A selection of English ESL all about you printables

Print 1 copy per small group of students. Use a different colour of paper per group. Cut the lyrics up into verses. Have students win each paragraph by answering questions about the vocab. in the song. Don't give the verses out in the correct order. When each group has all the verses, play the song and have them put the verses into order. Sing along!  Exploit the vocab. and grammar as you see fit! 



Bruno Mars: Marry You

It is a legend about Christmas. It is just my simple creation for  those who wants to feel the spirit  of Christmas. I used proven facts, not my own imagination. To those who put downvotes from their empty IDs I want to say - I feel sorry for judgemental people and their boring live. You lose your  life with its colors and lights. And all the time you are busy with judging and hating others. 

The First Christmas Tree

This is a Word document with the days of the week in bold font. You can use these for hanging on your wall or whiteboard. I laminated mine to be able to use them over and over again to teach about the days of the week. You could use them for lyrics to songs if you wanted to (put them on a board and point to the word for the student to sing).

Days of the Week

This is a ws I prepared for my students on the film 13. 13 is about being a teen today and all the problems and situations teens can get into. It is the story of 2 girls who do basically everything to be in the "in" group at school. Topics like peer pressure, illegal substances, family, friends, school are all dealt with until their friendship comes to an end. Hope you like it 

13 - Video Ws

This is a communicative activity you can use in a large class. If you want your students to know more about their friends' family, these ready-made worksheets will be a great help. It is called as 'Find someone who...' or 'Family Bingo'. I designed and created 6 Bingo grid-cards and all questions in the Bingo are different. It can be used in pair-work activity: Student A and Student B as well. 

Family

Hi teachers,



I recently published a free lesson plan on Fluentize based on a news report video about the turbulent history of Russia and Ukraine.



I would say this lesson plan is probably most suitable for advanced (C1) students.



In order to view the video, please visit the lesson page on Fluentize via the link below.



https://app.fluentize.com/lesson/ukraine-russia-conflict



This post contains the first half of the lesson materials. You can download the full lesson lesson directly from Fluentize when you're registered and logged in.



As you'll see in the lesson plan, students discuss topics and questions related to war in general and what they know about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Students also learn a few really important vocabulary words from the video, including escalation, annexation, sovereignty, ousting, and a buffer.



In the second Post-Viewing Activity on Fluentize, there is a short grammar activity on the usage of irregular past simple with a passive voice construction based on a quote from the video:



"Yanukovych fled the country after being impeached by parliament.”



You can follow everything up with additional discussion based on the following topics...



- Some of the potential global, economic, and political consequences of the military invasion by Russia into Ukraine



- The extent to which other countries are involved in the war between Ukraine and Russia



- How is the world reacting to the war between Russia and Ukraine



- What kinds of sanctions specifically have been imposed on Russia



- Information about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky



***IMPORTANT NOTE***



I would just like to note here that due to the sensitivity of the situation, I would use your best judgment on whether to use this topic and proceed with discussions about it in class. You know your students best, and you could probably even ask students whether they wish to discuss it or not. A teacher may have students who wish to discuss it, and other students maybe not. It could very well be too sensitive or distressing for some students. Of course, I also understand the importance for students to be able to have discussions and express their ideas and opinions about such an important global topic. All in all, a lot of it may depend on the background of the students and how closely they are tied to the situation. If teachers decide to proceed with this topic, I would advise them to steer things as objectively as possible and focus on the history and background of the conflict itself.





Thanks,



Jake from Fluentize

Russia & Ukraine’s Turbulent History Explained (C1 Advanced) - ESL Lesson Plan

This one of our original lessons on Fluentize.com, and personally, one of my favorites. It's designed for teachers with teenage or adult students at the B2 / Upper Intermediate level, and makes for a perfect one-one private lesson topic, but it can also be used in a group. All of my students have enjoyed doing this one so much, and teachers have given lots of positive feedback on it. You can find a more comprehensive version, and unlock the full lesson material for it on Fluentize. It's downloadable for free, including the interactive lesson plan for online lessons.



In the lesson, students watch a video and do a listening exercise about the Hyperloop, the humanoid robot. It's a short, 5 minute video with a lot of interesting information about what the Hyperloop is and how it works. The lesson includes discussion questions and conversation activities about travel and modern transportation. 



Students also learn some important vocabulary terms, phrases, and a few phrasal verbs from the video. In the video, experts discuss safety concerns, the speed of the Hyperloop, and what some of the challenges will be. Students get to learn other terms related to engineering and travel like "encounter resistance" and "draft up blueprints". The grammar exercise features the passive voice and includes activities on this grammar point. There is a quiz and review section, as well as a bonus activity which you will find when downloading the original lesson on the Fluentize page for this lesson.



Hope you enjoy this fun and engaging Fluentize lesson plan!



- Jake

The Hyperloop Experience: 700 MPH in a Tube

Sentence Builder



The objective of the game is to ‘build’ sentences using the words on the cards.



There are only two rules for the sentences…

     1 – They must be grammatically correct.

     2 – They must be something that is usually spoken and makes sense. 



For example: 

The following sentence is grammatically correct but it doesn't make sense…

     “My calculator is a giraffe.”



After you have used these directions below you’ll want to make up your own rules depending on the students you have.

There are a thousand different ways that these cards can be used.



Here’s what I do for my classes of about 30 students…



Divide the class into teams of about 4, 5 or 6.

Each team gets a set of ten cards of the following word groups.



   1 white card (The Joker!) (0 points)

   3 yellow cards (5 points) 

   2 pink cards (10 points)

   2 green cards (15 points)

   2 blue cards (20 points)



The teams must build a sentence from the words on the cards.

They don’t have to use all the cards.

They can only use one word from each card.

They must use at least one picture word from any card.

The Joker can be used as any word.

The sentence must be grammatically correct and make sense.

The team with the most points wins that round.

You can run a few rounds of the game by swapping the sets of cards around each team.



I think that about covers it…



Good luck and give me feedback and ideas on how you use the cards!



khunkrumark@gmail.com



Sentence Builder

Learn about the months, seasons, weather, clothes and activities all together in one worksheet!



What month is it? - It is September.

What season is it? - It is autumn / fall.

How is the weather? - It is cool and windy.

What do you wear? - I wear pants and boots.

What can you do? - I can fly the kite and climb a tree.



EXTRA:

What months are in spring?

What season is August in?

Do you wear a skirt in winter?

Months, seasons, weather, clothes and activities

Hello everyone! I've written a text about monkeys. The source of the text is wikipedia and chimpanzees called Washoe and Koko. I needed to generalize the knowledge in order to lower the level of the text. It is for my 4th and 5th grade students. It focuses on teaching some new words and revising can/can't , have got/ has got and present simple tense. Questions are mainly yes or no questions. Hope it will be useful to you :)

 Reading passage: Monkeys

In the first exercise the students look at the pictures and write what pet each child owns. In the second exercise they have to colour the animals with the given colour. In the third they have to say how many of each kind of animal there are.

If you want to practice more, you can find more of my worksheets about the same subject here: 

https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/resources?Tags=animals&searchworksheet=GO&type=Printables&view=grid



Animals - All the children have pets

This worksheet can be done with all ages, but I think it is better for adults and high school students. There are several exercises to practice giving advice in case of a sickness.

 If you want other worksheets about the same topic, you can find them here:https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/my-creations?search_key=Health&type=printables&option=published&id=5163&grammar=&vocabulary=&materials=&levels=&studentTypes=&skills=&languageExams=&dialect=&functions=&page=1&sorting_type=most_newest&filter_type=filter_all&view_type=list&view_length=12





Health problems - advice

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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