If you are looking for worksheets on questions and short answers, you have found the right page. There are 455 ESL worksheets that specifically deal with this topic. Here is one such worksheet that other busy teacher have found useful. Students start out reviewing the necessary sentence structure, practice forming positive and negative sentences, complete an exercise on word order, and finish with a question and short answer section that you can have students use for speaking practice. To make the exercise easier have students work with a partner when completing the worksheet too. It is possible that you will not find exactly what you are looking for but you can adapt the worksheets you find or simply use them as inspiration for your own.
Since learning a language is about communication, it is important that students are able to ask and answer questions. When practicing a basic question or sentence structure, model dialogues might sound a bit unnatural so consider using interview type activities instead. Once students have reached a more advanced level, they will be able to have conversations that more closely resemble those of native speakers. With increased vocabulary, conversations will flow more easily and students will be able to come up with a wide variety of answers even when asked simple questions. Never forget the importance of speaking practice in ESL classes.
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Put students in pairs and give each a copy of the worksheet. They need to keep their sheets hidden from each other so the other partner can't see what they have written in their sheet. First, the ...
This is a fun activity for describing people, the teacher or the students select a person beforehand and without revealing her name, hand in the paper with the description to other student whose j ...
If you have a new class of begginers or elementary this worksheet is the best way to start with. Give your students access to some key questions and expression ready to use from the very first les ...
This activity could be designed for one- to one class, if using for groups, you need to change its rule. Here is the rule for one-to-one class.One asks and one answers in order to complete the b ...
For adults at beginner level. Use as a warmer to get them talking and moving around the class. They have to ask questions to class mates. If the answer is yes they can tick the box, when all boxes ...
This is an entry test I used to evaluate first year middle school students on numbers, school objects, colours, basic questions, such as: How are you? How old are you? Students have to fill in the ...
Question and answer type of jokes to practise object and subject questions and wh- words, both in the present and past simple tenses. Divide the class in two groups A and B, choose as many jokes ...
This worksheet consists of 14 slides presenting and practicing question words: Who? What? When? Where?Why? You will need a digital board or ohp. The first five slides present the question wor ...
You can use this game either to get to know the students in your first lesson, or to revise present tenses. How to play: you choose one volunteer to come to the black-board, he/she brings one slip ...
This is a worksheet to practice indirect questions. Students will see four pictures and prompts for each picture. They have to make sentences containing indirect questions corresponding to the pic ...
Students imagine that they are at a party. By means of cards they have a new identity. Questions help them to be confident while having conversations. Their new images are funny and I'm sure stude ...
This is a "back to school" worksheet, getting student's talking about their habits, hobbies, families, favourite foods and so on. I used it as a introductory worksheet at the beginning of the seco ...
A powerpoint/boardgame about two verb tenses: past simple vs past continuous. Students are asked to play this boardgame by choosing the correct tense. They should be able to use these two tenses i ...
This is an activity that can help students review and understand more about making inferences. It can be used by teachers to help their students improve making inferences which is a very imp ...
A power point presentation that explains the use of object and subject questions in a very simple way. By the use of some examples , this simple but effective presentation can help you to sho ...
These are short sentences about different occupations that answer questions like: what do you do? and where do you work? you can cut them out to give it to your students to play roles. You can als ...
This ws consists of 22 sentences with gaps and 22 answers. The students have to complete the questions with a suitable question word and then match the questions and answers. Key to exercise inclu ...
It is for beginners and it can be used as review also for the use of WH questions with verb 'to be' about different events, as well as the prepositions ' in, on, at'. First they must review the us ...
My students love songs and singing. When we have time at the end of the lesson, these type of activities are really saving lives :) Hope everyone enjoys it. I was focusing on "question format ...
These slides are designed for a speaking class to review Yes/No questions basically. The game rules are: 1. Look at part of a picture and try to guess what is in it; 2. You can only make up ...
For girls and boys! Cool mini project! Create your avatars. This will interest your students and get them working. Touches speaking, reading, writing. Goes with teenager interaction worksheets!
Converation cards for a pair activity. Student A and Student B read the pre-written dialogue. I have the whole class do this activity at the beginning of the class. It sets the mood for English in ...
An activity for forming present tense questions and sentences in the 3rd person. First tell the students to guess which things you do every day. If they think you DO this, they must colour the sta ...
This is a basic guide to help beginning ESL students with question formation. Both Yes/No and Wh- information questions are broken down into use with the verb 'be' and any other verb. There is n ...
This is a pretty easy worksheet for teaching or revising question words at elementary level. Students are asked to fill in the blanks using appropriate question words.
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