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ENGLISH FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS
Create fill-in-the-blanks English exercises
Give learners focused sentence practice with missing words. ChalkLab helps you build fill-in-the-blanks activities around the vocabulary or grammar your class needs to practise.
Choose an answer to try the activity.
What you can practise
Make English fill-in-the-blanks exercises for sentence-level grammar and vocabulary practice. Try a sample and create activities for your class.
- I drink ___ every day. Complete with ‘water’.
- She ___ to school yesterday. Complete with ‘walked’.
Inside the interactive sample
- We arrived ___ the airport ___ six o'clock.
- She got ___ the plane and put her bag ___ the locker.
How it works
Review sentence context
Check that the surrounding words give enough information to answer the gap fairly.
Check acceptable answers
Review the answer key and any supported alternatives before you share the activity.
Make the practice fit your learners
Practise recall
Ask learners to supply language themselves rather than only recognise the correct option.
Focus on a sentence pattern
Use short contexts for prepositions, verb forms or everyday vocabulary.
Keep practice manageable
Individual sentences make it easy to work on one target and review mistakes together.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from passage gap-fill?
Sentence fill-in-the-blanks uses separate sentences. Passage gap-fill connects several gaps in a continuous text, so learners also use wider context.
Can more than one word fit a gap?
Sometimes. Review the sentence and answer key for valid alternatives; revise ambiguous gaps when you want one specific answer.
Can I target a specific grammar point?
Include it in your prompt, such as past-simple verbs or prepositions of place, along with the learner level and topic.
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