These 89 worksheets are designed to help students practice correcting mistakes in a variety of fun and creative ways. Let’s take a look at one of the great worksheets you can find on Busy Teacher. This worksheet is called “Mistakes That Everybody Makes” and has been used by a number of teachers. It is for elementary learners who need some practice correcting simple grammar mistakes. Unfortunately no answer key is provided but perhaps it will be added later on. Similar worksheets are available and cover a range of topics so choose something that your students will enjoy, need practice on, or both.
Some people believe that being able to recognize mistakes and make corrections is an important part of learning a language. On the other hand, there is a school of thought that maintains that students should not be exposed to intentionally incorrect material as that will only confuse them and hinder their learning. The idea is that if you hear something said incorrectly enough times, it will start to sound correct. Having said that, it is important to have a variety of practice activities so that students do not become bored with the material and classes do not become repetitive. Your approach to teaching and your opinion on this topic will determine whether or not you include this type of activity in your ESL courses.
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Listening to songs is a nice way to improve listening skills and pronunciation plus you can learn about cultural backgrounds. This is a song worksheet based on "Galway Girl" by Ed Sheeran. Student ...
Editing and proofreading are essential aspects of effective writing. Students read the passages carefully and thoroughly and rewrite the passages correctly on the lines provided. This is great pra ...
I have created this worksheet for my year 8 class to tackle their common spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes. For motivation, I am planning to divide the class into two teams and have a com ...
Commonly confused words. The following worksheet provide students with the opportunity to distinguish between commonly confused words. This in turn allows teachers to work closely with students an ...
This is a ppt file helping students of B2 level of English to understand basic mistakes when writing. I used mistakes that students usually make in order to make them realise basic differences in ...
My point is grammar. I love creating different grammar tasks. This time I’ve decided to come up with something special for checking my students’ grammar. There are 45 sentences, some ...
236-word paragraph with 20 Third Person Singular (present simple) grammar mistakes: 'Jon's Daily Routine' with answer key on page 2. Approximate time: 15 minutes. Use this activity to lead into ...
A fun worksheet to help learners use prior knowledge of Halloween, whilst embedding vocabulary by means of spelling exercises, word search and a crossword. There are answer sheets also provided fo ...
This PowerPoint includes different correction symbols. You can teach these symbols to your students and then correct your students' writings in this way. So, they can rewrite their writing and co ...
A listening set of exercises based on the Song "Baby Love" (2015). This activity includes ordering sentences, discriminating words, correcting spelling and reviewing some gerunds. [youtube=http:// ...
This exercise is for intermediate students to practice correction of the mistakes. It can be used as a class exercise or students can do it themselves. Tis exercise can be used when the topic "Fam ...
Students can identify some signs and write sentences. It also contains some incorrect school rules and they have to correct the mistakes and rewrite the rules. If you want, you can ask the student ...
This find-the-mistake worksheet is intended for advanced students who are eager to better their proofreading skills. It covers common mistakes students often make when writing an essay. This recou ...
A series of incredible facts from 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' series have been divided into phrases and chunks, which students must organize in order to form coherent, grammatically correct sente ...
This worksheet helps a student in his first steps in English. He can practice the basic abc order and he can practice a very simple writing of a correct word order in a sentence structure.You can ...
Tired of basic mistakes produced by my "advanced" students, I decided to take advantage of Busy Teacher's "warmer of the day: Bankrupt". I was hoping that turning these mistakes into a competition ...
I've prepared this song for mi pre-Cambridge students, i.e, advanced level but it can also be used with other levels. It's a nice song that they can listen while practising wordformation, fi ...
How to edit an essay. Including practical tips for review. How to revise the content, structure and layout of the essay. How to proofread an essay. The importance of citing sources. This is for b ...
This is a 15-20 minute filler activity I made for my Spanish/Catalan-speaking students, which aims to check their awareness of the common mistakes they make when speaking. There are 16 incorrect s ...
100 common usage problems is a guide from www.kgsupport.com including additional common usage problems from public domain websites (references listed). Compiled as a PowerPoint presenta ...
A worksheet with different exercises to work with a song by a popular band of the moment. It contains activities such as putting the lines in order, completing the sentences, correcting the mistak ...
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