A selection of English ESL war and peace printables

In this lesson, I used a little bit of history with a little bit of music to teach vocabulary about peace and to discuss the dangers of war. My love for South Africa made me choose it as the best option to show what it symbolizes and what it stands for as a nation. The lesson ends with a very enlightening assignment. Enjoy! Peace from Tunisia!

War and Peace

CONFLICT, WAR AND PEACE.

WHAT IS PEACE? WHAT IS A WAR? WHY DO WE NEED PEACE? WHY A WAR BEGINS/BEGAN? HOW TO ACHIEVE PEACE? WHAT TO DO TO ATTAIN PEACE IN A COUNTRY/IN THE WORLD?

CONFLICT, WAR AND PEACE.

Writing comprehension worksheet for students on the topic of war and peace.

War or Peace

This worksheet is designed for B2 (Upper-Intermediate) students and focuses on clauses of contrast and purpose. Using the story of Radegast, the Slavic god of hospitality and war, students are introduced to both mythological content and advanced grammatical structures. The worksheet includes reading comprehension, grammar tasks, and creative production. The grammar point is taught through the P.P.P method—first presenting clauses of contrast (e.g., although, despite) and purpose (e.g., so that, in order to), followed by guided practice and free sentence production. This ensures that students understand the context in which these clauses are used and can apply them accurately in their writing.
 

Students will explore vocabulary related to Slavic culture and mythology, enhancing their ability to understand historical content. The task-based learning activity encourages independent research and creative output, allowing learners to connect grammar with real-world topics. This worksheet is well-suited for upper-intermediate learners aiming to improve their grammar skills while engaging with culturally rich material. The variety of activities ensures that students practice grammar, reading comprehension, and critical thinking in an integrated way.

Radegast: clauses of contrast and purpose

this is a crossword about peace and war related words

peace and conflict crossword

This is a great story about how the song "White Christmas" was the start of the end of the Vietnam War with the USA evacuating Saigon. The story is interesting because of the way it was carried out and the importance this day holds in history. 

The reading is covers Pre-intermediate to advanced levels. Advanced levels can extend the discussion about the history of the war or maybe a war they were personally involved in closer to their country. 

Its a 30 to 40 minute lesson. 
Listen to the story at https://youtu.be/25baP7X1ReA


White Christmas Song and the End of the Vietnam war

Before students watch the film "The wind that shakes the barley", they do ex 1 - match the words and definitions. Then, they watch the whole film and complete the summary with the words from ex 1. They look at the scenes from the film and put them in the order they saw them in the film. The last part is a group discussion

The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Irish War of Independence

 This engaging worksheet explores the story of the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II. It includes reading comprehension questions, vocabulary exercises, and a detailed grammar section focusing on the second conditional. The worksheet is designed for teens, with beautiful, hyper-realistic images of the Code Talkers to enhance the learning experience. Perfect for teaching both history and language skills, it emphasizes the importance of communication and teamwork.

The Windtalkers (second conditional)

This B1-B2 level worksheet focuses on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an event that triggered World War I. It includes a reading passage, True or False statements, and comprehension questions, complete with an answer key.

The worksheet helps students improve reading comprehension, critical thinking, and vocabulary. The reading passage provides historical context, while the True or False questions test their attention to detail. The comprehension questions encourage deeper understanding and recall of important facts.

The answer key allows for quick and accurate assessment, making it easy for teachers to provide feedback. This resource effectively combines history and language learning, engaging students in both subjects.

The Assassination That Triggered World War I

This B1-B2 level worksheet focuses on the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a significant event in Czech history. Students will learn about Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, the Czech soldiers who executed Operation Anthropoid. The worksheet includes a reading passage detailing the assassination, Nazi reprisals, and the legacy of Gabčík and Kubiš. Activities include True or False questions, comprehension questions, and a vocabulary translation exercise. An answer key is provided for quick assessment. A historical painting-style illustration of the assassination enhances engagement and understanding. This resource is suitable for individual study, group work, and class discussions in history lessons focused on World War II and Czech resistance.

The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: Operation Anthropoid

This is connected to my PPT - AI - The Moral Panic. It is a breakout task to help students situate the discourse (The War on Terror) with the general theme of Moral Panics. They are then asked to go and consider how the current Moral Panic in relation to AI is similar to previous moral panics. It is a group discussion, which ends with a task asking students to find examples of AI gone wrong, who this affected the most, and why dominant groups would want to prevent the general public or certain groups having general access to AI?

Moral Panic - Terror is the problem - The War on Terror

This engaging worksheet presents students with an ethical dilemma titled The River Crossing, designed for B1–B2 level learners. It begins with a short, thought-provoking reading about a woman caught in a dangerous situation during a war, forced to make difficult moral choices. The story sets the stage for vocabulary practice, a character ranking task, and rich classroom discussion. Students must decide who is most responsible for the woman’s death, explain their reasoning, and reflect on broader ethical questions such as loyalty, love, and moral duty. The worksheet also includes five alternative scenarios to encourage deeper thinking, empathy, and debate. Perfect for critical thinking lessons, conversation classes, or introducing ethics in EFL contexts.

The River Crossing ethical dilemma

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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