These 36 tag question task cards give your adult ESL grammar students focused, varied practice at the intersection of tag questions and progressive tenses (present, past, and future) through eleven different task types that keep the work feeling fresh from card to card.

Tag questions have a rhythm to them, and the best way for beginner to low intermediate students to find that rhythm is through repeated exposure with real variety. With these eleven task types, your students will be choosing, correcting, unscrambling, matching, and creating. 

WHAT'S INSIDE this set of 36 task cards:

✅ 12 task cards for the present progressive

✅ 12 task cards for the past progressive

✅ 12 task cards for the future progressive

✅ Answer sheet + answer key (great for independent work, small groups, or stations)

THE ELEVEN TASK TYPES

• Choose the best question tag to complete the sentence.
•  Answer the tag question (short or full answer)
• Complete the sentence by adding the correct question tag.
• Correct the error in the tag question.
• Choose the best statement to go with the given question tag.
• Switch the sentence. (positive/negative)
• Create a statement to go with the given tag.
• Pick the correct tag question.
• Match the statements to their question tags.
• Unscramble to create a tag question.
• Fill in the blank to complete the tag question.

THIS WAS CREATED FOR YOUR ADULT ESL GRAMMAR STUDENTS

Beginning to low intermediate adult ESL grammar students need grammar practice that builds real confidence. Accuracy on paper is great, but the kind of ease that carries over into conversation and everyday listening? Even better! Tag questions show up all the time in spoken English, so when students start to recognize the pattern and use it themselves, that's a real win for their fluency.

The tense-specific structure makes it easy to drop these cards into any progressive tense lesson without reteaching context.