A selection of English ESL politics ppt slides

It has many examples for polite communication. The examples are from different situations and I hope this material would be much helpful to train even for formal communication particularly for service industries like "Hotels", Hospitals, Shopping Malls, Customer Service and So on...

Polite Communication

This power point is about asking polite questions and changing direct questions into more polite. I hope you will find it useful. It can be used with variety of different activities. Suitable for pre-intermediate/intermediate  students. 

Polite questions

to learn political vocabulary and will help in speaking

lets play politics

Lead In: Teacher will show the students three article
headlines and their accompanying picture.
Teacher will ask students to think of how the
articles are connected. Teachers will ask
students to share their thoughts with each
other. Then the students will share their
thoughts with the teacher.

Diagnostic 1: Teacher will explain diagnostic test one
and do 1-2 of the questions with the students
so they understand the instructions. Teacher
will allow a moment for students to work on
it independently then the teacher will send
students to break-out rooms where they will
check answers together. Students will come
back to the mainroom where the teacher will
go over their answers.

Language Clarification: Teacher will elicit the meaning and form of
the pre-selected vocabulary words. Teacher
has also designed a small chart for students
to work on together to understand suffixes
which will be important for their controlled
practice. Students will share answers with
each other and then teacher.

Controlled Practice: There are 10 questions total. Teacher has
broken down the first 5 in a more simplistic
way. Teacher will instruct students to work on
the assignment together and share their
answers. Students then will share answers
with the teacher who will go over it with
them. If this simplified version is too easy for
them, teacher will repeat the process with
the unsimplified version of the last questions.

Speaking Practice: Teacher will instruct students to speak about
the ways how their country has changed in
the last 5 years. Teacher will display some
talking points for students if they are unable
to think of something themselves. Students
only have to talk about 1-2 things. They will
share their answers with each other in
breakout rooms. Then they will come back
and tell eachother what they talked about in
their breakout rooms.

Political & Business Vocabulary Lesson

A request is when we ask someone for something. Since we are asking someone for help, it is important to be polite.

We must avoid being too direct.

Here are examples of being too direct:

“I want help.”

“Pass me the salt.”

“Can you carry my bag?”



These questions are all correct English but they are too direct. These are not polite requests. They are in fact quite rude. People will be offended because they will think that you are giving them orders.



In this lesson, you will learn several methods to make a polite request. The first few examples are to be used in spoken English. The last example is for written English.



Polite requests in spoken English

General knowledge 2022 quiz for teenagers and adults with B1-C2 levels. The quiz contains questions about music, politics, celebrities, sports, etc. , related to the year of 2022. The target audience is european people.

2022 quiz (music, politics, celebrities, sports)

Each slide shows a tweet or piece of text written by Trump or his administration. Students must correct his spelling mistakes. Best for French learners of English because one spelling mistake is a French name. But this slide can be deleted in the download.

Correct the American president's spelling mistakes

This is a game about the USA and the UK: geography, history, politics and culture: money, food, TV, music... The pupil needs to click on the correct flag to win. 

The USA vs The UK

12 slides, looking at some of the issues. Some match-up activities and some visuals to promote discussion. Some slides providing background information on this complicated issue. 

Brexit: should Britain leave the EU, or stay? 

Politics, Media, Popular, Powerful, Organization

Powerful Women

Students revise vocabulary connected with elections. They pick a number of a column and the amount of points they will get after having answered the chosen question correctly. Fantastic for group work and competition.

Election geopardy game

This is a very basic PowerPoint dedicated to the US election in 2020. It has pictures and easy to understand definitions of basic election terms. It is intended to introduce lower level students to election terms without overwhelming them. 

Election 2020

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>

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15 Politics English ESL powerpoints