A selection of English ESL did printables

This word document comes with a ready-made listening lesson plan along with some additional activities. Pre-listening activity includes various questions which you can use as a warm-up, to get the students to speak about the subject in question; but most importantly to contextualize the subject before you play the recording. That way, I believe the students will be more engaged and immersed in the listening text, which would benefit you, as a teacher, to have a more productive listening exercise compared to listening immediately without no context whatsoever. I've put the source of the listening text inside the document. I also have two post-listening activities. These entail one collocation activity, collocations which took place in the listening text; and one simple past (mainly) irregular verb activity, irregular verbs which, again, were used in the listening text given. I also gave some advice for a follow-up speaking activity.



To supplement the listening activity, you can use ''Martin's Vacation'' as a reading activity, which you can also find on this website.

Listening Test - What Did You Do Last Summer + Exercises

This is a worksheet containing one short exercise on reading. The text is short and easy and the exercises are not time consuming. Students have to match the headlines with the paragraphs. You can use it as a test or homework on reading or just as an exercise during the lesson. It´s fully editable so you can adjust it to your needs. Enjoy! :D 

Reading worksheet - Did you know ? (11) - POPE BENEDICT XVI

A fun worksheet on the Simple Past, mostly suitable for primary school students. The sentences are all affirmative. There are both regular and irregular verbs. Greyscale version is included. I hope you like it.

Grammar Check - What Did the Friends Do? + B&W

ACTIVITY 1: For this, the article will be worked only the half. For this, students need to work in pairs and to have printed the first four paragraphs. One student will have two and the other the two left. Students will dictate to each other their paragraphs. Student 1 will dictate paragraphs one and two to student number 2; likewise, student number 2 will dictate paragraphs three and four to student 2. Students are not allowed to look the sheet with the other paragraphs printed.



ACTIVITY 2: You must create a story or a dialogue from the magazine article. You will be free to write any story related to the main character, which in this case is an octopus. The story need to contain at least 50 words. 



ACTIVITY 3: Students will paraphrase the story. This will be spoken. The teacher may choose a few or many students in order to listen to their paraphrases. Students need to include at least 5 relevant aspects of the article. The teacher will fill a checklist with their relevant aspects wished to be included in the paraphrasing.

Did you know this about female octopuses? 3 ACTIVITIES

Worksheet for high schoolers in order to practice Past Perfect. The students look at the pictures and make sentences in simple past and past perfect. With more advanced students, I delete the clues and the students use their imagination. The second picture is the answer.

Simple past x Present perfect - Why did it happen?

Writing Clinic´s creative writing prompts to get students writing. This worksheet comes with a short sample story so students know what it expected of them. (Second blank page included if students need more space or write on every other line only to facilitate teacher´s correction). For more Writing Clinic worksheets, check my uploaded worksheets.

Writing Clinic: Creative Writing Prompts (1) - What I Did Yesterday  

This worksheet copies the format of one uploaded by another ISLCollective user PhillipR, but with new sentences to be used if students need more practice for when to use the words Am,Is.Are, Was, Were, Do, Does, and Did.  This is an excellent practice activity that helps students learn when to use the Present Simple and Past Simple as well as the correct form of "to be" or the helping verb "do." Hand out the Student A and Student B worksheets to each student in your class and have them fill in the correct word, after checking their answers, have Student A pair with Student B and have them ask each other the questions, allowing for good conversation between the students.

Am/Is/Are/Was/Were; Do/Does/Did Speaking Practice

Model your composition on the sample above. Use your own ideas and relevant information. This can be used as part of My Writing Book (cover uploaded elsewhere) or as a stand alone. Fully editable. 



There are 19 compositions in all. Bind in a spiral or use individually.



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Creative Writing:What I did/didn't do Yesterday #18 A1 Level 

This is a multiple choice quiz for the students to complete, before making their resolutions for 2017. They add up their scores and see how they have done, then on to their target setting.  Some useful language is provided to help them write their resolutions. You could get them to write up a sentence for each of the 17 questions based on their answers e.g. 'I always did my homework'.  

How did you do in 2016? Make resolutions for 2017. 

Here is a new pair work activity to practise making question in the past  simple , you can ask thm to add some more details then you ask them to comments on their friends' weekends

Did you work last weekend: past simple pair work activity

Students have to fill in the verbs in Past Simple in the right form (regular and irregular). They can speak about their last weekend afterwards.Hope you can use it when teaching Past Simple. Have a nice day!   ;)

Lizzy's Busy Weekend - What Did She Do - Past Simple Review

This is a worksheet containing one short exercise on reading. The tasks is:true / false sentences. The text is short and easy and the exercises are not time consuming. Students have to match the headlines with the paragraphs and and decide true/false about the sentences as well as answer some questions.You can use it as a test or homework on reading or just as an exercise during the lesson. It´s fully editable so you can adjust it to your needs. Enjoy! :D

Reading - Did You Know ? (9) - OSCAR PISTORIUS:The Olympian Without Legs

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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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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