A selection of English ESL feelings, emotions printables with general reading comprehension, reading comprehension

General reading comprehension

Feelings, emotions

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 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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There are multiple tasks to practice adjectives such as filling the gaps, correcting the mistakes answering the questions, and writing examples of sentences with the learned adjectives.

A worksheet to practice simple adjectives to describe feelings and emotions. Suitable for elementary adult students

Some exercises + a short text to practise was/were and vocabulary for different emotions. The list of emotions was taken from this website:
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/word-games/emotions-feelings-1
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/word-games/emotions-feelings-2

Was/were + emotions

A reading comprehension exercise. Students must fill in the gaps to complete the passage with the words given in the box below. The story is set to Transylvania...

Reading comprehension: A trip to Transylvania.

It is a story about a frightening experience: aliens landing in the garden... Some words are missing. Students must read the passage and fill in the spaces with the words given to find out what happened.

A spacecraft in the garden - missing words

This worksheet is made for pre-intermediate and intemediate students to explore the topic of emojis in online communication. It includes an argumentative article and some tasks.

Emojis: for and against

This worksheet contains a passage about a strange vampire. Students must read and re-write it with the prompts given. Then they must write suitable questions for the statements below.

A night with a vampire - Reading & Writing

This learning task will give the entire grasp of the student the basic and general rules the subject-verb agreement. The vocabularies and examples being used are varied from simple to average. Hence this learning material is appropriate to primary to secondary students.

Subject-verb agreement

This worksheet is designed for **A2-level students** according to the CEFR framework. It focuses on **participial adjectives (-ed vs. -ing forms)**, helping students distinguish between adjectives that describe feelings (**bored, tired, stressed**) and those that describe the cause of those feelings (**boring, tiring, stressful**). The worksheet includes a variety of exercises—warm-up questions, vocabulary matching, true/false statements, multiple-choice questions, and fill-in-the-blank tasks. These activities give students ample opportunities to practice the grammar point in different contexts.


By engaging in discussion and guided practice, students will develop a deeper understanding of how to use **-ed and -ing adjectives** correctly, reducing common errors. The article "Hacks to Deal with Stress" is relatable to students, as it addresses everyday stressors while introducing the target language naturally. The task-based homework encourages students to apply what they've learned in real-life scenarios, solidifying their understanding of these commonly confused adjective forms.

Hacks to Deal with Stress: participial adjectives (-ed vs. -ing forms)

There are some pictures and words describing emotions. Students must match the pictures with the words and then they must complete the sentences below with the words from the previous exercise.

Emotions and basic vocabulary

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Find the correct answer to  fini the test based on what you have leant before, try to do it individually without any supportion


Test for Units 4 5 6

It's an exercise to enrich vocabulary. Students must look at the cartoons and match them with the words given, then they must do a fill in the gap activity with the words of the previous exercise.

Reading - What luck

This worksheet, titled "Guardian of Fukushima: Naoto Matsumura," is designed for students at the B2-C1 CEFR level. The objective is to develop students' understanding of compassion, resilience, and animal welfare through the story of Naoto Matsumura. By engaging with the text and responding to various questions, students will enhance their reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. The worksheet includes a biography of Naoto Matsumura, a former construction worker who became known for his dedication to caring for animals in the Fukushima exclusion zone. Activities consist of True or False questions, comprehension questions, and discussion prompts that encourage students to explore themes of empathy and resilience. A QR code is provided for students to access extra vocabulary practice related to the text, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience. This activity is designed to take approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour and requires printed worksheets and internet access for QR code resources.

17 Feelings, emotions, General reading comprehension, Reading Comprehension English ESL worksheets pdf & doc