extremely useful, because there are so many exceptions to grammar rules - especially in areas like clauses or passive voice. These aren't areas that students can just memorize by taking notes in a lecture they need to produce and work with the grammar. That's exactly where these grammar worksheets come into play. They're are not only great resources for the classroom, but also great homework assignments and practice work for students. With the help of these worksheets, students can familiarize themselves with how and why certain grammar topics are used and needed.
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This is a simple and easy worksheet for revising the future simple at elementary level. Students are asked to fill in blank spaces with will, ‘ll or won’t . The worksheet is available ...
This is a reading worksheet for teaching the present simple tense at elementary level. Students are asked to read the text, mark the sentences given as true or false, and answer the questions. Th ...
This handout can be a poster about apostrophe s and apostrophe d. It can be used when you explain the difference between the two apostrophes, especially the difference between had and would in 'd ...
This worksheet was designed for the TED talk by Matt Cutts "Try Something New For 30 Days." I made it for my pre-intermediate students, when we covered the topic 'Lifestyle.' It includes the pre-w ...
This is a test/worksheet that requires students to use some basic verbs. Students have a verb list and they have to put the verbs under the correct picture or complete sentences using the appropri ...
Present and past habits includes the following: Present or Past Continuous Tenses to talk about a habit which is repeated more than usual, which the speaker finds unexpected or annoying. Then wil ...
In this worksheet there are 14 pictures, 14 sentences & a list of verbs. The students have to fill in the blanks with the suitable verb from the list. They have to write the correct form of th ...
Template to help trace the complete Alphabet & Numbers from 1 to 10. Has sentences ruling with three lines to help kids achieve correct size and position of letters and numbers. Also has space ...
This worksheet will be useful when studying non-finite forms of the verb - infinitive, to be exact. This construction seems to be not very easy for pupils at school and even at high school institu ...
Patterns to be used for giving advice with some sentences provided as practice. Suitable for pre-intermediate and intermediate levels. After having worked with the sentences given, students might ...
This is a worksheet for teaching linking words at elementary level. There are 2 activities in which students are asked to circle the correct word and complete the sentences with the connectors gi ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching the present continuous tense. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the sentences with the present continuous of the verbs in brack ...
This is an easy matching activity for teaching the most common action verbs at elementary verbs. Students are asked to match the verbs given with the pictures. The worksheet is available in both ...
A word search to practice descriptive adjectives for pre-intermediate students, used as a revision after a module on how to talk about feelings. I started by asking students what they were afraid ...
This is an excellent example of song to teach the second conditional. Distribute the text to the students and play the song. Ask the students to fill in the gaps. If needed play it twice or even t ...
Two exercises on past simple of "to be". First, students are asked to match nouns with verbs and places to make affirmative and negative sentences. Then there are a few sentences given. Each of th ...
I find that ESL learners often get confused between the present simple and the present continuous. They learn "skateboarding", "swimming", and "playing football" at school, but rarely the infinit ...
This is a great activity to get students using the simple present and simple past tense (depending on who they have to make 5 clues about). Students are given one of the 10 famous people featured ...
This is a concise theoretical presentation of a grammar subject: Inversion. It can be used by upper-intermediate, advanced or proficient students for revising. A practice Inversion worksheet wi ...
These short scenarios can be used as an oral exam or as discussion or role play exercises. They can be adapted to intermediate to advanced learners of ESL. These scenarios should be preceded by ...
It's a worksheet with sentences to be transformed using different patterns, based on Present Perfect - Past Simple. The transformation patterns are repeated with a few examples of each pattern. A ...
Present Simple worksheet designed for beginners. Have your students practice the present simple in affirmative sentences and make questions with 'do' and 'does'. This may be used after a previous ...
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 ...
I prepared 24 mixed questions to exercise past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses. At the end of the worksheet, there is a joke which I took from one of my books. Wanted my worksheet ...
There are two exercises in this worksheet. First one is about ´past simple and present perfect´ and the second one is about´past simple and past perfect´. This is a useful ...
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