A selection of English ESL answer the questions printables

a passage which needs to be read and understood in order for the students to be able to answer several creative questions.



These questions will help the students learn how to address and give suitable answers to high order questions.

The old tin toy soldier

This worksheet is designed for B1 level EFL students and focuses on the story of Captain Cook and the Polynesians. The worksheet includes a vibrant and engaging illustration that depicts key moments from Captain Cook’s encounters with the Polynesians. The scene shows Captain Cook arriving in Tahiti on a large sailing ship, being welcomed by Polynesians in canoes. Another part of the image symbolizes Cook's navigation discoveries.

The worksheet begins with reading comprehension questions to check students' understanding of the story. It includes vocabulary matching exercises to help students learn and remember important words. True or false statements are used to encourage critical thinking. Short answer questions require students to express their understanding in complete sentences, reinforcing their language skills. Finally, a creative activity invites students to draw a picture related to the story and write a sentence about it, promoting engagement and personal connection to the material.

This comprehensive worksheet not only helps students practice their English skills but also teaches them about an important historical figure and cultural encounters.

Captain Cook and the Polynesians

This worksheet is designed for A2–B1 level English learners and focuses on the evolution of workplace safety. It includes a 700-word reading passage that explores safety protocols from the past, present, and future, highlighting key developments such as labor reforms, modern regulations, and technological advancements like AI and IoT safety monitoring. The worksheet features a variety of activities, including warm-up questions, vocabulary matching, fill-in-the-blank exercises, true/false and multiple-choice questions, short-answer responses, and discussion prompts. This resource helps students improve reading comprehension, expand safety-related vocabulary, and develop critical thinking skills through structured activities.

The Evolution of Safety Protocols

This worksheet is for adults and high school, level B1 students. The students read the text and answer true or false  questions. There are also open questions that students have to answer. The text should also introduce a debate about the subject.

Space - The Earth under attack

A reading exercise with questions to answer and a gap fil activity for A1 plus students. All answers are not straightforward but are simple enough. Hope it is useful. :)

PARTY AT THE NORTH POLE

This worksheet is designed to engage students with a light-hearted and educational activity centered around the viral moment when Zhou Yaqin, a Chinese athlete, captured the internet's heart by biting her gold medal on the podium. It includes vocabulary matching exercises that introduce students to key terms such as "tradition," "authenticity," and "curiosity," helping to build their language skills. The reading comprehension section prompts students to reflect on the article by answering questions about the significance of the medal-biting tradition and why Zhou Yaqin's gesture became so popular online. Additionally, the worksheet encourages discussion, allowing students to explore other viral moments and the role of social media in spreading such content. This engaging and relatable topic not only helps students develop their reading and comprehension skills but also stimulates conversation and creative thinking, making it an ideal resource for a fun and educational classroom session.

Zhou Yaqin Steals the Internet

Students read a dialogue between a couple who are visiting a house with a reputation as being haunted. There are 14 questions, at the end for students to answer. Key words translated into Korean

Reading Comprehension The haunted House


This worksheet is designed for young learners at an elementary language level. It features a captivating story about Luna Starshine, the Moon Guardian, and her super pet sidekick, Starfall. The objectives are to enhance reading comprehension, vocabulary, and understanding of routines, hobbies, and appearances. Students will engage in a variety of exercises, including answering questions, translating key terms, and discussing character traits. The skills targeted include reading, critical thinking, and language acquisition. This worksheet is ideal for sparking imagination and interest in nature and astronomy while developing essential English language skills.


Luna Starshine the Moon Guardian

This A2-level video quiz is based on a short documentary about Brian Shaw, the World's Strongest Man. The video provides insights into Brian Shaw's life, including his physical size, daily challenges, and his approach to maintaining his strength through his diet and lifestyle. Students will practice listening skills and learn new vocabulary related to everyday activities, challenges, and self-acceptance. The quiz includes comprehension questions focusing on true or false statements, short-answer questions, and a vocabulary matching section. It is designed to reinforce students' understanding of the video content and help them engage with real-life scenarios while practicing English. The activity is ideal for intermediate learners who are working on improving both their listening comprehension and expanding their vocabulary.

Meet the world's strongest man

This activity helps beginner ESL students practice indirect questions related to asking for directions and city information—an essential real-life communication skill. Students are presented with two columns: Column A contains 10 polite, indirect questions, such as “Could you tell me how to get to the train station?” while Column B includes corresponding answers like “Take the metro from here and get off at Central Station.”

The task is to match each question with its most appropriate answer by pairing the numbers and letters. This activity encourages learners to recognize useful structures for making polite inquiries and reinforces vocabulary related to city locations (e.g., post office, bank, park).

Indirect questions for the city

Students listen to an audio track in which a fitness centre secretary speaks with a member of the public interested in buying a membership. Students complete two tasks, the first being mutliple choice questions, and the second a true or false exercise. A link to the audio is provided at the top of the page, as well as boxes for checking students' scores. Answers are revealed on the second page.

At the Gym: Listening (B1 Intermediate)

After reading a short story about a rabbit (Vainilla, her name is in Spanish) students have to answer some true or false questions. Also, they have to identify sentences in the present simple and continuous and answer questions using those tenses

Vainilla the Rabbit and the Sneaky Cat. Present simple and present continuous

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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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>

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