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 for beginner or elementary - pupils make a question to the answer. Teacher can use it as a test or revision of present simple. Pupils can correct it themself and choose the righ ...
This is a written test with two reading comprehension exercises, 5 grammar exercises ( TO BE, THERE TO BE, possessive adjectives and pronouns, present simple and question words), a vocabulary exer ...
This is a worksheet about Georges Auguste Escoffier (French chef). First a text about his life, followed by questions. It is a ws to practise reading comprehension with simple past tense + a ...
This is the second part of the worksheet connected with types of questions. Here you can see exercises to practice the rules in the grammar guide. The exercises are not difficult, they are aimed ...
This grammar guide tells about four main types of questions in English (general, alternative, special (including the question to the subject), alternative and disjunctive questions). The rules of ...
Here is the next picture description worksheet. There is a big picture and two tasks -
1) answer the questions, and
2) choose true or false.
The exercises are not difficult. Present Continuous ...
This worksheet provides good exercises to practice question tags. Present Simple (do/does/to be/can are included). It is for those who have just started to practice this grammar topic and know Pr ...
Two sets of questions about people in general. They are open, personal questions. Lots of side questions can spring form each one of them, and you can have quite a good conversation practice. It c ...
This worksheet is very useful for speaking and debating, especially in pairs, because students will express their attitude towards different things. If the teacher gives instructions to respect ea ...
A worksheet on wh-question words which includes a brief explanation and three different exercises where students are asked to complete the questions with where, who, when and what, read the answe ...
Cut up into separate pieces, each piece containing a question or an answer. Shuffle. Students match the questions with the answers. You can also turn this into a competition instead by splitting S ...
Questions are important. Students learn how to make questions in present simple. They fill in the gaps, make questions. It's a two-page worksheet that I hope you teachers can use in your classes w ...
At the beginning of a new school year you want to create a good atmosphere with your new classes who are not just new to you - they are also new to each other. This worksheet will help them to lea ...
Complete the questions in the 3rd person about Tom's daily routine. Students have to fill in the gaps following the instructions of the tips bellow the gaps like "Questions Words", "Auxiliary Verb ...
Many of my students tend to have trouble with wh- questions words. This game is designed to help them get more comfortable with the topic. How to use the cards: - Print, cut and laminate the card ...
This is a general knowledge activity for kids to practice different question forms about the past in a fun way. It includes "wh-" questions (which, what), the past of "can" (could), "how long" and ...
This is a worksheet to use with Wallace and Gromit – The Wrong Trousers. There's a matching exercise to teach vocabulary before watching, and yes-no questions to check comprehension after e ...
This is the worksheet that may help students to learn the use of Wh-word questions and to practice them well. However,Ii think exercise B and C should be done first because exercise A is a bit mor ...
Students can learn about different kinds of musical instruments, can work in pairs miming playing a musical instrument, asking each other using present simple. they will need to look at the chart ...
This board game focuses on wh-questions and short answers, which are a difficult aspect of English language. Students´ task is to, turn the statements into questions, asking about the under ...
A simple Power Point Presentation explaining the use/purpose of Who, what, where, when, why and how. Parts of it are in simplified Chinese to provide a better understanding for students. This can ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation to introduce or revise question words: where, when, why, which, who, what. Each slide is displayed with audio and illustrated with lovely pictures so that student ...
This is an activity on the verb to be and wh-question words. Students are asked to join both beginnings and endings to form a correct question.
Great for elementary students.
How to use the ca ...
This worksheet explains the usage of the the common wh- words what, which, who, when, how, why, whom and where. It has a translation exercise that should help students associate the English wh- wo ...
It's a small quiz about questions with simple present: WH- and yes/no. You can use it to reinforce the word order of questions and it is suitable for beginners. It contains 2 parts: the firs ...
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