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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This is a two-page worksheet dealing with verbs that students often find confusing and therefore misuse them. You can let your students complete the sentences with appropriate verbs individually o ...
This worksheet tests the ability of students to distinguish between a noun and an adjective. It focuses on using different words as adjectives on one hand and nouns derived from adjectives using a ...
Take me to your heart by Michael Learns to Rock: This is a song activity which is mainly focused on SYNONYMS and ANTONYMS. It is used for developing students' listening skill. I made it for my ele ...
The tasks help students to revise word building (forming adjectives from nouns; making adjectives with prefixes im-, in-, il-, dis-; making adjectives adding ed/ing, describing things and people ...
This is a song meant for Elementary students who have already seen "going to Future". Students should read the song together with their teachers before starting to work on the song for them to und ...
A word formation worksheet appropriate for upper-intermediate, advanced and proficiency level students of English. The text is taken from Care2 website. It is about the most handsome and charitabl ...
This is a list of basic vocubulary and their formation as verb, noun or adjective. .. there is a word for example angry : anger angry .... ADMIT admission admittance admissible inadmissible admi ...
The worksheet is appropriate for upper-intermediate, advanced and proficiency level students of English. It's a mixed WORD FORMATION (form new words from the root words in brackets) and GAP FILL ( ...
An easy and fun way to teach antonyms to Pre-Intermediate students. I let the students choose the words to read aloud. They picked a word out of a bag, read the word aloud, and told the class the ...
A WORD FORMATION worksheet containing basic rules about how to form nouns from adjectives by adding suffix -NESS to the adjective. There are four rules, some examples and a corresponding exercise. ...
A WORD FORMATION worksheet with some 'tricky' opposites like impatience, misfortune, discontentment, immeasurable, unwavering. It is aimed at improving the students' vocabulary. The teacher can al ...
A worksheet containing the list of some basic opposites (negative forms). There are mainly adjectives (un-happy, im-moral, dis-honest, in-active,...),some nouns (non-violence,non-resident, ....... ...
The worksheet is appropriate for intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced students of English. It contains some basic information about the capital of Wales, Cardiff. Students have to build n ...
A word formation worksheet suitable for intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced students of English. Students have to fill the gaps with appropriate words derived from the root words given. ...
This worksheet provides an overview of the most commonly used prefixes such as mis- un- pre- and dis-. It can be used for a reference for your students. You could also delete the example words a ...
A rather simple (or at least intended to be simple) word formation worksheet appropriate for intermediate or upper-intermediate students of English. Students are expected to fill the gaps with the ...
This worksheet is the last (so far) of my word-formation series. There are two exercises. In the 1st one the students have to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word in brackets (noun, ...
This worksheet is about -ible and -able suffixes which are frequently mixed in the words. Although a lot of grammar books do not pay attention to this fact, this grammar rule is of immense importa ...
List of useful words and expressions on the topic. It can be used for classroom discussions or it can be handed out for a written composition about sleeping. Students can also write some questions ...
In this ws the students have 27 pictures and two lists of words: in the 2st one there are V-ing froms and in the 2nd there are nouns. The students have to match both columns to form two-word compo ...
More practice with word formation. The students have two exercises: in the 1st one they have to fill in the blanks with the correct noun from the given adejctive; in the 2nd one, they have to give ...
This is the first worksheet of two: the second will be uploaded right after this one and the KEY = answers will be included. This worksheet is appropriate for intermediate, upper-intermediate and ...
This is an informal business e-mail which contains confusing words (e.g. affect/effect, raise/rise) from which the student choose. The worksheet can be used as an extension exercise after having t ...
This is an exercise for upper-intermediate, advanced, and proficiency level students of English. It's an interesting subject on healthy diet, which is trendy and popular also among the young. Stud ...
This worksheet consists of 32 sentences to practise word formation. In the first exercise te students have to fill in the blanks with the correct adjective from the noun in brackets. In exercise t ...
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