151 FREE Clauses Worksheets

FREE Clauses Worksheets

Here you can find 151 worksheets that deal with the topic of clauses. This section is also divided into subsections which can assist you in locating the right activity for your students. This worksheet is for pre-intermediate students who need more practice using time clauses. All the teacher’s notes and materials are included for this fifteen minute practice activity so it is easy to include in your lesson plan. There are other worksheets about clauses too and since they are all free and easy to print, you may as well look at several different ones before deciding what would be best for your students. If you have your own worksheets on clauses, you can upload them to the website for other teachers to use.
There are different types of clauses that students will learn throughout their English studies. It is important to focus on one or two types of clauses at a time so that students do not become overwhelmed by the difference structures and uses. Certain clauses can be introduced in lower level classes while others are best saved for more advanced students. What you include in your course will obviously be greatly influenced by the level and age range of your students.

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GRAMMAR TIP:What Are Clauses?
In grammar, a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition . In some languages it may be a pair or group of words that consists of a subject and a predicate, although in other languages in certain clauses the subject may not appear explicitly as a noun phrase. It may instead be marked on the verb (this is especially common in null subject languages). The most basic kind of sentence consists of a single clause. More complicated sentences may contain multiple clauses, including clauses contained within clauses. Clauses are divided into two categories: independent clauses and dependent clauses. Independent clauses can be easily differentiated from dependent clauses by their ability to stand by themselves, even when connected with different clauses in the same sentence.
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Subordinators, Coordinators And Transitions – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Subordinators, Coordinators And Transitions – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
  When should you teach this lesson on subordinators, coordinators, and transitions? This ESL lesson plan download on subordinators, coordinators, and transitions is for students with inte ...
1 Views 4,462 Int
Joe is getting married! from the movie: When Harry met Sally

Joe is getting married! from the movie: When Harry met Sally

ANNAMATARO
  This lesson is designed for two sessions of one hour each. It features two scenes from the film "When Harry Met Sally." It includes grammar (a review of defining and non-defining relativ ...
1 Views 12,953 Adv
Singular And Plural Regular Nouns – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Singular And Plural Regular Nouns – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
  When should you teach the Singular and Plural Regular Nouns lesson? This lesson on singular and plural regular nouns helps identify quantity — whether someone is referring to one o ...
1 Views 3,998 Beg
Anybody, Nobody - Free ESL Lesson Plan

Anybody, Nobody - Free ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
  This new ESL Lesson Plan teaches how to use two important indefinite pronouns – Anybody and Nobody.  The plan has clear descriptions, examples, and practice opportunities to h ...
1 Views 8,380 Pre-Int
Shortening Relative Clauses: A Free ESL Lesson Plan

Shortening Relative Clauses: A Free ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
  One of the earliest maxims taught in writing to “Omit needless words!” This free ESL Lesson Plan focuses on shortening relative clauses, a practical way of eliminating unnece ...
1 Views 9,873 Adv
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How To Teach Relative Clauses: An ESL Lesson Plan

How To Teach Relative Clauses: An ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
  How to teach relative clauses is a critical skill for an ESL teacher. This lesson plan on teaching relative clauses includes definitions of relative clauses, examples of relative pro ...
1 Views 10,652 Int
How To Teach Conditionals - True In The Present And Future - ESL Lesson Plan

How To Teach Conditionals - True In The Present And Future - ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
  Teaching conditionals can be a bit tricky. This means that they are more difficult to learn but especially important! This lesson is not recommended for beginner ELS students, but more f ...
1 Views 9,304 Int
Hani's UPDATED Presentation on Adjective Clauses Parts 1 & 2

Hani's UPDATED Presentation on Adjective Clauses Parts 1 & 2

  This 2020 Updated PowerPoint presentation has two parts. Part 1 helps students easily understand forming adjective clauses/relative clauses. It introduces relative pronouns like (who / w ...
1 Views 6,244 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam
Breathless - The Corrs A1 Listening Practice with Music

Breathless - The Corrs A1 Listening Practice with Music

Michel Nova
  This exercise is for A1 students to practice basic listening with music and songs. Students watch the song on YouTube and enjoy understanding the missing words, then complete the song by ...
1 Views 3,781 Elem
Quiz On Parts Of Speech

Quiz On Parts Of Speech

BusyTeacher Contributor
The purpose of this worksheet is to brainstorm your students previous knowledge or even to evaluate their knowledge after a grammar class about parts of the speech. Students will check understand ...
1 Views 15,800 Elem
Kinds of Trips Vocabulary Worksheet

Kinds of Trips Vocabulary Worksheet

Mrs. Lutfiah Alghamdi
  Match, choose, and draw. This worksheet is all about vocabulary, mainly all kinds of travel. Words like trip, journey, tour, voyage, and cruise can easily confuse students. This wor ...
1 Views 16,139 Pre-IntIntAdv
Adverbial Clauses Test

Adverbial Clauses Test

KasiaP
This worksheet is a short test (10 sentences) based on common adverbial phrases. Students have to fill in the blanks in two tasks - given a number of letters or adding a word to some well-known c ...
1 Views 17,646 Adv
Relative Pronouns Video Activity (who / which / where / that)

Relative Pronouns Video Activity (who / which / where / that)

English Through Videos
This is a video activity to practice using relative pronouns who, which, where, and that. There is a YouTube video and a matching worksheet. Learners watch the video, look at the pictures, and com ...
1 Views 25,543 Pre-IntInt
Common and Proper Nouns

Common and Proper Nouns

Karen Galindo
This worksheet contains the definitions of proper and common nouns.  Additionally, it features a table to fill in with examples of those nouns. The table is divided into places, things and pe ...
2 Views 32,932 BegElemPre-IntInt
Relative Pronouns Battleship

Relative Pronouns Battleship

VASILIKI LISMANI
The objective of the game is to use the target language (relative pronouns) to form the Qs provided in order to find and "sink" their "enemy's" battleship. Ss draw their battleships between 3 to 4 ...
2 Views 19,712 ElemPre-Int
Relative Clause-Matching Sentences Activity

Relative Clause-Matching Sentences Activity

A.E
Whole class activity. Cut,mix the sentences and give them to students.The students will stand-up and mingle trying to match the sentences in a meaningful way and also they will guess the correct r ...
8 Views 55,964 ElemPre-Int
Combinations

Combinations

This worksheet suggests what teachers and students should do with adverbs : have fun. For me as a teacher, grammar class is always an opportunity for fun. I cannot imagine dry and dull ESL/EFL gra ...
6 Views 10,707 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Sun Goes Down - Relative Pronouns

Song Worksheet: Sun Goes Down - Relative Pronouns

Natalia Cazorla de Oro
The idea of this worksheet is to learn through a song that students surely might have heard on the radio, therefore to make beginners or elementary students realize they already know a lot of Engl ...
7 Views 50,995 BegElem
Complex Sentences

Complex Sentences

Katerina
The worksheet consists of 2 exercises for lthe topic "complex sentences" (choosing the appropriate endings to the sentences and finding necessary pronouns). It will be very useful for the revision ...
4 Views 26,274 Int
Defining Relative Clause Production

Defining Relative Clause Production

BusyTeacher Contributor
Students are supposed to work in groups of 3-4 and complete the task. The task includes sentences like ' We like.... I wouldn't prefer.... Politicians are people ...". Students are supposed to com ...
5 Views 20,384 Pre-IntIntAdv
ESL Unit: Shopping

ESL Unit: Shopping

A free-to-use ESL unit suitable for intermediate level learners on the topic of shopping. This unit includes speaking, reading, listening, vocabulary and grammar practice. Links are provided for t ...
15 Views 29,486 Pre-IntInt
Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses

Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses

This power point explains the differences between defining and non-defining relative clauses with the help of well-chosen examples. It makes it even more comprehensible through exercises. I hope t ...
14 Views 54,148 Int
Reduction Of Relative Clauses / Participles

Reduction Of Relative Clauses / Participles

This power point explains how relative clauses could be reduced together with suitable examples. As students get confused about this grammar subject, it shows them clear ways to understand it bett ...
5 Views 17,205 Adv
Christmas Carol Reading

Christmas Carol Reading

I've used this when reading the story "Christmas Carol" By Charles Dickens with my students. It was useful to help retelling and also to remember details about the story. Although there is a movi ...
4 Views 21,577 ElemPre-Int
Relative Pronouns Worksheet II

Relative Pronouns Worksheet II

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising relative pronouns at pre-intermediate level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to combine the pair of sentences using a ...
6 Views 22,610 Pre-IntInt

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