Tag Questions ESL Games, Activities & Worksheets

ESL Tag Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Error Correction, Question Completion This useful tag questions worksheet helps students learn how to make tag questions. In the first exercise, students match question tags to sentences to make tag questions. Students then complete tag questions with words from a box. Students then move on to correct mistakes in tag questions. In the last exercise, students write tags to complete tag questions. show less

ESL Tag Question Games - Grammar: Matching, Pelmanism - Pair Work In these enjoyable tag question games, students match affirmative and negative statements with their respective tags to make tag questions. In pairs, students have five minutes to match affirmative or negative sentence cards and tag cards together to make tag questions. Pairs score one point for each correct tag question. The pair with the most points wins the game. After that, pairs play a pelmanism game with the cards. Students then take turns turning over two cards. If a student turns over a matching sentence and tag, they keep the two cards and have another turn. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. show less

ESL Tag Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Binary Choice, Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Role-Play, Freer Practice - Pair Work This comprehensive tag questions worksheet helps students practice forming and understanding tag questions for everyday conversations. First, students underline the correct words to complete tag questions. Students then match question tags to statements to form tag questions. Next, students complete a conversation with question tags from a box. After that, in pairs, students role-play a conversation between a new student and a teacher where the student asks tag questions to check information. Afterwards, students swap roles so that both students have equal practice using tag questions. Finally, pairs present their conversations to the class. show less

ESL Tag Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Guessing, Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions Here is a free tag questions speaking activity to help students practice tag questions and short answers. Students begin by writing the name of a classmate in each sentence that they think best matches the statement. When the students have finished, they ask their classmates tag questions to see if their statements are right or wrong. Students score one point for each correct statement. The student with the most correct statements is the winner. show less

ESL Tag Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Confirming Information - Group Work Here is a productive tag questions game that helps students practice mixed question and answer forms, tag questions and short answers. First, students use the cards marked number 1 and take turns forming questions from the prompts and asking the questions to the person shown on their card without writing down any answers. When the students have finished, they use card number 2 to write tag questions to check how many answers they can remember correctly. Next, students check how much they remember by taking turns to ask and answer their tag questions. For each tag question that receives a yes answer, students score one point. The student with the most points at the end of the game wins. show less

ESL Tag Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, True or False, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this amusing tag questions game, students guess whether statements about a partner are true or false and then ask tag questions to confirm the information. First, students complete statements with true and false information. Half the sentences should be true and half should be false. Next, students swap worksheets with a partner. Students then read their partner's statements and decide if they are true or false, writing their answer next to each statement. After that, students take turns asking a tag question to confirm the information based on their opinion. For example, if Student A wrote 'I like going to parties', but Student B thinks the statement is false, they ask 'You don't like going to parties, do you?' If Student B thinks the sentence is true, they would ask 'You like going to parties, don't you?' Their partner then reveals the correct answer by answering the tag question. The student with the most correct guesses at the end of the game wins. show less

ESL Tag Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Guessing, Writing, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work In this insightful tag questions game, students write and ask tag questions in order to confirm true information about a partner. To begin, in pairs, students complete tag questions in a way that they think is true for their partner. Half the questions require a positive response and half require a negative response. Students then take turns asking and answering the questions with their partner. Each time their partner replies using one of the short answers shown on the worksheet, the student crosses it off. The aim of the game is to cross out as many answers as possible. To cross off all the answers, every question must be true for their partner. The student who crosses off the most answers in each pair wins. show less

ESL Tag Questions Activity - Grammar, Speaking and Writing: Asking and Answering Questions, Writing Sentences - Group Work In this interesting tag questions activity, students conduct a survey to find out their classmates' opinions on certain topics using tag questions and then write about the results. Students begin by ticking statements on the worksheet that they agree with. Students then interview the other members of their group to find out their opinion on each statement by asking tag questions, e.g. 'You would like to be ten years younger, wouldn't you?' For each statement a group member agrees with, students put a tick for 'yes' in the appropriate column. Afterwards, students add up the ticks for each statement and write the total in the last column. Students then write sentences about their group's opinions using the phrases: All of us, Most of us, Some of us, None of us, etc. Afterwards, groups report back their results to the class. show less

ESL Tag Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Guessing, Completing and Writing Sentences, Asking and Answering Questions In this engaging tag questions activity, students use tag questions to check information that they are sure and unsure of. To begin, students complete six sentences on the worksheet with the names of students they are sure match with the information in the statements. Students then write six more statements about their classmates, three they are quite sure of and three they are unsure of. Students write a mixture of affirmative and negative statements in various tenses. When the students have finished, they check the information by asking tag questions to the people they wrote about. Students put a tick or cross next to each statement, depending on whether it is right or wrong. When everyone has finished, students tell the class how many statements they guessed correctly. show less

ESL Tag Questions Game - Grammar: Matching - Group Work In this rewarding tag question dominoes game, students match question tags to affirmative and negative statements and vice-versa. The first player puts a domino down either before or after the domino on the table, making sure the affirmative or negative statement matches with the question tag on the domino or vice-versa. The player then reads the tag question to the group for confirmation. If the tag question is incorrect, the player must take the domino back. Play then passes to the next student, and so on. The first player to get rid of all their dominoes wins the game. show less

ESL Question Tags Game - Grammar: Matching - Group Work In this fun question tags game, students play snap by matching affirmative and negative sentences to question tags and vice-versa. One player goes first and turns over the top card from their pile and places it face-up in the 'sentence' or 'tag' box. The other player then puts down one of their cards in the appropriate box, and so on. The first player to shout 'Snap!' when they see that a sentence and tag match to make a tag question wins all the cards in both boxes. The third student then writes down the tag question. The first player to get all the cards wins the game. Afterwards, students swap roles, giving the writer a chance to play. show less

ESL Tag Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice In this free tag questions speaking activity, students conduct a class questionnaire using tag questions. First, students complete questions on the worksheet with positive and negative tags. Students also create two more tag questions of their own. Students then go around the class asking the tag questions to students who they think can confirm the information in each question. When a classmate answers appropriately, confirming the information in the question, the student writes down their name. The student then asks a follow-up question to gain more information, noting down the answer. When everyone has finished, students give feedback to the class on what they found out. show less

ESL Question Tags Game - Grammar and Listening: Matching, Question Completion - Group Work In this entertaining question tags game, students race to complete sentences with positive or negative question tags. In groups, the student with the questions picks up a card and reads the beginning of a tag question aloud. The other two students then race to find the correct tag to complete the question from their set. The first student to give the question tag to the reader and say the complete tag question wins and keeps both cards. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. Afterwards, students swap roles, giving the reader a chance to play. show less

ESL Question Tags Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group and Pair Work In this handy tag questions speaking activity, students practice completing, asking and answering tag conversation questions. First, in two groups, students complete question tags in conversation questions. Students then pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking and answering the conversation questions with their partner and developing a short conversation about the topic by giving more information and asking follow-up questions. Finally, students share what they found out about their partner with the class. show less

ESL Question Tags Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions - Group Work This creative question tags game can be used to review tag questions and short answers. Draw a four by five grid on the board. Number the squares and write a question tag in each one. Next, teams take turns choosing a question tag from the grid. The students in the team use the tag in the square to make a tag question. The team then asks the tag question to the next team. To win the square, the tag question must be grammatically correct and contain a minimum of six words. The next team must answer the question appropriately or they lose their turn to choose a square. If a tag question is grammatically incorrect or less than six words in length, play passes to the next team, without them having to answer a question. The aim of the game is for the teams to get three squares in a row. The first team to do this wins the game. show less

ESL Tag Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Pair Work In this intriguing tag questions game, students form, ask and answer questions and then check how many answers they can remember by asking tag questions. Students fold their worksheets and hold the paper so the question prompts are facing them. Students then take turns to form, ask and answer the questions with their partner without writing down any answers. When the students have finished, they unfold their worksheet and write a tag question for each item to check how many answers they remember. Students then take turns asking and answering their tag questions. For each correctly remembered item, students score one point. The student with the most points wins the game. show less

ESL Tag Questions Game - Grammar: Unscrambling, Writing Sentences, Guessing, Matching - Group Work In this memorable question tags game, students practice using affirmative or negative tags after imperative clauses to soften the imperatives. Students begin by unscrambling words to form imperative sentences ending in question tags. Next, in teams, students write three imperatives for each person shown. The imperatives must end with question tags to soften them. After that, teams take turns reading a set of tag questions to another team, one tag question at a time. After each tag question has been read out, the other team guesses which person would say the tag question. If a team guesses correctly after the first tag question, they score three points. After the second question, they receive two points. After the third question, they get one point. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. show less