Making Simple Sentences Exercise

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Instructions for use:

Print the worksheets onto card. Cut out and laminate the cards. Put each set of cards in an envelope or box, with the relevant label attached. These are some ideas for how to use them:

a) Practise sentence building - ask students to make sentences by putting the

cards together. Sentences must make logical and grammatical sense!

b) Match together the three different verb forms: present, past and continuous.

c) Put groups of words (e.g. nouns or adjectives) into alphabetical order.

1. Nouns

2. More Nouns

3. Adjectives

4. Adverbs

5. Prepositions

6. Present Simple Verbs

7. Past Simple Verbs

8. Present Continuous Verbs

9. Common Verb Forms

10. Conjunctions

11. Articles

12. Quantifiers

13. Personal Pronouns

14. Possessive Pronouns

15. Word Endings

16. Numbers

17. Demonstrative Pronouns

18. Question Words

19. Other Useful Words

20. Punctuation Marks

21. Write Your Own Cards




1. Nouns

administrator alphabet animal August

bed bird birthday book

boy bread breakfast brother

cake calculator car cat

chair child children cinema

city centre Claire clock compact disc

computer Council House cricket day

December diary dinner doctor

dog door dress drink

egg family farm father

fish football form Friday

furniture game garden girl




2. More Nouns

glasses hat holiday horse

hospital house island James

January Jenny Jobcentre Plus Lee

light magazine man market

May McDonalds meat mechanic

milk Monday mother movie

newspaper night October Pete

phone policeman potato pub

restaurant river road room

Sarah Scrabble shop sister

sweet swimming pool table tea

trousers water weekend woman




3. Adjectives

angry attractive awful big

black blue calm clever

closed cold cool good

gorgeous great green heavy

high horrible hot light

little lovely low nasty

new nice old open

peaceful polite poor pretty

real red rich rude

small strong stupid ugly

unpleasant warm weak wet

white weird yellow young




4. Adverbs

also already always angrily

busily certainly cleverly completely

early ever fast forever

happily here hopefully just

late later maybe much

nearly never now often

only perhaps quickly quietly

quite really sadly shortly

slowly so sometimes soon

stupidly surely then there

this afternoon this morning today tomorrow

too very while yesterday




5. Prepositions

above above above above

at at at at

behind behind down down

down down from from

in in in in

in front of in front of inside inside

near near near next to

next to on on on

on on opposite opposite

opposite outside outside to

to to to under

under up with with




6. Present Simple Verbs

am/are/is apply/ies build/s buy/s

can clean/s close/s cook/s

cut/s do/does draw/s drink/s

drive/s eat/s get/s give/s

go/goes grow/s hate/s have/has

help/s know/s learn/s lend/s

like/s listen/s love/s make/s

meet/s open/s phone/s put/s

read/s run/s say/s see/s

stand/s swim/s take/s talk/s

tell/s think/s understand/s walk/s

want/s watch/es work/s write/s




7. Past Simple Verbs

was/were applied built bought

could cleaned closed cooked

cut did drew drank

drove ate got gave

went grew hated had

helped knew learnt lent

liked listened loved made

met opened phoned put

read ran said saw

stood swam took talked

told thought understood walked

wanted watched worked wrote




8. Present Continuous Verbs

being applying building buying

being able to cleaning closing cooking

cutting doing drawing drinking

driving eating getting giving

going growing hating having

helping knowing learning lending

liking listening loving making

meeting opening phoning putting

reading running saying seeing

standing swimming taking talking

telling thinking understanding walking

wanting watching working writing




9. Common Verb Forms

am am am am

are are are are

do do do do

does does does does

had had had had

has has has has

have have have have

is is is is

said said said said

said said said said

was was was was

were were were were




10. Conjunctions

although although although and

and and and and

and as far as as far as as far as

as long as as long as because because

because because but but

but but if if

if if rather than rather than

so so so so

unless unless unless unless

when when when when

where where where where

while while while while




11. Articles

12. Quantifiers

a a a a

a a an an

an an an an

the the the the

the the the the

a few a few a few a few

all all all all

enough enough less less

many many more more

not many not many some some




13. Personal Pronouns

I I I I

you you you you

he he he he

she she she she

it it it it

we we we we

they they they they

me me me me

you you you you

him him him her

her her us us

us them them them




14. Possessive Pronouns

15. Word Endings

my my my your

your your his his

his her her her

its its our our

our their their their

s s s s

s s s s

es es es es

es es s s

s s s s




16. Numbers

17. Demonstrative Pronouns

one two three four

five six seven eight

nine ten eleven twelve

twenty thirty forty fifty

hundred thousand million billion

that that that that

that that that that

these these these these

this this this this

those those those those




18. Question Words

how how how how

however however however however

what what what what

whatever whatever when when

when when whenever whenever

where where where where

wherever wherever wherever wherever

whether whether whether whether

which which which which

who who who who

whose whose whose whose

why why why why




19. Other Useful Words

yes yes yes yes

no no no no

not not not not

not not not not

pounds pounds pounds pounds

pence pence pence pence

please please please please

thank you thank you thanks thanks

cheers cheers see you see you

a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m.

p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.

oclock oclock oclock oclock




20. Punctuation Marks

apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe

apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe apostrophe

comma comma comma comma



exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark

exclamation mark exclamation mark full stop full stop

full stop full stop full stop full stop



question mark question mark question mark question mark

question mark question mark question mark question mark




21. Write Your Own Cards

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