A selection of English ESL cutout 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

make (cut out and draw) a funny family and tell a story about them

cutout 

Students complete the Easter words then cut out and stick them to their Easter bonnets. (You can use strips of card to make a simple headband.)

Easter bonnet cutouts

The first page has three sets of organs to save paper and money (each student gets one set of organs). Students can demonstrate their acquired knowledge regarding the location of internal body organs. I use this with my fourth level students. The students cut out the organs in one sheet and paste them in the body figures on the other sheet. They can color them and paste them in their notebook. You can also use this to enhance the listening or reading skill by telling them where each organ goes (The brain is located in the head) or by having them read short descriptions of location (texts are not included in the worksheet).

Internal Body Organs cutout activity

Use these simple cards to practice matching the subject pronouns with the correct possessive adjective. They can be used as flash cards or for a memory matching game as well.

Subject Pronouns & Possessive Adjectives cutouts for matching

I copied some Halloween crafts in black and white from canon creative park page so children can colour, cut out and glue them.

This worksheet contains:a"Pumpkin head" and a"Skeleton" models, Halloween flags and a Halloween box. They are great!

P.S.Visit that page, it has very good crafts of lots of topics!

Some Halloween Crafts

A list of 10 events that happened on each day. Page 2 is a information gap fill for the order of the events. Students use past perfect to determine the correct order of the events. Page 3 includes cutouts of the events. Page 1 could also be used to practice telling a past tense story.

My Amazing Day My Horrible Day

This worksheet has a listening exercise that combines weather conditions and days of the week. The teacher creates a "Weather forecast" and the students mark with an X the day of the week that presents the weather condition mentioned. The second page has a cutout activity with the months of the year and pictures of **Costa Rican*** celebrations observed each month. You may modify them and add your country's celebrations

Weather, days of the week, and months

It is a cut & paste activity. You can hide the cutouts or make competitions.

IT IS - THEY ARE

This is a foldable project about the parts of the house. It includes 8 parts: garage, terrace, living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry, bathroom and bedroom. Teachers need to print the two-face template in the same page, and provide learners with the cutouts for each part. Every section is labeled with the part of the house as well the corresponding picture. Also there are some symbols which indicate if you need to cut or fold the template. 

the worksheet is meanly to recognize part of the house but, it can be adapted into a speaking activity. Even into a writing activity if you omit the labels on the pictures. if your learners are very young, you can reduce the parts to less.

parts of the house

Students match the names of the Halloween characters to their pictures. 



Then they make pairs and play Guess Who. Each student thinks of a Halloween character on the handout. Then they take turns to try to guess each other's character. The first person to guess is the winner. 



Question cutouts are to help students think of questions but any Yes/No question is okay

Guess Who_ Halloween

This is a group activity. First it is a "read and run" dictation, then they solve a puzzle. 



Students can work in groups of 2-4 people. 



First  print and cut the 16 clues in large font / big strips of paper. 

Then stick the clues around the classroom (ideally using magnets). The clues should be facedown so students cannot read them from afar. 



To start, one student from each group will run to any clue. 

They read and remember the clue.

Then they return to their group and tell them what the clue said. 

The group members will write the clue. 

The students can take as many trips as needed to remember the clue, but the teacher can recommend that they try to remember half of the clue / one sentence at a time. 

The students should take care to also copy the clue number so they can keep track of what they have already written. 



Students cannot take the clue cutout back to the group! And they should not try to read across the room (some might haha). 



It's fun if the "read and run" is a race among the groups. 



Once all 16 clues are copied, the group will use the clues to fill in the table. 

Most clues are straightforward but some will require logical deductions. 

At the end, 1 box in the table will remain empty, and that will be the answer to the puzzle question. 





Of course, teachers can opt to do the logic puzzle only, where they skip the "read and run" and simply give the students the handout with the clues and students solve the puzzle. 



Logic Puzzle (Jobs)

This is a foldable project about the parts of the house. It includes 8 parts: garage, terrace, living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry, bathroom and bedroom. Teachers need to print the two-face template in the same page, and provide learners with the cutouts for each part. Every section is labeled with the part of the house as well the corresponding picture. Also there are some symbols which indicate if you need to cut or fold the template.

the worksheet is meanly to recognize part of the house. Learners have to color the parts and then past in the corresponding label. If your learners are very young, you can reduce the parts to less.

14 Cutout English ESL worksheets pdf & doc