A selection of English ESL ed sheeran printables

This is worksheet on Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran .



Students must fill in the blanks, circle the correct word and then choose the pronoun and what it refers to. 

Enjoy

Castle on the Hill Ed Sheeran

This song is an homage to Ed Sheeran's grandmother. It's his grandparents love story. You can practice the simple past, regular and irregular verbs with it. Hope you enjoy it.

Nancy Mulligan - Ed Sheeran - Song Gap Fill

Worksheet to work with the song I don't care by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber. Includes several activities like matching with a picture, joining sentence halves, fill in the blanks, etc. Keys included on second page. 

I don't care. Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber

It's a listening exercise where students listen to the song (link included in the worksheet) and do various exercises: fill in the gaps, put the sentences in the correct order and correct the words. Key (original lyrics) is on the last pages.

Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran and Elton John

Excellent worksheet to practice Present Continuous and Past simple. I used it with my secondary students and with my adult students. They liked it a lot! Everyone loves Ed Sheeran. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vv-BfVoq4g

Perfect - Ed Sheeran - Present Continuous & Past Simple

This is a worksheet I have prepared for my low secondary school students struggling with simple past of irregular verbs. They are simply asked to complete the lyrics with the simple past of the verbs in brackets. The aim of the activity is to activate their prior schemata or, if not, their listening skills.

At the end of the first activity, the students will complete the table with all the verbs they met in the song, and will keep the table for future lessons adding other verbs.

A follow-up activity can include writing an interview for the singer with questions that has answers in the text: e.g. "What did you find?" ---> "I found a love for me"



Perfect - Ed Sheeran - Song Gap Fill & Exercises

Slower song from the Great Ginger himself. My last worksheet of his song has nearly 1,000 downloads so I thought some may appreciate another.



Encourage your learners to read the words in the box on the right. Before listening, encourage them to try and predict which word will go where - by looking for contextual clues or possible rhymes etc. 

Learners write in the corresponding number in the space. On actual listening learners can see if they guessed correctly and change accordingly if not.



Good for 'body parts' also. Enjoy.

SONG 'Thinking out Loud' by Ed Sheeran

Listening comprehension 

There are 4 parts : 2 parts where pupils fill in the blanks with given words, 2 parts where they reorder the lyrics

Teacher's key is included



Ed Sheeran - Shape of You Listening comprehension

June 2019. "Beautiful People" by Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid. 

Listening activity for the students of intermediate level. 

The students must insert the words they hear in the song. 



Ed Sheeran's songs work well with the students of all ages. 

Beautiful People by Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid 

for A2.1 students - Fun way to review past simple based on Ed Sheeran's song Castle on the hill. Listening skills. Fill gap lyrics with infinitive verbs given into brackets. Tested it on teenagers as well as 40+ish students = they all love it! Check out intermediate versions on this website

Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill (A2.1)

An engaging worksheet to accompany the long awaited new song from Ed Sheeran. Encourage you students to try and predict which of the emboldened pair of words they will hear (using contextual clues, context, rhyming sounds etc.). Then on listening to the actual song (available free on YouTube) firstly have them check to see if they were correct and then circle the correct word. You may wish to pre / post - teach contextual vocabulary. Enjoy

SONG 'Castle on the Hill' by Ed Sheeran.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOBvRs4btvE

Cover of a song by The Pogues (1988) by Ed Sheeran and Anne Marie on BBC Radio 1.

It's a Christmas favourite in the English-speaking world, though it's about a sad, failed love relationship. Original lyrics have been softened a bit for airing on the BBC it seems...

Enjoy!

Ed Sheeran - Christmas Song - Fairytale of New York

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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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)

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Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

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A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

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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

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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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100 Ed Sheeran English ESL worksheets pdf & doc