A selection of English ESL teacher resources 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 ppt activity aims at providing students with practice of still, already, just and yet attached with the present perfect tense. 

There are 17 slides, being the first one a brief explanation on how these words work. The following 16 slides show a picture and a sentence. The students have to choose from four buttons to make the sentence correct. 

Hope you may find it useful.



Credit: I've edited the powerpoint presentation of a fellow teacher, I mean, I've taken it as a template to my activity.

You can find it at

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/projectables/powerpoints_ppt_pptx/present_perfect/present-perfect-elementary/44263

Present Perfect - STILL, ALREADY, JUST, YET

I saw online the idea of using bingo to make minimal pairs practice more fun for my ESL students, but with the limited resources at my school, I'm not able to print. Instead, I've made this powerpoint template, where I can fill in two similarly sounding words in the Word 1 and Word 2 places on each slide. Once you do that, jot down all the words that have the green check beneath them. These are the words you will read aloud to your class. When put into presentation mode, the green thumbs up and the red thumbs down will go away until either word is clicked on. Since my students are very fascinated with my computer, and I have a small class. I plan on letting them take turns pressing what word they think I've said. Hopefully the template will allow this to be useful for other teachers, whose students have difficulties with more specific or different sounds than mine do. Enjoy!

Minimal Pairs Powerpoint Game Template

This activity aims at reviewing prepositions of place in a fun and interactive way. The students look a situation, which is a teen's room,  and choose from 4 alternatives. If the answer is right, an arrow showing the next slide appears. There are 16 of them.

I'd like to state that this powerpoint was taken from

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/projectables/powerpoints_ppt_pptx/past_simple_to_be/prepositions-of-place/79336

which I credit to the fellow teacher Herber. Dear friend, I hope you don't mind.

Prepositions of Place - Interactive

This PowerPoint will help you understand what relative pronouns and clauses are and how they work. It is alwo a useful resource for teachers to use it. It is somehow interactive and exciting and it contains some interesting pictures that can help students interact and understand more.

Restrictive and Non-restrictive Relative Clauses

Students can revise and practise classroom language (things teachers usually say). There are four options and students need to choose the correct one according to the pictures. 

For student's talk go to -https://en.islcollective.com/resources/projectables/powerpoints_ppt_pptx/classroom_language_-_students_talk/classroom/90588



CLASSROOM LANGUAGE - teacher's talk

An overview of an excellent resources for teaching ESOL students how to write from basic sentence constructions all the way to writing for academic purposes.

Writing Resource for ESOL Teachers

A power point showing some common items in the bedroom. It can be used to teach part of the house and items in the house. The items are not labelled so that teachers can have the freedom to use the ppt as they see fit. The evaluation exercise can be found here: https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/items_in_the_bedroom-unscramble/furniture/111765

Items in the bedroom

Ability - Can and Could is a modal verb lesson plan that focuses on the use of can and can’t to discuss ability, possibility, and permissions. With this ready-to-teach lesson, you will guide your students through practice with both the positive and negative forms. As well, students will learn question forms and short answers, which are common in spoken English. Designed for beginner students, this lesson is a great introduction to modal verbs! 

It is also a wonderful resource if you need a quick review lesson or warm-up activity. 

Keep this lesson plan handy so you can refer to it whenever you need to!

This practical, easy-to-use lesson plan is ready for your next online or in-person class. 

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Modal Verbs - Ability - Can and Could - An ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

Decide if sentences about laws in the UK are true or false, then talk about the situation in your country. Use of MUST and CAN. Content resource: American English File - Pre Intermediate - Teacher\'s Book. 





In the UK - True or False

If you are an English language teacher, chances are, you’ve been asked to help students prepare for an important test. One of those tests is the IELTS exam. Off2Class has prepared FOUR ready-to-teach lesson plans to get you started. Here you'll find our



Introduction to IELTS Speaking lesson plan!



Introduction to IELTS Speaking introduces the speaking test and discusses the format and criteria for the exam - pronunciation, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, fluency, and coherence. You will also have the chance to practice speaking exercises with your students. Like the listening test, the speaking test is the same for both academic and general tests.



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IELTS: Introduction to Speaking - ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

If you are an English language teacher, chances are, you’ve been asked to help students prepare for an important test. One of those tests is the IELTS exam. Off2Class has prepared FOUR ready-to-teach lesson plans to get you started.



Introduction to IELTS Writing focuses on the writing test, which is different for academic and general test writers. This lesson focuses on both, so be sure to target the activities that suit your students' needs. It discusses the criteria for the writing test: task achievement, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and coherence and cohesion.



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IELTS: Introduction to Writing - ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

An interactive presentation on what the difficult questions in a job interview actually mean, and how to answer them to give you the best chance of getting the job. This is Business English for success material, and will be best presented by a teacher who can facilitate either in-class or on-line. This resource is also available as a video by contacting me.

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