A selection of English ESL ai technology printables

Preparation: Familiarize yourself with the text to get a good understanding of its content and themes.


Question 1 - AI's Impact on Work: Ask students to discuss the arguments for and against AI's impact on work and efficiency. Encourage them to cite examples from the text.


Question 2 - Healthcare Advancements: Have students explore how AI has transformed healthcare and the potential risks involved. Get them to explain the benefits and possible drawbacks.


Question 3 - Financial Sector: Discuss how AI has revolutionized the financial industry, focusing on both the improvements and challenges mentioned.


Question 4 - Education Systems: Prompt students to talk about AI's influence on education and address the need for equitable access to AI-driven tools.


Question 5 - Job Markets: Engage students in a conversation about the effects of AI on traditional job markets and the necessary adaptations for the workforce.


Question 6 - Creativity: Ask students to reflect on AI’s role in art and music, and to consider the philosophical questions about creativity that arise.


Question 7 - Dietary Improvements: Get students to analyze how AI technology can assist in making dietary improvements more accessible.


Question 8 - Overall Impact: Finally, have a discussion about the overall opportunities and challenges presented by AI, and how it can be used responsibly.



Reading: What is Ai ?

This is a conversation-based EFL activity designed for preteens at an intermediate language level. It explores the future possibilities of Minecraft, encouraging students to imagine and discuss potential game updates, such as smarter mobs, virtual reality gameplay, infinite dimensions, and time travel features. The activity includes engaging discussion questions that prompt students to express their opinions, describe their ideal game updates, and debate different features. It helps improve speaking skills, creativity, and vocabulary related to gaming and technology. This lesson is ideal for fostering interactive and dynamic discussions in a fun and familiar context for young learners.

The Future of Minecraft

Reading comprehension/listening comprehension. Topic - AI, models, social media. Suitable for more advanced students - B1 to C1 level. Additional conversation questions are provided.

AI models - AITANA

This reading activity explores the evolution of hockey from the 1990s to today, focusing on how players have become faster, more agile, and more skilled. Designed for B1-B2 level English learners, the text provides a comparison between past and present hockey players, highlighting changes in training, equipment, and player roles. The activity includes vocabulary building exercises, true/false questions, multiple choice, and comprehension questions that reinforce reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. A discussion section encourages students to engage in conversation about sports evolution and the impact of technology and science on athletic performance. This resource is ideal for students with an interest in sports or modern cultural topics, and it’s suitable for use in both classroom and tutoring settings. It offers a comprehensive and engaging way to enhance language skills while learning about a popular global sport.

How Hockey Has Changed

Most people are unaware of the fact that additive manufacturing technology is not new process. In 2009 when the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) patents expired, 3D printing became such a popular topic that many people easily believed that it was a brand new innovation. It also gained such a wide media coverage because people often imagined that FDM was the only additive manufacturing technique, even though the stereolithography technique was patented in the 1980s. Here is a quick timeline of the history of 3D printing to today. 

The History of 3D Printing

This worksheet introduces students to the responsible use of AI in the classroom, comparing it to how we once learned to use Google. Designed for B1–B2 learners, it includes a reading text that explores how tools like ChatGPT can support learning without replacing critical thinking. The worksheet features vocabulary matching, comprehension questions, and a practical grammar activity where students interact with AI to better understand a grammar point they personally struggle with. Students are guided to write prompts, analyze helpful and confusing parts of the AI response, and reflect on their learning process. This resource encourages digital literacy, independent thinking, and curiosity—perfect for modern classrooms adapting to new technology.

From Google to ChatGPT – Learning to Use New Tools Wisely

ESL Lesson Plan for B2 about AI and how it will change the future focusing on reviewing future tenses, idiomatic expressions and a lot of speaking practice. 
Based on YoutubeVideo by Mike Walsh Futurist Keynote

How AI will change the future

A reading text about  MOBILE PHONES: Should they be banned in public places?
Society has mixed feelings about the use of mobile phones in public places like restaurants and cinemas. Whereas they were almost unknown twenty years ago, these days they are part of everyone’s life, and the world would now feel a strange place without them.

MOBILE PHONES: Should they be banned in public places?

ESLFrog.com presents: intermediate reading lesson based on current events in June 2025. Includes 10 multiple choice questions that use higher-order thinking skills. Also has prompts that can be used for speaking and writing. https://eslfrog.com/tesla-robotaxis/


Elon Musk Says Tesla Robotaxis Coming Soon

A short worksheet with a youtube link (see below) for a short news report from the bbc in 2001. A good way to introduce certain vocabulary in context and talk about things in retrospect and how they have developed. Answers are in the teachersï¿½ section below. Https://www. Youtube. Com/watch? V=6ywodcj8yu8

Bbc news 2001 - camera phone report video lesson plan

Reading the text about AI and Prompt Engineering that willbroaden your knowledge of using AI in diferent spheres of life. Lexical, grammar and discussion based tasks will give beter understanding of the text

AI and Prompt Engineering

Artificial intelligence, commonly known as AI, is becoming very popular in modern society. It has many advantages that make our life easier and more convenient in different ways

AI, a blessing or a curse

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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