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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A WORD FORMATION exercise for upper-intermediate, advanced or proficiency level students of English. However, the teachers can adapt it to the level of their students' knowledge. I am not the auth ...
This is an exercise on mixed tenses and verb forms & word formation for upper-intermediate and advanced students of English. Students have to find the correct tense or verb form for the verbs ...
This worksheet consists of two exercises. In the 1st one the students have 18 sentences with blanks and verbs in brackets. They have to write the correct form of the noun. In the 2nd one they have ...
There are numerous derivatives from the root word USE. This exercise aims at the consolidation of these expressions. There are examples of: useful, useless, usefulness, misuse, abuse, disuse, abus ...
This a very simple worksheet for teaching adjective formation. Students are asked to join the words to the prefixes and suffixes to form adjectives and write the correct adjective starting or end ...
33 sentences to practise the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. The students have to fill in the blanks with the correct from of the words in brackets, so they have to decide which pa ...
Students use a thesaurus to find synonyms for twelve adjectives provided. Students then use five of the synonyms to write a story or sentences. Students may use a print thesaurus such as Roget's T ...
Single page giving subject formulaic language learners could use in speaking exams/everyday English (a bit formal tho) as well as a word cloud highlighting some key topic vocab with synonyms. IELT ...
A one page topic sheet giving topic lexis and synonyms in a word cloud + fixed & semi fixed responses (Varying skill levels) as well as an IELTS writing one question re. hobbies in NZ. Usefu ...
A slideshow for students on vocabulary building strategies. the presentation includes answers to questions on what is vocabulary, why should we learn more words and what words are best to learn. t ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising word formation. There are simple explanations followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to form new words using the suffixes a ...
This is a word formation exercise I used with my PreFCE and FCE students. I used it at the beginning of the year and it lead to an interesting discussion about beliefs and values, and it created a ...
I designed this worksheet when I was training my students at word formation for one of the first modules of a CAE coursebook. It was meant as a follow-up to the activities for word formation at FL ...
This is a lovely opposite adjectives mini-book for beginners. There are 12 adjectives to be learnt : big-small, fat-thin, clean-dirty, wet-dry, full- empty; clean-dry. The mini-book is availab ...
You can use this presentation to teach adjectives and how to use them with verb to be. I show my kids the slides and ask them to make sentences about the adjectives. You can also use this presenta ...
A worksheet about the reasons for learning foreign languages. Students discuss some quotes on this subject, then read the text (word formation) and discuss why they are learning English.
Taught this song in conjunction with a unit about Native Americans and the wild west. Short synonym matching included. Students had fun trying to sing along. Prior to teaching the song students le ...
A vocabulary quiz using the Greek or Latin root (-ped-) for decoding some of our English words, for example: biped, tripod, pedicure, peddler,pedal, pedestrian,impediment, quadruped, centipede, an ...
There are 5 activities:
1- complete the paragraph using the words from the box
2-match the jobs with the places
3-read the sentences and choose the right word
4-read and match the two halves
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It's about very rare word ending that appears in only a couple of words in the English language. We have stopped counting how many times we have received this question by email… "There are ...
A 2-page worksheet, suitable for intermediate students, on adjective formation. It includes explanations and example sentences at the top of the page followed by 3 exercises in which students are ...
This is worksheet on word formation. It is a writing activity. Students work on their own or discuss it in pairs. SS should rewrite the word in brackets by adding prefixes or suffixes so that it f ...
Synonyms - Antonyms Worksheet for elementary students. This worksheet has both synonyms and antonyms test with multiple choice questions. The purpose of this test is to check for students' un ...
A crossword puzzle on homographs (homonyms) I did on my own. In the first task, the students need to find the words as described below. In the second task, they need to find the other definitions ...
It is a comprehensive worksheet on the word families and is best for the students of intermediate level and above. It also helps practise the formation of nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs from ...
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