When you students struggle with word order, take the time to review this with them using one of the 101 word order worksheets available in this section. Browse through this section to find something that your students will enjoy or use these worksheets as a basis for your own. Here is a resource to refer to when talking about word order. The material may be a little overwhelming for your students but the scrambled sentences on the last three pages can be great practice if students have difficulties with word order. There are other scrambled sentences and word order worksheets to look at as well as an article that talks about teaching word order so stick around and explore all that Busy Teacher has to offer.
There are many common word order mistakes that English language learners make even as their overall fluency and level increase. You cannot stress the importance of word order enough so be sure that students understand the position of words in a target structure before sending them off to do practice activities. Not everyone supports the idea of giving students incorrect material but this would be one method of checking to see if students understand correct word order. You could create a worksheet with some incorrect sentences and ask students to make corrections to them. To make this more challenging, ask students to correct the incorrect sentences and include some sentences without errors so they have to be even more attentive when reading. Of course the best method of teaching word order is to include it in your introductions; take preventative measures when it comes to word order and you will have fewer problems to deal with later on in the course.
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English resource: unscramble the sentences. This multi-step worksheet will help children practice their sentence building. Students unscramble the words to write a statement. They then use the sam ...
20 sentences that students have to complete the correct too or enough form either with noun or adjective. The key to the sentences is provided. Hope the worksheet is useful to revise this type of ...
Teacher instructions: cut out the sheet. The task for the students is to create as many sentences as possible. I have done this in teams of five students. It is also good to make students write do ...
This resource can be used when teaching kids about dinosaurs! Students are asked to unscramble the letters and write the words correctly on the lines. There are fifteen words to unscramble from ex ...
The activity (which is basically just one slide) is aimed at helping your students to figure out parts of speech in the text. The words in red are non-existent, thus you can use this activity even ...
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 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 ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for teaching the order of adjectives. It is suitable for elementary students and also upper levels. First it shows the rule of ordering adjectives then ...
This PowerPoint includes different types of hair + how to put the adjectives to describe hair in the right order. It is appropriate for elementary and pre-intermediate levels, both young learners ...
This is a worksheet for revising order of adjectives. It contains an activity in which the learners are asked to unscramble the words to make sentences. It is appropriate for elementary levels. Yo ...
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 ...
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 ...
I came up with this idea when I was teaching the parts of speech. It is very simple. I used a train to show my ss that all should have an order. I labelled them with the words Subject, Verbs and s ...
Unscramble sentences one: twenty sentences to practice the use of present continuous in affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. At the beginning there are easier sentences that become ...
Unscramble sentences one: twenty sentences to practice the use of the verb to have got in affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. At the beginning there are easier sentences that become mor ...
Unscramble sentences one: twenty-five sentences to practice the use of the verb to be in affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. At the beginning there are easier sentences that become mor ...
Find an English magazine or newspaper and cut out about 40 words ensuring you have a balance of parts of speech and stick them onto a sheet of paper in no particular order something like in the pi ...
This is a simple scheme to introduce the difference between direct and indirect questions. To be filled by students themselves. Mind that the terms may differ, so you can change "information quest ...
This worksheet is useful for intermediate and advanced students. it is just to introduce the topic. The white letters can't be seen in the white board, so you can use them as revision as well. So ...
The worksheet is about the usage of do and does. It has its own grammar chart with the structures for the questions (interrogative) and answers (negative and affirmative) Also students are expecte ...
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 ...
You can solve any type of your examination questions about sentence structure through the reference material. Please thoroughly refer to it and get success . When you study type of sentences you k ...
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 ...
This a very basic and essential lesson about grammar and sentence structure. This lesson will demonstrate all the necessary items found in a simple sentence. This will show you how to locate each ...
A thorough and comprehensive peer-editing or self-editing worksheet for essays that covers organization, quality introduction, conclusions, developed body paragraphs as well as grammar issues such ...
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