A selection of English ESL printables with elementary (a1)

an A1 /A2 worksheet (ONE OF SEVERAL OF HIS ADVENTURES) on Modals : MUST, MUSTN'T, HAVE TO, DON'T HAVE TO, AND SHOULD the summer adventure of a boy and his scooter(lots of the teens get scooters in the summer so I thought it was topical).this is a story with general questions and some modal exercises on each Chapter and overall ques and grammar exercise at the end. My kids loved it so hope yours do too :-)

Reading and grammar: Tom's adventures-Scooters, Friends, and Fun (modals)

Short answers to general questions. 
Grammar practice. 
The Present Simple, The Past Simple, The Future SimpleTenses. 
Level: A1-A2. 
Contains answers.
Suitable for both online an offline classes.

Short answers to general questions. Grammar practice. The Present Simple, The Past Simple, The Future SimpleTenses.

With this worksheet students will learn the adjectives. Then they have to fill in the blanks with the approprite adjective from the list given and finally they match the adjective in the list with the right picture.



FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS

Students must read this text from Emma's Diary where Emma talks about her Valentine's Day at school. Emma spends Valentine's Day making mailboxes out of shoeboxes, handing out Valentine's Day cards, and even getting a surprise card from a secret admirer! Students must answer simple questions about the text to practice reading comprehension skills. Video: https://youtu.be/pYOgsTBwIts  


There is a matching video to go along with the text with vocabulary and pictures at the end of the video. The answer key is included on the second page of the worksheet. 


Vocabulary: glitter, mailbox, crush, trade, store-bought, draw, pass out, figure out, fancy, decorate


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Simple Reading Comprehension with Questions + Video (Episode 8: My Valentine's Day)

Students must listen to the audio of Emma describing herself. They have to fill in the blanks with the missing words. This is a great reading comprehension and listening exercise in my new series about Emma's life. Video: https://youtu.be/IoMtWfnlSwA


Students also will learn vocabulary related to the 90s and have to match pictures to the words. Answer key included!

Reading and Listening Exercise with Video: Grade 4/5 Level

There are 3 pages for different skills or ages. There is a crossword, a maze, a "find the differences" and a wordsearch. I hope you have fun doing these activities!

ACTIVITIES FOR HALLOWEEN_2024

There are 9 Halloween vocabulary words that you might want to teach your students during a Halloween lesson. Then they can practice spelling and test their attention by looking for the words and connecting them to the pictures. The words go only from left to right and top to bottom (no diagonals!)

Halloween Word Search


Select months and seasons

Select the months and write them under the correct season.

Use the name of the seasons to select the months.

Write the right name of the months under the right season.

Select the name of the months according to the seasons.

Seasons and months selcting worksheet

This is a people description activity. Students look at the people and match them with the descriptions below. Useful to revise clothes vocabulary. A1 - A2 level.

People description - Who is who?

Track your reading progress with my reading log!

Grade: suits primary school and middle school best
Level:  suits A1-A2 levels the most
Format: PDF, A4 - printable!
Amount of pages: 6
classroom / homework activity

“My 1st Reading log” includes …
1) a cover page,  
2) a reading tracker and a list of books, 
3) 2 pages for a book analyses, 
4) reading bingo game,
5) summer reading bingo game.

Book analyses pages can be REPRINTED for every new book! (page 3-4) 

I hope you enjoy this teaching material! Please, leave a reference after purchasing and using.

All the best, 
Veronika Schubert
TeachVeronich

Reading log for A1-A2 levels

6 questions for A1/A2/B1 to write a littele bit about who is their idol,and why do they look up to him/her.
Is a good starter because you can go from guided questions to the a whole writing written by themselves

Writing about your idol


This worksheet includes some activities and worksheet for students learning the difference between simple past and past continuous.

At the end of the activity students are required to speak by asking their friends about thw question provided on the table and also required to write about their last holiday using simple past and past continuous.



Simple Past VS Past Continuous

Elementary (A1)

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

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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 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

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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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