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 activity is based on the song "Rude" by Magic. It consists of 2 activities. First, students listen to the song and complete a fill-in-the-blank excercise by using the words provided next to t ...
This presentation reflects the difference in the meaning of confusing English words. There are pictures and definitions to discuss. It is good if students construct sentences to show these differe ...
The song worksheet aimed at intermediate students to practice phrasal verbs, opposites and verb tenses. Usually, for every exercise we listen to the song once. The first exercise is designed as a ...
This is a song worksheet for pre-intermediate or intermediate students about worldwide problems. The song's name is "There Must Be More to Live than This", by Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury. ...
Discussion worksheet about gun laws and massive shooting in the United States.The worksheet provides a text in which president Obama talks about new restrictions to gun laws and execises the vocab ...
A simple and clear explanation of how phrasal verbs are formed. There is a color version and a black and white one. There is a detailed explanation of where prepositions and adverbs are placed and ...
This is a pretty easy worksheet for teaching or revising phrasal verbs at pre-intermediate level. There is a simple activity in which students are asked to complete the sentences by choosing ...
This is a worksheet with listening practice (included in the video), focusing on phrasal verbs. I adapted this activity from a book, and it can be used with upper-intermediate students. The intere ...
I´m sharing this activity to work on phrasal verbs with intermediate students. This task was developed in the context of relationships, and that´s why I chose this great movie: Before ...
This powerpoint initially presents phrasal verbs with get through different example sentences. Students before doing exercises can get an idea over them and get ready for answering questions. A va ...
This is a simple worksheet for teaching or revising phrasal verbs at pre-intermediate level. There's an easy activity in which students are asked to insert the following phrasal verbs adequately,s ...
Multi-parts verbs are a hot potato and difficult to remember. This power point presentation illustrating phrasal verbs with "take" can serve the purpose of a mnemonic device for your students. The ...
This is a very simple multiple choice activity for teaching or revising phrasal verbs at elementary level. Students are asked to complete the sentences given, filling in the blank spaces by c ...
This worksheet contains some idioms with the verb "start" such as "to start off on the wrong foot" etc. as well as some synonyms of this verb such as "burst out". There are two activities included ...
Students invent a story using the phrasal verbs on the cards. Distribute the cards to your students, start with a sample sentence, e.g. Last week I had to look after my little nephew. Each s ...
This is a worksheet for teaching phrasal verbs at intermediate level. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences with the verbs given, fill in the ...
This is a complete grammar guide for teaching phrasal verbs at intermediate level. There are clear and simple explanations and a list of the most common phrasal verbs as well as example sente ...
This is an additional worksheet about fifteen useful phrasal verbs. It is followed by the PowerPoint presentation and previous worksheet I have uploaded as well. It can be very handy when it come ...
This worksheet includes two tasks about phrasal verbs. The first task is a blank filling exercise in which students fill in the gaps with the right verb. The second task involves replacing normal ...
This is a very well-prepared power-point classifying phrasal verbs with put / take/ get/ fall/ turn etc. At the end of it exercises part comes and students are expected to find out the correct phr ...
A worksheet about phrasal verbs. This worksheet includes one matching activity where students are asked to match the phrasal verb with its definition. Four sentences provided under the activity gu ...
This worksheet has many questions measuring student's knowledge about prepositions and phrasal verbs. The questions have five alternatives,all of which are choosen carefully. Also the answer key i ...
This is a listening test I made to my 11th grade students. They've been working on volunteering. As a grammar item we've explored "If only/I wish structures and phrasal/prepositional verbs. I used ...
It is an ESL test which consists of 90 questions in advanced level. This worksheet can be given to the students in high level to reinforce their knowledge. It has 5 alternatives from A-E and give ...
An exercise or test for students of upper-intermediate or advanced level to work out missing prepositions on the basis of the sentence context and preliminary knowledge of phrasal verbs and prepos ...
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