A selection of English ESL end of year activity 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

Watch part 3 of 'Muzzy comes back' and do the tasks. The worksheet includes matching (translation) exercise which you can edit to your language needs, who said that activity and true or false task. My students love this cartoon. Useful and simple language, good for grammar&vocabulary revision, especially at the end of the school year. Key included.

muzzy comes back 3

An article adapted to the style of Reading and Use of English Part 1 in the CAE exam. Answers are on the back. The Portuguese siesta is still a thing in the state, many years after independence from Portugal. Written by an Indian journalist in a wonderfully lighthearted style. I have included a debating section with personality cards.

Election Siesta Pledge Reading and Debate

Students will read a passage on World Radio Day, then answer questions about its significance, themes, and impact, promoting comprehension skills. World Radio Day is an international day celebrated on the 13th of February each year. The day was decided by UNESCO on November 3, 2011 during its 36th conference.

Reading Comprehension (Informational Text, Questions and Answers) about World Radio Day

A fun trivia quiz that can be used as a warmer or cooler, or an enjoyable activity for the end of the year. 







I play this in teams and let the students discuss the answers with each other, which is very useful for language related to deduction, speculation and reasoning. 

English-Speaking Cultures Quiz

This quick survey can be a nice introduction to all kinds of 'generational' topics in ESL class. We do tend to get sentimental about our childhood years so this simple ESL speaking activity will give you a truly bonding time with your students. Enjoy sharing your memories with this worksheet!

As a child... - class survey

This is a worksheet about tourism in the student's hometown where they have to think about things to do with an international friend of theirs who is coming to visit. Lead-in phrases are provided for four activities in both summer and winter (because at least here in the Nordics the activities you can do vary a lot in the summer and winter). I used this with my 15-year-old students, who had been studying English for six years, when we were discussing tourism in Finland so that they would have to think about their hometown from the perspective of a tourist guide. I used a version of the worksheet where I wrote the name of the town where I was teaching instead of "your hometown" and provided the link to the town's tourism website down below after "Need tips?".

Tourism in your hometown worksheet

They do the quiz, then add up their scores. After that, they set some targets for September/start of the new term. Grammar areas: past simple tense and 'going to'. I have only marginally altered this quiz, which I originally uploaded as a new year's resolution activity. I thought it might be useful for the end of the academic year. 

Quiz: how well did you do this year?

Here is a document I made from photos in yearbooks with funny quotes. I use this document with my French troisièmes ( year 10 in UK), it's a matching activity. At the end of our sequence, they make their hat and we create a panel with all their pictures and funny quotes too!

Yearbook quotes

A criss cross puzzle with riddles to guess the animal names and place them in the grid. An end-of-the-school-year activity r an in-between, or an activity for the end of the lesson. The final task was for the students to produce posters with a riddle and an animal. The Posters were pinned to the wall in the classroom for everyone to see.

Animal Riddles Criss Cross Puzzle

A short worksheet to get to know students. Ideal for the start of the school year when you don't know anything about them. 



There is some Japanese included for words students might not be familiar with but you can easily customise it depending on your students level.



This activity shouldn't take more than 10-15 minutes.

Who are you? English-Japanese

this is my first term exam for my first year middle school students it contains some comprehension activities with Wh and ausiliary questions, synonyms, and true false activity .in addition to that , it contains the mastery of language part which include some gramatical and phonetic activities.by the end you'll find the situation of integration through which the learner will introduce him/herselfe. i hope it will be usefull for you . 

exam for bigginers

I wrote down the lyrics of The Rainbow song to my students to make a Song Book. I used it with my students and asked them to write a rainbow instead of having the picture at the bottom of the page. They liked the activity and we are collecting the song lyrics to put them all together in the song book in the end of the year. I hope you like the idea! I also included the link of the video for the song I used on Youtube. 

82 End of year activity English ESL worksheets pdf & doc