A selection of English ESL ppt slides with general speaking practice, speaking practice

This is a PPT you can use to introduce yourself to a new class and at the end to elicit names and info from your students - and have a bit of fun too. I also had some youtube videos embedded in this of bad english teachers - you can find them on YouTube. :-) Good Luck. 

Introduce Yourself - For Students and Teachers

This ppt was created for my third grade online ESL speaking students. They practice using 'I like' and 'I don't like' with different kinds of food. The students are shown a food picture along with a green tick (I like) or a red cross (I don't like). They must say the sentence aloud. 

Food: like & don't like

Mystery-Box is a game where you pick a number/letter and answer a simple question. You are then given a box, students must decide if they want to keep it or give it the other team. Box will contain random points (plus and minus)
PowerPoint was made by others, material was made by me.

Mystery-Box game

This PP is designed as an interactive lesson with your students. Meant for teaching English as a second language.



You show the slide and then ask an English question related to the picture you are showing (Questions and answers are included). There is a ten second timer/dissappearing circle at the top right of each slide. 



The last slide, how many ghosts are there, is simply designed as a joke to relax/entertain students. 

English Conversation Slides

Students learn vocabulary related to places found within an airport. Guidance on pronunciation is given with audio and stress patterns. After that, students complete as many as five vocabulary/reading tasks related to the target vocabulary.

Airport Vocabulary (A2)

Minecraft game. In this game teams of students pick a letter (A to Y) and answer the question that follows. Correct answers can reveal a good, bad results. Points are given or taken away.

Minecraft game..

This is a short lesson about giving orders and making requests in which multiple ways to do both actions are presented.  Students are asked to convert orders into requests and vice versa.  

Making Orders and Requests

Speaking - Fears and Phobias is a ready-to-teach lesson plan that is designed to promote fluency and get your students speaking! Designed for upper-level ESL learners, this lesson introduces new vocabulary related to different fears and phobias. Prompt students to discuss fears and phobias using the questions, photos, and new vocabulary provided!

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

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Speaking - Fears and Phobias- An ESL/ELL Lesson Plan

A slideshow about using simple 'Can I' and 'Can you' questions to ask for permission and make requests e.g. Can I open the window? Can you change the channel? Students match the phrases to the pictures to make questions, then practise answering them. I use a dice to randomize the answers students should give (even numbers = say yes; odd numbers = say no), but of course you can do it any way you want to. Hope it's useful!

Can I...? Can you...? Asking for Permission & Making Requests

THIS MATERIAL IS FOR THE IELTS EXAM PART 1 AND PART 2 SPEAKING DIFFERENT TOPICS TO PRACTICE WITH MANY PICTURES AND ACHIEVE THE SCORE REQUIRED FOR THE EXAM. GOOD LUCK!

IELTS SPEAKING PART 1 AND 2

The teacher will dictate the story and then the student will repeat. Then the student will dictate the dialog and will repeat it again while filling in the blanks.

Greetings/ Introductions

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to help learners of English expand their vocabulary related to transportation. It includes various types of vehicles such as bicycles, motorcycles, cars, buses, trains, MRT systems, boats, airplanes, helicopters, ships, and more. The presentation also introduces the sentence pattern that is commonly used to talk about modes of transportation. For example, the question "How do you go to school?" can be answered with "I go to school on foot," "We go to school by bicycle," or "He goes to school by scooter," and so on. 

In addition to learning new vocabulary and sentence patterns, learners can engage in various activities to reinforce their understanding. There are picture matching games where they can match the pictures with their respective names and numbers. There are also activities where learners need to look at the picture of a certain mode of transportation and write its name. Moreover, learners can improve their critical thinking skills by finding hidden names of transport in a table. 

This PowerPoint presentation is a fun and engaging resource for learners who want to improve their English language skills while learning about the various modes of transportation.

Means of Transportation

General speaking practice

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

464 General speaking practice, Speaking Practice English ESL powerpoints