Zero Conditional ESL Activities, Games & Worksheets
It's Generally True
ESL Zero Conditional Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences, Sentence Completion
In this useful zero conditional worksheet, students practice how to form the zero conditional tense and use it to describe facts and things that are generally true. Students begin by matching sentence...
ESL Zero Conditional Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences, Sentence Completion In this useful zero conditional worksheet, students practice how to form the zero conditional tense and use it to describe facts and things that are generally true. Students begin by matching sentence halves together to make zero conditional sentences. Next, students use vocabulary from a box to complete zero conditional sentences. After that, students answer whether zero conditional sentences are factually true or false. Students then rewrite each pair of sentences to make one zero conditional sentence. Lastly, students use their own ideas to complete zero conditional sentences, saying how they feel or what they do in the given situations.
If Martians
ESL Zero Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions, Writing Sentences, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this imaginative zero conditional activity, students use the zero conditional to write and talk about different groups of Martians. To begin, students choose...
ESL Zero Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Writing Sentences, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this imaginative zero conditional activity, students use the zero conditional to write and talk about different groups of Martians. To begin, students choose a colour for their Martians and write information about them by completing zero conditional sentences, e.g. 'If they are hungry, they eat each other.' Next, students take turns asking zero conditional questions about a partner's Martians, e.g. 'What do orange Martians do if they are hungry?' Students write their partner's answers by completing zero conditional sentences as before. After that, students change partners and tell their new partner about the similarities and differences between the two types of Martians on their worksheet and find out if their new partner has similar answers. Finally, students write about the most interesting differences between the types of Martians and discuss their answers as a class.
What do you do if...?
ESL Zero Conditional Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this free zero conditional board game, students ask and answer 'What do you do if...?' questions using the zero conditional. In groups, players take turns rolling the dice and moving their counters...
ESL Zero Conditional Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work In this free zero conditional board game, students ask and answer 'What do you do if...?' questions using the zero conditional. In groups, players take turns rolling the dice and moving their counters along the board. When a player lands on a square, the student to their right asks them a 'What do you do if...?' question from the prompt on the square. The player then answers the question by making a zero conditional sentence. If the player forms the sentence correctly, they stay on the square. If not, they go back two squares. The first player to reach the finish wins the game.
Zero Conditional Appliances
ESL Zero Conditional Activity - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Matching - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Pair Work
In this engaging zero conditional activity, students use the zero conditional to explain what kitchen appliances do. First, students match words to pictures...
ESL Zero Conditional Activity - Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Matching - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Pair Work In this engaging zero conditional activity, students use the zero conditional to explain what kitchen appliances do. First, students match words to pictures of kitchen appliances. Students then match zero conditional sentence halves about the kitchen appliances and write the name of the appliance each sentence describes. After that, students pretend to be people from the 19th century, when many homes had no electricity or modern kitchen appliances. In pairs, students then take turns asking questions about what the kitchen appliances do by pointing to a picture and asking their partner 'What do you use it for?' Their partner answers using a zero conditional sentence from Exercise B. When the students have finished, they ask the same question about things in the classroom and reply to their partner's questions using the zero conditional.
Zero Conditional Guessing Game
ESL Zero Conditional Game - Grammar: Sentence Completion, Guessing, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this entertaining zero conditional game, students complete zero conditional sentences and then play a guessing game based on their own answers To start, students write their normal reactions to the...
ESL Zero Conditional Game - Grammar: Sentence Completion, Guessing, Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this entertaining zero conditional game, students complete zero conditional sentences and then play a guessing game based on their own answers. To start, students write their normal reactions to the situations by completing zero conditional sentences. In pairs, students then take turns reading aloud only the part they wrote in each sentence. Their partner has three chances to guess which sentence the words came from. If their partner guesses correctly the first time, they score three points. If their guess is wrong, they try again for two points and then for one point. The student with the highest score at the end of the game wins.
Zero Conditional Quiz
ESL Zero Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Making Statements, True or False, Controlled Practice - Pair Work
In this fun zero conditional activity, students complete sentences with the correct present simple forms and then quiz a partner by deciding whether each statement is true or false. In two groups, students...
ESL Zero Conditional Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Making Statements, True or False, Controlled Practice - Pair Work In this fun zero conditional activity, students complete sentences with the correct present simple forms and then quiz a partner by deciding whether each statement is true or false. In two groups, students complete true or false zero conditional statements with verbs from a box in their correct present simple forms. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group. Students then take turns reading the true or false statements to their partner, who guesses if each one is true or false. For each correct guess, students puts a tick. The student with the most correct answers at the end of the quiz wins.