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 pretty easy activity for teaching the most common action verbs. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the verbs with the missing vowels. The answer key is included.
This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising the most common action verbs. Students are asked to complete the crossword with the verbs given and then match them with the pictures. The ans ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the past simple tense. Suitable for elementary students who are asked to complete the text with the past simple of the verbs in brackets,answer the questions abou ...
Work with your student how to predict the future. The Teacher must pretend to be Ma'am Wiseone. He or she will give hypothetical answers as the students ask the questions. That becomes fun, when t ...
The activity combines different activities. I start with having the students watch a part of the film (00.20-00.45) and ask them to tell me what they have learnt about Max. Then I distribute the w ...
I used this song with pre-intermediate and intermediate students to revise grammar: 1, 2 conditional, time clauses and the tenses - mainly the present ones. The students first put the verbs in bra ...
A quick reminder to help students remeber the use of the past simple. Timelines and examples will help students remember when do we have to use the past simple. Necessary before introducing the pa ...
I saw a similar worksheet on the site, and I had an idea: this time the Simpsons are at home, doing their activities. Students can practice the present progressive and some home vocabulary items, ...
This is a great worksheet to do with kids/teenagers. I had them read the Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella, Watch the chapter of Cinderella in Once Upon a Time (depending on the age you can hav ...
A speaking activity for upper-intermediate students inspired by the Desperate Housewives tv series which students may be familiar with. Not a role play, but a simulation activity where students p ...
This is my first worksheet:) there may be some mistakes but I hope you will find it useful! This worksheet mainly focuses on past continuous and uses of ''when and while''. This is a classic open ...
This worksheet consists of 20 pictures and 20 sentences with gaps. The students have to complete the sentences with the affirmative, interrogative form to express obligation and the negative (don' ...
This is a two page worksheet for teaching regular verbs. There is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to write t ...
Form and use of the “going to future” followed by 2 different activities in which students are asked to make sentences with going to ,make questions and give the short answers accordi ...
How to introduce the past continuous to your students? Here is a MP3 file and the worksheets that go with it. It's a complete lesson. Your student will hear a text, will discuss it, will add deta ...
This worksheet consists of some sentences fro the students to complete by using the present simple of the verbs in brackets in the affirmative, negative and interrogative form. The key to the sent ...
We use this as an Activating Strategy. SS need to find pronouns in each hunt. The first hunt is solely first person pronouns. The second hunt is solely second person pronouns. The third hunt i ...
Exercises on Present Simple that can be used with the group of Beginners or Elementary level. It can be used as a revision or as a control test. In this worksheet you can find tasks on the word or ...
This is a fully animated PowerPoint presentation with audio for teaching the third conditional. There are simple explanations and example sentences. Recommended for Intermediate students.
It's a great worksheet to practice the use of demonstrative pronouns according to the nouns (singular or plural). There are visuals which help understanding through "seeing" exactly how these gram ...
This is a perfect worksheet to go further with music, sometimes we tend to just play the song along, but with this worksheet you might get your students involved in more than just filling the gaps ...
The worsheet is about type 2 conditional mostly. Students are required to know how to use type 2 to be able to fill in the blanks without listening the song. After they fill in the blanks, teacher ...
A legendary song by The Queen, which was requested by my students - proves to be still interesting to the teenagers. presented as a gap filling exercise. Abundant in adjectives, Future Simple form ...
This is a communicative game for reviewing past tense.Divide the class into teams. Brainstorm past tense verbs (get a lot). Explain the rules on the right. Model the exercise. The idea is that the ...
It is a worsheet of 4 exercises about the future time. In the first exercise, students have to fill in the gaps with the Future Simple; in the second, they have to fill in the gaps with the Presen ...
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