A selection of English ESL classmate printables

This is a fun icebreaker ESL speaking activity for teen and adult ESL (EFL) students. It's rather like a 'Find Someone Who' activity except it's BINGO! Students mingle around the class, using the prompts in each square to form questions which they ask to other students. If they get a positive answer, they can cross that square off their grid. When they get 4 in a line, it's BINGO! When they have 3 lines of BINGO! they can sit down. Teacher’s notes are included. 

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Ice Breaker Bingo - Classmate Bingo Speaking Activity

This is a great beginning of the year activity. Students circulate around the classroom and collect the signatures of their classmates.  Since some students may not be comfortable singing in front of others, it is okay for a classmate to say no to a request.  You will want to establish this before students begin the activity.  Also inform students that if they do say no, to look at the person's sheet and let the person know what area you can sign.  The goal is for every student to obtain the signatures of all of their classmates.

Welcome Back! Get to Know Your Classmates

Students fill out form. Then, they orally try to see if they know this information about the students. They keep guessing until they get it right or close. It is fun.

How well do you know your classmate?

This form consists of a template for students to use when they are listening politely to a classmate's presentation. Using this form to assess behavior/listening skills during presentations will help keep students on task, as each form will be graded and you can assign points to ensure students listen with respect to a classmate's presentation.  



Presenters are pre-informed that their presentation must include at least three facts for their classmates to record.  

Take notes when your classmate is presenting

An oral activity for the beginning of the year.

Ice breaker. 

Can be also used a a class survey : just change the question : a student asks the questions to the whole class. You can then recap using quantifiers such as : "all of us", "some of us", "a few of us", "none of us" 

Getting to know my classmates - Class survey 

A  warm-up  activity  which  can  be  used  at  the  beginning  of  the  school  year  to  get  to  know  each  other.  The  questions  are  distributed  to  students.  They  get  two  questions  each  and  have  to  ask  all  the  other  students.  Later  on  they  report  the  results  of  their  survey.

How  well  do  I  know  my  classmates

With this worksheet, students will get to know each other and also learn some information about their classmate relatives.

The main purpose is to teach them the use of the 3rd person. 

They may report in front of the class. 

Introducing my classmates and his - her Family members

This is a lesson about teaching students a postcard form



Its functional English usage.

The lesson comes with the powerpoint and has worksheets too. I used a worksheet from another site to do irregular verb for past tense language structure.



Thank you.

Writing Prompt - Postcard to a Classmate with Sample

Writing Clinic´s Creative Writing Prompts are designed to provide ideas and to get students writing with ease. Ss write about their friends, classmates or family. They can also write about imaginary people if they choose. This worksheet comes with brainstorming prompts and a short sample story so students know what is expected of them.

Writing Clinic: Creative Writing Prompts (8) - Friends, Classmates, Family

Worksheet that focuses on the past verb tense. It can also be used as conversation worksheet. Can be sure as individual exercise pair work or group work. After completing the worksheet, students can interview one another.

Answer key included.

Complete the Questions (past tense) and Interview a Classmate

It is an easy way to teach the quantifiers with this class activity. You can ask your pupils to practice the questions and answers with a classmate.

How much How many

Here are some speaking cards for your students. In pairs, they will get a set of cards that they will have to complete and comment about a variety of topics and situations. Once they have finished, the teacher will ask the questions again and the students will have to tell  what they have retained about their classmate's answers.

Speaking cards

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 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

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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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403 Classmate English ESL worksheets pdf & doc