A selection of English ESL can activities printables

A writing, listening and speaking practice activity for elementary school beginners. Students must write the correct season in each box. After they must ask their classmates "What is your favorite season?" Students respond. "My favorite season is _____." At the end we can tally the results as a class to see which season is most popular.

What is your favorite season?

Sentence cubes to use when teaching daily routines. Set contains an action cube and a time cube. Times displayed on analog clocks. 



Students roll an activity and a time, then use them to make sentences, e.g. "I get up at 7 o'clock", "She goes to sleep at 9pm".



Work best if printed on stiff paper and in colour. If you cover them in tape, you can disinfect them after each use, making them somewhat virus-proof.



Not (easily) editable. 

Sentence cubes - daily routine

these exercises allow you to develope your language about negative and affirmative imperatives. using previous learning you must be able to choose the correct form of the imperative form

Imperative activity (affirmative and negative)

Summer is coming. We can feel the excitement in the air.

And it's time for holidays.

Vacations are coming as well

My kids love colouring at the end of the last lessons of the school year or when they finish the test earlier. Thinking about them I created this simple colouring page.

Fun activity!



Summer is Coming

This vocabulary matching worksheet includes 13 key words & phrases about the environment. It can accompany readings and other activities about the outdoors, wilderness, politics, or economics related to the environment. 

Environment vocabulary

This is a 20 pictures worksheet about daily routine activities. Can be used  to practise the past simple tence and possessive pronouns(that students can add). Can be used as a class poster or simply a handout. 

Hope it\'s useful

What did you do yesterday?

This worksheet can be used as students' grammar guide or drill. This is a fun activity worksheet because students like to do/solve a puzzle. In this worksheet, students are going to solve the puzzle by filling each sentence by correct verbs.

Present Perfect Tense - Crosswords Puzzle

This is a great activity to get students to actually use English to accomplish a real goal. This document contains both the lesson plan and a bunch of pictures that you can use in the activity!



1.	Have students make pairs

2.	Give each student a drawing/picture, but they must keep it a secret!

3.	First, one student will describe, without showing, their picture and the other student will do their best to draw it. 

a.	Asking clarifying questions is encouraged.

4.	After enough time, the students can stop and show the original drawing

5.	Then switch roles and repeat

Describe and Draw Lesson Plan and Pictures

A fun way to review vocabulary after 3 or 4 weeks or as an end of term activity.

For younger kids I recommend using pictures instead of text.

For older kids I made cryptic rhymes regarding various places around the school in which they would have to search these places out and take photos of them with their mobile phones (if they are allowed to leave the classroom).

It can be modified for virtually any vocabulary type, I've used it for food, shopping malls, grocery stores and even just around the classroom.



In this sample I've given, I described some of my students which I used as an added twist to test their ability to match descriptions. Feel free to change or modify it.  



To add a speaking part I ask the students to tell me what they found and where.



I have found this activity to be very useful as it gives the students a chance to actively use the English they've been learning that term. 

Scavenger Hunt

This exercise presents three situations in which one can or can't do certain activities. By doing this, kids will practice the situation using Must and Mustn't to report their answers when teacher is correcting. You can make a competition to estimulate kids to try harder.

Obligations must and Must not

This is a speaking activity to practice phrasal verb BRING. Use it after doing some written exercises to help your students use this material while speaking. Can be also used as an icebreaker or warmer. 
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Phrasal verbs with bring. Speaking cards

In this activity, you'll practice using the structure "used to" by filling in the gaps in a short text about TikTok. The text describes the writer's thoughts and experiences with the popular social network, and uses "used to" to contrast their past and present attitudes. You'll need to choose the correct form of "used to" to fill in the gaps, and think about how the context of the sentence affects the meaning of the phrase. By the end of the activity, you'll have a better understanding of how "used to" can be used to talk about changes over time, and how it applies to our relationship with social networks like TikTok. 
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Practice Used to (Tiktok text with the gaps) Keys Provided

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>

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