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 an easy activity for A1 students. It has a fill in exercise that students do choosing words from the box, then they match the pictures with the sentences and finally they complete the cros ...
I have made this worksheet out of different sources to explain conditionals type 0, 1 and 2 to my students (upper intermediate level). I used it in class to explain the grammar and then gave the e ...
This is a gap filling activity. Students listen to the song and fill in the gaps. Later on, they have to find the opposites from the song. There are questions for discussion for intermediate stude ...
This worksheet focuses on past perfect tense with its linking words. There is a brief grammar explanation before the exercises. Students should rewrite the sentences using the given linking words. ...
This is a worksheet for teaching adjectives in-ed and -ing. Students are asked to complete the sentences using the –ed or the -ing form of the adjective. The answer key is included.
This is a worksheet contrasting the present perfect and the past simple tense. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in bracke ...
This is a worksheet for elementary students on present simple tense. There is a simple explanation at the top of the page followed by 4 different and easy activities to go with it.
A few activities to do while and after watching the film. This worksheet is already present on ESLprintables.com in my page. I hope you don't mind having seen it somewhere else. I used it to focus ...
It is a power point presentation for beginner level students aged 10-12 to illustrate a typical day's routine. To make it interesting, some of the activities and words are illustrated with pictur ...
A worksheet for teaching wishes and regrets. There is a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by 2 activities in which students are asked to read the sentences and decide which form o ...
This is a worksheet for practising should have/shouldn't have. The verbs are given and there are picture prompts as well to help the students complete the sentences. The key is included. Who says ...
Fun review of the past tense verbs (both regular and irregular) using Celine Dion's song "Because You Loved Me". There is a Teacher's copy with the verbs underlined and numbered and a student work ...
This worksheet is good for training the days of the week. My kids love Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, so they did this exercise with pleasure. It requires some initial knowledge of the days of ...
This was a quiz I made up about the Disney cartoon version of Robin Hood (remember the foxes?) I used this with my Tall Tale/ Legend unit, which usually comes after Poetry, so it may be good to te ...
I made this worksheet for my 4th grade students. It´s a final worksheet for the theme "House", where they describe their bedroom, wether they like it or not. Students answer questions, usin ...
This file is for teachers who want to give a detailed but clear explanation about Past Simple Tense... It contains information about the usage, form and the spelling rules of Past Simple. It is be ...
The Past Form of verb ´to be´... A brief and clear grammar explanation for intermediate level learners ( especially young learners aged 10-12). You can use this file as an in-class han ...
This is a nice worksheet for beginners. It will provide your students with the chance to practice food vocabulary, verbs of action and the use of the structures such as What is he/she doing?. Afte ...
A speaking/writing activity for Intermediate students on their carbon footprint. Two students interview each other and then each can write a summary of what the other person said. An alternative ...
The worksheet is suitable to introduce or review the Past Perfect Tense. The scenes used are from the movie "When a stranger calls" (1979). The first scenes are the ones necessary. They take about ...
This worksheet is good for modal verb explanations for the students. They are just notes of the three concepts of modals. I use it for P.E.T. level these students are preparing for the Cambridge ...
A helpful handout - as visual prompts to recall action verbs in daliy routines. It can be used as guess the verb first and, then, as matching exercise in pairs. As follow up, students write part o ...
Students cut out the animals and stick the pictures to the right place on the map. It is an exercise for revising the topic. They colour the continents and write the names. Students use Present si ...
This is a role-play/improvisation where the students take it in turns to play the part of a door to door salesperson. They have to try to convince unenthusiastic buyers to purchase one of the new ...
It helps students to learn the differences between "What", "Where", "When", "Who". They can see pictures related to each question word, so it's not necessary to use mother language to understand w ...
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