Adverbial Clauses ESL Worksheets, Games & Activities

ESL Adverbial Clauses Board Game - Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Free Practice - Group Work In this challenging adverbial clauses board game, students practice forming sentences using various types of adverbial clauses and subordinating conjunctions. In groups, students take turns rolling the dice and moving their counters along the board. When a player lands on a clause square, they have 30 seconds to make a grammatically correct sentence using an adverbial clause of that type, e.g. 'After I finish my homework, I will watch TV.' If a player lands on a 'Conjunction' square, they pick up a card and make a sentence using the subordinating conjunction shown on the card. Each time a player forms a sentence, the other group members listen and decide if it is grammatically correct and uses the adverbial clause or conjunction appropriately. If the group agrees the sentence is correct, the player stays on the square. If the player forms an incorrect sentence or can't think of anything to say, they move back two squares. The first player to reach the finish square wins the game. show less

ESL Adverbial Clauses Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work In this free adverbial clauses game, students make sentences containing adverbial clauses with specific subordinating conjunctions and verbs. Students take turns turning over a subordinating conjunction card and a verb card. The student then makes a sentence containing an adverbial clause using the conjunction and verb. For example, if the subordinating conjunction was 'after' and the 'verb' was eat, the student might say 'After Tom ate lunch, he went to the gym.' Students can make any sentence they like as long as it is grammatically correct and contains an adverbial clause that uses the subordinating conjunction and verb. If the other students agree the sentence is correct, the student keeps the two cards. If not, the cards are turned back over, keeping them in the same place. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. As a variation, you can give students more practice by having them score a point when they make a sentence. Then, for an extra point, the student says the type of adverb clause used in the sentence, e.g. adverbial clause of time. show less

ESL Adverbial Clauses and Phrases Worksheet and Game - Grammar and Writing: Categorising, Rewriting Sentences, Forming and Reforming Sentences - Group Work Here is a productive adverbial clauses worksheet and game to help students recognize the differences between adverbial clauses and phrases and practice transforming one structure into the other. First, students read sentences and tick whether they contain an adverbial clause or an adverbial phrase. Students then rewrite sentences by changing adverbial clauses to adverbial phrases. Next, students rewrite sentences by changing adverbial phrases to adverbial clauses. After that, students play a game where they form adverbial clauses or phrases and then convert them to the opposite structure. Players take turns picking up one situation card and one connector card. The player then has 30 seconds to form a grammatically correct sentence using either an adverbial clause or an adverbial phrase that incorporates both the situation and connector. If the sentence is correct, the player scores one point and then tries to convert it to the opposite structure: clause to phrase or phrase to clause for an extra point. Play then passes to the next student, and so on. The student with the most points at the end of the game wins. show less

ESL Adverbial Clauses Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Categorising, Forming Sentences from Prompts This comprehensive adverbial clauses worksheet helps students to recognise and practice using adverbial clauses in sentences. Students begin by looking at examples of adverbial clauses in sentences and matching punctuation rules for adverbial clauses. Next, students underline adverbial clauses in sentences and match the clauses with the things that they express. Students then move on to categorize subordinating conjunctions used in adverbial clauses. Afterwards, students match sentence halves that contain adverbial clauses together and underline the subordinating conjunction in each sentence. Finally, students complete sentences that contain adverbial clauses with their own ideas and discuss them with a partner. show less

ESL Adverbial Clauses Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Matching, Creating Sentences from Prompts Here is a useful adverbial clauses worksheet to help students practice a variety of adverbial clauses and their related subordinating conjunctions. First, students complete a text explaining adverbial clauses using words from a box. Students then complete sentences with subordinating conjunctions, adding commas as needed. Next, students match sentence halves, adding a subordinating conjunction to each sentence. Students then put words in the correct order to create sentences with adverbial clauses, inserting a subordinating conjunction into each one. Lastly, students write each type of adverbial clause in a sentence that describes its function, writing examples of subordinators that can be used with each one. show less

ESL Adverbial Clauses Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Matching, Sentence Completion - Pair Work In this engaging adverbial clauses activity, students race to match adverbial clauses to sentence halves, adding in a suitable subordinating conjunction for each one. Student A begins by reading each sentence half to their partner using the word 'blank' for the missing adverbial clause. Student B listens and chooses an adverbial clause that can be used to complete the sentence. The student then writes an appropriate subordinating conjunction from the box on their worksheet at the beginning of the clause and reads it to their partner. If Student A thinks the adverbial clause matches, they write it into their sentence. If not, Student B looks for another adverbial clause from their worksheet. When all the sentences have been completed, the two students swap roles. The first pair to correctly complete all their sentences wins. show less