A selection of English ESL fce speaking printables

this listening task allow the students improve their listening skills.

it is a listening task.

Listen to eight different people talking in different situations choose the correct letter.

listen to a radio interview with a swimming instructor and fill in the spaces

listen a part of a radio programme called Morning Market and match the letter with the correct speaker.

listen to an interview with a man who makes models for films and television.



there is an answer sheet



use a pair of headphones

listening test 3

Yet another FCE to CAE prep for ´phrasal verbs, this time on the subject of the news. The usual mix-and-match, gap-fill, story with debate and bingo. Ideal for the Cambridge Grammar and Vocabulary books, ´particularly the vocabulary sections. At the end of the worksheet there is a reading and use of English part 4 test to reinforce what they have been learning. Answers at the back.

Phrasal Verbs about The News

This is a small guide about the structure of the speaking part of the Cambridge B2 exam. It's very useful to students taking this test. I've been an examiner myself and this is the way we like it.

Cambridge B2 Speaking (Picture Description)

This worksheet aims at testing students' oral productive skills on the topic "Voting". The preparation stage for the conversation involves students' elaboration on a number of cartoons and precisely formulated guiding questions. In case of breakdowns in communication, these may of course be supplemented with additional ideas and questions by the teacher.

Voting - Oral Exam

This worksheet aims at testing students' oral productive skills on the topic "Eating healthy". The preparation stage for the conversation involves students' elaboration on an article extract and precisely formulated guiding questions. In case of breakdowns in communication, these may of course be supplemented with additional ideas and questions by the teacher.

Eating healthy - Oral Exam

This worksheet aims at testing students' oral productive skills on the topic "Travelling". The preparation stage for the conversation involves students' elaboration on a number of images and precisely formulated guiding questions. In case of breakdowns in communication, these may of course be supplemented with additional ideas and questions by the teacher.

Travelling - Oral Exam

A small phrasal verb series of worksheets and games to teach phrasal verbs that are often used when speaking about animals. There is a mix-and-match exercise, bingo, a gapfill and then a poem for another gapfill. I haven't done a debate for this one but there is an FCE exam practice paper at the end for part 4 of the reading and use of English section. The answers are at the back.





Phrasal Verbs about Animals

A worksheet about celebrating and socialising that contains a mix-and-match, bingo, gap-fill, story with gap-fill, debate with role-play cards, and a mock FCE reading and use of English part 4 test. Answers at the back as per usual. If you are in a country where homosexuality is outlawed, please be aware that there are references to this lifestyle. If you are in a country where that kind of lifestyle is not outlawed, good for you!

Phrasal Verbs about Celebrating and Socialising 

Worksheet created to help teachers prepare for reading practice of elementary students . Especially useful for beginners and non  native speakers.  This work will help them for understanding how to read -sh sound

Phonics SH

Two in One is a short story by Flann O'Brian who is one of my favourites. The worksheet includes reading, writing & speaking skills. It also has Teacher's and Student's Notes. More like a ready made lesson. Yet It is fully editable. I hope You'll enjoy the worksheet. It is especially for pre- intermediate and intermediate students. High Schools - Young Adults and Adults. 

Two in One by Flann O'Brian (Short Story - Reading, Writing & Speaking Activities)

This is a complete class. It should last about and hour and a half for a small group. First, there is a reading done in the style of Part 1 of the Reading and Use of English section of the FCE exam. This is followed by a debate relating to the reading. There is then a dice game relating to traffic stops by police. There then follows a short role-play. An answer sheet is provided for the first part. Thank you to Esther for suggesting the idea.

Traffic Light FCE reading, debate, dice game and role-play

This worksheet aims at testing students' oral productive skills on the topic "Fame". The preparation stage for the conversation involves students' elaboration on a number of images and precisely formulated guiding questions. In case of breakdowns in communication, these may of course be supplemented with additional ideas and questions by the teacher.

Fame - Oral Exam

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>

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123 Fce speaking English ESL worksheets pdf & doc