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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.

And one more thing: if you've created any worksheets that have found to be especially useful in your classroom, sharing is caring! You can submit your worksheet, and share it with other ESL teachers around the globe, right here on this website. At the bottom of the page, click “Submit a worksheet” to add your own worksheet to the collection. Join the thousands of other ESL teachers who use BusyTeacher.org every day. There's a whole world of resources just waiting for you to discover. Get started by taking a look at some popular grammar worksheets below.

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Adjective Order - Practice 2

Adjective Order - Practice 2

Celia Jenkins
When more than one adjective is used in a sentence, it is important to put them in the right order. Using the acronym O SASh.COM, students can practice putting adjectives in the right order. This ...
12 Views 21,886 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Emergency Services Role Play Cards

Emergency Services Role Play Cards

SI
These role play cards are designed for elementary to pre-intermediate learners. There are 6 different scenarios split between the police, ambulance and fire service. Students work in pairs to prep ...
5 Views 127,395 ElemPre-Int
Urban Legends for High School Students

Urban Legends for High School Students

BusyTeacher Contributor
This is a lesson produced to work with high school students to develop past tenses and the ability of telling and writing stories. The activities are contextualized through the genre Urban Legends ...
8 Views 36,678 IntAdv
Adjective Order - Practice 1

Adjective Order - Practice 1

Celia Jenkins
When more than one adjective is used in a sentence, it is important to put them in the right order. Using the acronym O SASh.COM, students can practice putting adjectives in the right order. There ...
8 Views 24,756 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Teaching Gerunds Through Creative Writing

Teaching Gerunds Through Creative Writing

Michael Patrick
Lesson 7 in this 24 part series of exercises is almost all about gerunds which are very common in everyday usage and these different exercises will show your students just how much. I've also snu ...
7 Views 38,817 Pre-IntInt
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Famous Paintings

Famous Paintings

BusyTeacher Contributor
This is a worksheet for practicing questions in passive voice with the help of the description of two famous paintings. The worksheet is recommended for pair work where students A & B must coo ...
3 Views 22,072 Pre-IntInt
SAT Practice Identifying Sentence Errors

SAT Practice Identifying Sentence Errors

Many ESL students take the SAT and/or ACT to be admitted into American colleges and universities. Help them prepare to master the language portion of the exam with this worksheet which has them id ...
2 Views 43,393 Exam
Flying First Class

Flying First Class

This worksheet is about a joke about a blonde woman travelling to New York. Students are required to answer questions to check their undertanding of the joke, then they can role play the scene in ...
5 Views 31,402 ElemPre-Int
Difference between So and So That

Difference between So and So That

Ashamtly López
Recently I had to explain to my students the difference between using so and so that as a conjecture. They got really confused so I decided to simplify things with this PowerPoint presentation. Ho ...
2 Views 11,490 Pre-IntInt
Progressive Present Practice

Progressive Present Practice

Dilley Rocio
This is an interesting way for practicing the progressive present tense, reading and answering about the paragraphs, learning about our environment too, analyzing what we can do for helping our pl ...
3 Views 21,630 BegElem
Family Tree Pictures

Family Tree Pictures

Donna Kovacs
This is a simple family tree with pictures of grandmother, grandfather son and two daughters and their respective wives, husbands and children. I use it to present family vocabulary and possessive ...
7 Views 59,676 BegElemPre-Int
Passive Voice Running Dictation

Passive Voice Running Dictation

Ekaterina
Pupils work in pairs. One is a runner, the other is a writer. Stick the worksheet to the board or wall. The runner goes to the board, reads one sentence (which is in the active form), transforms i ...
11 Views 51,853 IntAdv
Stop Game

Stop Game

Ronaldo Cardoso
Stop Game is a fun game for students of all ages! Your students have to select a letter to start and write the words of the six different categories (occupation, fruit, food, thing ...
8 Views 165,398 Elem
A/An Articles Board Game

A/An Articles Board Game

Eleni Papadogianni
I used a free blank printable board game template to create this simple indefinite article board game for junior learners. It helps students practice the correct use of a/an with nouns beginning w ...
10 Views 41,057 Beg
Beginning of the Year Conversation Game

Beginning of the Year Conversation Game

VASILIKI LISMANI
This worksheet is a nice way to to review previous knowledge. Everything is here: grammar (tenses, modals), topic vocabulary (free time activities, school subjects, extreme sports, music, descript ...
16 Views 37,839 Pre-IntInt
Crossword - Present Perfect and Simple Past

Crossword - Present Perfect and Simple Past

Fontanelli
This is a simple crossword designed for elementary / pre-intermediate / intermediate students. It has been designed to help students learn the differences between past simple and present perfect, ...
18 Views 92,265 ElemPre-IntInt
NICE TO MEET YOU! (Find someone who...)

NICE TO MEET YOU! (Find someone who...)

Iván Jaramillo
This is a mingle activity for a group of up to 15 students (last 3 cards can be taken out without any change in the activity). Students' cards include personal information such as name, nationaity ...
11 Views 23,935 ElemInt

"Going To" Verb Tense Board Game

Bình Vũ
This activity serves as a = fun way for your students to practice "be going to." It works best when played in groups of four. To play the game, cut out the cards on the second page and place the ...
7 Views 28,376 Elem
Present Simple - PPT

Present Simple - PPT

This is a presentation about Present Simple where we discuss some basic aspects of this topic, such as the different modalities of the tense, or the use of adverbs of frequency. It contains a lot ...
4 Views 21,193 Beg
Common Verbs Word Search

Common Verbs Word Search

What are some of the most common verbs in the English language? Students can begin to recognize those verbs with this word search. Challenge students to find the verbs, and then use the verbs in a ...
5 Views 43,013 ElemInt
Sellng Odd Items

Sellng Odd Items

Cris
This worksheet is intended for students to work on improvisation when they need to prepare a pitch or speech to sell an item. It can turn out to be very funny as the items in this activity are un ...
6 Views 19,861 Pre-IntIntAdv
Adjectives Word Search

Adjectives Word Search

Help students learn to recognize common English adjectives with this Adjectives Word Search. Students can find the adjectives in the word search, and then practice using the adjectives in a senten ...
6 Views 41,974 ElemInt
Back to School Plurals

Back to School Plurals

With this worksheet, students can practice writing plural nouns and learn words for common back-to-school objects. Students must look at the picture, and then select the correct form of the plural ...
6 Views 25,671 ElemInt
Person, Place, or Thing?

Person, Place, or Thing?

A noun can be a person, place, or thing. On this worksheet, students must read each word and determine whether it is a person, place, or thing. This is a simple multiple choice worksheet designed ...
4 Views 27,630 BegElemPre-Int
Spelling Rules: Simple Present (3rd person he-she-it)

Spelling Rules: Simple Present (3rd person he-she-it)

Diana
This activity requires students to identify the correct spelling of the verbs for the Present Simple for 3rd person singular (he/she/it) and match the verb to its respective spelling rule. Some in ...
6 Views 59,656 ElemPre-Int

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