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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This worksheet is useful when revising elementary knowledge of wh- and yes/no questions as well as numbers. I have used it with a group of students as practice unit 2 (new Headway elementary, 2nd ...
This worksheet has some activities for basic students like: put the sentences in the plural, complete the text with the missing words and answer the questions. The answers must be complete. The ex ...
Happy families This is a card game for 3 or more players. Shuffle and deal the cards as equally as possible. The player on the dealer´s left starts asking for a certain card. The player must ...
2 pages. I know there are plenty of worksheets on the subject, but I had to make this one using words and expressions that my students already know. I didn't even use "why" because they haven't le ...
I use 'Find Someone Who (Simple Present)' as a warm up or as an activity following a lesson on SIMPLE PRESENT with adult learners. The reason I specify 'adult learners' is that the questions mostl ...
Hi! I´m sharing this test I've prepared for an elementary student. The aim is to check if the following topics were understood: verb TO BE (reading with comprehension questions), HAVE/ HAS ...
Nice activity on the song "Clouds across the Moon" by Rah Band. This is a good exercise to revise word order in questions. For more advanced students, they can also provide the other side of the ...
A beautiful song to practice tag questions for Intermediate students. The worksheet has blank spaces to fill in. It may also be useful for simple preent and the so called "imperative" structure; y ...
Students have to ask questions in the Present Simple Tense using the prompts in the cards. Teachers who are not from Brazil may change some words in the cards. E.g. Jundiai, Campinas. This activit ...
This Pair Work activity gives your learners practice asking and answering short Yes/No Questions about jobs. '20-Questions' guessing activity, with three photos/jobs per two page ('A' and 'B') ha ...
This is a worksheet to be used with Beginners. First, you can teach the students basic expressions to locate places (it's next to, it's between..... and....., it's across the street from..., it's ...
This is my second power point presentation for young learners based on the book " Elmo's guessing game" by Constance Allen. Each my presenation is based on books :-). You can use it to teach them ...
I use this powerpoint game activity to get students talking and using their limited English vocabulary. I divide the class in two groups or teams. One person comes to the front of the class, ...
I designed this worksheet to practice indirect questions. A student will play one of the roles in it as a celebrity, while the others may ask questions based on the gists given. Of course, you can ...
This is a test I made for my 8-years-old student. It consists of four excercises: tick the correct name for the animal, guess the animal's name, choose the correct word for the question (who-what- ...
This worksheet provides an activity to practice the use of the question words. It shows the answer and the student has to elaborate the question for it. The student will have to choose from who, w ...
This worksheet could be handed out at the beginning of a new class. It will help them get to know each other in an instructive way. Students start off individually answering the questions on the ...
In this worksheet you will find questions about personal information. Students have to match the questions with their answer. It is simple but necessary for students between 6 and 8 years old. Wha ...
This is a worksheet for revising daily routines related vocabulary, wh question words and personal pronouns. There are 3 simple and easy activities in which students are asked to complete the que ...
This worksheet is a very simple way of revising "have got". It stars with a simple sentence to write after observing a dialogue and then pupils will do a pairwork which allows them to revise short ...
This worksheet will help students introduce themselves and others. They will review questions about personal information, the pronounciation of the alphabet in English in order to be able to spell ...
This worksheet was used as a test for 5th graders. It includes exercises about there is and there are and vocabulary related to the classroom stationery. The exercises include scrambled sentences, ...
This worksheet is assigned to intermediate students of English. It is based on the way we usually form questions in English. Some students get confused with the fact that sometimes we don't form q ...
This worksheet provides comprehension activities about the movie Click! The activities should be carried out before and while watching this movie. It includes various types of actvities, such as m ...
Get them talking with this POWERPOINT slideshow! It can be done around the room with large or small groups or individually in one-to-one teaching. There are 15 pages. Note that there is an error i ...
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