A selection of English ESL 'verbs printables

More problem verbs!  As usual, theory - practice - key.

Problem Verbs VI - Rent and Hire

Instructions




1.	Cut out all the pieces.




2.	Separate the pieces into their categories (1~3)




3.	Put the be verb, article, s, and ? pieces to the side.




4.	Start with 1. Mix up all the sentence pieces.




5.	Have the students put them in the correct order. Have them add the correct be verb, article, s, and ? pieces.





** Important: Practice declarative, negative, and interrogative sentence separately. So, for example, to practice declarative, you will need the am, is, are, a, and s pieces, but NOT the not and ? pieces, which are used for negative and interrogative practice (respectively). You can also practice negative interrogatives. 





*Side note: Practice declarative, negative, and interrogative sentence separately. So, for example, to practice declarative, you will need the am, is, are, a, and s pieces, but not the not and ? pieces, which are used for negative and interrogative practice (respectively). You can also practice negative interrogatives.





** Extra Practice – If students have some knowledge of English, you can practice making new sentences by replacing the words with new nouns and adjectives.





** Optional – Use the last page as a template to translate each sentence into the students’ native language, and have them place the sentence pieces next to each sentence.

be verb - Sentence Structure / Word order

I created this worksheet for my beginner ESOL group who will be working on the theme of " Jobs". After working on the names of different jobs in English, they will learn different verbs that go with these jobs. 

Action Verbs Linked with Jobs 1

With this simple past quiz students will practice everything they learned during the class, also it's a helpful way to review and apply the rules we have in the simple past structure.

Past simple - Regular and Irregular verbs

IPN11_Vocabulary_Intermediate level 

Activities to practice the use of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs to describe activities related to the kitchen and food. 

Phrasal Verbs: Actions in the kitchen. 

This worksheet is about past simple, present simple and continuous and a vocabulary exercise. This is a one page test for elementary students. The teacher should review the tenses beforehand.

Test on Verbs for 6th Graders

This is an explanation of how to ask questions in all verb tenses, including ´to be´ questions and subject questions.

The students need to fill in the question words and then the auxiliary verbs for each tense 

Then there is a worksheet for students to change positive sentences to questions and then create their own question word questions using a list of the verbs provided. This is for B1 and above level. 

Asking questions in all verb tenses

A handout for drilling/revising irregular verbs (those that take three different forms). You might use it with A1 or A2 students in the classroom or you might assign it as homework. 

Grammar Checkup - Irregular Verbs In Waves

This set of 3 games covers 80 irregular verbs. There are different tasks for different fields. Students have to unscramble the irregular verb, guess the verb from the picture or give past forms of verbs from additional cards. Verbs on cards are grouped according to the pattern i.e. "fly, draw, throw" to make it easier to practise and remember. Of course rules can be changed and modified. Instructions and cards included.

3 Games to Practice Irregular Verbs

Prepositions of movement, verbs to + infinitive. A preposition can provide us with information on the relationship between two words within a sentence. A practical ESL grammar worksheet for kids to study and practise prepositions of movement in English.

Prepositions of movement, verbs to + infinitive

Lesson I've created to review phrasal verbs with my upper advanced students. This sheet is a sequence of lessons I've created to help them build confidence and practice



*Look for the teacher's version at my uploads and the sequence of lessons to this group

Enjoy

Phrasal Verbs 2 HOUR/FULL LESSON

Put the irregular verbs on a ring to take with you everywhere! Just copy the two pages on one sheet - front and back, then cut out the verbs, make a hole in each and put them on a ring.

Basic Irregular Verbs - For German Speakers

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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