A selection of English ESL verb preposition printables

This worksheet is based on an article taken from CBBC Newsround. There is an exercise on prepositions, a true / false comprehension exercise, a vocabulary matching exercise and a phrasal verbs exercise.

Bear guilty of stealing honey

A 2 pages lesson plan on topic of "Movies". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. All what you might need for a good class. Try it!

Movies

The purpose is to practice prepositions with words on D. It's a grammar drill, without solutions. You may find the list of the words with the prepositions in Round-up 5 at the end of the book.

Prepositions with verbs,adjectives and nouns on D

Students practise the use of prepositions after certain adjectives, nouns and verbs. Students can do the activity on their own or in pairs. The exercise is designed for teenage and adult learners.

Prepositions

The objective of this worksheet is to train the use of the verb to be with some prepositions and this verb  in the Present Simple, the Past Simple and the Future Simple Tense. It's a colouful workshhet and I think it's a good way of training the use of prepositions with the verb to be.

The use of the verb to be in the Present, Past and Future Simple Tense.

This is a lesson to teach phrasal verbs related to holidays and travel. It includes a phrasal verbs/definition matching exercise, a gap-fill exercise, a prepositions gap fill, conversation practice and a game to revise the phrasal verbs. 
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level: this is most suited to b2 level students but can be used as revision at c1 level or at b1 level with extra support. 
time: 1 hour + (depending on the level and conversation development)
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Holiday & travel phrasal verbs

There are 4 activities 1- look at the picture and write true or false 2-complete with the simple past form of the verbs in brackets 3-make questions 4-complete with the right preposition of place

A STRANGE DREAM

A lovely picture with some exercises focusing on the present continuous tense and prepositions of place. They have to put the verb into the present continuous tense and then do a match up - they have to say which person is being described. They then do the T/F questions and add 'ing' to the verb stem. There is a full key.

Picture description exercise: at the train station

Cloze test to practice on vocabulary, wh questions, prepositions of time, quantifiers, tenses etc. B&W + KEY INCLUDED. This is a review test of basic grammar points. Good idea to review the grammar before administering the test.

Close Tests 1 - Basic Grammar

The following domino will help your students practise and remember the usage of some common verbs with prepositions. They should play it following the traditional rules. Hope your students like it!

Verbs with prepositions - Domino

This is the third in a series of intermediate prepositions and phrasal verbs. The first listed the prepositions and phrasal verbs with a sentence example. The second listed the words without the prepositions, and this one adds the missing prepositions with room to write a sentence example. Here are the other worksheets:



Resource: Prepositions and phrasal verbs



https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/prepositions/advanced-prepostions/56517



Missing prepositions for sentence writing: 



https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/prepositions/advanced-prepositions-review/56569

Advanced Preposition & Phrasal Verb List for Sentence Writing

This worksheet will help students to learn the basic prepositions about directions. Prepositions of movement show movement from one place to another place. These prepositions always describe movement and we usually use them with verbs of motion.



The most common preposition of movement is the preposition to, which describes movement in the direction of something, for example:



How do you go to work?

He drove to London in five hours.

Nobody came to the party :(

I Need Directions

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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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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304 Verb preposition English ESL worksheets pdf & doc