Grammar ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets

English Grammar Worksheets, Games and Activities

In this section of Teach-This.com, you will find all of our pages and topics related to English grammar. Each page contains unbeatable grammar activities, games and worksheets that have been created by a devoted team of highly qualified English teachers and ESL professionals. We have made it our mission to bring our English teaching expertise together to provide rewarding and imaginative resources that help your students learn grammar and have fun at the same time. These engaging materials not only help you to teach grammar effectively, but also help to reinforce your students' understanding of how grammar is used by exploring the language with freer practice. All the teaching resources come in user-friendly A4 PDF format with full teacher’s notes. Many of our resources are completely free with direct download. We also offer editable PDF versions for members with full online access.

Active vs. Passive Voice

This page offers a collection of engaging ESL grammar games designed to help intermediate to upper-intermediate students master the concept of active and passive voice. The games include various activities such as matching sentences, rewriting statements, completing gap-fills, and reforming verbs, all aimed at improving grammar, writing, and reading skills. These pair and group work games encourage students to practice switching between active and passive voice while racing against time or competing with classmates and offer a fun and effective way to reinforce understanding of active vs. passive voice.

Adverbial Clauses

On this page, you will find useful grammar resources focused on teaching adverbial clauses to intermediate and upper-intermediate students. The materials include fun games, comprehensive worksheets, and speaking activities, all designed to enhance students' understanding and usage of adverbial clauses. Through exercises such as sentence formation, matching, gap-fills, and categorizing, learners practice identifying and applying various types of adverbial clauses and their corresponding subordinating conjunctions. These activities provide a well-rounded approach to mastering this complex grammatical concept, combining structured exercises with freer practice opportunities.

Adverbial Phrases

Here you will find grammar games and worksheets for teaching adverbial phrases to upper-intermediate students. The resources are designed to reinforce understanding and usage of adverbial phrases and include grammar exercises like matching and error correction along with speaking activities and games, allowing students further practice. These materials offer a balanced approach to learning, blending structured practice with more communicative activities to help students master the use of adverbial phrases in various contexts.

Be Going To Statements

The grammar resources on this page focus on be going to statements for expressing future plans, intentions, and predictions. Designed for elementary to pre-intermediate learners, the materials include a variety of games, activities, and worksheets that cater to different learning styles and classroom dynamics. The resources range from structured grammar exercises like gap-fills and sentence formation to more interactive speaking activities and role-plays along with creative games involving miming and guessing. These resources provide ample opportunity for students to practice using affirmative and negative be going to statements in both controlled and freer contexts and ensure a well-rounded approach to mastering this essential grammatical concept.

Be Going To Wh Questions

On this page, you will find grammar games, activities, and worksheets designed to teach be going to Wh questions to elementary and pre-intermediate students. The materials include a wide range of games, speaking activities, and worksheets that target the formation and use of Wh questions with be going to for discussing future plans and intentions. The activities incorporate engaging elements such as board games, racing games, and information gap exercises to keep students motivated while learning. By combining structured grammar practice with communicative tasks, these materials provide a versatile approach to mastering be going to Wh questions in various contexts.

Be Going To Yes/No Questions

This page provides a selection of ESL grammar resources focused on teaching be going to yes/no questions to elementary and pre-intermediate learners. The materials include a variety of games, activities, and worksheets designed to reinforce the formation and use of yes/no questions with be going to for discussing future plans and intentions. These resources blend grammar exercises with enjoyable speaking activities, guessing games and information gap tasks. The activities incorporate elements of competition, pair work, and group interaction to keep students engaged while practicing. By combining structured grammar practice with more open-ended communicative tasks, these materials provide a comprehensive approach to mastering be going to yes/no questions.

Be Going To and Present Continuous

In this section, you will find a diverse range of grammar activities, games and worksheets designed to teach and practice the use of be going to and the present continuous for expressing future plans and arrangements. Catering to elementary through to intermediate learners, the materials include a variety of resources that focus on differentiating between these two grammatical structures. The resources offer a balanced mix of grammar exercises, alongside productive speaking activities, information gaps, and board games. These activities incorporate pair work, group interactions, and individual exercises, ensuring a comprehensive approach to learning these important aspects of future tense usage in English.

Comparatives

These fun ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets offer a comprehensive approach to teaching comparatives across all proficiency levels, from elementary to upper-intermediate. The resources cover a wide range of engaging activities including grammar games, speaking activities, worksheets, running dictations, class surveys, and board games. The materials are designed to help students practice everything from basic comparative adjectives and sentences with than to more advanced as. as structures and correlative comparisons. By integrating grammar, speaking, reading, and writing skills through pair work and group activities, these materials provide teachers with versatile tools to create dynamic, effective lessons that bring comparatives to life in the ESL classroom.

Superlatives

This page offers an extensive collection of ESL grammar resources focused on teaching superlatives to students ranging from elementary to upper-intermediate levels. The materials cater to diverse learning styles through innovative games, engaging speaking activities, and detailed worksheets. These resources cover everything from basic superlative forms to complex sentence structures, blending grammar practice with communicative tasks. Students are encouraged to use superlatives in context through a variety of activities including surveys, discussions, TV show-inspired challenges, board games, and role-play scenarios. This approach ensures learners stay motivated while mastering this crucial aspect of English grammar.

Comparatives and Superlatives

These rewarding grammar games, activities, and worksheets center on mastering comparatives and superlatives. Tailored for learners from elementary to advanced levels, the page presents a diverse range of teaching activities. These include entertaining games (like gap-fill and board games), speaking activities, quizzes, and creative writing tasks, all aimed at reinforcing students' understanding of comparative and superlative forms. Covering reading, writing, speaking, and focused grammar practice, this collection provides ESL teachers with versatile tools for pair work, group activities, and individual exercises, making learning comparatives and superlatives both dynamic and effective.

Zero Conditional

This page contains a comprehensive collection of grammar resources focused on the zero conditional tense for intermediate and upper-intermediate learners. It features a variety of creative activities, games, and worksheets that reinforce grammar skills and boost conversational abilities. The materials range from grammar exercises and speaking activities to lively board games and quizzes, providing diverse approaches to mastering this tense. Combining individual, pair, and group work, these resources encourage critical thinking and cultural understanding while making the learning process both effective and enjoyable. Students will find multiple engaging ways to practice and apply the zero conditional in everyday English contexts.

First Conditional

On this page, you will find productive grammar games, worksheets and activities on the first conditional tense for intermediate to upper-intermediate students. The resources cover various aspects of first conditional usage, from basic sentence structure to more complex applications. The materials include comprehensive worksheets, sentence-building challenges, role-plays, and board games, providing a mix of grammar practice and speaking activities. The variety of formats ensures that students can practice the first conditional in multiple contexts, enhancing both their grammatical accuracy and communicative fluency in English.

Second Conditional

Discover a variety of rewarding ESL grammar resources centered on teaching the second conditional tense to intermediate and upper-intermediate students. The resources include imaginative speaking activities, grammar exercises and board games that help students discuss hypothetical situations and practice forming second conditional questions and sentences. Through pair work, group discussions, and individual exercises, students can improve their grammar skills and fluency by exploring topics such as future plans, moral dilemmas, and creative problem-solving. The materials are designed to be both fun and educational, helping students confidently use the second conditional in different contexts.

Third Conditional

Here is an engaging set of ESL grammar materials to help intermediate and upper-intermediate students master the third conditional. The page includes interesting and educational games, speaking activities, and worksheets that target the formation and usage of the third conditional in both controlled and freer practice settings. The activities also offer extensive pair and group work practice, providing opportunities for students to form the third conditional in various ways, participate in role-play scenarios, and discuss hypothetical past events and regrets. These resources are perfect for reinforcing this important grammar concept while promoting active student participation and communication.

Mixed Conditionals

The ESL grammar games, activities and worksheets on this page focus on mixed conditionals. Suitable for intermediate to upper-intermediate learners, the resources cover zero, first, second, and third conditionals, as well as related structures like as if and as though. The materials come in a variety of useful formats such as board games, dominoes, battleships, speaking activities, error correction worksheets, and group discussions, providing students with plenty of opportunities to produce grammatically correct and appropriate conditional sentences or questions depending on the situation or context. These resources cater to different learning styles and make practicing and reviewing all four conditional tenses enjoyable and effective.

Future Continuous

In this section, you will find ESL grammar resources on the future continuous tense, catering to intermediate and upper-intermediate learners. This page offers a wide range of games, activities, and worksheets that blend grammar exercises with communicative speaking tasks, allowing learners to apply the future continuous in authentic contexts and realistic scenarios. From structured worksheets and information gap exercises to speaking activities, role-plays and board games, these materials offer a comprehensive approach to mastering the future continuous tense in both written and spoken forms. The materials also cover various themes, including day trips, weekend itineraries, and work-related contexts, making the grammar practice more relevant and engaging.

Future Continuous vs. Future Perfect

Explore an innovative set of grammar resources designed to clarify the differences between the future continuous and future perfect tenses, ideal for intermediate to upper-intermediate students. The activities, games, and worksheets incorporate varied learning approaches, including pair work, group discussions, and individual writing tasks. The materials combine structured grammar exercises with speaking tasks and role-plays, allowing for a balanced progression from controlled to freer practice. By combining tense-focused tasks with creative speaking activities, these resources not only reinforce tense structures but also stimulate critical thinking and imagination, making the learning process both effective and engaging for students tackling these complex tenses.

Future Perfect Continuous

This page offers a comprehensive set of grammar games, activities and worksheets that focus on teaching the future perfect continuous tense to upper-intermediate learners. These materials are designed to provide a mix of structured practice and freer communication tasks, helping learners master this complex tense through varied and engaging activities. Each resource incorporates different learning approaches to reinforce understanding and usage of the future perfect continuous tense.

Future Perfect Simple

This page presents a diverse collection of ESL grammar materials dedicated to teaching the future perfect simple tense to intermediate and upper-intermediate levels. These resources cover a wide range of skills, from grammar and writing to listening and speaking. The page offers a mix of communicative speaking activities, group discussions, fun guessing and sentence race games, and detailed worksheets that offer structured grammar practice. The variety of formats ensures students can practice the future perfect simple in multiple contexts, enhancing their ability to use this tense confidently in real-world situations.

Future Simple

This extensive set of ESL grammar games, activities, and worksheets focuses on teaching the future simple tense. Suitable for learners ranging from elementary to upper-intermediate levels, these teaching materials cover various aspects of the future simple, such as making predictions, offers, promises, and decisions. The page offers a diverse set of engaging resources, from prediction games and horoscope writing to grammar worksheets and board games. The variety of formats and contexts ensures a well-rounded approach to mastering the future simple and allows learners to develop their skills in using will and won't confidently across multiple real-life scenarios.

Future Tenses

This page is packed with fun grammar teaching materials focused on future tenses and expressions, catering to learners from pre-intermediate to advanced levels. These games, activities and worksheets cover various aspects of future forms, such as will, be going to, the present continuous, and other future expressions. Incorporating multiple learning styles, these materials feature pair and group discussions, role-plays, productive worksheets, speaking activities, and board games. This well-rounded approach ensures students can confidently use future tenses in real-life scenarios, from making predictions and decisions to expressing intentions and plans.

Future Time Clauses

These grammar resources help intermediate and upper-intermediate students learn and practice future time clauses. The page features a variety of games, such as battleships, true or false, and board games that encourage speaking practice, as well as comprehensive worksheets and error-correction exercises to strengthen students' understanding of future time clauses. These materials offer a mix of controlled and freer practice, incorporating both traditional grammar exercises and more creative, communicative tasks to engage learners.

Gerunds and Infinitives

This page offers a varied collection of ESL grammar games, activities, and worksheets focused on gerunds and infinitives for pre-intermediate to upper-intermediate learners. Each resource aims to deepen students' grasp of these challenging language concepts through engaging tasks that balance structured learning with freer practice. From productive speaking activities to fun board games, these materials adapt to diverse learning preferences and classroom settings, ensuring a comprehensive and enjoyable approach to mastering gerunds and infinitives.

Have got / Has got

These fun ESL activities, worksheets and games help students to learn and practice have, have got, haven't got, has, has got and hasn't got. You will also find a wide variety of resources to help students practice asking and answering questions using these structures.

I wish and If only

This page provides grammar worksheets and games for I wish and If only. These resources help students learn and practice how to talk about wishes and regrets using I wish and If only with the past simple and past perfect.

Imperatives

Here you will find grammar worksheets and activities to help you teach imperatives. These resources help students learn and practice how the imperative mood is used for orders, instructions, suggestions, warnings, requests and classroom commands.

Irregular Verbs

This page is packed with rewarding grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets about irregular verbs. These resources help students identify and use the infinitive, past simple and past participle form of irregular verbs. There are matching activities and memory games as well as speaking activities where students use irregular verbs in sentences and questions.

Narrative Tenses

On this page, you will find ESL grammar worksheets and activities to help students learn narrative tenses. These resources help to teach students past tenses that are used to tell stories and talk about past events.

Noun Clauses

This page offers grammar games, worksheets and activities that help students learn how to form and use noun clauses. The resources also help to demonstrate to students how noun clauses work as dependent clauses that function like nouns.

Noun Phrases

This page provides grammar games, activities and worksheets that help students form noun phrases with pre and post modifiers and learn their multiple grammatical functions within a sentence.

Passive Voice

This page provides teachers with a variety of enjoyable ESL grammar activities and games based on the passive voice. These resources cover mixed passive forms and help to illustrate the difference between the past, present and future passive as well as active and passive forms.

Past Continuous

The grammar games and ESL activities on this page focus on the past continuous tense. These entertaining resources also help students learn how to use the past continuous and past simple together with words like when, while and as.

Past Perfect

This page is packed with grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets based on the past perfect tense. There are resources to help students use the past perfect to describe experiences and events. Students can also practice how to give realistic and imaginative explanations using the past simple and past perfect.

Past Perfect Continuous

Here you will find grammar worksheets, games and activities on the past perfect continuous. There are also resources to practice the past perfect continuous with the past simple, past continuous and past perfect.

Past Perfect Simple and Continuous

On this page, you will find grammar resources about the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous that help teach students the difference between these two tenses and how to use them.

Past Simple Affirmative and Negative

This outstanding set of grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets helps students to practice making past simple affirmative and negative statements. There are resources to combine the learning of past simple affirmative and negative statements with questions, time expressions and regular/irregular verb forms. There are also resources to help students utilize their knowledge of the past simple to tell stories and talk about routine actions and activities in the past.

Past Simple Passive

This page offers an engaging assortment of ESL grammar activities and worksheets about the past simple passive. Students can learn to use the past simple passive to ask and answer questions about famous inventions/discoveries and create general knowledge quizzes and news stories. There are also resources to practice the past simple passive followed by infinitives with to as well as past simple passive and active forms.

Past Simple Regular Verbs

Here you will find entertaining grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets to help students learn past simple regular verbs. These resources also give students extensive practice of the pronunciation of -ed sounds.

Past Simple Was and Were

Here you will find grammar ESL activities, games and worksheets to help teach students how to use the verb to be in the past simple. Students can learn how to use was and were in yes/no questions, short answers and statements. The resources also provide students with the opportunity to use the past form of the verb to be with a variety of topics.

Past Simple Wh Questions

This page offers a large variety of ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets about past simple Wh questions. The resources give students extensive practice at forming past simple Wh questions in both spoken and written forms. There are also materials to help students ask and answer past simple Wh questions about past experiences and events.

Past Simple Yes/No Questions

These captivating ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets help students learn how to ask past simple yes/no questions with Did you. These resources also help students learn how to answer past simple yes/no questions with short answers and ask past simple Wh follow-up questions.

Past Simple vs. Past Continuous

On this page, there are ESL grammar activities and worksheets to help students practice the past simple and past continuous together. These resources help to show students the differences between the two tenses and also highlight to students how to use each one.

Past Simple vs. Present Perfect

These engaging ESL grammar activities and games help to illustrate to students how the past simple and present perfect are different and how to use both tenses together.

Past Tense Review

Here you will find past tense grammar activities that help students review and consolidate their understanding of the past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous.

Present Continuous

This page provides a wealth of ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets to help you teach your students about the present continuous tense. Students can learn and practice present continuous affirmative and negative statements as well as Wh and yes/no questions. You will also find a variety of entertaining miming, drawing and memory games to help your students practice the present continuous structure.

Present Perfect

These productive ESL grammar activities are ideal for teaching or reviewing the various uses of the present perfect tense. The page offers activities to practice giving news about recent events and talking about change. There are also games and worksheets about present perfect time expressions, question and answer forms and error correction.

Present Perfect - Ever and Never

On this page, there are fun grammar activities, games and worksheets to practice the present perfect for experience. There are resources to help students learn how to ask and answer present perfect Have you ever questions and use the past simple to ask for and give more information. Students can also learn to talk about their experiences using never, been and done.

Present Perfect - For and Since

In this section, you will find enjoyable ESL grammar activities, worksheets and games for practicing the present perfect with for and since. Students can learn how to use for and since with time words and expressions and practice asking and answering How long have you. questions.

Present Perfect - Just, Yet and Already

This page provides you with engaging grammar activities, games and worksheets to help your students practice the present perfect with just, yet and already.

Present Perfect Continuous

These ESL grammar activities and games help to teach or review the present perfect continuous. You will find speaking activities and miming games to help students practice present perfect continuous question and answer forms as well as time expressions used with this tense.

Present Simple Affirmative and Negative

This page offers fun ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets that give students extensive practice of present simple affirmative and negative statements. There are resources to help students learn how to identify the rules and verb forms associated with the present simple. Students can also learn how to describe routine activities and habitual actions using the present simple and adverbs of frequency.

Present Simple Passive

Here you will find grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets to help teach the present simple passive. There are resources to help students learn how to use the present simple passive to describe processes, objects, facts and commonalities.

Present Simple vs. Present Continuous

On this page, you will find ESL grammar activities to help teach students the present simple and present continuous together. These resources help to illustrate to students how the present simple and present continuous tense are different and help to highlight how to use each tense.

Present Simple vs. Present Perfect

In this section, you will find grammar activities, games and worksheets focused on the present simple vs. the present perfect. These resources help illustrate the differences between the two tenses and how they can be used in tandem.

Present Simple Wh Questions

These fun ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets help students to learn and practice how to ask and answer present simple Wh questions with the verb to be and do. Students can also practice present simple Wh questions about habits, daily routines and personal information as well as questions in the third-person singular.

Present Simple Yes/No Questions

These captivating grammar activities, games and worksheets help to teach your students about present simple yes/no questions. Students learn how to ask present simple yes/no questions with do, does, and the verb to be, and how to respond to these questions with short answers.

Present Tense Review

On this page, you will find present tense review grammar games, activities and worksheets that help students review and consolidate their understanding of the present simple, present continuous, present perfect simple and present perfect continuous.

Question Words

Here are some grammar ESL activities, games and worksheets to help you teach your students question words. The resources also help students practice using question words to form a variety of questions.

Relative Clauses

These enjoyable grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets help to teach your students about defining and non-defining relative clauses. The resources also help students to learn about relative pronouns and how they are used.

Reported Speech

This page provides engaging ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets about reported speech. Students learn how to use reported speech to compare and give information about what other people said as well as report questions and answers to other people.

Subject-Verb Agreement

These ESL grammar games, activities and worksheets offer extensive practice of subject-verb agreement to help students practice singular and plural subjects and their corresponding verb forms.

Tag Questions

These innovative grammar games, ESL activities and worksheets help students learn how to construct and use tag questions to find out, check, and confirm the accuracy of information. Students also learn how to match question tags to positive and negative statements and vice-versa.

There is and There are

On this page, you will find fun activities, games and worksheets to help students learn and practice There is and There are. The resources include practice of affirmative and negative statements using the structure as well as questions and short answers using Is there. and Are there. You will also find materials to help students use There is/are. along with prepositions of place to describe pictures and places.

Used to

These outstanding grammar activities, games and worksheets can be used to help teach students the various forms of used to, e.g. didn't use to, get used to, etc. Students can also learn how to ask and answer Did you use to. questions and practice using used to to talk about memories, past habits and recent changes.

Verb to be

These fun grammar games help students to master the verb to be. Here you will also find a range of ESL activities and worksheets to help students practice making affirmative and negative statements as well as yes/no questions and short answers using the verb to be.

Wh Questions

In this section, you will find ESL grammar activities, games and worksheets to help students learn how to form Wh questions in a range of tenses. The resources also help students practice asking and answering questions using a variety of question forms and topics.