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 is a set of activities based on the movie "Tangled". It includes vocabulary practice, mainly. The colouring activities are optional and there are 2 pictures (one of the princess for the girls ...
A new school year is almost here in many European countries. Here you can find 4 fun activities ideal for the beginning of the new school year with new classes. Let your students get to know you, ...
Hi It can help the students to practice question making. After the cards are spread, the students are supposed to mingle and ask each other questions to find their family members. Questions regar ...
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 25 pages and the last one can be prin ...
This is a pretty simple worksheet for revising wh-question words. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to ask questions to the answers given using the questions words in this box. The ...
In this worksheet you will find a group of cards to practice oral skills in the classroom for beginners. Distribute the cards among a group of students and they have to find their tween by asking ...
The Olympic Games have started! This is a worksheet to start talking about them and see some new vocabulary. It's about the Olympic Flag, its rings and colours and the Olympic medals. There's a co ...
Just a simple game of Who's Who?/Guess Who?, made with adult students in mind. Have students play in pairs with different game sheets. Each student picks a person on their sheet and then they take ...
Contents: school vocabulary, possessive/demonstrative determiners, IN/ON/AT as time prepositions, Wh- words, months, days of the week, weather words. It's been done on the basis of Unit 1, from Wh ...
I am running two weeks of middle school summer classes with an Olympic theme (since the Games are currently happening in London!). These country profiles are for a lesson about different countrie ...
I am running two weeks of middle school summer classes with an Olympic theme (since the Games are currently happening in London!). This worksheet is for a lesson about different countries' Olympi ...
I have been doing a series of classes on the 2012 London Olympics with my Korean middle school students. My students always seem to appreciate music in class, so I made a gap fill for "Proud" - a ...
This is a simple and easy worksheet for revising wh-question words. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the sentences given with a correct question word. The worksheet is ...
It's a Reading comprehension about "Who Invented Lollipops?". Students have to read and write about their favourite lollipops. They have to answer the question and read the sentences and underline ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising wh- questions words. Suitable for intermediate students who are asked to turn the statements into questions, asking about the underlined words. The wo ...
Ice breaker On the first day of class, before introducing myself, I write 5 sentences on the board in a tense appropriate to the level. Some are outrageous lies, but others which can seem to be so ...
A great first day speaking activity. First student's complete the identification chart by themselves. Then elicit or teach the questions for each cell. At last let the students use the questions t ...
THE GIANT PANDA - READING COMPREHENSION task for students of secondary school. You can use it to check reading skills and speaking. Moreover, it can be part of your lesson about Animals and Ecolog ...
In this worksheet there are 20 pictures and 20 questions. The question words are missing. The students have to choose the suitable question word from the list and then choose the correct answer fo ...
Using a youtube upload of this fun BBC documentary about 18th century Paris to complete a gap fill exercise, an exercise to expand vocabulary/English phrases, plus general questions on the dialogu ...
This is a worksheet for beginner students (children age 8). It can be used after explaining how to ask questions and answer them, in a positive or begative way. The purpose is to practise the orde ...
This is a power point presentation with WH questions. Examples: What is your name? How old are you? What's your favorite food / color? What are you good at? What are you interested in? Then, there ...
This colourful board game is designed to create conversation about holidays and includes a variety of question structures. It includes lots of key vocabulary for the topic and is a fun way to end ...
A useful worksheet to work and learn the use of simple past and wh questions. An easy way to learn grammar with your students and differenciate the use of regular and irregular verbs and of course ...
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