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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A WS to work on some common phrases made with get. Students study the different meanings of phrasal verb "get". Then form sentences with the correct phrasal verb "get" for consolidation. This WS c ...
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In this worksheet students have to find the phrasal verbs in the wordsearch and match them with the provided pictures and then they have to write the verbs down. It is a little bit difficult, and ...
My worksheet is about the phrasal verb Back. It contains the theory and an exercise with gaps. Firstly, it is necessary for the student to study and learn by heart the different meanings of this p ...
The worksheet is appropriate for intermediate to upper-intermediate students of English. There is an explanation of phrasal verbs with TURN with example sentences and a subsequent exercise where s ...
This is a fun practice worksheet for the whole episode.I get my students to match the words first with their meanings in the first activity before watching the episode. After there are a matching ...
This is a very useful worksheet to practise phrasal verbs for intermediate level students. My advice is to give a little explanation of the different meanings of phrasal verbs before doing the exe ...
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 ...
A simple exercise to test phrasal verb knowledge and match them with their non-phrasal equivalent. The teacher should read the sentences to the group and they must try to find their way through th ...
An hour long lesson on Household Waste Management, using the lyrics and music of the song 'Down By The River'. These activities in this handout stretch listening, speaking, comprehension and writi ...
One of the songs by Adam Lambert to practise phrasal verbs. "What do you want from me" contains 7 examples of different meanings of phrasal verbs. The activity supposes inserting words in the text ...
This is a worksheet I made for my level 6 students in order to revise phrasal verbs we had covered before. Perhaps you could use it in class. The task includes creating phrasal verbs from a group ...
This is a worksheet containing 6 sets of sentences. Each set requires 1 phrasal verb with the particle out. It can be done as a warm-up or revision exercise or anything you want. At the end there ...
Great for intermediate students! My intermediate students were practicing phrasal verbs and I incorporated them into the vocabulary and comprehension/discussion questions. Best to introduce the ...
This is a fully animated presentation, with audio, for teaching or revising phrasal verbs. Students are asked to choose the correct alternative to complete each sentence. Suitable for intermediat ...
To review the usage of phrasal verb. Students have to find the phrasal verbs and then put them in three categories: separable, always separated and inseparable. List of words used in this word se ...
Exercises and quizzes on the episode Hush of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (s04e10). It contains: 1) Reading about the show, with a self-assesment quiz. 2) Watching the episode. 3) Exerc ...
They are cards with some phrasal verbs for intermediate students. The teacher can spread them and ask students to match the phrasal verb with the corresponding meaning. They can form groups ...
Some activities for revising phrasal verbs, passive tense, reported speech, forming the opposite of adjectives by adding a prefix. This worksheet was prepared for 2nd Bachillerato students (16 yea ...
This is a song for higher intermediate or upper- intermediate students . It can be used to practise phrasal verbs, and it is also good to teach or revise adjectives of personality. After listenin ...
This is a set of cards / flashcards to teach or revise the most common phrasal verbs with in: break in, cash in, drop in, fill in, get in, chip in, give in, hand in, etc. Recommended for intermed ...
This is a worksheet designed to help intermediate students build their knowledge of phrasal verbs. The first page is basically just a vocabulary sheet listing the most common phrasal verbs with i ...
Worksheet dealing with the most used phrasal verbs: get on, get over, head for, join in, live up, run out, put up, stand for, check out, go on, call back, look for, etc. It includes 2 exercises i ...
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