Verb to be ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

It must be true

Beginner (A1) 30 minutes
ESL Verb to be Game - Grammar: Sentence Building - Group Work

Here is a free verb to be game for beginners to help them practice forming affirmative and negative sentences with the present simple. This game also helps students understand subject-verb agreement and... read more

Aiko and Richard

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Verb to be Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Pair Work

In this useful verb to be speaking activity, students ask and answer basic personal information questions with the verb to be in order to complete a profile... read more

Are you...?

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Verb to be Game - Grammar and Speaking: Bingo, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice

In this engaging verb to be game, students race to complete a bingo card by asking and answering Are you...? questions. First, students complete six... read more

Find Out

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Verb to be Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Group Work

In this productive verb to be speaking activity, students practice the various uses of the verb to be by asking and answering... read more

Park Street

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Verb to be Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Controlled Practice - Group Work

In this enjoyable verb to be speaking activity, students practice exchanging information about different people living on a street. The aim of the activity is to... read more

Snap it up

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
ESL Verb to be Game - Grammar: Snap, Matching Questions and Answers - Pair Work

In this fast-paced verb to be game, students play snap by matching yes/no questions with the verb to be to short answers. In pairs, both students turn over a card... read more

Things we have in common

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
ESL Verb to be Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Sentence Completion, Matching - Group Work

In this imaginative verb to be game, students write We are and We aren’t sentences about things they have in common and play a matching game with the... read more

Verb To Be Board Game

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Verb to be Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences and Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group Work

In this enjoyable verb to be board game helps students practice forming present simple verb to be affirmative and negative... read more

Verb To Be Practice

Elementary (A1-A2) 35 minutes
ESL Verb to be Worksheet - Reading and Grammar Exercises: Identifying, True or False, Gap-fill, Error Correction, Writing Sentences

In this free verb to be worksheet, students practice present simple verb to be subject-verb agreement in... read more

Where are you from?

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Verb to be Game - Grammar, Speaking and Writing: Forming and Writing Sentence, Memorising

In this rewarding verb to be game, students take on the role of someone from another country and talk about the city they are from and their nationality. This... read more

Past and Present

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Verb to be Worksheet - Grammar and Writing Exercises: Gap-fills, Writing Answers, Binary Choice, Writing an Email

This insightful verb to be worksheet helps students practice the past and present simple of the verb to be: am, are, is, was and were as well as their negative forms.... read more

Secret Identity

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Verb to be Game - Grammar and Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work

In this entertaining verb to be guessing game, students ask yes/no questions with the verb to be in order to find out a partner's secret identity. First, students... read more

Whose dogs are these?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Verb to be Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gaps, Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Matching - Pair Work

In this comprehensive verb to be information gap activity, students practice asking and answering questions with the... read more

To be or not to be

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Verb to be Game - Grammar and Writing: Writing Questions and Answers, Guessing - Group Work

In this creative verb to be game, students write and respond to questions with the verb to be. First, students think of a personal information question beginning... read more