Patterns Worksheets

Patterns in English are interesting to master and are a much more approachable way of teaching grammar. Although I love grammar, most people have an almost allergic reaction to it.

Most of my worksheets, and their style, are best found in the books. I’ve also made one-point cards as examples of common patterns.

Feel free to check them out or keep scrolling for the free worksheets.

Future

Present

Present Perfect

Past

Articles

Adjectives

Questions

Can you?

Tag questions

Adverbs

“I don’t really like” is a bit different from “I really don’t like” so take care when presenting this often confused pair of expressions.

(Fun fact: The “like / don’t like” sheet is the only one I actually appear in. And I have a really bad sunburn too!)

Prepositions of place

Time Words

Relative Clauses

Causative Voice

Active & Passive voice

Defining

Sometimes I need students in technical English classes to make clear definitions of particular terms.

These three worksheets look at different patterns for writing definitions using verbs, nouns, or adjectives.