Present Simple Wh Questions ESL Activities, Games & Worksheets

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions Prompts, Controlled Practice - Group Work In this present simple Wh questions speaking activity, students practice asking Wh questions about basic personal information at a party. In the activity, students take on the identity of the person on their worksheet. Their task is to complete the missing information about the other people at the party. Students then go around asking present simple Wh questions to the other people in their group, filling in a table with their answers. Finally, students report back to the class on the people they met using the present simple, e.g. 'She is Maria. She is from Spain. She lives in London.' show less

ESL Present Simple Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice In this insightful present simple Wh questions activity, students ask and answer questions to find people with the same habits and routines. Students begin by forming present simple Wh questions from prompts. Students then write answers to the questions in the column marked 'Your answers'. Next, students go around the class asking and answering the questions to find people with the same answers. When a student finds someone with the same habit or routine, the two students write each other's names on the worksheet. Afterwards, students give feedback to the class on what they found out. show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Worksheet - Grammar, Writing and Reading Exercises: Gap-fill, Ordering, Error Correction, Matching, Answering Questions - Speaking Activity - Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this present simple worksheet, students practice forming and using third-person singular Wh questions with 'he' and 'she'. First, students review the question form and complete questions with the correct Wh question words. Next, students reorder words to make grammatically correct present simple Wh questions and then correct common mistakes (e.g., removing -s after does). After that, students match questions to answers to check meaning and structure. Students then read a short text about a daily routine and write full-sentence answers to comprehension questions. Finally, in pairs, students ask and answer questions about a friend’s or family member’s daily routine and write responses using 'he' or 'she', before swapping roles for freer speaking practice. show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Pair Work In this productive present simple information gap activity, students practice asking and answering Wh questions about personal information in the third person singular. In pairs, students take turns asking present simple Wh questions about four people in a table and completing it with their partner's answers. Finally, elicit the completed information from the class. show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Completing, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work In this present simple information gap activity, students complete a text about a student's daily routine by asking and answering Wh questions. First, in two groups, students complete the present simple Wh questions they need to find out the missing information in a text about Lina's daily routine. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group. Students then ask their partner the present simple Wh questions and complete the gaps in the text with their answers. Afterwards, students check their texts and spelling by comparing worksheets. show less

ESL Present Simple Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Writing Questions from Prompts - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work In this free present simple Wh questions worksheet, students practice questions in the present simple with the question words: What, When, Where, Who. First, students match each question with the correct response. Students then complete present simple questions with What, Where, When, or Who. Next, students write present simple Wh questions that elicit a set of answers. Finally, in pairs, students ask their partner Wh questions and write their answers. show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Writing Sentences, Table Completion - Pair Work In this rewarding present simple questions activity, students ask and answer Wh questions using the third person singular to complete a table about four people's free-time routines. In pairs, students take turns asking present simple Wh questions in the third person singular to complete the missing information about the four people's free-time routines, e.g. 'What does Nora do on Saturday afternoons?' Their partner looks at the corresponding information in their table and makes a present simple sentence using the third person singular, e.g. 'She goes to the park.' The other student then writes the sentence in the table. This continues until both students have completed their tables. Afterwards, review the answers by asking students questions from the worksheet, e.g. 'What does Nora do on Saturday mornings?' show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Completing, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts - Group and Pair Work In this free present simple information gap activity, students complete a text about a football player's match-day routine by asking and answering present simple Wh questions. First, in two groups, students complete the present simple Wh questions they need to find out the missing information in the text on their worksheet. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group. Students then ask their partner the present simple Wh questions and complete the gaps in the text with the answers. Finally, students check their texts and spelling by comparing worksheets. show less

ESL Present Simple Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work In this amusing present simple questions game, students ask a series of questions and their partner delays their answer to each question until the next question is asked. Student A begins by asking present simple 'What...?' questions to their partner, who delays their answer to each question until the next question is asked. For example, when Student A asks the first question 'Where do you go swimming?', their partner doesn't reply. When Student A asks the second question 'Where do you cook?', the student replies to the first question, e.g. 'In a swimming pool.' When the students have finished, they swap roles and Student B asks their present simple 'Why...?' questions. Afterwards, students create their own list of ten present simple questions using one type of question word and play the game again with a different partner. show less

ESL Present Simple Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Reporting Information In this useful present simple speaking activity, students find out information about their classmates' habits and routines by asking and answering Wh questions. Give each student a question card about routine activities. The students' task is to find out the answer to the question on their card by speaking to everybody in the class. Students go around the class asking and answering their questions and noting down their classmates' responses. When the students have finished, they take turns reporting back to the class on the information they found out. show less

ESL Daily Routines Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Writing Sentences, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work In this free present simple questions activity, students ask and answer Wh questions about daily routines. In pairs, students take turns interviewing their partner about their daily routine and writing their answers in sentence form. When both students have finished, they compare their daily routines and look for similarities and differences. Pairs then take turns reporting back to the class on the information they found out. As an extension, students write a paragraph about their partner's daily routine in the present simple. show less

ESL Habits and Routines Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Forming, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice This engaging present simple questions activity helps to teach students how to ask and answer questions about habits and routines. To begin, students complete present simple sentences on the worksheet about their habits and routine, e.g. 'In the evening, I usually watch TV at home.' Students then work in pairs and write down present simple Wh questions that correspond to the sentences, e.g. 'What do you usually do in the evening?' Next, students go around the classroom asking and answering their questions. When a student finds someone with the same answer, the student says 'Likewise'. The two students then write each other's names in the last column of the worksheet. Afterwards, students discuss their findings with the class. show less

ESL Present Simple Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Error Correction, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this present simple error correction activity, students correct mistakes in third-person singular Wh questions and then use the questions to interview a partner about someone they know well. Students start by finding six mistakes in present simple Wh questions and correcting them. Next, students take turns checking their corrections with their partner, who has the answer key. After that, students interview their partner about a person they know well using the 12 questions on their worksheet. Finally, students tell the class what they found out. show less

ESL Present Simple Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Guided Discussions - Group Work In this enjoyable present simple speaking activity, students practice asking and answering Wh questions with the verb 'to be' and 'do'. In groups, students take turns picking up a card and asking the other students in the group a present simple Wh question by adding 'do', 'does' or the verb 'to be' to the question prompt on the card. The other students then respond in turn. When the question has been fully answered, the next student picks up a card, and so on. Afterwards, students give feedback to the class on what they found out about their classmates. show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group and Pair Work In this present simple speaking activity, students practice forming, asking and answering present simple Wh conversation questions. First, in two groups, students complete each present simple Wh question with the verb 'to be' or 'do', 'you' or 'your', and the verb in brackets where shown. Students then pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking and answering the present simple conversation questions with their partner. Afterwards, students share what they found out about their partner with the class. show less

ESL Present Simple Questions Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Questions from Prompts, Giving True or False Answers - Group Work In this fun present simple questions board game, students practice asking and answering Wh questions about daily routines and habits. Players take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter along the board. When a player lands on a square, they pick up a true or false card and look at it. The student on their right then asks the player a present simple Wh question from the prompt on the square. The player gives a true or false answer in sentence form, according to the instructions on their card. If a player lands on a question mark square, the student on the right can ask any present simple Wh question they like. All the students, including the one who asked the question, guess whether the player's answer is true or false. The player then reveals the answer. Each student who guessed correctly scores one point. When a player reaches the finish, the game ends. The player with the most points wins the game. show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this creative present simple Wh questions game, students practice writing true and false present simple sentences and asking and answering Wh questions to find lies. First, each student completes a card with one present simple affirmative truth, one negative truth, and one lie in the affirmative or negative, adding adverbs of frequency where needed. Next, in pairs, one student goes first and reads their three statements one at a time in any order, e.g. 'I usually take the bus to school.' Their partner listens and asks a present simple Wh question about each statement to help them determine which one is a lie, e.g. 'What bus do you take?' The student answers truthfully about the true statements and lies about the false statement to protect it. Their partner then guesses which statement is a lie. If their partner guesses the lie correctly, they score one point. The two students then swap roles and repeat the game. Afterwards, students change partners and repeat the game until they have spoken to ten people. The student with the highest score at the end of the game wins. show less

ESL Present Simple Wh Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work Here is a fast-paced present simple questions game to help students practice making Wh questions. In groups, students take turns picking up a card and asking as many present simple Wh questions as they can about the topic on the card in two minutes. Students ask their questions to the other group members in turn. Students score a point for each correctly formed present simple Wh question they ask relating to the topic. Each question must be answered by a group member before the student can ask another question. The student with the most points at the end of the game wins. show less