A selection of English ESL printables with empathy

In this developed version of ALIBI, students play the roles of suspects in a murder mystery, except in this version, there is an actual murderer. You will distribute these character cards (7) to students, and have the rest play police officers. The characters can spend 10 minutes socializing and interacting with each other, while the police officers prepare questions for the investigation (they'll be briefed about the main plot).

After, you can start the interrogation whichever way you'd like (characters interrogated in isolation, or do it as a speed-dating style, each character interviewed by an officer across the class).
Tips: students should not share the "secrets" in their cards (only if absolutely necessary), they also have the freedom to make up additional details about their characters when convenient.

HAVE FUN! :)

Murder Mystery (Clue Game)

Listening activity song with Flowers by Miley Cyrus. You could find different activities for practicing and improving our student's skills. It has a dictionary, missing words, and matching exercises.

Listening activity : Flowers by Miley Cyrus

This is a great picture of a zoo, viewed from the animal surgery. Then there is a passage describing it and what is going on, with some comprehension questions. Of course, they can do extra work by naming all the animals on the picture. Model answers included.

Caring for the animals

This is CLIL worksheet about environment. It includes answer key and it's suitable for pre-intermediate and intermediate students. Reading, Writing and Vocabulary exercise.

Green Packaging Reading & Writing

Learn about environmental issues related to energy sources, climate change, waste, lifestyle, pollution, policies, overpopulation, deforestation, exploitation and more! Discover some idioms, synonyms, vocabulary and come up with viable solutions for saving the environment.

EARTH DAY / ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (printable + answer key)

Learn about the history of International Women's Day and the real idea behind it.
Learn about the voting rights for women in different countries.
Discover inclusive language.
Decipher terms related to feminism, equality and gender.

International Women's Day/ Women's Rights/ Gender/ Suffragette Movement

Horrible Histories Rosa Parks Equality Song from episode 1 series 5.



#RosaParks is here to sing about how she sat on a bus and kick- started a massive Civil Rights movement in #America.



This is an activity that you can do in class with students.

It's a Listening activity from which you can draw discussion by having converstations and going through the storyline in the song.





Horrible Histories - Rosa Parks - 'I Sat On A Bus' - Worksheet

In this activity the students meet Zoe, a teenage girl showing us some holiday photos on her mobile phone. the students describe the photos by using the Past continuous tense. Then they speak about their favourite personal photos and write a description of one of them. They optionally can do a memory quiz on a YouTube video about Past Continuous.

Past continuous: Holiday photos.

International Women's Day is an interactive lesson based on a short video. Its aim is to generate a discussion about IWD and its relevance today. Students also work on their listening skills and vocabulary. The lesson is designed for B2+ / C1 learners.

The lessons begins with students answering some questions about IWM.
This is followed by a flexistage where less advanced groups can analyse the vocab from the listening in the next stage.
Listening stage 1:
Students define two terms from the listening. Then they listen to the first part and check the answers.
Listening stage 2:
Students are given a number of milestones and events in women's suffrage and try to match them with the dates. This might be done individually or in pairs. Students listen to the second part and check their answers. More advanced groups might not be given the dates and, instead, could be asked to provide them based on the listening.
Listening stage 3:
This stage is quite generic. Students answer three questions in pairs and then listen to the last part. They compare their own  answers with those from the video.
If there is time left, ss might answer a few more questions about IWD.

International Women's Day

AIMS:
The major aim of this exercise is to talk about experience.
•	to develop and enhance vocabulary related to everyday situations
•	to practise informal conversation
•	to learn about classmates' experience and attitudes
•	to share important facts about each other

Today - tell me about your day

Aim:
the major aim of this exercise is to talk about the frequency of performing certain activities. •	to practice adverbs of frequency
•	to stimulate informal conversation
•	to practise questions and responses
•	to learn more about classmatescontext:you are on an international meeting/conference. You ask other attendants about the frequency of their typical activities at work/in business/at home. You ask the questions. Procedure:
1. Tell your student(s) to get into pairs and inform them that they are going to exchange information on how often they do certain everyday activities. 2. In a group: pre-teach the vocabulary included in the worksheet (by providing pictures or miming the activities). Present your students with how we position adverbs of frequency in a sentence. Tell your students to work in pairs and write their answers in the worksheet. Finally, ask your group for feedback, ask them to report to you who likes what. 3. One-to-one lesson: explain to your student that you will ask each other questions and write down the answers. If your student has difficulties with vocabulary, be prepared to show/explain/teach a few examples. Materials:
1. At intermediate level – none
2. At low beginner level – you may need examples of pictures of each category to support your student in comprehension. You may, as well, mime the actions, which will make the exercise funnier. Be ready to teach adverbs of frequency first, by drawing a graphtime: 60 minutes (or more)

How often do you. . . ?

Students pick a phrase from the box that is the most appropriate to the situation depicted. Suggested answers given on the 2nd page, but for some situations there is more than one possible response. Have fun teaching!

Matching situations with polite responses

Empathy

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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193 Empathy English ESL worksheets pdf & doc