A selection of English ESL esp printables

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>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

This is a review page that I made for 3 different levels of ESL YL. All within Grades 1-3. 

I left the level on the top of each page so that you can see the breakdown; however, it is easily editable so you can remove/replace. This is because there are some repeat phrases on each page. The phrases are also editable (although you may need to un-group the boxes to edit) 

This worked really well for my YL as we had Term Test coming up and they needed to practice particular phrases. I allowed the students to pretend  to be the teacher and ask each other questions so that they could practice both question and response. 

Speaking Test Review

Teaching which preposition follows after which adjective. This one worked really well with my Ss when they had problems memorizing the right prepositions after adjectives. I wrote some little memo "poems" for adjective+preposition pairs, where the nouns or verbs start with the same two or three letters as the preposition, e.g.: "bored WIth WItches," "interested IN the INternet," "responsible FOR FORmatting your hard drive." Through combining an adjective with a "story" with alliterations, plus a picture, these little memos will help your Ss memorize more easily which preposition comes after which adjective. Thanks, Évi, for the inspiration! :)

Adjective + Preposition: Memo cards 1.

Summary of the use of the most frequent contrast linkers with examples. I used it as a revision with my FCE students but it can also serve as an introduction to linkers with lower levels.



Hope you find it useful!

Contrast linkers (but, however, although, though, even though, whereas, while, despite, in spite of)

Select two speakers, one blue and the other black. The speakers move through the list alphabetically. They throw a dice for each letter and then speak the line that corresponds with the number. After they finish, another couple start. When everyone has finished, compare how different the conversation was in content but how similar in context. 

Conversation Dice Game: Restaurant Version

Just a worksheet to build a clock. I let my pupils colour it as follows to help them learning, how to tell the time in English.
Number/Field around this number
1 black/red , 2 black/red, 3 green/red, 4 black/red, 5 black/red, 6 purple/red, 7 black/blue, 8 black/blue, 9 orange/blue, 10 black/blue, 11 black/blue, 12 yellow/yellow
 words past = red, to = blue
 Important are not the colours but the colour system. Remind your pupils not to use dark colours (esp. the blue), otherwise the numbers might not be readable.



Building a clock

A wordsearch including a picture dictionary on feelings. Suitable for beginners and primary school children. I created this worksheet, along with 9 more, especially for my 2nd year elementary students who are learing English with Explorers. I hope you like it.

EXPLORERS 2 UNIT 1 FEELINGS WORDSEARCH

Sts write the corresponding conjunctions. Thanks to Marina Rosso (ESLPrintables) for the template.

Ana:-)))

BECAUSE; BUT;HOWEVER

In this worksheet, sts will have the opportunity to practice prepositions by matching the pictures with their corresponding word. I drew the pictures. I hope you like it.

Prepositions

Ss have to match halloween related words to their corresponding pictures and colour them afterwards.

Halloween matching and colouring

This worksheet is designed to guide students to make a descriptive acrostic poem using the letters of their name. The worksheet provides a sentence prompt for each letter of the English alphabet. Students find the letters in their name, complete the corresponding sentences, and then create an acrostic poem on a separate sheet of paper. 



An acrostic poem lists the letter in the student's name (written in large capital letters) down the left side of the page, and each letter starts a sentence (from left to right) about the student. Students with a repeated letter in their names can use the same prompt twice, but provide different answers each time the letter appears. 



Feel free to suggest alternative prompts in the comments; this is a working draft but I figured it could be fun to try in the classroom.

My Name Acrostic Poem

Reading comprehension text followed by questions + true or false.  Key included

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

An enjoyable reading activity about days of the week. this activity is especially for young learners.  reading activity comprises adjectives and present simple verbs. I hope you'll like it.

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