Grammar Worksheets

All teaching materials listed below have been reviewed and approved for the site, and have been assigned a carefully estimated CLB difficulty level. By recalling the CLB level of materials that you have already found suitable for your students, you can return to the site for other materials at the same CLB level with confidence that they should be appropriate, too.

Materials estimated to be within the CLB 1-3 range:

Look at the picture. Where are the family members? [Prepositions-Family-G-1]

• Look at the picture. Where are the family members? (prepositions of place) (CLB 1)
• Read a short passage; work with sing/plural, affirm/neg of verb have (CLB 2)
• Examples, exercise re. yes/no questions with be verbs (positive response) (CLB 2)
• Examples, exercise re. yes/no questions with be verbs (negative response) (CLB 2)
• Examples, exercise re. yes/no questions with -ing verbs (positive response) (CLB 2)
• Examples, exercise re. yes/no questions with -ing verbs (negative response) (CLB 2)

• Read a short passage; work with subjects, objects and modifiers(CLB 3)
• Read a short passage; work with present continuous to give future meaning(CLB 3)

Materials estimated to be within the CLB 4-6 range:

• Amusing story to analyse re. infinitive with want or have, and infinitive showing purpose, plus brief application (CLB 4)

• Conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs (CLB 5-6)
• Find/correct sentence-level errors from CLB 5 students' actual writing (CLB 5)
• Identify and correctly re-write incomplete and run-on sentences (CLB 5)

Materials estimated to be at CLB 7 or higher:

• Hand-out with rules and examples re. complex grammatical parallelism ('either ... or' etc.) (CLB 7)

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