Welcome to the word building section of the site which has worksheets meant to help your students learn more vocabulary words. There are several subsections which allow you narrow down your search; they will make the search for the perfect worksheet even easier. This is an amazing word building worksheet with over eighty words that have a similar meaning to the word say. There are a number of activities explained on the website that you can use with learners of any age. If your students are at a lower level, consider removing some of the words so that they do not become overwhelmed with new vocabulary. Perhaps you think the focus of this activity is a little limited but it is just one example of the 252 wordbuilding worksheets available on this topic so you are free to use another one.
After students have a good vocabulary base, you can help them expand it by introducing synonyms, antonyms, prefixes and suffixes. These are simple ways that students can rapidly increase their vocabulary. Most beginners will not have enough vocabulary to draw on for these types of exercises but intermediate and advanced learners can certainly benefit from them. Generally this sort of activity should not be the primary focus of your lesson but rather used as a short warm up or review exercise.
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Over a hundred printable Taboo Game cards with template for beginner and intermediate students. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising adjective formation at elementary level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to identify the adjectives in the text given, match the no ...
This worksheet consists of two exercises to practise word formation involving prefixes. In 1 the studnets have to match the prefixes and their meaning. In 2 the have to add the correct prefix to t ...
This is to practice comparatives and a few superlatives. After watching the video, students have to choose if the sentence is true or false and correct the mistakes. Each sentence has a mistake. ...
This the first part of a collection of 40 exercises for you to practise wordbuilding in order to help you to be able to get round Cambridge Use of English section of the examination. The exercis ...
In the slides we have a vanishing dialogue and some grammar points about word formation. First of all you ask you students to repeat the dialogue and practice in pair. Then, you go to the second ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising noun formation. From the word at the end of each sentence students are asked to form a noun (by adding a suffix) that fits suitably in the blank space ...
Homonyms can be confusing. Here is a summary of homonyms that will be useful for ESL learners to practice their pronunciation. For example, when teacher explains how to pronounce 'bear', they can ...
This is the poem to practice regular and irregular plural form of nouns in English...it's excellent for Phonetic lessons. You should be able to read it out loud or use it for narrow transcription. ...
Hi, this is a worksheet to use with the song "I'm Sailing" by Rod Stewart. The activities are: find the missing words, put the lines in order, rewrite a verse in the past simple, find the anonyms, ...
This is a single page Halloween themed phonics worksheet, with a focus on words ending in -at. The learner needs to say the main word "bat" - with the emphasis on the "at" sound and fill in the l ...
Over a hundred printable Taboo Game cards with template for beginner and intermediate students. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card ...
Students work in pairs to revise/learn prefixes. One student gives their partner the prefixes on their sheet and dictates the noun, verb or adjective for their partner to match with one of the giv ...
First, there are two columns for matching synonymous words. This is followed by a sentence completion activity that uses the words in two columns. Finally, there are suggestions for supplemental a ...
Grammatical rules concerning formation of new words. All the prefixes and suffixes that create nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs et cetera. This worksheet is a presentation of how it works, togeth ...
This is a worksheet for revising word formation at intermediate level. There is a simple activity in which students are asked to form the opposites of the words in brackets by adding one of the p ...
This is a reference worksheet about word formation by means of suffixes in English. It includes a classification of sufffixes according to the grammatical category they create (noun suffixes, adje ...
This is a reference worksheet about wordformation by means of prefixes in English. It includes a classification of prefixes according to overall meaning (neoclassical, negative, measure, reversati ...
Stare or glare? Watch or view? Can your students tell the difference? Why don't you check? This worksheet is intended for upper-intermediate and advanced students who wish to expand their vocabula ...
This song activity presents the topic of homophones and spelling. It is a good task to help review spelling and general knowledge of vocabulary. It can be used without the song in which teachers h ...
This song is a good pace for beginner and elementary students, allowing them to catch words by using a gap fill activity. There is a pre-listening task of matching words which may take beginners l ...
This is based on the book Intelligent Business. Since it doesn't really have a workbook and a vast range of revision exercises, I devised this brief worksheet as extra practice for my students. It ...
The chart has examples of suffixes and root words and provides some of the basic rules for adding suffixes (ie - "change y to i, then + suffix"). The worksheet asks the students to write the meani ...
This cover Madonna recorded in 2000 is great to practice the simple past, practice vocabulary, teach expressions and to "open" the students' ears as they have fun trying to sing with the Queen Of ...
This chart will help students in understanding the root of affixes and also the meanings of the branches... it also help the young learns to understand very easily. This chart can be used as a pic ...
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