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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This worksheet was desinged after I had a student submit a film review but that unfortunately had too many mistakes. I thought why not give it to the whole class to let them see where the errors a ...
A thorough and comprehensive peer-editing or self-editing worksheet for essays that covers organization, quality introduction, conclusions, developed body paragraphs as well as grammar issues such ...
This sheet can be used for peer-editing or self-editing an essay. It's designed for beginners so it covers indenting at the beginning of a paragraph, capital letters and periods for sentences, spe ...
This powerpoint presentation works great with students of all ages, especially if used in a competition-like manner. It basically consists of presenting the learner with different statements conta ...
This worksheet contains different tasks to the song "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden: mark the sentences T(true) or F(false), fill in the chart, find and correct grammar and spelling mistakes. I hope ...
Students read the short letter given. Then they decide if the information in the exercise is true or false and correct the wrong pieces. Finally, using 3 color pencils students recognise the tens ...
This grammar worksheet will help you to find the gaps in your student´s knowledge. The task is to correct the mistakes in the sentences below. This worksheet is really useful fo ...
Many writers of English blur the meaning of what they want to say by confusing words that either sound similar or have a similar but not exactly equivalent meaning. This is a test to help students ...
Correcting mistakes activity: twenty sentences with mistakes. Students must underline the mistake and write the correct word on the right. Correcting mistakes 2 is about misspelled words and gramm ...
Twenty sentences with mistakes. Students must underline the mistake and write the correct word on the right. Correcting mistakes 1 is to revise: to be, to have got, can, simple present, present co ...
This short activity can be used as a time filler, warm up or even, as a review. Divide kids in small groups. Show them a sentence with a mistake involving grammar or spelling. The first group to r ...
Students will practice writing skills using synonyms that illustrate a picture. Students list synonyms for overly used words, write sentences, and revise paragraphs to vary word choice. Several ...
A mnemonic is something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something. In this ppt, I have put together some mnemonics to help students remember the spellin ...
Correcting students' repetitious errors can be tricky for teachers. Here is a ppt that includes incorrect and correct versions of some common erros in English like the structure 'one of my/the', p ...
Want to make your students aware of some common errors in English? Show them this ppt! It has the incorrect and corrected versions of some of the most common grammatical errors students make while ...
This activity consists of 28 sentences with mistakes. Students will have to identify and correct the mistakes. The key is provided. The errors are related to verbal tenses. It is a good activity t ...
This worksheet contains four different exercises on two pages. Most of them can be done in pairs. The lesson plan, including the lead-in and follow-up activity, is on page three (it is only my sug ...
The sentences are full of mistakes! Students have to correct the verb to be in the affirmative and negative form. Most of the sentences are in the present simple or present continuous!
This is to practice comparatives and a few superlatives. After watching the video, students have to choose if the sentence is true or false and correct the mistakes. Each sentence has a mistake. ...
A listening exercise on the song Hollywood by Marina and the Diamonds. In the first exercise students order the stanzas in the lyrics correctly by listening to the song. The second exercise focu ...
Finding Mistakes. Children must spot four errors in each of William's seven diary entries (a week in total). Suitable for children/teens who need to practise editing skills. Mistakes include capit ...
I tried to find a song that both the boys and the girls would enjoy singing, so this one worked very well for me. When teaching the vocabulary I found it useful if you act out the meanings of the ...
The song activity is designed for students of pre-intermediate and intermediate level. It has three sections; in the first one the student will identify opposites and present perfect continuous ...
This worksheet can be used to review Simple Present tense and Prepositions In, On and At. Students must check if the sentences are correct or not, and must also correct the wrong sentences changin ...
This song activity presents the topic of homophones and spelling. It is a good task to help review spelling and general knowledge of vocabulary. It can be used without the song in which teachers h ...
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