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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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Conversation Questions

Conversation Questions

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Students have to read throught the questions and answers. Then they can practice the questions with a partner. Also, the students should try to make up their own questions. It is so much fun! ...
11 Views 17,950 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Hobbies and Interests [cards]

Hobbies and Interests [cards]

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A set of cards with vocabulary concerning hobbies and interests (including verbs like, love, enjoy, prefer). You can use them in different ways: 1) As a simple exercise: students make sentences co ...
11 Views 33,189 BegElem
Christmas Battleship Game

Christmas Battleship Game

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Like a battleship game, the card on the top is to write your partner's answer when asking the question. The bottom card is used to hide your answers, to let your partner guess on it !
18 Views 20,096 Elem
Famous People Crossword Challenge

Famous People Crossword Challenge

This is a great activity to get students using the simple present and simple past tense (depending on who they have to make 5 clues about). Students are given one of the 10 famous people featured ...
9 Views 22,787 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Durell Zoo Webquest

Durell Zoo Webquest

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This is a webquest I made last year while preparing for a trip to Jersey and a visit to the Durell zoo. All the links are to the Durell zoo website. I used it after I had studied animals with 6th ...
8 Views 7,937 ElemPre-IntInt
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A Christmas Carol - Finding Answers in the Text

A Christmas Carol - Finding Answers in the Text

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This is a holiday worksheet for Reading Comprehension. It addresses the Common Core Standard RI.1. This is a standard for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. This worksheet asks the student to find specific ...
10 Views 27,986 Elem
Difference between Present Simple and Present Continuous.

Difference between Present Simple and Present Continuous.

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This worksheet is about the difference between Present Simple and Present Continuous, in this sheet we are going to find verbs that cannot be used in the continuous form. In the second exercise, t ...
12 Views 21,902 Pre-Int
Third Person Time Gap Fill

Third Person Time Gap Fill

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A great teacher-friendly speaking activity for low levels working on Time/ Questions/ 3rd person singular Simple Present. Teachers can choose the best question formation to suit. Expand by havin ...
18 Views 25,525 Pre-Int
Basic English Conversation Questions

Basic English Conversation Questions

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Here's a worksheet I created for my low-literacy, adult English classes. It covers a variety of question structures and subjects that they are likely to hear in their community. I made copies of ...
16 Views 99,297 Beg
Question Word 'What'

Question Word 'What'

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Worksheet on how to answer the questions starting with question word 'What'. Has many simple questions starting with question word -what- which we normally ask the kids. Good for teaching question ...
5 Views 15,523 Elem
Video Worksheet: Angry and the Beanstalk

Video Worksheet: Angry and the Beanstalk

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I have just finished reading Jack and the Beanstalk with a group of children.They enjoyed the story and they love Angry birds. This is a worksheet to use with the Angry birds version of Jack and t ...
14 Views 12,256 Beg
Present Simple: Powerpoint Presentation for Beginners

Present Simple: Powerpoint Presentation for Beginners

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This is a Powerpoint presentation that explains basic use, formation, keywords and short answers of Simple Present. It is a very useful tool to use in class, as it's far more interesting for young ...
13 Views 73,990 BegElemPre-Int
Question Words Elementary Worksheet

Question Words Elementary Worksheet

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This is a simple and colourful worksheet for teaching question words at elementary level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to match the questions with the answers given, fill in ...
19 Views 31,384 Elem
Interrogative Words: Who, Where, When, Why, What

Interrogative Words: Who, Where, When, Why, What

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I have prepared these exercises to revise question words with my pupils. Students have to complete the sentences using the correct question word below the pictures. I think they will find it easy. ...
12 Views 38,570 Pre-Int
Beginner Level Halloween Reading

Beginner Level Halloween Reading

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For low level learners working on calendar and/or holidays I hope this reading will provide a reasonable challenge. The main focus is reading comprehension using WH questions as well as Yes/No qu ...
18 Views 46,179 BegElem
Short Answers - Plurals

Short Answers - Plurals

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This is a worksheet on short answers and plurals. In the first exercise, students have to fill in short answers based on the verbs "be", "can", "have got" and on the tenses "Simple Present" and "P ...
4 Views 10,349 BegElemPre-Int
Short Answers

Short Answers

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After teaching short answers of the verbs "be", "have got", "can" , of the tenses "Simple Present" Present Continuous" and "there is - there are", this is a useful worksheet to help you understand ...
5 Views 10,669 BegElemPre-Int
Types of Questions Powerpoint Presentation

Types of Questions Powerpoint Presentation

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Ppt about different types of questions: Yes/No Questions (the answer to the question is "Yes" or "No") Question Word Questions (the answer to the question is "Information") Choice Questions (the ...
11 Views 32,835 Pre-IntInt
The Present Simple Yes/No Questions

The Present Simple Yes/No Questions

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It's a fairly simple grammar worksheet, where you can observe some examples and then students have to write and answer questions also. It's time saving and totally grammatical. It can be done as r ...
8 Views 18,377 BegElem
Bruce and the Cat

Bruce and the Cat

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Reading comprehension activity, with different exercises, true/false, questions, drawing, etc. It can be used with children at elementary or intermediate levels. It is a good way to review verb te ...
11 Views 11,225 ElemPre-Int
Identity: To Be Worksheet

Identity: To Be Worksheet

Make questions using the verb TO BE. The students ask about name, age, country, jobs. Revision of nationalities, countries, jobs and numbers. The students will be given the charts and they have to ...
21 Views 24,018 BegElem
Talking about the Past: Detective and Suspect Dialogue and Activity

Talking about the Past: Detective and Suspect Dialogue and Activity

Two part, past simple, past continuous, and questions, police and suspect activity cards. The first is a 'partner' reading or role play activity. The second is a speaking, gap fill role play activ ...
28 Views 64,731 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Shops and Shopping Boardgame

Shops and Shopping Boardgame

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Shopping boardgame for two or more players to practise vocabulary for shopping, shops and money, food, clothes, pets etc. Also some simple grammar including the verb 'to be' and plurals, and some ...
36 Views 73,880 ElemPre-IntInt
Police and Witness Dialogue - Talking about the Past

Police and Witness Dialogue - Talking about the Past

Reporting a crime. Past simple, past continuous, and questions activity. Reading, speaking, gap fill writing & role play activity cards. The first card is a reading dialogue for partners. The ...
31 Views 97,917 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
111 Riddles and Brainteasers

111 Riddles and Brainteasers

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111 riddles and brainteasers for children and adults. Particularly good in an EFL setting. The language is safe for children. I usually start off a lesson with a riddle. It can help with behaviou ...
28 Views 60,747 ElemPre-IntIntAdv

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