A selection of English ESL birthday 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

This worksheet is for young learners, A1-A2 level. You can use this at the end of the lesson as a game. Show the picture for about 1 minute. Then ask the students questions about it.
Or you can ask the children to make 5 questions each and ask a partner.
Directions and examples for the teachers are included.


Picture detective - Birthday

This handout is made specifically for Reach for the stars 4. 
The point of this handout is for the students to translate the words in English into their mother tongue. The shapes on the handout are meant for homework or a classroom activity where students draw birthday-related things in the shapes or on them.

My birthday party

This task will be useful and helpful for teachers who teach reading and vocabulary about holidays (birthday) and need intresenting tasks for their students; task can be used for elementary students.

Reading. My birthday

-	Harry: “Dear Mr Potter, 
 We are pleased to inform you that you have accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry”.
-	Mr Dursley: He will not be going to tell you. We swore when we took him in we’d put a stop to all this rubbish.
-	Harry: You knew. You knew all along and you never told me.
-	Mrs Dursley: Of course, we knew. How could you not be? My perfect sister being who she was. My mother and father were so proud the day she got her letter. We have a witch in the family. Isn’t it wonderful? I was the only one to see her for what she was. A freak. Then she met that Potter, and then she had you…and I knew you would be the same. Just as strange, just as abnormal. And then she got herself blown up, and we got landed with you.
-	Harry: Blown up. You told me my parents died in car crash.
-	Hadrid: A car crash? A car crash killed Lily and James Potter?
-	Mrs Dursley: We had to say something. 
-	Hadrid: It’s an outrage! A scandal! 
-	Mr Dursley: He’ll not be going. 
-	Hadrid: And, I suppose, a great Muggle like yourself is going to stop him, aren’t you?
-	Harry:  - Muggle?
-	Hadrid: Non-magic folk. This boy’s had his name down since he was born. He’s going to the finest School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the world. And he’ll be under the finest headmaster that Hogwarts has ever seen, Albus Dumbledore.
-	Mr Dursley: I’ll not pay to have some crackpot old fool teach him magic tricks. 
-	Hadrid: Never insult Albus Dumbledore in front of me.
-	Mrs Dursley and Mr Dursley: Ah, oh my God, oh my God!
-	Hadrid: Well, I’d appreciate it, if you didn’t tell anyone at Hogwarts about that. Truly speaking, I’m not allowed to do magic.
-	Harry: Okay. 
-	Hadrid: We’re a bit behind schedule. Better be off. Unless you’d rather stay, of course. (18.21)




Harry Potter's birthday

Match the word to the correct picture. Write the number in the box.

Flashcards used for birthday lesson can be found here: http://www.havefunteaching.com/flash-cards/holidays/birthday-flash-cards.pdf

Birthday party simple worksheet.

A very  simple worksheet called (when is your birthday?)- about the topic: birthday, numbers, cardinals, ordinals.  exercises. drilling. could be used as folllow up exercise for further practice. (either in pairs or individual work).



When is your birthday?

A simple invitation to help students understand the structure, where to find important information and common abbreviations used in an invitation.

Wahida's Birthday Party Invitation

A reading comprehension for Elementary level learners using the present simple tense to talk about different birthday customs from around the world.

Birthdays Around the World

This is a very useful ws for young and beginner ss, whose reading skills need some improvement. I created it for my young learners to check their knowledge. I hope you find it useful.

Doug's birthday - Reading comprehension

A recount in the first person using simple past verbs. Followed by various exercises to re-inforce the vocabulary used in the reading. Includes a question forming exercise, a crossword puzzle and a Wordsearch. Good for vocabulary building. Editable. 

A Surprise Birthday Party

a short text in simple past about a party with some comprehension questions and a writing exercise on the second page, can be used for a simple past lesson or a writing exercise, hope it's useful

A great Birthday Party

some exercises to practise ordinal numbers

281 Birthday English ESL worksheets pdf & doc