This part of the site has a range of worksheets that focus on sets of words and collocations. There are currently 109 collocations worksheets posted in this section and they are all free and easy to print for use in your ESL classroom. This highly rated collocations worksheet has been successfully used by many busy teachers in the past. Created for intermediate learners, the focus of the worksheet is to practice using make and do. There are notes for an entire fifty minute class as well as a suggested homework assignment so this could not be any easier to plan. If you would like to incorporate some of your own ideas into a lesson plan, you might decide just to use certain portions of this plan instead of the whole thing. If you have created worksheets related to this topic in the past, please consider uploading your worksheets for other teachers to use.
When discussing new topics, it is important to introduce all related words at the same time so that students can learn everything they need before being asked to talk about the topic. This is especially true with beginners when you are introducing lots of topic related vocabulary. As students improve, they will begin to encounter collocations so you will have to devote an increasing amount of time to collocations as students become more fluent. Collocations are words that are often found together and just sound natural to native speakers. They can range from basic such as fast food to quite complex and will go a long way towards making students sound more like native speakers if they use the phrases correctly.
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For pre-intermediate students and above, this is a lexis worksheet on various expressions that include the word 'right'. There is a lead-in section to elicit prior knowledge, a gap-fill section an ...
I have made this worksheet to use after teaching different meanings of the verb to get. There are two exercises. The second one could also be used with a group of students. Cut each situation and ...
For elementary students and above. This is a lexis worksheet for various expressions that include the word 'play'. There is a lead-in section to elicit prior knowledge, a gap-fill section and a se ...
This workshhet can be very useful for you and your students. They can choose the best options trying to understannd the sentences and applying their previous knowledge. Then you as ...
This is a ppt about basic children games and some free time activities for elementary level children. You can use the ppt as a kind of introduction for the topics such as like & dislike. The l ...
This vocabulary revision game can be done as an individual task or as a whole class competition when the teacher reads individual lines and students call out the suitable answer. There are often m ...
Questions about drawing a budget and getting finance. The purpose is to prompt students to activate the business vocabulary they know, while practicing collocations. These questions can be used a ...
35 questions to practice vocabulary and concepts related to marketing and sales. Wide range of questions and activities including: giving opinion, providing data, reading and summarising; web link ...
This is a simple worksheet to introduce the different types of media and to define them. Students will also classify different types of media using key expressions and discuss their opinion with a ...
48 questions to practice vocabulary and concepts related to running a business. Wide range of questions and activities including: giving opinion, providing data, reading and summarising; web links ...
Students get a table with words in three different colums. They must find the word in the centre that is suitable as an ending for the first as well as the beginning for the second word, in other ...
This is a worksheet I made to revise tourism-related vocabulary for a student at an advanced level. It was created as a test for a chapter of a certain book so it may be a bit specific, but it sti ...
I wanted to discuss freedom of speech, limits of humor, etc with my intermediate/upper interm. students and created this class in a rush because all we can hear on the news lately is about the Fre ...
In this presentation you will be able to learn about many ways to say that you like or don't like some acitivity. Here you will be able to find many definitions and concepts that integrate a great ...
For intermediate students and above, this is a lexis worksheet on various expressions that include the word 'light'. There is a lead-in section to elicit prior knowledge, a gap-fill section and a ...
This presentation reflects the difference in the meaning of confusing English words. There are pictures and definitions to discuss. It is good if students construct sentences to show these differe ...
A matching game aimed at learning and revising collocations with take, have, waste and spend. Levels: intermediate and above. All four skills are covered: writing, reading, speaking and liste ...
Basic vocabulary. Simple to complete, they just need to match one column with the other; there are 20 words to match. Doesn't require much time. After completing the practice, you can ask them to ...
This worksheet goes over lend vs. borrow. It starts with a discussion section that can be done with a partner or as a class. Then, there is a quick grammar part explaining lend vs. borrow and poss ...
Discussion worksheet about gun laws and massive shooting in the United States.The worksheet provides a text in which president Obama talks about new restrictions to gun laws and execises the vocab ...
This worksheet contains the words that are commonly used in combination with clothes. That way it's easier for the students to memorize vocabulary and they learn in which common combination the wo ...
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