englishbanana.com’s
big grammar book
by Matt Purland
101 worksheets for English lessons
featuring Essential English worksheets
Entry Level
englishbanana.com’s
big grammar book
English Banana.com
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ISBN 978 0 9546985 0 8
First published in the UK by English Banana.com 2004
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Introduction
Hello there . . . !
. . . and welcome to English Banana.com’s big grammar book. It’s the third
fantastic book from English Banana and the aim this time is to practise
grammar, grammar and, er, more grammar!
It’s jam-packed from cover to cover with a great selection of photocopiable
worksheets taken from the popular English Banana.com website. We wanted
to provide teachers with a really useful book of no-nonsense grammar
worksheets that they can dip into and use in class with students at Entry Level
(ESOL Core Curriculum Entry Levels 1 & 2). It is also ideal for students to
work with at home since the answers are all printed at the back.
The book is divided into four parts and is graded in difficulty, so that it begins
with some basic stuff and builds up to more challenging grammar activities. It
features a selection of Essential English worksheets which provide practice for
crucial basic areas of knowledge for learners at Entry Level, like using
numbers, writing the alphabet, spelling days and months correctly, and so on.
We hope that you find this book a big help and full of material that you can
use with your learners. A big thank-you must go to all the students who have
already been trialling these worksheets in class. Their feedback has been
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Contents
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Introduction
Contents
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The English Alphabet
Writing the Alphabet 1
Writing the Alphabet 2
Personal Details - Completing Forms
Basic English Written Test
Essential Spellings
Vocabulary Test (blank copy)
Just Vowels - Days, Months and Seasons 1
Just Vowels - Days, Months and Seasons 2
Days of the Week
Months of the Year
Understanding Dates 1
Understanding Dates 2
Common Irregular Verbs - Present Simple Tense
Common Irregular Verbs - Past Simple Tense
Common Irregular Verbs - Present Continuous Tense
Using Capital Letters 1
Using Capital Letters 2
Basic Sentence Punctuation 1
Basic Sentence Punctuation 2
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to be’ (Present Simple Tense) 1
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to be’ (Present Simple Tense) 2
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to be’ (Present Simple Tense) 3
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to do’ as an Auxiliary Verb (Present Simple Tense) 1
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to do’ as an Auxiliary Verb (Present Simple Tense) 2
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to do’ as an Auxiliary Verb (Present Simple Tense) 3
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to have’ as an Auxiliary Verb (Present Perfect Tense) 1
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to have’ as an Auxiliary Verb (Present Perfect Tense) 2
Question Forms Using Verb ‘to have’ as an Auxiliary Verb (Present Perfect Tense) 3
Elementary Homophones 1
Elementary Homophones 2
Part Two
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Using Numbers 1
Using Numbers 2
Using Numbers 3
Using Numbers 4
Using Numbers 5
Working Out Prices 1
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Working Out Prices 2
Ordinals 1 - Months of the Year
Ordinals 2 - The Alphabet
Opposite Adjectives 1
Opposite Adjectives 2
Comparatives and Superlatives 1
Comparatives and Superlatives 2
Comparatives and Superlatives 3
Comparatives and Superlatives 4
Using Indefinite Articles 1
Using Indefinite Articles 2
Countable and Uncountable Nouns 1
Countable and Uncountable Nouns 2
List of Common Uncountable Nouns
Part Three
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Using “There are...” & “There is...”
Using Personal Pronouns 1
Using Personal Pronouns 2
Using Personal Pronouns 3
Using Personal Pronouns 4
Using Personal Pronouns 5
Using Personal Pronouns 6
Adverbs of Frequency 1
Adverbs of Frequency 2
Adverbs of Frequency 3
First Conditional 1
First Conditional 2
‘Wh - ’ Questions 1
‘Wh - ’ Questions 2
Compound Nouns 1
Compound Nouns 2
Compound Nouns 3
Daily Routines
Complete the Sentences 1
Complete the Sentences 2
Complete the Sentences 3
Complete the Sentences 4
Complete the Sentences 5
Complete the Sentences 6
Sentence Building 1
Sentence Building 2
The Plays of William Shakespeare
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Part Four
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Full Stops 1
Full Stops 2
Using Capital Letters 3
Using Capital Letters 4
Talking about the Past 1
Talking about the Past 2
Past Events - The Life of Captain James Cook
Second Conditional 1
Second Conditional 2
Third Conditional 1
Third Conditional 2
Zero Conditional 1
Zero Conditional 2
Writing Comparisons 1
Writing Comparisons 2
Homophones 1
Homophones 2
List of Common Homophones
Being Polite
Good Advice 1
Good Advice 2
Good Advice 3
Write Your Own Flashcards
102. Answers to worksheets and notes for use
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The English Alphabet
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
There are 5 vowels: A, E, I, O and U. The rest of the letters are consonants.
Practise reading the letters out loud:
Capital letters (upper case letters):
ABCDEFGHI
JKLMNOPQR
STUVWXYZ
Small letters (lower case letters):
abcdefghi
jklmnopqr
stuvwxyz
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Writing the Alphabet 1
Copy each letter of the alphabet into the box below:
Lower case (or small) letters:
a b c d e f g h i
j k
l m
n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Upper case (or capital) letters:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Writing the Alphabet 2
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg
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Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn
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Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt
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Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
_____________________________________________________________________________________
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Personal Details - Completing Forms
Practise writing your personal details with this form:
Please use capital letters
Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms:
______________
First Name:
______________________________________________
Surname:
______________________________________________
Address:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Post Code:
______________________________________________
Telephone Number: ____________________________________________
Mobile Number:
______________________________________________
Email Address:
______________________________________________
Age:
______________
Date of Birth:
____/_____/____
Nationality:
______________________________________________
Occupation:
______________________________________________
Marital Status:
______________________________________________
Number of Children: ______________
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Basic English Written Test
Numbers 1-30:
Name: ____________________________
Date: _____________________________
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
Days of the week:
4. ________________________________
5. ________________________________
__________________________________
6. ________________________________
__________________________________
7. ________________________________
__________________________________
8. ________________________________
__________________________________
9. ________________________________
__________________________________
10. _______________________________
__________________________________
11. _______________________________
__________________________________
12. _______________________________
13. _______________________________
14. _______________________________
15. _______________________________
Months of the year:
__________________________________
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16. _______________________________
17. _______________________________
18. _______________________________
19. _______________________________
20. _______________________________
21. _______________________________
22. _______________________________
23. _______________________________
24. _______________________________
25. _______________________________
26. _______________________________
27. _______________________________
28. _______________________________
29. _______________________________
30. _______________________________
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Essential Spellings
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,
October, November, December
spring, summer, autumn, winter
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¼
½
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zero
quarter
half
three quarters
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
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fourteen
fifteen
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sixteen
seventeen
1,000,000
1,000,000,000
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
twenty one
ten
twenty
thirty
forty
fifty
sixty
seventy
eighty
ninety
one hundred
one hundred and one
one thousand
one thousand and
one
ten thousand
one hundred
thousand
one million
one billion
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Vocabulary Test – _________________________
Write _____________________________________ starting with each letter of the alphabet.
For example: _____________________________________.
A
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N
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B
__________________________________
O
__________________________________
C
__________________________________
P
__________________________________
D
__________________________________
Q
__________________________________
E
__________________________________
R
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F
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S
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G
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T
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H
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U
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I
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V
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J
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W
__________________________________
K
__________________________________
X
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L
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Y
__________________________________
M
__________________________________
Z
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Just Vowels - Days, Months and Seasons 1
Fill in the gaps to spell the names of days, months and seasons:
1.
__i_a_
2.
O__o_e_
3.
__u___a_
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A__i_
5.
_e__ua__
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_o__a_
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_a_u__a_
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au_u__
9.
_a_ua__
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_o_e__e_
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_a___
12.
_u_e
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Just Vowels - Days, Months and Seasons 2
Fill in the gaps to spell the names of days, months and seasons:
1.
_u__a_
2.
___i__
3.
_e__e__a_
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_e_e__e_
5.
_u__e_
6.
_u__
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_i__e_
8.
_a_
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_e__e__e_
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Au_u__
11.
_ue__a_
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Days of the Week
Tick below to show the correct spellings:
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a) Sunday
b) Sanday
c) sunday
d) snday
a) Thursday
b) Tuesday
c) Thorsday
d) thurday
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a) Manday
b) monday
c) Monday
d) Munday
a) friday
b) Friday
c) Frieday
d) feriday
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a) Tusday
b) tuesday
c) Teusday
d) Tuesday
a) Soturday
b) Saturda
c) saterday
d) Saturday
4.
a) Wensday
b) Wednesday
c) Wenesday
d) wednesday
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Months of the Year
Tick below to show the correct spellings:
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5.
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a) Janary
b) January
c) january
d) jaNuary
a) may
b) Maye
c) My
d) May
a) septembre
b) September
c) Septemper
d) Setember
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a) February
b) Febuary
c) Feburary
d) february
a) Jun
b) June
c) jun
d) june
a) october
b) Octobar
c) August
d) October
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a) march
b) Marsh
c) March
d) Marche
a) Julie
b) Juli
c) July
d) july
a) Novemer
b) November
c) novembrer
d) Novembre
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a) April
b) april
c) Appril
d) Aprl
a) August
b) Augst
c) Argust
d) august
a) decembar
b) Decembar
c) Desember
d) December
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Understanding Dates 1
Write the full version of the following dates:
Example:
10/08/92
10th August 1992
1.
01/01/97
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2.
5 Jun 78
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3.
10.07.02
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4.
14/08/73
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5.
22 Nov 01
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31/12/86
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3 Feb 90
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8.
17.01.00
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27/03/95
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20 Apr 79
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30 Oct ’01
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12.
9 Jun ’97
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13.
13/09/02
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14.
2 Nov 83
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15.
01.01.80
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