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 was designed for testing the beginner level students' competency in various grammar subjects such as wh-questions(what, where, why, who,whose,when,how), there is/there are, how much ...
This is a pairs activity to practice the possessive with 's. They ask (and answer) each other if the items belong to the people mentioned. The vocabulary is very simple. And while they're at it ...
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This worksheet intends to revise family vocabulary and personal information, by drilling elementary grammar points in a funny and contextulized way. Students use short questions and answers and pr ...
This game can be used with any vocab, just place the vocab into the template. It is a round the room game, and the aim is to get back to the starting person in the quickest time possible. You can ...
This is a pretty easy worksheet for teaching or revising exclamations at elementary level. There are two different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences given with ...
This worksheet is used for practicing "simple past", why/ because, talking about likes and dislikes, and yes/ no questions. It contains several questions with related pictures, to look a ...
Looking at two different schedules, students practice answering questions using 1st person singular and 3rd person singular in the present simple tense. Also practices using the structure "from __ ...
Information-gapped worksheet for use in pairs or groups. Student A has information about Juan's family, and Student B has Emily's. They must ask each other questions to complete. Focuses on correc ...
Students are asked to read the short story about Lizzy going to the zoo with her parents. They are then asked to answer the questions by putting a circle around the correct letter. Which animals d ...
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This is a constructor to use during your grammar classes. It helps in creating different types of sentences with have/has got. You can either ask your students to translate the similar constructio ...
A nice game to play with tag questions. After going through the explanation with students this game works perfectly to help reinforce it. The cards are cut up and placed up side down on the table. ...
This worksheet is for students to practise asking and answer questions at job interviews. First students read the job adverts and try to guess what the jobs are. Some teacher input may be needed a ...
This presentation is to practise the question what's this with your students. There's also a chance to play a guessing game that is to ask the question Is it a... and give short answers. Aft ...
This worksheet will be good to use for practising grammar requests 'could you?' This song worksheet has pre-listening, while-listening and after-listening activities. After working with the worksh ...
Diagnistic written test - this test is a way to see what the students remember after summer holidays. It starts with a text with a true/ false exercise and some questions about it. Other contents: ...
The worksheet features tasks to a 25-minute film adaptation of the children's book Lost and Found. The film is directed by Philip Hunt. There are three tasks in the worksheet: a pre-watching task ...
This is a pretty easy worksheet for teaching or revising asking questions and wh- question words at elementary level. There is an easy activity in which students are asked to ask questions fo ...
This is a memory game concerning the question words. eg.: why goes with reason etc. You just need to cut down the cards, mix them, and put them face down on the table. Ideally, students will be in ...
This worksheet is based on the Bear Grylls` TV series "Escape From Hell".
The worksheet follows the first (on some websites it is marked as second) episode "Snow"in order of narration. It is ...
Simple activity for practicing do and does in questions. You need a dice. Get students to throw the dice twice and make a question using the numbers they roll, first choosing do or does, ask a que ...
There are two versions: one with the Spanish translations (for Spanish speakers) and the other one without translations so that you can write them in your own language. There is also an activity t ...
This is a variation on classic mingle "Find someone who..". I used it at the first lesson after the summer break. I like this lively activity much more than just teacher-student type of &nbs ...
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