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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Student read a brief information about 'Iron Man' film and then they have to write WH-questions for the answers given in the exercises. This worksheet is used for teachers to explain how to create ...
Students read the brief information about the film 'Iron Man' and they have to match the answers of each WH-question based on the information given. This worksheet is to give students practice of ...
I'm sharing a second version of this simple and yet effective activity to practice question forms. As in the previous version, students will have the chance to to work on word order, listen to son ...
This worksheet helps you to teach some useful sentecences to new student (basic ESL students).You can use this to introduce some sentences that students will always use during the class. Here you ...
This is a beginner/elementary level worksheet that reviews simple yes/no question structure for third person simple present with this/that/it. It includes vocabulary check of several objects that ...
This worksheet is a simple but useful interview that can be used to review simple present. Sts have to use the clues to make complete and correct sentences using the structure. They can work in pa ...
The transition from present simple to past simple is made easier in a way that children can relate to. Using simple, everyday activities in a child-friendly format, this worksheet is suitable for ...
I had to train Hospitality English to a mixed group of about 10 students, some high level English, some very low and a few in the middle. To keep them all challenged and engaged, I gave them ...
Simple board game to practice elementary wh-questions such as "What's your name? How old are you? Where are you from" and yes/no questions with 'be'. The students are supposed to put the sentence ...
A simple exercise to work on question forms. Students will order the words to make some questions. After that, they will listen in order to check whether they were right or not. This way they ...
Practice asking questions with your students. In this worksheet there is an information about four people. Working in pairs your students will practice asking and answering questions. Can be used ...
This is a role-play worksheet: a press-conference with Angelina Jolie. The main purpose of this activity is a) revising question formation in present simple, past simple, present perfect (for the ...
This worksheet is for low level adult or teenage students to practise talking about past daily habits. Students mingle to find out who the sentences belong to using past simple questions with 'Did ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising wh-questions at elementary level. There are 4 different and easy activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences according to the ...
This worksheet is for low level adult students to practise talking about their free time activities and when they do them. Additionally, mingling to find the students to whom the sentences belong ...
Brief test to check some grammar points of your elementary students. Personal information questions in a club or a spa situation, colours, animals, the weather, cardinal numbers up to 100. Multipl ...
This worksheet practices forming questions with appropriate question words. It contains 4 different exercises: a matching exercise, blank filling, finding suitable questions for given key words an ...
Ss have to ask : what are you wearing? Are you wearing ..... and ........? to find the ship. Page has two boards, one for the ss and one for the partner so they can mark where they have asked. I u ...
Critical thinking - this reasoning worksheet was created for primary/elementary pupils. Students must read the answers and think of appropriate questions for each one. There are 9 answers on this ...
Critical thinking - this reasoning worksheet was created for primary/elementary pupils. Students must read the answers and think of appropriate questions for each one. There are 9 answers on this ...
Critical thinking - this reasoning worksheet was created for primary/elementary pupils. Students must read the answers and think of appropriate questions for each one. There are 9 answers on this ...
Critical thinking - this reasoning worksheet was created for primary/elementary pupils. Students must read the answers and think of appropriate questions for each one. There are 9 answers on this ...
Critical thinking - this reasoning worksheet was created for primary/elementary pupils. Students must read the answers and think of appropriate questions for each one. There are 9 answers on this ...
These are six speaking information gap tasks on the topic of leisure and entertainment. I made them to give my KET for Schools students more experience making and answering questions. You can cut ...
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