A selection of English ESL how to persuade, convince people in english printables

This worksheet includes a guide for students to create a commercial with questions, sentence starters, and ideas. After that, it includes two example commercials, one for a product and one for a business. I have purposefully uploaded this as a document so that instructors may adapt it in any way they would like to accommodate the needs of their students. For example, they could make it into a gap-filling exercise or writing graphic organizer, change the language in the examples, or add comprehension questions. Cheers!  

Create a Commercial

I would like to suggest this four-skill comprehension worksheet for business students that is adapted for upper intermediate and advanced levels. Your students have to watch a job interview video to identify mistakes (bloopers) Nicole makes and try to suggest correct answers. The video has two versions (success & failure). There´s also a note-taking task based on a talk and a vocabulary matching exercise related to the 2nd video. But guess what the treat is! You´ll find a whole lesson plan to follow throughout. The activity is both professional and fun. What´s more? it´s authentic. Find the 3 video links included in the worksheet. Have fun teaching.





Job Interview Business Lesson - Based on four-skill activities + Lesson Plan

This is a role play for students who need to talk in English on the phone. It has to be a small group: between 2 and 8 at the very maximum. Give one Person A card to one student and one Person B card to another student. Let them a few minutes to have a look at it. Then, the two students turned each other backs and talk as if they were on the phone. It is very important (and much funnier) that they don't know what the other person is supposed to act like. At the end of the conversation, debrief with the entire group.

Role play: talking on the phone

3 Christmas role plays for intermediate students (ideally adults).



Certain vocabulary and concepts may have to be pre-taught. For example, if you're teaching in a country that doesn't celebrate Christmas. Also, some cultures that do celebrate Christmas may mot necessarily have the same traditions. Apologies if this seems obvious but stranger things have happened in my experience. 



I also didn't use the horrendous comic-sans font (which should be banned), you're welcome ;)

Christmas Role Plays

Key to the Curious George Question tag worksheet. There are many different forms of question tags including many unusual ones. Question tags are often very difficult for second language users as they are based (usually) on the tense in the main sentence. 



WORKSHEET found here: 



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Curious George Question Tag KEY

This is a group activity on the theme of endangered species. Students are given the task to research an endangered animal on the Internet and to make a campaign (in the form of a poster/ report/ video) for funding to help their chosen animal. Students are encouraged to present their campaign to the rest of the class.

Save My Species!

This is a worksheet with a vocabulary list and sentence gap fill exercise for advanced students. The speakers wants developed countries' aid to developing countries not to be a wasted effort.

TED Talk Ernesto Sirolli Want to help someone? Shut up and Listen!

This is a worksheet with a listening task and a reading task. It is about the UNICEF and one of their ambassadors Orlando Bloom. It aims at knowing what the UNICEF does to help children refugees and from war torn countries, promote a cause, and learn about some elements of speech which can help student build their own discourse.

Orlando Bloom Unicef Ambassador

Objective: To practice transition words in an argumentative essay before students write their own.  Type: Cloze essay.  Solution included.  Practice tips: Teachers can choose to combine the word banks for all 6 paragraphs for more advanced students, or separate them out even further per paragraph for those who struggle.  In class, we also scrambled the paragraphs and had students work as a class to identify the introduction and conclusion, and put the body paragraphs in order.

Transition Words Cosmetic Surgery Cloze Essay

Students are asked to practice "selling" in english in the form of a role-play with the teacher or other students. They are suggested to ask questions to determine customer needs throughout their sales pitch.

Role Play - Sell Me This - Sell Me Hard-To-Sell Objects

A writing activity for high level students to write a formal letter nominating their favourite charity to attend the celebrations for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding (in the grounds of Windsor Castle). This activity is designed for Level 1 adult ESOL students (intermediate) preparing for their ESOL and Functional Skills exams.

Write a letter nominating a charity to attend Harry and Meghan's Wedding

A speaking game worksheet consists of three tables: "Personality", "Talk to" and "Talk about". Cut the tables into separate cards, put the three groups of cards face down. The students have to pick one random card from each group and prepare a speech in the name of the chosen caracter on the chosen topic and for the chosen public. This game helps to develop speaking skills, especially for those who have troubles  expressing themselves in public, enables them to discover their creativity while impersonating their caracter and trying to persuade the given audience. This game is also very good for practicing vocabulary and having fun at the lesson.

An Eloquent Speaker Game

how to persuade, convince people in English

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

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how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

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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 praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

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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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