A selection of English ESL alphabet categories 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

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The "ABC to XYZ (Upper Case)" English Race Time Game Board" is a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with their friends or with the teacher. Practice the accompanying "ABC to XYZ (The Alphabet Song)" video on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdz23OUPL58



Simply roll the dice and move along the board, reading each letter out loud. More advanced students can practice phonics by reading each letter along with the attached picture, such as "c, c, cat!".



To go along with this worksheet we also have some educational alphabet writing worksheets available at:

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A-Z Upper Case Alphabet - ESL Board Game 

Based of the board game. Students are given a letter of the alphabet for which they must choose a word beginning with that letter to fill in  each category. I usually give 3 minutes to complete the list. Teams are awarded points to the word that no other team has. For example, if all teams guessed the country "America" for the letter "A" but one guessed "Australia" and another "Austria" then those two teams would each receive a point. You can keep the same category list and keep playing different letters or move on to the next category.

Scattergories

Category Game. Each player chooses a category and you got through the alphabet and try and fill in each categories. The first to complete all categories can shout 'Stop the Bus' and the others have to stop.

Stop the Bus

A version of Scattergories for ESL students. Choose a letter of the alphabet. Have students write a word beginning with that letter for each category. Have students work together in groups (and compete against other groups) for more fun!

Scattergories Game

Help students improve their spelling with this worksheet to discriminate English sounds. Have them listen to the words and classify them in the categories "Short e" and Long e". I made it myself.

Short e/ Long e 

Vocabulary game - Choose the letter of the alphabet yourself or have a container with letters to pick.Students must write a word beginning with that letter to fill in each category. (about 3 minutes). Students work in groups.

1. 2 or more players.

2.  Each player has the sheet in front of them, and a pen or pencil.

3.  Each player, in his/her turn begins to recite the alphabet, with "A" being said out loud, and the rest of the letters are unheard.

4.  A designated player, calls, "STOP!"  The player that recited the letter, must stop and announce the letter he/she reached.  If that letter hasn't been in the game yet, then it is used.  If it has been played, the process repeats itself.

5.  Once an "unused" letter is picked, each player begins to fill out the sheet with words (1 per category).  The player that completes the whole row, he/she calls, "STOP!" and the game is over.

6.  Players go over their words together.  			

If a category is left blank, the score for that category is, 0.

If a word was used by more than one player for the same category, the score is 5 (while players who used different words, get a score of 10).

If different words, for the same category, were used by all players, the score is, 10.

If one player only gets a word in a category, and everyone else doesn't, that player gets a score of 15.

7. The winner is the player that accumulates the most points at the end of the game (usually once the sheet is filled).



PLEASE NOTE: you can adjust, change, and play around with the categories according to the levels of your students, and based on specific topics learned.

AaaaaBCDEF....."STOP!"

I made this fun team quiz for the last English lessons of term. It could also be used as a first lesson warmup for students above beginner level, or used multiple times with fresh questions. Students can work in small teams and make funny team names.



My original questions are:



Round one (Spelling):

How do you spell~?

1: kitchen

2: musician

3: restaurant

4: international

5: omelet

6: professional



Round two (Mystery Pictures):

I showed the students warped or very zoomed in pictures of objects and animals and they simply have to write down what they see. Prepare to get some funny answers!

I took the pictures from this website of solutions for a mobile phone game: https://game-solver.com/zoomed-in-answers/



Round three (What's wrong?):

Students have to listen to and read the sentences and find the grammar mistake in each one. They then write down the correct word or grammar.

1: Do you want somewhere to drink? - something

2: Andy Murray is a man which plays tennis. - who / that

3: This is an book I like. - a

4: I’ve saw that movie last week. - I

5: Mrs. Rios has already prepare dinner. - prepared

6: I’ve just coming back from a trip to Australia. - come



Round four (Shiritori):

Shiritori is a Japanese game where you have to write down as many words as possible in a certain time (2 minutes is good). Each new word has to start with the last letter of the previous word. Choose a category which all words must fit into, such as, animals, foods, or verbs.



Round five (Q & A):

The students listen to the question and write down an answer.

1: What is the biggest man-made structure on Earth? The Great Wall of China (it’s over 4000 miles long!).

2: Which is the smallest prefecture of Japan? Kagawa.

3: What is the 20th letter of the English alphabet? T

4: What is the second largest country in the world? Canada (Russia – 17,075,000sq.km / Canada – 9,985,000sq.km / USA – 9,827,000sq.km).

5: What letter is between ‘Y’ and ‘I’ on a computer keyboard? U

6: How do you say thank you in Spanish? Gracias.

(By all means, change the questions if you want to)



Award prizes such as stickers to the winning team of each round, or simply award the team with the biggest total score at the end.



The BIG English Quiz

Download our free Adjectives flashcards for 8 adjectives: big, small, fast, slow, wet, dry, hard, soft. Each flashcard can be folded in half and laminated so that you can learn to say and spell each word.



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Adjectives Flashcards SET 1 - BINGOBONGO learning

The worksheet can be used for different categories as a warmer. Students get a certain time to find words within each category starting with the letters of the alphabet.

Warmer: Round the Alphabet

Students pair up or work in a group. They have to say a word within the category chosen and the one who said the last correct word wins the activity. Further description on the ws.

Alphabet Activity

Every week we do a different letter throughout the school year. At the beginning of the year we prepare the categories (plants, fruit, vegetables, countries, parts of body.... ) and then the pupils find the words for homework.

18 Alphabet categories English ESL worksheets pdf & doc