A selection of English ESL printables with intermediate (b1)

Questions and vocabulary to talk about sport

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SONG ACTIVITY

Students listen to the song reading the lyrics, then work in pairs working on unknown vocabulary and do the matching exercise (lines from the song must be matched to pictures).

STAY THE NIGHT by JAMES BLUNT

This engaging Winter Olympics worksheet is built around three real, current stories from the Milano–Cortina 2026 Games, focusing on elite female athletes and the human side of Olympic sport. Through accessible A2–B1 level readings, students explore topics such as media attention versus real talent, the risks of competing at the highest level, and the intense pressure of performing in front of a home crowd. The texts feature well-known athletes and are designed to spark curiosity while remaining classroom-safe and fact-based.

The worksheet follows a clear, teacher-friendly structure that requires minimal preparation. It begins with warm-up discussion questions to activate background knowledge, followed by focused vocabulary work that prepares students for the readings. A shared comprehension section checks understanding across all three texts, and guided discussion questions encourage learners to express opinions, think critically, and compare perspectives. The final writing task asks students to create a short social media reaction post, helping them practise summarising, expressing opinions, and using modern digital language such as hashtags in a controlled way.

This resource works well as a full 45–60 minute lesson or can be easily split across two classes. It is ideal for classes interested in sport, current events, and media literacy, and it naturally encourages discussion about resilience, pressure, and how athletes are portrayed in the media. The worksheet is suitable for secondary students and older teens and can be used in general English, CLIL, or conversation-focused lessons.

More Than Medals Olympic

This worksheet is for adults and high school, level B1 students. The students read the text and answer the  questions. The text should also introduce a debate about the subject.

Easy reading - Histoy of Space travelling

This B1-level worksheet explores how people in six different English-speaking countries spend their free time. Each page begins with a photo prompt for speaking or writing. Students first describe the picture, then read a short (~250 word) monologue from a speaker living in that city: Chilliwack, Brno, Wellington, Gold Coast, Manchester, and Austin. Each speaker talks about their hobbies, local lifestyle, and what people typically do in their area.

Each reading is followed by five Maturita-style multiple-choice comprehension questions. After reading, students learn useful lexical chunks (e.g. “In my free time I usually…”, “I'm into…”, “It’s common to…”) and complete a guided gap-fill exercise.

To support active use of language, students personalize the vocabulary by completing sentences about their own lives. Then, they work in pairs or with the teacher to answer speaking questions designed to build fluency and prepare them for the oral Maturita exam.

Use the photos at the top of each page as warm-up material. Students can describe what they see, what the people might be doing, and how that activity is popular (or not) in their country.

Free Time Around the World – Reading, Vocabulary & Speaking Practice (B1)

A reading text about  MOBILE PHONES: Should they be banned in public places?
Society has mixed feelings about the use of mobile phones in public places like restaurants and cinemas. Whereas they were almost unknown twenty years ago, these days they are part of everyone’s life, and the world would now feel a strange place without them.

MOBILE PHONES: Should they be banned in public places?

The series "Discussion corner" intends to bring up interesting subjects to discuss in the classroom or as a pair work. It is meant for adults or high school students, level B1



DISCUSSION CORNER - Winter

The series guessing game is for young learners in order to stimulate oral practice. The students have to answer the questions, by giving an opinion. There are no wrong answers.

Halloween - Guessing Game - THE LITTLE WITCH

These exercises help you to boost your intermediate vocabulary in connection with travelling by car and traffic problems. There are synonyms and gap-filling parts as well in it.

The vocabulary for talking about cars and traffic problems

This worksheet contains a crossword puzzle about the Gunpowder Plot. It's a nice way to revise the historical event and some vocabulary. Easy exercise. A2 - B1 level.

Bonfire Night - Crossword Puzzle

The objective of this lesson is to excite and engage listening, speaking, and writing activities for learners. 

The worksheet is based on the activities of a Nigerian who wished to raise awareness about polio. 

CHARITY 

A worksheet containing some of the words and phrases frequently used throughout the movie. I am made this to hand out and go through before watching the movie with my English club.

Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse Vocabulary

Intermediate (B1)

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>

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