This is the phrasal verbs section of Busy Teacher, a website full of resources for ESL teachers. There are currently 182 worksheets that deal with this topic and can help your students practice using related material. You do not want to overwhelm your students with a long list of phrasal verbs but if you are interested in talking about some of them in class, this phrasal verbs worksheet is a great teaching resource. It has twenty pages of phrasal verbs to choose from as well as definitions and examples for each one. That is a lot of useful information! If you are looking for a practice activity instead, check out other worksheets to find something your students might enjoy.
Phrasal verbs are an important part of the English language but something that students may struggle to learn and understand. By introducing only a small number of similar phrasal verbs at a time you will greatly improve the chance that your students will retain the information. A variety of practice activities are also important so that students can demonstrate their thorough understanding of the material. An example of phrasal verbs you might want to introduce together are back down, back up, and back out because they all start with the same word and include a direction related word. Another approach may be to choose phrases that use the same second word as they may be less easily confused. Your approach and the phrasal verbs you choose to cover should be based on your students, textbooks, and other course material.
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This is a worksheet for intermediate students to practice phrasal verbs with particles away and back. All of the examples were carefully chosen and verified by a native speaker who is a profession ...
This is a phrasal verbs presentation to use with elementary, pre-intermediate or intermediate level students. It targets essential phrasal verbs formation and their two types of meaning: literal a ...
This is a phrasal verbs power point that can be used for the pre-intermediate level course. It contains information about transitive and intransitive verbs. Power point can be presented as a ...
This includes a sample dialogue using common cold weather expressions, phrasal verbs and idioms. Includes definitions, sample sentences and discussion questions. This was created for adult convers ...
This ppt is created on the basis of the New English file advanced. First you will find slides in Ukrainian (students are supposed to translate into English), so you can skip this activity. La ...
This worksheet introduces seventeen phrasal verbs with "get" and five idioms with "get." Instead of providing the definition for the phrasal verb and idiom, there is a sample sentence. Using the s ...
This worksheet is aimed to be used with pre-intermediate students and above. It contains Adele's short biography, as well as activities such as number the verses in correct order, unscramble the w ...
This exercise is about remembering phrasal verbs by associating them with their non-phrasal equivalents. In the first part the students work in pairs to match the phrasals with their meanings. The ...
I created this worksheet for my Cambridge English First students before our winter break. It'll help them with phrasal verbs and vocabulary. You could also hold a class discussion about when your ...
A very upbeat song alive with phasal verbs. Your kids will greatly enjoy singing the song all together. The excercises of the worksheet include an 'order the lines' excercise and a 'fill in the ga ...
A worksheet to complete after/while watching the video Underwater Astonishments from TED.com Includes the transcript in which the student much choose the correct preposition, a vocabulary mat ...
This is a worksheet used to accompany topics on house and home. It features several popular phrasal verbs/idioms/proverbs and includes a gapfill exercise to check understanding. I have used t ...
This presentation is a colourful exercise, with which your students will be able to practice phrasal verbs and expressins with the verb get. It consists of slides with fill-in-the-gaps sentences a ...
As it is difficult to find exercises related to nouns derived from phrasal verbs, I prepared this worksheet so that students can practise more. It contains 50 exercises in which students are expec ...
It explains the use of nouns derived from phrasal verbs through proper examples. In 3 slides it gives explanation and then the exercises part starts. Students try to find out the correct noun suit ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising phrasal verbs and environment related vocabulary. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences using the corr ...
This worksheet focuses on a short reading about New Year's Resolutions, that highlights some phrasal verbs. Followed by some interesting New Year's Traditions around the world, great for disc ...
This worksheet is a simple running and matching game for FCE phrasal verbs. It is designed to be done in teams, although it can be done with two students. It is based on the first five chapters of ...
This worksheet covers the phrasal verbs of 2nd Unit in Headway Advanced Coursebook but also it can be used separately. Firstly it gives definitions as well as example sentences. You can also find ...
This is a set of some phrasal verbs that you may find useful. The aim of the exercise is to match the phrasal verb with its meaning. In this task, each phrasal verb has one (or two similar) meanin ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising phrasal verbs related to clothes at pre-intermediate level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to match the phrasal verb ...
It contains the most useful phrasal verbs you can use in real contexts. This Power Point Presentation will help teachers to work in an interactive classroom with a whiteboard. It is useful to prac ...
For intermediate students and above, this is a lexis worksheet on various expressions that include the word 'light'. There is a lead-in section to elicit prior knowledge, a gap-fill section and a ...
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