A selection of English ESL printables with guided grammar production, grammar practice

There are 2 exercises. The first one students complete using Present Perfect Continuous. The second one students decide to use Present Perfect Simple or Continuous.

Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Continuous

This fun, Halloween-themed ESL/EFL picture story worksheet helps students practise the past simple and past continuous tenses through a colourful nine-picture story.

The story follows two brothers whose Halloween pumpkin-carving activity goes terribly wrong when the younger brother accidentally drops their jack-o’-lantern. After an argument and some tears, a friendly squirrel helps them make a new one, leading to a happy ending.

Language goal: Practise describing past events, narrating a sequence of actions, and distinguishing between completed actions and activities in progress.

Grammar focus: Past simple and past continuous, including affirmative statements, irregular verbs, and the use of while to connect simultaneous actions.

Theme: Halloween, family, sibling relationships, emotions, problem-solving, and cooperation.

Age group: Primary school learners (approximately 8–12 years old).

CEFR level: A2-B1 (because of the phrasal verbs "showed up" and "turned out")

Task: Students look at the nine illustrations and complete the sentences by writing the missing verbs in the correct tense (past simple or past continuous). The infinitive forms are provided in brackets as clues.

Page 2 contains the KEY, with the correct answers highlighted in green.

Interactive quiz: An interactive gapfill quiz complements the printable worksheet. Students type their answers into the boxes to complete the sentences, allowing them to practise and check their understanding digitally.

Jack o’Lantern Trouble - Picture Story Gapfill With KEY

GRAMMAR TEST - BE VERBS IS USED TO TEST STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR ABILITY ON GRAMMAR GRAMMAR TEST 
EXERCISE SET ABOUT LINKING VERBS OR OTHER HELPING VEBS, TENSES AND OTHER VERBALS. 

Verb To Be - Present & Past Tense - Am, Is, Are, Was & Were

In this printable ESL worksheet / accompanying interactive quiz students have to find and describe nine impossible/unrealistic things in a beach scene.  Students will have a chance to use the following language structures: there is/there are (+present participle), present continuous tense,  has. You can find the solutions on page two of the printable worksheet.

As a follow-up task, you can get students to make the unrealistic scenes or objects into realistic ones. This could be used for practising the Second conditional, present participles or SHOULD. For example: Teacher: How could you realistically put a hot air balloon in this scene? Student: 
A) If there were people in the balloon and there were no bike hanging from it, it would be realistic (CONDITIONAL 2). 
B) A balloon with some people in it and no bike hanging from it would be realistic. 
C) The balloon should have some people on board and there should be no bike hanging from it.

I think since it's an open-ended task, you can meaningfully use this activity with levels ranging from elementary to intermediate. 

Find 9 Impossible Things In This Beach Scene

In this worksheet, there are various exercises that help students practice using the passive voice in different tenses, such as present, past, and future simple. 

The Passive Voice Worksheet

Look at the pictures, choose the most suitable verb and use BE GOING TO to talk about the Simpsons' plans for this summer! Picture matching activity and guided grammar production activity: learners use the language creatively to come up with sentences.

Simpsons' Summer Plans - BE GOING TO For Future

This fun, Halloween-themed ESL/EFL picture story helps students practise the past simple and past continuous tenses through a humorous story set in an office.

The worksheet features nine colourful illustrations showing coworkers preparing Halloween decorations, dealing with their strict boss, and coming up with a clever plan that leads to an unexpected, happy ending.

Students complete the sentences beneath each picture by filling in the missing verbs in the correct tense, using the infinitives provided in brackets.

Language goal: Practising narrative tenses, describing past events, and understanding the difference between completed actions and ongoing activities in the past.

Grammar focus: Past simple and past continuous, including affirmative statements, regular and irregular verbs, and interrupted actions.

Theme: Halloween, office life, teamwork, problem-solving, and celebrations.

CEFR level: A2–B1 (Pre-intermediate to Intermediate)

Age group: Teenagers and adults

Page 2 contains the KEY, with the correct verb forms highlighted in green.

An interactive quiz complements the printable worksheet. Students type their answers into the boxes to complete the sentences, making it suitable for classroom practice, homework, or independent online learning.

Halloween At The Office - Picture Story Gapfill + KEY

In this worksheet, there are 80 phrases containing all the Conditional types. Some of them are mixed, some of them are grouped by types.

 If you want to "torture" your students with a really long list of sentences, you can use this worksheet to test their skill and their patience.

 I also included the answer key.

Conditionals All Types From 0 To 3 - Huge Drill

A simple worksheet to practise the Present Perfect tense (affirmative, negative, interrogative and short answers. Four different types of exercise to reinforce this tense.

Present Perfect - Affirmative & Negative + Short Answers

In the worksheet there is a picture with a lot of action going on. Students need to predict what each character is going to do based on the visual signs that signal an outcome.

What Are They Going To Do - Making Predictions

What is Bart doing? Practice in the present continuous tense. Students need to match the verbs in the box with the actions, then try to find all the irregular verbs.Make students ask and answer questions about the pictures in the present continuous tense.

What Is Bart Doing? 

This colourful, nine-picture ESL/EFL worksheet tells the story of two rabbit brothers who quarrel over a carrot, refuse to speak to each other, and eventually learn the importance of family and helping one another.

Students follow the illustrated story and complete the sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: past simple or past continuous. The activity helps learners practise affirmative and negative verb forms, irregular verbs, and the use of past tenses to describe completed actions and ongoing situations in the past.

Language goal: Narrative skills, storytelling, reading comprehension, and describing past events.

Grammar: Past simple and past continuous, affirmative and negative forms, regular and irregular verbs.

Theme: Family relationships, sibling rivalry, forgiveness, kindness, and helping others.

CEFR level: A2–B1 (Pre-intermediate to Intermediate).

Intended age group: Children aged 9–14, particularly upper-primary and lower-secondary learners.

Activity type: Picture story with grammar gap-fill exercises.

Page 2 contains the KEY with the correct answers highlighted in green.

Interactive quiz included! An interactive gap-fill quiz complements the printable worksheet. Students type their answers into the boxes to complete the story, making the activity suitable for individual practice, homework, or classroom use.

The Quarrelling Rabbit Brothers - Gapfill With KEY

Guided grammar production

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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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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