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 mingling activity might be used as a warm-up for primary students at the elementary level. It lets them revise the spelling, practise "have you got" construction and short answers to it. The ...
It's designed to get students to practice different grammar structures so that their communication skills can be enhanced. It works with any size classes and you can have different follow-up ...
This is great for teachers to hand out at the beginning of class so they can learn a little bit about their new students. Students are asked to answer some questions about themselves and then draw ...
A murder was committed at a multinational company. Police interrogate a suspect, who was a colleague of the victim. In this exercise, jumble the questions and answers and let students match t ...
This is a worksheet for kids to practice his/her and the question How old is she / he? There are at least 3 activities to use with it: the teacher can use it only as a speaking activity and a memo ...
A practical and attractive worksheet to make your students understand and practise the structure 'whose... is (this)?', so useful in our everyday language. This piece of work has had a positive re ...
This worksheet contains questions to practise, and hopefully understand better, all the present, past and future tenses. It is fully editable, so you are free to add more questions if you want. Al ...
This power-point presentation is helpful to teach present perfect vs past simple and also present perfect with for and since and make questions with how long. It's appropriate for pre-intermediate ...
In this worksheet you'll find 5 activities to learn and practice present simple questions. At the beginning there are examples of yes/no questions and wh questions. Then, students identify differe ...
This is a power point for levels who are able to make questions and answers in present continuous. This contains some questions with pictures to answer yes or no with complete answers. It is usefu ...
A fill in the blank exercise for practicing the questions words. Students read the answers and decide which question word is adequate. The tenses are mixed. This helps ss to identify the question ...
This resource was created for primary/elementary students. It is a critical thinking worksheet: What's the question? Students are asked to read the answers and think of appropriate questions for e ...
This resource was created for primary/elementary students. It is a critical thinking worksheet: What's the question? Students are asked to read the answers and think of appropriate questions for e ...
This resource was created for primary/elementary students. It is a critical thinking worksheet: What's the question? Students are asked to read the answers and think of appropriate questions for e ...
This power-point presentation is useful for teaching twelve months of the year and seasons. It also helps you to talk about present simple, question formation and a leap year, the activities that ...
This power-point presentation is helpful for teaching outdoor activities, present progressive and question formation. It contains activities such as: roller skating, jumping rope, riding a bike, c ...
This is an information-gap activity. Students work in pairs. They are given 2 different worksheets with pictures of famous people. Each student tries to guess these people's nationalities and coun ...
Two-player battleship game to practice a few place names and questions regarding them. A teacher might first want to explain each of the questions and places to the students if they're not familia ...
This is a worksheet for revising clothes related vocabulary. It can be used in connection with the Clothes PowerPoint Presentation. The students have to build questions and give short answers It ...
It's a nice speaking activity after we have covered family members, countries and nationalities in class. Ask students to write questions they will ask the rest of the students in advance to make ...
Students practice asking questions (interrogative pronouns) while having fun. It's a class activity. One student asks a question on the top of the card (with the correct question word) and ...
These are 45 printable and editable Hedbanz(R) cards. This game provides a lot of fun while allowing kids to practise question forms.For this game you will also need headbands, some chips and prob ...
A simple game of dominos that uses dependant prepositions. Students can work in pairs or teams. Every student starts with 5 domino cards, more or less depending size of teams. If they can't put do ...
This worksheet contains activities on Wh-questions word order and is particularly suitable for the elementary-pre-intermediate students. In part A, students are asked to fill in the spaces with t ...
Yes/No quetions. Students should walk around the class answering and asking questions. The objective is find someone who... can speak French, doesn´t do homework, doesn´t have money, c ...
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