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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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! ...
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 ...
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 !
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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