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 good song to illustrate the reductions of "going to", "want to" and "have got to" into "gonna" "wanna" and "gotta" in an easy-to-understand context. It also contains a few colloquial phr ...
his is a worksheet for intermediate students with a matching, a definition finding and a sentence completion exercise. It can be used as a practice or a revision sheet. Another way could be to use ...
This worksheet works great with intermediate students. First, they complete the lyrics of the song The Beauty and a Beat by Justin Bieber with the missing words. Then, they work on several activit ...
This a worksheet on phrasal verbs for intermediate students. There are 2 activities in which students are asked to complete each sentences with a suitable form of the phrasal verbs in the box and ...
This worksheet is intended for learning new phrasal verbs and practice. You will find different activities and key. If you work with Solutions Upper-intermediate coursebooks (Oxford), this workshe ...
A worksheet to help students learn about phrasal verbs and their use. Students read a diary extract and underline all the phrasals and phrasal expressions they can. Then they complete a gap fill e ...
Here is a worksheet for more advanced ESL learners to work on their knowledge of phrasal verbs. This sheet focusses on the common particle "down". It is short but can be teamed with the presentati ...
Here is a Powerpoint presentation which explains the different uses for phrasal verbs using "Down". This is one in a series I am uploading so it is only focussed on the one common particle. It is ...
A short worksheet to test how much the ESL learner knows about the phrasal verb "up", or for them to practise using it. If they don't know the phrasal verbs then they can be explained. This is for ...
Here is a Powerpoint presentation for more advanced learners. The title is Phrasal" Verbs, but it is one in a series and this one focusses on the common particle "up". It gives an explanation of t ...
Students have to read through the definitions of the phrasal verbs. Using their current knowledge, they have to put the correct phrasal verb in the sentence. The flags represent the meaning of t ...
A great song to use for PAST TENSE practise, PHRASAL VERBS, TIME IDIOMS and CONTRACTIONS I haven’t included the full lyrics this time … do some of the work yourself with the students! ...
Some of you will prefer to let students listen once first, others may find different ways of doing it depending on the level of the students. I would suggest playing the video / song verse by ver ...
This is a set of cards for teaching or revising phrasal verbs with off and up. They are easily adaptable to any level or age and they can also be used as conversation cards, or classroom posters.
This worksheet is about love and romance. This worksheet is related to vocabulary and the students have to match vocabulary, give definitions and complete sentences with vocabulary of love. In thi ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching phrasal verbs at intermediate levels. There's a picture dictionary which can also be used as a study sheet followed by 3 activities in which students are a ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching phrasal verbs at intermediate level. The first page is basically just a study sheet and the second page has 3 activities in which students are asked to mat ...
This worksheet can be used to emphasize the importance of learning languages. It consists of analysing some scenes of the film Spanglish, always bearing in mind the main topic. Students develop th ...
Listening exercise: podcast taken from http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=why-paper-yellows-as-it-ages-12-04-17
Ss will practice their listening skills as they fill in the g ...
Here's a fully animated PowerPoint Activity with audio for revising prepositional verbs. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to fill in the blanks by choosing the correct preposit ...
A gap fill exercise with Kelly Clarkson's song Breakaway. A good tool to introduce or review prepositions and/or phrasal verbs. Can be used with the theme of 'breaking the mould', 'habits', 'daily ...
This is a way to visualize and learn new vocabulary related to Education, Learning, Exams using a MIND MAP. It can be used to present the vocabulary before a Reading or a Listening. It is more gra ...
This accompanies the lyrics worksheet I submitted (gap fill). There are key expressions with definitions at the top, followed by an activity for students (translate the verbs into own language an ...
This activity is good for practicing verbs in the Past Participle, so students get used to them when using the Present Perfect Tense. I also used some phrasal verbs to check their meaning and to h ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for intermediate students on phrasal verbs with for. There is a study sheet with colourful illustrations followed by 2 different activities in which students are asked t ...
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