A selection of English ESL icon ppt slides

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

This powerpoint presentation is meant to introduce artist John Lennon his life, his music , his carreer with the Beatles, and solo carreer.Suitable for A2 pupils.Oral skills.

Lennon icon of modern times

This is a powerpoint presentation explaining the various uses of present perfect simple in an iconic way. The use of the main time expressions is also covered. I hope you will find it helpful! :) 

present perfect simple presentation

This is  a power point used to explain the basic uses of present simple and present continuous. I tried to use present the theory in an iconic way, so as to help students remember and understand the various uses. 

Present simple VS Present continuous

This power point aims to teach students more about the life stories of famous or iconic people. The lesson starts with a guessing game where students are given several clues along with a distorted cartoon of the person to guess who it is. The second part of the lesson practices the past simple tense by reading a short bio of three iconic men in history. Students have to change the missing verbs to the past simple tense. 

Famous People - Past Simple Tense

It's a ppt ws.

I prepared it in order to be used in the pre-reading/ warm-up stage.

Learners need to be motivated, so I made this Diaporama in order to be dealt with as a data-show projection, at the beginning of the lesson.

I hope you'll find it beneficial!



P.S: just open the file, click Diaporama at the top, then the Diaporama icon on the left, and it'll be launched. :)



I hope you'll enjoy it!

Pollution on Earth

I prepared this board to teach the alphabet and divided the letters by colors:

green - The easiest to learn (B C D E G P T V)

purple - Not so easy (F L M N S)

blue - a little harder, with similar sound (J K)

orange - confusing, vowels with the sound of two vowels (A I O U)

red - the hardest to learn (H Q R W X Y) 



Of course this concept may vary according to the students' first language, so you may want to change the square colors according to your experience with your classes.



Suggestion: Click on each icon below the letter to play the sound, from A to Z. Let your students listen each letter. Ask some of them to repeat after you play its sound. Go until the end of the alphabet. Then start with the green letters, play each one's sound and ask students to repeat (individually or in chorus - I prefer individual repetitions because some students may act as if they were repeating, just moving their lips). Do this to all the green card letters. Then point each letter and ask the students to say them aloud as you point them. Once you feel they memorized the letter, click on it and it'll vanish. Continue with the remaining letters until all the letters in the green group had vanished. Proceed to the next group of colored cards. Once all the letters from that group had vanished, go to the next group, from the easiest to the hardest.



I don't like to teach the letters from the beginning to the end, because some students memorize the letters in sequence, and to say one letter they have to remember all of them until they get to it.



If you have another way to use the board and teach the alphabet, just let me know. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

The Alphabet - TEACHING BOARD (with audio)

Student / Group chooses a number, you click on it. There are 4 alternatives to complete each sentence and they have to pay attention to the use and formation of the tenses and know past and participle, question patterns, etc. I added explanations (click button "why" to read them).



Wrong answers turn red when clicked. The right answer turns green and they get a point, Click on the icon to return to the board.



When clicked, the numbers in the buttons turn red.

You will keep track of their score on screen, clicking on it to add the points they won.



Hope your students have fun. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

QUIZ - Past Simple X Present Perfect (with scoreboards)

The aim of the game is simple - become a dotcom millionaire!



The ppt represents a set of cards with 2 or 3 possible choices. All links are clickable and you don't have to find the cards manually. 



Students work in a group and make decisions. They have to persuade the most number of people in a group before you do the next move. 



The game provides a list of specific words that your students may find new. For low-level students you may write in a translation in your language or you can give the definitions in English. 



The last slide is a celebration of your success (click "Congratulation" icon) 



As they say " A little party never killed nobody" 



Enjoy :)



btw, you can find this game in my printable worksheets files to play in the class.

The Internet Millionaire Game

Take a look at this presentation. Think about the way you would pronounce these words and then click on the icon sound to listen to it.

These words were selected because they are commonly mispronounced. 

Pronunciation Game 

A PPT with the iconic dishes from some countries. It's a good way to practice both countries and food vocabulary. 

Food around the world

Words with short and long vowel sounds. Read and identify the given words if it sounds short vowel or a long vowel sound. This worksheet presentation will help beginners in reading how to read words. This will also help how to blend vowels in a word and how to sound the vowels.

Short and Long Vowel Sound Activity

The template isn´t mine, I found it on a website, I just adapted it with the animals vocabulary. The idea is to split your groups in two and assign them a ship, then you click on the home Icon and click on a numbered planet and students should say the name of the picture.



I also asked them to spell the word since I'm a ESL teacher. Hope you find it useful! I´ll make new races based on this one but with different topics soon!

38 Icon English ESL powerpoints