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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I have preprared this worksheet so that my students can review different topics we have have been working on such as demonstrative pronouns, demonstrative adjectives, it also has an activity to re ...
Conversation class: traveling. Travel vocabulary with the song "Life is a Highway" by Rascal Flatts. Group discussion about life and traveling. I always bring a song every end of the term for the ...
Song worksheet - Listening Comprehension: Without You by David Guetta (featuring Usher). This worksheet practises listening comprehension and consists of four exercises. Students have to listen to ...
This documents is made up of three different parts - 17 pages in all - exercises are composed of simple, compound and complex sentences so that you can easily use it with several different levels. ...
Different activities all around this famous song: fill in the gaps, match parts of sentences, guess the words and cross the words you don't hear. This last exercice was, by far, the most successfu ...
This activity is to make students pay attention to the details and correct the wrong words while they listen to the song. First they can do it without looking at the chart with the answers,or you ...
This activity will help students of the basic or pre-intermediate level develop their listening skills and also their concentration. Students love songs, so we have to take advantage of it. First, ...
I prepared this ppt to teach noun modifiers (a two-car garage, a five-gallon tank, etc.) Students should remember that these phrases act as if they were adjectives, so they never take the plural. ...
I found this worksheet very helpful to see what the students already know.The students are presented with a number of answers and they have to come up with appropriate questions. For lower levels ...
This catchy song can be used in your English class for several purposes, in this worksheet you will find varied tasks to do along the song. I hope your students enjoy working on it as much I did w ...
This worksheet tests the ability of students to distinguish between a noun and an adjective. It focuses on using different words as adjectives on one hand and nouns derived from adjectives using a ...
Getting students to re-write compositions is not always easy. Perhaps because they usually find it hard to know what is wrong. Using a key will help them to spot the type of mistake they have made ...
Betting game is similar to grammar auction. Students need to decide whether the sentences are correct or wrong and bet between 10 and 100 points on each sentence. This one is designed for revising ...
The worksheet uses a great three minute short film to have students practice using appositives to describe a situation. Then they fix the participial phrases which are used incorrectly. The short ...
Tired of hearing "for" used before an infinitive instead of "to"? Use this worksheet to help your ESL students get rid of this very common mistake. The worksheet contains observation exercises, ru ...
Student grammar error correction worksheet with typical errors made in forming the present simple, comparative and superlative structures. Ideal for Young Learners, Beginners, Elementary classes ...
If you teach one-to-one this printed form will help you note down mistakes and gaps in the student's language knowledge. I've tried to explain how to use it on this image.
Students listen to the song: "Friends will be friends" and correct the lyrics. After that, they sing along and then discuss the importance of Friendship in groups. There is also an opportunity to ...
This worksheet is about cartoon characters. You can use this worksheet to teach simple present and some adjectives with several pictures. There are some exercises that you can use to make students ...
This worksheet is mostly for smart elementary students. Pre- intermediate students can use it as well. You can see only incorrect sentences in the worksheet. There are grammar and spelling mist ...
I really like using songs in the classroom to reinforce grammar points or to teach vocabulary and expressions. I find that songs work especially well with teens so I always ask my students what so ...
This song worksheet is aimed at (pre-)intermediate students. The first activity (matching) contains several useful and common idiomatic expressions that students at this level should know. In the ...
Modal exercises. Multiple choices, correcting mistakes, complete sentences. Exercises for adult students for First Certificate Examination. Hope you'll find it useful. Rate and comment info@tuclas ...
There are two different activities. The first one is meant for the teacher to cut the different strips with parts of the lyrics. Students must rearrange the strips of paper as they listen to the s ...
Useful worksheet. 2 explaning pages and an exercises worksheet. Students often confuse in, on, at. They don't use them properly, or they just don't use them. Clear worksheet about the usage and pr ...
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