A selection of English ESL daily printables

Note that this game has been created for only small groups of 8 students. Students are supposed to talk about celebrities' daily routine in first person while others think about the person's identity. The group is allowed to guess the name at the end of a presentation. Further instructions are contained in the file.

The Daily Routine of Famous People - Game

The topic of this test is DAILY ROUTINES. It includes:

1 - reading comprehension (2 tasks)

2 - language (question-words, present simple, possessive determiners, present continuous and physical description)

3 -  writing (a daily routine)

4 - listening

Fully editable + key 

4-page TEST - 7th year - DAILY ROUTINES

Here you will find a small reading comprehension about Lorna's daily routines , then on the second page you will find FIVE DIFFERENT exercises to practise present simple

Lorna's daily routine + 5 present simple exercises

It´s a battleship prepared to revise daily routines and the time through questions and answers, perfect for oral practise. The instructions are included on the second page.

Smurfs Battleship with daily routines and time

The daily activities of an American girl. A model composition to use as an example for your own. For students at the pre-A1 level of Junior A. Editable.There are 14 compositions in all- 11 different ones. Bind in a spiral or use individually.

Creative Writing: Ashley's Daily Routines # 10 Beginner

I use this worksheet with my pre-intermidiate students who are confident with the use of the Present Simple Tense. But I believe it can be also used (with some modifications) with lower-level students to practice the vocabulary on daily routines or for vocabulary revision.

The lesson inludes watching a 7 min long video about Mr. Bean and my students usually have fun watching it and get engaged into the lesson more. 

The worksheets are aimed at practicing the following vocabulary:

Be late for school/work

Brush teeth

Come home

Do exercises

Do homework

Dream about something

Fall asleep

Get dressed

Get into bed

Get out of bed 

Get up 

Go to school/work

Have a bath/shower

Have breakfast/lunch/dinner 

Sleep 

Start school/work

Finish school/work

Switch off your alarm

Set your alarm

Wake up 

Your alarm goes off



I have also included a lesson plan in the end of the document describing how would my lesson usually go. Still, I haven't uncluded and lead-in. 

Also I believe this lesson can be devided into two parts (morning and evening routines separately) but I have never tried doing this as my lessons usually last 1 hour and a half. 



Daily Routines Worksheet with video (Mr. Bean)

Students have to copy the correct expressions which are on the second page under the pictures to talk about a typical day , than they write about their own routine on weekdays

Daily routine on week days matching + writing

With this worksheet, students will be able to practise the present simple with all the persons, including 3rd singular and this will help them recognizing the changes this person suffers. Moreover, they will learn some vocabulary of routines and phrasal verbs and also they will learn where the adverbs of frequency and expressions of time have to be placed in a sentence .

Present simple Daily routines adverbs of frequency

I designed this worksheet since I saw the need for  my learners to recognize what other students around the world do during a typical day at college. This worksheet is useful for teacher who are working on the topic of college life and routines. The writing task is appropriate for teachers who want to reinforce present simple tenses and sequence markers or if those who are introducing the topic as well.



A variation of this activity can be to write a timetable with the different activities learners do during the day at college first and compare it with that of Charlene and have a discussion about it.



Feel free to adapt it to your learners needs but remember to give me credit for it and please do not upload it to any other website and claim it as yours. I hope you enjoy it!

Charlene Hong's Daily Routine At Harvard College 

Now I´m continuing the series about the adult ss in a language school. Here´s Charles´s daily routine and 4 tasks to the text. Hope you and your ss will find it useful. The cliparts are from Philip Martin. Thanks for his generosity. Have a great week and Happy New Year to everybody. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi

Charles´s daily routine *** for adult ss

Describe the pictures and talk about your daily routine using the questions and the word bank. It can be used on level A2 or B1. Pictures from google images. Thanks in advance for your kind comments. Hugs from Hungary! 

Picture-based discussion elementary - (2) Daily Routine

I have been given the task of teaching adult with very little reading and writing skills. I tried to look for something suitable to use with them in class, but ended up making my own material. This is part four of my new series of reading & writing worksheets for total beginners. This one sheds light on the theme of " Daily Routines".

Vocabulary: Reading & Writing / Daily Routines - Beginner Adults

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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