A selection of English ESL to be verb printables

The series board games should be a funny, playful way to practice vocabulary and grammar orally. The instructions for the teachers are included.

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Board game - simple past

Playing Domino can be very amazing!

 In this worksheet you will find 24 cards to pair. Your students can work in pairs or into two different teams in order to discover the right match.  

This game was created to practice modal verbs (can- could - may- might ) and also their negative forms. 

through these cards students can learn and understand the use and the meanings of modal verbs in different contexts.

Game: Domino with modals "CAN - COULD - MAY - MIGHT"

This is just a little worksheet enabling students to go from direct to reported speech and vice-versa, just by looking at the - very basic - comic strip which I clumsily, but paintstakingly wrote using cliparts. The exercise is simple: each couple of verbs (direct, indirect) has to be underlined in a different colour - you can simply alternate - then the students can copy the couples and make their own.   

PAST AND PRESENT: REPORTED SPEECH / INDIRECT SPEECH

The material contains grammar exercise for generalizing and systematizing students' knowledge of Past Simple Tense and practicing practical formation skills sentences and the use of this time form; the material can be used during face-to-face and distance learning. Illustrations were taken from: https://www.hiclipart.com/

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Past Simple. Irregular Verbs

Objective: to learn fabric patterns / print vocabulary, is a fun activity, that might be completed with hangman in the witheboard, applied to the fabric patterns already existing in the classroom, the ones we all are wearing, and with a fashion magazine as well, to use the rest of sujects, for examples, prince charles and diana ARE wearing, this has plenty of possibilities, as we can also introduce the verb to wear.

Patterns of Fabric and Clothing Styles

The series board games should be a funny, playful way to practice vocabulary and grammar orally. The instructions for the teachers are included.

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Board game - Verbs

A short phrasal verb worksheet about learning languages. There is a bingo game included, plus a mix-and-match and, although slightly longer, this Kahoot quiz. There will be a longer version with more phrasal verbs when I get the time to finish it. The answers are on the back. Click below for the Kahoot: 



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Phrasal Verbs about Learning Languages

Relative pronouns and relative adverbs introduce relative clauses.

'Who' - 'whose' - 'whom' - 'that' and 'which' - are relative pronouns.

'Where' is a relative adverb.Whose refers to ownership. 

Whose dictionary is this?

There's the girl whose car was stolen.



Whom: 

When who is the object of a verb, whom can be used instead, but it is formal and rather old-fashioned. 

In modern speech, we use who, or we leave out the pronoun.



Questions

This set of 3 games covers 80 irregular verbs. There are different tasks for different fields. Students have to unscramble the irregular verb, guess the verb from the picture or give past forms of verbs from additional cards. Verbs on cards are grouped according to the pattern i.e. "fly, draw, throw" to make it easier to practise and remember. Of course rules can be changed and modified. Instructions and cards included.

3 Games to Practice Irregular Verbs

This ESL worksheet is a good idea to check the student's knowledge of animals name, action verbs, present continuous tense, etc. It can be used both inside and outside the classroom as grammar guide, vocabulary task, fun activity, role play- one student ask the questions while the second student is answering to the question. You can used in a many different ways in your teaching class. Good luck! :)

What are the animals doing?

This wordsearch worksheet is inspired by fantastic book "Word Games with English 1" by Deirdre Howard-Williams and Cynthia Herd. I used the structure of the Verb Game given in the book and adapted it to the verbs I needed to learn with my students. It can also be used to learn irregular verbs: just ask the students to write 3 forms of the verb next to the corresponding picture.

Wordsearch - Quick Find the Irregular Verbs

Fill in the gaps with the given verbs in Past Simple according to the meaning before listening, try to complete the gaps with some missing words, plus try to guess the title of the song and disscuss the main idea afterwards, it's good for kids of elementary school, but the worksheet can be used in 5-7th forms as well to talk about pets, friendship... Enjoy the song with your kids!

Puppy Love Song

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)

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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