A selection of English ESL academic writing printables

Questions for formative assessment. This file includes 30 questions for Academic writing subject of 4th year students. Students are required to choose 10 questions from the list and answer. Units 6-10.

Academic Writing Formative questions

This outline form can be used before the students develop their idea into paragraphs. In order to write this outline, the students should do research activities by finding the data needed for their topic in Academic Writing. This can help them to minimize their mistakes for the final submission. 

Outline Form for Academic Writing

This worksheet is designed for (business) students who want to improve their academic writing skills by understanding the use of reporting verbs and appropriate tense usage in in-text citations. The exercises focus on the function of reporting verbs and their importance in presenting information accurately and objectively. The worksheet also follows APA style formatting guidelines, which is commonly used in business academic writing. By completing the exercises, students will gain a better understanding of the importance of reporting verbs in academic writing and learn how to use them effectively and accurately.

Reporting Verbs in Academic Writing (for Business Students)

Created for use with Interface 4, Unit 3.  Students complete the gapfills so that they understand how linkers of addition and consequence are used.  They can then write their own opinion essay.

How to write an opinion essay

This worksheet is prepared based on cause and effect linking words that are incredibly important for quality writing and speaking. It is intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced level English worksheet for adults and high school students.

Linking Words Practice +Keys

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS THE ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 2 WRITING TIPS. THOSE STUDENTS WHO FACE PROBLEM IN APPEARING FOR IELTS EXAM CAN BOOST THEIR WRITING TECHNIQUES AND STRUCTURE FOR VARIOUS ESSAYS

IELTS WRITING TASK 2

This is a worksheet to help students improve their essay structure. It teaches them about internal paragraph structure and general essay structure, as well as providing practice activities. It's particularly useful for practising IELTS academic writing task 2, but it could be used to teach anyone needing to improve their essay structure.

Essay Structure Worksheet

These are a few worksheets for the IELTS Academic writing task 1. There are some Bar chart exercises such as fill in with the correct word and rearrange the paragraphs of the sample answer so that students can familiarize with the task and vocabulary for the writing task. 

There are some tips for each task taken from a valid IELTS practice website as well as answers for the teacher to use at the end of the tasks.

The objective is to practice with the vocabulary needed for writing task 1 of the IELTS Academic before asking the students to write an analysis by themselves. I have used these worksheets several times and I find them quite useful for students who do not have much experience with writing an analysis for a bar chart as they use relevant vocabulary and structures. 

The file was created in word so changes can be made to suit other classes/ students or to remove an exercise. 



IELTS Academic Bar Task 1

This is a brief grammar explanation with 85 multiple -choice questions. I prepared this worksheet especially for Cambridge Pet, FCE, IELTS, CAE  and other proficiency exams like TOEFL. It is also for students who needs grammar for writing. Therefore the worksheet is simple black and white. I hope You'll enjoy it. Answer key included. 

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

Mr Bean´s activity goes with the hand with a video that you can dowmload from you tube called"Mr Bean in the Wild". Here students watch the video and learn how to use present continous. then they try to remember the vocabulary and write it on it.

WHAT MR BEAN DOING

worksheet where you can complete with nouns, jobs, professions and tools to express what the funny pictures says.

To make a mental relation between jobs and tools.

Professions and tools

IELTS Vocabulary means using a more academic style and word choice (Lexical Resource) when writing your essay. Using Topic Specific Vocabulary, collocations and words from the Academic Word List will help considerably.

This lesson focuses on what to learn, the importance of context, and how to learn / memorise these new terms so you can improve your writing.



Topic Specific Vocabulary



The best vocabulary to score in IELTS is Topic Specific Vocabulary – a vocabulary that focuses on one topic.

In this article we will give you plenty of detailed explanations, tips, examples and resources for practice on this subject.

Topic Specific Vocabulary also contains lots of collocations, so you can expect a thorough explanation on what they are and how to use them.

What is a collocation?



A collocation is a group of words that has an above average possibility of being found together.

Using collocations in your writing and speaking helps to make your language sound more natural and fluent. This in turn makes your skills higher and gets you better scoring in essays.

What is the best way to learn Topic Specific Collocations?

The best way is to learn Topic Specific Collocations is to look for them being used in context, in their natural environment.

Each topic below contains a list of collocations, a sample band 9 essay in a gap fill exercise.



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IELTS Vocabulary and Lexical Resource

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

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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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35 Academic writing English ESL worksheets pdf & doc