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Phrasal Verbs Challenge - check yourself
Phrasal verbs (verbs + prepositions) presented in sentences without the preposition. Students fold over the column on the right, fill in the prepositions, then fold the second column back and check their results.
The column on the right can also be used for LEARNING and SELF-STUDY. Have a look at Prepositions Challenges I and II as well which I u...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 114
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FAMOUS AMERICANS II
With key! Second in a series of three. Four famous Americans with portraits and jumbled biographical details both known and unknown. Students have to find out which sentences belong to which person. There is one rather funny or strange unknown detail about every person. Did you know that long after fighting his wars Sitting Bull figured in a Wild W...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Collocations
An exercise on collocations (adjective-noun and adjective-adverb)that I collected with your help in the forum and from all sorts of different sources. Key and one more exercise on page 2. Thanks for contributing! - By mistake I forgot to take out a bit of German text on page 3. Somehow I can�t update the printable and send a version without it at t...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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"Let�s paint the town red" - Colour idioms
When I was "caught red-handed" "out of the blue" I screamed "blue murder" and everybody was "as white as a sheet" - this worksheet introduces 12 colour idioms. Second sheet: solutions
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Emphasis and stress
This worksheet explains several ways of adding emphasis or stress to English sentences: from exclamations, adverbs of degree to "it is", the self-pronoun and negative adverbs followed by inversion. There are exercises for all categories. *Never will you find* anything as comprehensive on ESL ... *I did try hard* to make a nice worksheet and *what y...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 56
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Stylistic devices -- rhetoric figures -- (3 pages)
Introduction to 15 stylistic devices, from hyperbole to euphemism, from climax to anaphora. _____ Cut this worksheet up and get your students to match the three categories: definitions, examples and the name of the stylistic device. (The order is correct as it is). ____
Print out several copies and make students work in small groups.
It will pro...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 50
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All good things come in threes
sleep --> bed --> dream tea --> ?? --> ??
Students are asked to find two matching words for a given word.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Un-, in-, im-, il(l)-, ir-, or dis-...? Negative prefixes for adjectives
Dozens of adjectives have to be combined with the correct negative prefix to be turned into their opposite.
Key included on page 2. There is another worksheet on the same topic with more elaborate vocabulary for advanced learners here: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=257466#thetop
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 227
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How many words can you find?
THREE PAGES - This is for students after two years of "serious" English. They are asked to find a certain amount of words for certain subjects (5 holiday words, 6 things that are noisy, 5 garden words, 8 things they don�t like ...). When they have finished they compare with their partner - and only the words that the partner HASN�T got count. So ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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SYMBOL - SIMILE - METAPHOR - PERSONIFICATION
This ws explains the four rhetoric figures, says what figurative speech means. It explains the effet that the use of these figures of speech has on literature and rhetoric. Then students get a mixture of 16 or so examples and have to explain whether they are symbols or similes or metaphors or personifications AND what the use of these words implies...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 85
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