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 typical "Find someone who" activity (seventeen tasks to find someone who has a dog, been to Cusco, won a prize, , focusing on present and past, "to have" as auxialliary verb and for desc ...
This is a nice activity for students of 4th year primary school to colour and complete about themselves on the first day of school. Teachers may change questions according to students' knowle ...
This worksheet contains: Fill in the blanks activity with vocabulary about greetings. Pictures to recognize different times of the day. Activity to order sentences (personal questio ...
This is a card game in which pupils speak English, try to get as many identical pairs as they can, try to win and have fun. Meanwhile they practice asking questions and giving short answers. I mad ...
A review board game similar to the one posted for Hi Friends 1 (https://busyteacher.org/18860-elementary-hi-friends-1-boardgame.html). It's a really simple format and requires only some game piec ...
The activity is called "Let's get to know each other better" and focuses on making questions in different tenses up to present perfect and writing down one's partner's answer in the correct tense ...
Numbers are a weak point of my students but only repeating them doesn't solve the problem. That's why I made this interesting quiz worksheet about facts of London. (source: londoncouncils.gov.uk) ...
This is a really simple boardgame to use with elementary 5th grade students. It was made to review the language in Hi Friends 1, including: How are you? How's the weather? How many ...
Revision test for unit 4. It deals with making questions - with the correct question words, making questions to the answers, making questions to the underlined words or phrases. Sentences with que ...
This was made for grade 6 elementary school students in Japan using the Hi Friends 2 book. It was intended to be used by the students themselves to review the structures we've used before the fin ...
Write more questions, answer them yourself, then interview three other classmates. Make sure all of the questions are about time. it can be used with upper grade students specially with grade ...
It can be used to give personal information and it can be used to participate in class to ask or give personal information using wh-questions about first name, last name, address, age, nationalit ...
I play "Go Fish" using vocabulary cards I make by inserting clip art into the template for 2" by 4" labels and mounting them on index cards. Before playing the game in my adult beginning level cl ...
This is an information gap activity for partners. Each worksheet contains food items that can be found in a grocery store. Each worksheet is missing prices for different items. Partners must as ...
Another version of the Guess Who game, made to practice the following structures: What (sports/food) do you like?, How old are you?, When is your birthday?, Are you (Max)? To the left of the pictu ...
I created this worksheets so my students make questions in order to complete their missing information. Give a worksheet to each group of 2-3 students (it's better if you cut it into pieces). Stud ...
A worksheet on question words: who, what, where, when, why, which, whose and how. This worksheet is designed specifically for Greek-speaking students as it provides a translation of each question ...
This is a multiple choice activity for teaching or revising wh-question words and the verb to be at elementary level. Students are asked to complete eighteen different sentences by choosing ...
This is an "interviewing game" that accompanies the elementary English textbook for 6th graders in Japan called "Hi Friends 2". The pictures used are the same as the ones in the textbook which de ...
This worksheet focuses on the forms used in the present perfect tense in affirmative, negative and interrogative, as well as short answers. Although the focus is form, students will be able to rev ...
This is an activity to get students asking the question, "Do you like...?" This helps with intonation and forces them to look at a single word and make it a whole sentence. It's a .doc file, so yo ...
This is a test I used with my students after revising present simple and the adjectives of personal description so as to prepare them to make a friendship quiz. This is great for pre-intermediate ...
This is a great way to teach new learners the meaning of the question words without resorting to translating. I use this with both children and adults. I lay out the question words together on one ...
Students have to complete the sentences using the correct interrogative pronoun. Sometimes they forget them so the teacher can help them or explain the differences between them. It's easy if you p ...
This game works exactly the same as the other Battleships Questions Game - except that instead of practising 'Do you have/Have you got' question and answers, the students are practising present an ...
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