A selection of English ESL esl creative writing worksheet printables

Vocabulary Match
Task: Students match words related to the videos with their correct definitions (e.g., "ironic," "distracted," "to scroll").
Objective: Build vocabulary related to the video themes of social media and technology use.

Listening Comprehension
Task: Watch both Look Up and Look Up 2 by Gary Turk and answer comprehension questions based on the videos.
Objective: Test listening skills, understanding of the main ideas, and details from the videos.

Discussion
Task: Discuss the impact of social media and technology on personal lives and relationships. Questions prompt reflection on personal experiences with phones and social media.
Objective: Encourage speaking practice and deeper thinking about the themes of the videos.

Writing Task
Task: Write an opinion essay or personal reflection on the topics of technology use, digital detox, or social media’s effect on society.
Objective: Develop writing skills through structured opinion expression.

Optional Creative Extension
Task: Write and perform a short spoken word poem or monologue inspired by the Look Up videos.
Objective: Foster creativity and enhance oral presentation skills.

Look Up by Gary Turk ESL Worksheet

This handy worksheet helps pre-intermediate ESL students practise transportation vocabulary in context. Students complete sentences using transportation words from a word bank (e.g., train, plane, boat, taxi) by identifying the correct word based on clues. The activity encourages word recognition, spelling practice, and comprehension. An additional writing task allows students to create their own sentences using the transportation vocabulary, fostering creativity and reinforcing learning.

Let’s Travel Together!

Get your students writing and performing with this brand new free printable worksheets to download!



This fun and multifaceted writing activity includes story planning, writing an article or story for a newspaper or magazine, grammar practice in the form of writing wh-questions and yes/no questions, and also group work with students creating, producing, performing, and peer-assessing role plays based on the original stories!



Download the free accompanying podcast from http://purlandtraining.com/2018/02/03/free-podcast-story-planning-my-life-without/

Story Planning - My Life Without...

Dive into the adventurous life of Henry Morgan, one of history's most notorious pirates! This engaging worksheet includes a fun article that blends humor with history, giving students an exciting glimpse into the world of piracy. Activities include reading comprehension questions, vocabulary matching, adjective practice, and creative writing prompts. Perfect for developing language skills while exploring a fascinating historical figure. Ideal for intermediate ESL learners, this resource encourages critical thinking and lively classroom discussions.

Henry Morgan: The Pirate

This interactive worksheet, created by PrimaryLeap.co.uk, is designed to help intermediate ESL students enhance their reading comprehension and expand their classroom vocabulary. By reading short descriptions of familiar classroom items—like notebooks, chairs, rulers, and whiteboards—students identify each object using a provided word bank. 
Supplementary writing exercises encourage students to apply the vocabulary in context, improving both their understanding and sentence construction skills. A bonus challenge activity fosters creativity and self-expression, ensuring the learning experience is both engaging and enjoyable.

Classroom Object Descriptions

This worksheet is designed for upper-intermediate to advanced learners and focuses on reading comprehension, moral reasoning, and creative writing. It features a short story titled The Copy in Room 6, where a doctor secretly forms an emotional bond with a conscious clone created for organ harvesting. The text explores deep ethical themes such as consent, power imbalance, identity, and human rights in a futuristic setting. After reading, students answer critical thinking questions and write a journal entry from the clone’s perspective. This resource is ideal for lessons on dystopia, ethics, or science fiction, and works well in classroom debates or philosophy-driven ESL lessons.

The Copy in Room 6 – A Clone and Consent Dilemma

This ESL worksheet can be done orally or by writing. The students look at the pictures or read the statements and should give advice what people should or could do. Ex. It’s raining outside and i can’t play tennis. You could read a book. For more advanced students you could delete the statements and the students have only the pictures. They should find a creative advice. Ex. I was in an expensive restaurant. But there was a spider in my soup. You could try it, because spiders are very healthy.

Giving advice - what could they do?

ESL Adjective Practice Worksheet Description:

This professional ESL worksheet is designed to help learners improve their understanding and use of adjectives through three interactive tasks:

Match the Adjectives: Students will match adjectives to corresponding nouns, reinforcing vocabulary and contextual understanding.

Circle the Correct Adjective: Learners will choose and circle the most appropriate adjective for each sentence, encouraging critical thinking and word choice accuracy.

Write Sentences with Adjectives: Students will create their own sentences using given adjectives, promoting creativity and sentence structure practice.

This worksheet offers a comprehensive approach to mastering adjectives in a fun and engaging way.

Adjectives tall, short, old, young, fat, thin related to the Unit 7 in Happy Street 1. The goal is to practice together with the video that is a vital part of the lesson.

This A1-level Valentine’s Day worksheet is designed for young learners, especially those preparing for the Cambridge YLE Movers exam. It features a simple reading passage about a boy named Sam who makes Valentine's Day cards for his family, friends, and teacher. The worksheet includes True/False questions, comprehension questions, and a fun, hands-on activity where students cut out, personalize, and decorate a Valentine’s card. This resource helps students develop reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills, while also engaging them in a creative, holiday-themed activity. Perfect for young EFL/ESL learners in primary classrooms! 

Sam’s Valentine’s Day Cards

This fun and practical worksheet helps pre-intermediate ESL students practise clothes and weather vocabulary. Students complete sentences by filling in the blanks with words like coat, umbrella, shorts, and sunglasses, using the word bank for support. In the writing task, students create their own sentences about what they wear in different weather conditions. Created byPrimaryLeap

Clothes and Weather Cloze Activity

Hey  Teachers!



I recently published a lesson plan on Fluentize based on a short informational news report from BBC Ideas on veganism and what would happen if everyone in the world became vegan. 



I would say this lesson plan is probably most suitable for upper intermediate (B2) students.



In order to view the video, please visit the lesson page on Fluentize via the link below.



https://app.fluentize.com/lesson/veganism



You can also download the full lesson plan directly from Fluentize with all of the post-viewing activities for free.



As you'll see in the lesson plan, students discuss topics and questions related to video veganism, depending on whether they are vegan or not. Students also learn some of the important compound words they'll hear in the video such as livestock, greenhouse gases, and biodiversity. There are also some really useful phrasal verbs presented in the video, which is why I decided to features some activities on them. These include phrasal verbs such as account for, take up, and cut down.



There is a short grammar activity on second conditional, which seemed to be pretty prevalent as a grammatical theme in several cases throughout the video, including...



"If we all became vegan, greenhouse emissions would be slashed.”



"If everyone in the world ate a vegan diet, around 8 million deaths could be avoided by the year 2050”



You can follow everything up with additional discussion (agree / disagree / partially agree or disagree) based on the following topics...



- It’s natural to eat animals.

- Vegans have healthier lifestyles than those who eat meat.

- It’s wrong for vegans to push meat eaters towards becoming vegans.



From the creator’s standpoint, my favorite part of the lesson is the writing topic right after the agree / disagree topics, in the middle of Post-Viewing 3, in which students have to think from the perspective of a cow, and write a message to humans expressing support for veganism. A little silly, sure, but a fun one that will get students thinking in a creative way!



I hope you have a great lesson exploring the topic of veganism and climate change with your students! I've attached the full materials for the printable, interactive, and teacher's guide below.



Thanks!



Jake from Fluentize

What If Everyone In The World Went Vegan? - ESL Lesson Plan

This is a reading about World Water Day suitable for  Elementary, Pre-Intermediate students. It consists;

1. Warm up questions

2. Preparation exercise

3. Reading

4. Reading Comprehension Exercises



This worksheet also has a powerpoint version:

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-powerpoints/grammar/auxiliary-verbs/world-water-day/134242

World Water Day

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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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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