A selection of English ESL toronto 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

Students choose a festival to research. They get to know their new city by creating a poster to highlight the key information about one of Toronto's many festivals.  Later, the posters are displayed so students can learn about other festivals happening year-round.

Toronto Festival Poster

This is a worksheet cotaining two short exercises on reading. The tasks are: true / false sentences and matching the words with their definitions.The text is short and easy and the exercises are not time consuming. You can use it as a test on reading or just as an exercise during the lesson. It's fully editable so you can adjust it to your needs. Enjoy! :D

Reading - Did You Know? (1) - TORONTO

The Dialogue is for two ESL students. Subject is visiting a bus tour reservation place, and asking questions about what city tours are available. There are references to an actual tour bus.

( I checked the website). Key phrases are translated in Korean using "google Translate". The level would be high school, or pre- intermediate. There are instructions to describe what is going on.

Toronto City Bus tour reservation and questions. Booking a tour

The students watch a 16: 27 minute long video : 



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  featuring a video of a train trip from Toronto to Vancouver. Prices are listed, along with timetables. There are 9 questions about the video that your students can answer after watching. This is for my "travel english" ESL video adult class, I would say at intermediate level. Obviously the students have to be able to read english.



You can design additional questions  around prices for different classes, in addition to questions regarding the timetable, or the train trip itself.



Most answers are self evident from the video, or are posted in writing in the video. They are also listed on page 6.



For those interested in Canadian train travel the worksheet should quite appealing.





Canadian Train travel. Questions about VIA train from Toronto to Vancouver. accompanying youtube video of trip.

Role play: Two roles, Air Canada agent and a traveler. There are some Korean translations , but this role play can be used for any target language. This is a revision to the 2020 version I uploaded, that has a few erors ( 2020 version) This is for beginner to intermediate ESL students. I used laminated boarding passes that I found online.

This is about a traveller who has missed a scheduled flight from Incheon Korea to Toronto. It is a role play for two students

Hi, it's me again , got to go back to work again , so here is a copybook cover . Children have to complete with the missing names then colour the flags, there's the CN tower of Toronto for Canada

Copybook first page complete and colour

Here is new updated copybook cover to start that new school year for those concerned . students complete and colour the flags( Uluru , Toronto Communication Tower..)

Copybook cover 19/20

Hi to you all , let's  start a new school year now (Covid free if possible)  here students have to complete, for Canada it is Toronto Communication tower and for Australia it is Uluru ( Ayers Rock)

New school year copybook cover

Hello to you all, back to school !!Here is a workeet in which students have to complete the missing information and name the elements proposed and finally colour( Communication Tower in Toronto for Canada

Copybook cover

Fill in the Blanks. Popular song "Toes" by the Canadian and Toronto-based Lights. 

Toes

This is a reading comprehension activity for elementary students on the recent Pan Am Games 2015 that took place in Toronto, Canada, last July. The objective is to read the information about the games and answer true or false. Then, students have to complete some sentences about themselves. This activity is suitable to be used together with vocabulary about sports and Olympic Games. 

Pan Am Games 2015



Nadia is a 16-year-old student from Toronto who combines her passion for technology with a commitment to social activism. Her worksheet provides an in-depth look at how she uses her coding skills to create apps that address social issues and promote gender equality in STEM. 


The questions on Nadia's worksheet explore her involvement in her school's coding club, her leadership in promoting women in technology, and her hobbies that include digital art and e-sports. This worksheet is designed to inspire teenagers by showcasing how technological aptitude can intersect with meaningful social change, encouraging them to think critically about how they can use their own skills to contribute to their communities and beyond.

13 Toronto English ESL worksheets pdf & doc