English ESL Word formation worksheets - Most downloaded (139 Results)

Ask your students to work individually or in pairs. Ask them to read the sentences and decide what they need - a verb, noun adjective or ...

With this worksheet students are able to get used to some common suffixes to form adjectives and nouns. Task 1 - matching word with suf...

A multiple choice exercise with the word formation.

Word Formation Practice

This is a reading about World Water Day suitable for Elementary, Pre-Intermediate students. It consists; 1. Warm up questions 2. Prepa...

A word formation exercise for advanced students. Thirty sentences to be completed with the right form of the word in brackets. The senten...

24 sentences to practise word formation involving nouns. Thanks Phillip Martin for clipart. Hope it's useful! Gloria

Ask students to read the sentences and complete the gaps using the words on the right side of the page in the correct form. It's a good e...

This worksheet is designed to practise the ways in which new words are made on the basis of other words. Photocopy the grid and give it t...

This worksheet pays attention to English adjective prefixes: il, in, im, dis, ir and un. It contains twenty questions (sentences). The an...

This worksheet includes some information on the most common suffixes used to form nouns and adjectives. There are 2 tasks: 1 - find the ...

A word formation exercise for advanced students. The same words as in Word Formation 13B. Thirty sentences to be completed with the right...