A selection of English ESL be and have got 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

Song, lyrics a listening and  fill in thegap activity .Before listening;A) Revising verbs "know-got-put-saw-smile-need -see-being-walk" After listening B)Give definitions to highlighted phrases. At the end have students sing along with the music.

that's what makes you beautiful "One Direction"

this worksheet is a review of three modules : introducing oneself / let's count / my family/ body parts. there are also grammar exercices like the use of to be / have got / possessive adjectives / personal prounons . there are  also spelling and writing tasks

review test for the 6th grade 

It includes the boardgame; question / task cards  and the rules.

Topics worked: Vocabulary (Parts of the house; Furniture; Home appliances) and Grammar / Language functions (Yes/no questions; Wh-questions; Have got;and There to be). Ideal for groups of 4 people.

Fully editable. I hope you’ll find it useful. I uploaded it in esl printables as well.

The House Boardgame

This is a card game to review comparative and superlative adjectives. Ss play in small groups (4-6). Before starting the game, print 1 copy of all the pages per group, laminate them and cut them out.



Shuffle the picture cards and deal five cards out to each player. The object of this game is to get rid of all of your cards by collecting opposite pairs. The first player starts by either:

- placing down an opposite pair saying, for example, “I have got tall, taller, the tallest and short, shorter, the shortest”.

- or asking another player for a matching card. For example, if they have “tall, taller, the tallest”, they should ask to any player they choose:   Have you got “short, shorter, the shortest”? If the student asked has the card, he/she gives it to the first player who places the pair cards down on the table. If the student asked hasn’t got the card, he/she should say: “No, I haven’t. Go fish.” And the first player picks up a card from the draw pile (the sea). 



Players continue asking others for cards and drawing from the pile. The first player to make opposite pairs out of all their cards is the winner.



Another option would be that play continues until all the cards have been collected in pairs. The player with the most pairs is the winner.



Comparatives and superlatives go fish

Ps read the texts about famous 4 famous people and then they've got to match the two columns. In this way they practice reading as the sentences concern the famous people's life and grammar as they have to match the sentences according to the conjugation of verb to be ib the past.

Verb "to be" in the past

Divide your students into pairs and give student  A a blue card and student B a red one.

 Students have to ask: Who is Mary? – Answer: Mary is Peter’s wife.   Then the student who got the answer writes the name in the blank line. Once the students have all the names, they start asking about the relationship between the family members.

It depends on the student’s level what relationships will be used.

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=pairwork&searchworksheet=GO&type=Printables&id=5163view=grid





Pairwork - Family

Hi everyone! It's a pleasure for me to share this material with you all. I've prepared these worksheets to brush up vocabulary on animals and animal description ( adjectives, actions, body parts). You'll also find grammar topics such as "have got", "can/can't", present form of  "be", "do/does" questions and comparative form of adjectives. Hope you and your students find it useful! 

Animal world

I always use this worksheet to check students' previous knowledge regarding their reading skills, some basic grammar (have/has got, to be, can, present simple) and vocabulary (food, animals, among others). 

Students read a graded version of a tale (I found it in the Internet but I couldn't find the author's name), and then they solve some reading/grammar/and speaking activities.

reading comprehension - diagnosis for elementary students

this assesment includes different kinds of activities. you will find the following topics: Verb to be, nationalities, countries (in a reading comprehension task), there is/ there are, have got and present simple. it might be useful for a revision class or as a revision test.

Revision assessment

This song of the Beatles is part of the film " Minions" and it is great to practise the past. Students have to fill in the the blanks with the past simple form of the given verbs. An extra activity may be to classify the verbs in regular and irregular. It is easy to follow and students usually like it, specially if you relate it to the film.

The Beatles - Got to Get You Into My Life - Song Gap Fill

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

This is a game I use after reading "Funny Bones", by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. You need to print the dice, cards and body parts / bones.

Throw the dice and complete your skeleton with what is indicated on the dice.

To start, have the ribcage (to be able to attach the skull + arms + hands) and pelvis (to be able to attach the legs + hands)

The first player who has completed their skeleton has won.



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