A selection of English ESL cambridge printables

The objective of this worksheet is to help students practice exercises with passive causatives, using have something done, past participle of regular and irregular verbs

Grammar Guide + Exercises - Causitives

This is a simple description and exercise sheet for upper intermediate/First Certificate students. It tries to explain which verbs CANNOT be used in the continuous tense. It also explores different forms of expressing your likes and dislikes

Stative Verbs

This is a practice worksheet for students taking the Young Learners Exam (Flyers). In the newest revision of the exam a short writing section has been added. The students must write 20 or more words based on a 3 panel story. 



I have taken some ideas from blogpost on the Cambridge website (linked below) and created a worksheet that follows the same ideas. All ideas and pictures belong to the makers of the Cambridge Young Learners Exam and preparation materials from the 4th edition of the Fun for Flyers book and Anne Robinson, the Senior Presenter for Cambridge ESOL in Spain and co-author of the Fun for Starters, Movers and Flyers series who has written said blogpost.



 I have simply organized this blogpost into a printable worksheet to use in class. Have fun!



http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2017/09/11/young-learners-get-picture-spotting-story/





No School Today - Young Learners Flyers Writing Practice Worksheet

FCE WRITING TASK + VOCAB

This is the third in a series of intermediate prepositions and phrasal verbs. The first listed the prepositions and phrasal verbs with a sentence example. The second listed the words without the prepositions, and this one adds the missing prepositions with room to write a sentence example. Here are the other worksheets:



Resource: Prepositions and phrasal verbs



https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/prepositions/advanced-prepostions/56517



Missing prepositions for sentence writing: 



https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/prepositions/advanced-prepositions-review/56569

Advanced Preposition & Phrasal Verb List for Sentence Writing

Whenever I prepare my students for Writing 1 PET, I always come across the fact that they don´t remember the different grammatical structures. For this reason, although they have studied all of them before, I try to start practicing them one after the other.. This is the first half of my exercises. I put a bit of grammar to revise before doing the exercises. In nº 1 you have Adjectives (comparative and superlative) and Quantifiers. Nº 2 is about Would rather, prefer and had better, Present Perfect or Past Tense and Neither / Either. Nº 3 is a mixed rephrasing exercise of both. ALL WITH ANSWER KEY

REPHRASING FOR PET 2

reading and wrting two stories using past tenses. 

students fill gaps using the verb in simple past or past continuous. Then students look at some pictures and write their story using the past tenses.

Simple past vs past continuous

Practise the use of AT / ON / IN as Prepositions of Time in this worksheet which is designed for students at an Elementary and Pre-Intermediate Level of English.  For a full grammar explanation: https://www.englishcoursemalta.com/learn/english-prepositions-of-time-at-on-in/.  For interactive version of Prepositions of Time exercise: https://www.englishcoursemalta.com/learn/at-on-in-for-time-exercises/ 

AT / ON / IN Prepositions of Time

Useful expressions for CAE/CPE -  giving opinion, agreeing and disagreeing

Expressions for speaking

Worksheet useful to prepare students to pass the FCE exam, especially Part 3 and 4 in which students usually have lots of problems. The worksheet has been created focusing  on prefixes, suffixes of adjectives, nouns & verbs.



FCE - word formation

FCE to CAE prep for ´phrasal verbs on the subject of exercising and sport. The usual mix-and-match, gap-fill, story with debate and bingo. Ideal for the Cambridge Grammar and Vocabulary books, ´particularly the vocabulary sections. At the end of the worksheet there is a reading and use of English part 4 test to reinforce what they have been learning. Answers at the back.

Phrasal Verbs about Exercising and Sport

put the words in correct order,  wh question. how, what, why, where, when, who. 13 sentences. u can answer each to practice speaking, ask/why/you/do/me/?



how/are/parents/old/your/?



subject/what/favourite/your/is/?



does/summer/when/

word order wh questions

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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