A selection of English ESL song test 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>

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This is a simple worksheet on relative pronouns split into two parts; a listening test, and a sentence building task.



For the first 5 questions read five simple sentences using the word 'that'. The students simply have to listen, and decide whether 'that' should be replaced by 'who' or 'which'.

I used the following 5 sentences;

1 - Tennis is the sport that I like the most. (which)

2 - This is my friend that plays video games. (who)

3 - This is the girl that likes Disney. (who)

4 - I listened to a song that made me so happy. (which)

5 - I want to help people that are sick. (who)



For the last 4 questions, show the students two pictures per question and they must then 'build' two sentences using the options provided.

I used the following pictures;

6 - a chef / a green pepper, (This is a person who cooks food. / This is a food which is green.)

7 - a banana / a fruit farmer,

8 - a giraffe / a person swimming,

9 - Taylor Swift (popular female singer) / Usain Bolt (famous runner).



At the end, check the answers as a class.





Who or Which?

There are some exercises I've used to test my students on School things vocabulary, colours and numbers as well. There are also some games on it and a Greeting song (easy to find on Youtube)

School things, numbers and colours (test)

From A2.2 onwards - Fun way to review past simple & present perfect based on Ed Sheeran's song Castle on the hill. Listening skills. Tested it on teenagers as well as 40+ish students = they all love it! Check out easier & intermediate versions on this website

Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill (B1 onwards)

Students listen to two short texts  and do the tasks: choose the correct answer. and true or false. audio https://english-portal.com.ua/tasks/Listening-unit10-5-1#topadv and https://english-portal.com.ua/tasks/Listening-unit10-4-1#topadv 

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Listening test. A2

This is a great worksheet to test your students' listening skills. There are six different exercises including synonyms, gap filling, matching sentences and putting lines in the right order

Song Someone Like You by Adele

Expressions and meaning of the title of the song are first given in class and later tested. To avoid students singing along with a song not understanding the expressions, we focus here on the vocabulary background of the words Ezra uses in the song. Words familiar to English native speakers but rather unknown expressions to foreign learners. Basic vocabulary is not to difficult and the repetition in the song makes it a real succes as singalong.  Fun with a new song of George Ezra.

George Ezra Shotgun

Taylor Swift Love Story gap fill exercise. Firstly the students listen to the song twice and fill in the gaps. Then the teacher checks the answers to be sure each student has the correct vocabulary. Then the students study the lyrics and decide which parts are in the present simple, present continuous, past continuous and future tenses. They write the corresponding parts of the lyrics in the correct box on the second page. This worksheet should fill a 60 minute lesson, depending on the level of the class. It tests listening and grammar.  

Taylor Swift gap fill

This worksheet could be used as a tool for review about adjectives focusing on the listening skill. Play the song and let the students fill in the missing adjectives in every blank.

Adjectives( Listening Test)

Listening exercises to Whale Song, by Pearl Jam

Listening Test to Whale Song

In this lesson the Ss are going to explore and identify the vocabulary and verbs related with verb tenses in present simple and present progressive, the Ss are going to complete the blanks spaces with some words and the are going to listen carefully the song in order to improve your listening.

Listening test song- Sweet psycho by: Ava max

A cloze test to be used for the listening comprehension of the song

Belle of Belfast City

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

30 Song test English ESL worksheets pdf & doc