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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There are two exercises on the worksheet. The first exercise is a quiz. Students have to identify words in an alphabetic string. In the second exercise students have to put words in the correct or ...
This English worksheet can be used when teaching students about Valentine's Day and for alphabetical order. Students look at the words and write them in alphabetical order. There are 15 words for ...
This worksheet can be used when teaching children about Valentine's Day. Students must look at the words and unscramble them correctly by writing them on the lines. There are nineteen words to uns ...
This worksheet helps my students to learn the correct order of English adjectives. When we group adjectives together there is a general rule for the position of each type of adjectives. These exer ...
A quirky, magical tale following the creation of a wooden aviator and his plane. After the death of his inventor, an elderly toymaker, Flyboy is left in the back garden of the house on the hill as ...
This worksheet is a mid-term test for beginners. There are two parts:a language part and a spelling part. In the former they can practise vocabulary with a blank filling activity or grammar with m ...
This is a worksheet I usually use at the beginning of the school year. The aim is for the students to be able to fill in the information about themselves so later they can write about it. It will ...
This page can be folded in half length-wise and torn. Give students the right half so they can try to change the word order of each line to make a sentence. Later, give them the left half so they ...
This worksheet is based on the funny old Disney cartoon. The first task is a kind of warmer, students decide what kind of melodies they like, then there is a couple of tasks on the cartoon compreh ...
Word order practice allows students to understand the formation of proper sequencing in a sentence. Students can then detect patterns in order to form correct sentences. Word order is very importa ...
This is Reading comprehension 1. It is designed for the absolute beginner. The spaces are for foreign students who are just learning English to write the translations and the pronunciation of the ...
Present continuous chart and examples which help children understand faster the usage and form of the present continuous. It helps children understand the word order of affirmative and negative s ...
This worksheet gets your students acquainted with English word order. In four short exercises they learn the basics of the different words in an English sentence and learn how to structure them. I ...
A fun activity which allows kids to be creative and compose their own sentences by selecting 5 nouns, 5 verbs and 5 adjectives. This can be accompanied with a very innovative test of composition w ...
PowerPoint presentation to practice positive, negative and interrogative forms of the verbs in the Past Simple Tense. Students are given positive sentences in the Present Simple Tense which should ...
This PowerPoint presentation contains several short poems based on special questions. They are easy to remember and focus on different question words. Some of them may be familiar to you while the ...
This worksheet contains different types of exercises to help students with general and special questions in Present Simple Tense. Exercises are graded by difficulty level starting from the easiest ...
My worksheet is neatly designed for very basic sentence structure. It is suitable for adults just starting to learn English. My students are the corporate businessmen but their level of English i ...
It's a simple revision of present and past - simple and continuous, some adjectives, questions and word order. Of great use before starting with the course book. It can also be used as a sort of p ...
This is an introductory level reading packet for question words. This includes 5 short reading activities and related questions, for students to practice and identify the meanings of who, what, w ...
Suitable for online or classroom teaching, it is a how-to for teachers whose objective is to consolidate grammar terms and get students to creatively use the language. For revision purposes elicit ...
This worksheet is useful for reading in the 6th form. It is interesting because of the language used by O.Wilde. It gives a chance for students to understand the difference between classical and m ...
Useful sheets for revising transformation in English structures at an intermediate level. It includes changes passive/active, reported/direct speech, joining sentences through relative pronouns, ...
This worksheet is an entry test divided in comprehension, grammar and vocabulary. It has multiple choice exercises, gap filling and brief comprehension exercises. It also contains an exercise to f ...
This is the worksheet I made while working on has got/hasn't got grammar. We have already learnt have got/haven't got, so I thought it would be smart to put some revision here too (see ex.6). Also ...
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