Tag Questions Matching activity

This ESL activity helps students practise forming and recognising tag questions. It provides controlled practice in matching sentence stems with appropriate question tags and includes a fun memory game to reinforce the structure.

Activity Overview

• Level: Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
• Target language: Question tags (e.g. don’t you?, is he?, aren’t they?)
• Time: 15–20 minutes
• Group size: Individual, pairs, or small groups

What you need

• One copy of the worksheet per pair or group (download here)

How to use the activity

1. Before class, cut up the worksheet so that each sentence stem and question tag is on a separate card.
2. In class, give each pair or group a full set of cut-up cards.
3. Students match each sentence with the correct tag. For example:
   • You like fish – don’t you?
   • He isn’t happy – is he?
   • They aren’t here – are they?
4. Once all pairs are matched correctly, students mix them up and play a memory game:
   • Lay all cards face down in a grid.
   • Student A turns over two cards. If they match (sentence + correct tag), they keep the pair and have another turn.
   • If the cards don’t match, the turn passes to the next student.
   • The player with the most matched pairs at the end wins.

Related grammar links

• Tag questions guide – Learn how to form and use tag questions.