A selection of English ESL english business 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

This activity concludes the topic of transferable skills and advice-giving grammar points from Unit 1 in B1 Business Partner. Can be done as conversation or writing practice. Students read 'posts' from a careers forum and write/say 3 pieces of advice for each poster, using target language from the textbook. Even if you're not teaching Business English, you can adapt this activity to your needs, such as teaching general advice-giving useful language.
Please edit as you like!
-Daria

Giving advice (Business English - "Business Partner" B1, Unit 1)

It's a picture dictionary of adjectives that English learners can use to talk about feelings, mood and emotions, e.g. overwhelmed, lovestruck, confident, jealous, bored, etc. I hope you like it! Have a nice day! 

How do you feel?

A test designed for my students. It consists of 3 parts - grammar, reading and vocabulary. I work with the book English for International Tourism pre-intermediate and the test contains the material from units 9 and 10 of this book. I hope you´ll find it usefull. 

Tourism industry test

Compare this to my TIME RELATED VERB CONSTRUCTIONS - horizontal - version.  This is a list of verbs in their different aspects, which follow an ideal time line from the past to the future. The simple and continuous forms are opposite each other so that  the difference between their uses is easier to understand. 

TIME RELATED VERB CONSTRUCTIONS

There are a lot of activities on food and drinks in these three worksheets. Students can practice their reading, writing and speaking skills. I hope you will enjoy! :-) 

Food and Drinks

This (amended) gap filling activity allows for building up skills in using ten most commonly used irregular verbs through completing ten short question - answer exchanges. These short dialogues can be role-played by learners. Answer sheet is included.



This resource can be used on it's own or (recommended) as a follow up activity for "A Sightseeing Holiday In Paris" - another worksheet from my collection.



On my page you can also find a set of cut-up matching cards with the target irregular verbs: these can be used either as a warming up / revising activity before working on the worksheet, or as a recap in the end of the lesson.



Hope this worksheet will be well liked by you. :)

A Sightseeing Holiday In Paris: Gap Filling with Irregular Verbs

It's an interesting worksheet for intermediate students who learn the first and second conditional. They have to read the texts and do the exercises I hope you will enjoy! Have fun! :-) 

If I ruled the world (1st and 2nd conditional)

This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards, an useful language box,a matching exercise and a question box. The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions. Can be used with both young learners and adults (pre-intermediate to upper-intermediate). The answers to factual questions can be found in one of the boxes at the bottom. You should be able to figure out which numbers answer which question. (+/- 1,000,000 words in English, 370,000,000 native speakers, avg vocab of 12,000-20,000 etc.)

Let's Talk About English

Part 2 of the BULATS (Business English) speaking test requires candidates to choose one (from 3) topics and speak for 1 minute. They have 1 minute to choose and prepare, and then one minute to speak. The topic has 3 points which must be included, and one question which must be answered. This document has 20 topic cards that you can print and cut out to practise the activity.  I created them for my (employed) students so they may not be suitable for all candidates, but feel free to adapt the document to suit your own circumstances.  Note that the topics are not taken from past exam papers - they were just invented by me so please do not think that these particular topics will necessarily crop up in the exam. The purpose of the cards is to allow candidates to practise preparing and organising their thoughts quickly and getting familiar with how long one minute feels when they are speaking.

BULATS Speaking Test Part 2 - talk for one minute

Where in the world was this photo taken? What do you think? Guess and discuss. This conversation worksheet with 1 photo and 18 questions can be used as a basis for an informal discussion about holidays, mountains, clothing, leisure activities, weather, tourism and more. It can be used for Internet research and/or giving short presentations as well.

Conversation Corner: Where in the World? (1)

This is a reading comprehension for students who learn about the future. They have to read the three texts and fill in the table. They will also have to write a text about the world in 2050. 

The world in 2050 (will and won't)

Try this fantastic video activity on daily routines. The activity is an activation task to practice using the simple present tense for daily routines. It should be done after students have been taught how to use the simple present.



Find the video:

On YouTube, by searching for “English Through Videos: Daily Routines with Simple Present Tense - Star Wars Stormtrooper”.

Or by using the link below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3FeSDWxvI



Instructions:



- Watch the video.

- Answer the questions from the video to describe the Stormtrooper's daily routine.

- Use the simple present tense. 

- It can be done as a speaking activity (in pairs) and/or as a writing activity using the worksheet.

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