A selection of English ESL fill in missing letter printables

Spelling exercises on school subjects for beginner students. Missing letters on different levels of difficulty and filling in a table of a personal schedule are simple and efficient way to help ypur students become confident in spelling school subjects. You can add or extract any subject if necessary. 

School subjects. Spelling exercises.

It is a very simple worksheet for starters. Students are expected to write simple dialogues, fill the missing letters and finally match the pictures with the common words. It is a writing exercise but later you can turn the activity in speaking form.

very beginner exercise!

This is the worksheet for practising "ch" words in different ways. Unscramble,word search , match the picture, fill in the missing letter,or use it as sight words activity. I also included pictures to keep it colourful for kids. The basic aim of these worksheet is to focus on "ch" words in a variety of manners.

Phonics (ch) sound

Identify and circle each letter of the alphabet. Trace and write each letter to practice handwriting. Match uppercase letters with their lowercase counterparts. Associate each letter with a corresponding sound or picture. Arrange letters in alphabetical order by filling in missing letters. Color pictures that start with specific letters of the alphabet.

Alphabet Worksheets

All of these words are associated with spring. Students are asked to fill in the missing letters to each word. Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments with any worksheets you may need or want to see more of. I will try to read them as often as I can and help in these difficult times. Teacher/creator at www.primaryleap.co.uk

Spring - Missing Letters

This handout consists of two exercises using Christmas song lyrics. Print the page using high quality paper and cut it half. Next, cut along the dotted lines. Your student will be asked to listen to the song and put the lines in the correct order. In the second activity students have to fill in the gaps with the missing letters and in the last 4 lines: whole words. 

Snow is falling Merry Xmas everyone

Song Worksheet :You are the Reason by Calum Scott . It includes 6 activities .



1.Fill in the blanks with one word.





2.The letters in the words in "italics" are mixed. Listen and correct words



3.Write the missing letters.



4. Replace the drawings to the words.



5.Translate the words taken from the lyrics

6. Make sentence with these words. 



Defeat



Safe 



Hope







Calum Scott -You are the Reason

In this worksheet children have to put in the correct order some stages of the milk processing. Then, they can explain the process with their own words. Another activity is to fill in the missing letters of four dairy products and match them with arrows to the pictures.



It'll be especially useful for those teachers who are using Oxford's Explorers 1, since this cross-curricular theme is included.

Food made from milk

This is a continuation from the Alphabet flashcards. This is also good as a warmer for new English learners to be familiar with the alphabet and some words relating to the letters. Use the words and pictures to match and fill in the blanks with the missing letter relating to the picture.

Alphabet Learning and Words Part 2

You will find 4 exercises (1.fill in the gaps with the following words,2.order the chorus,3.underline the correct option,4.write the missing words whose 1st letter is given)Moreover, you´ll find the whole song and the translation as well as an explanation in Spanish of its origin) The song comes from the soundtrack of the book Memorias de indhú

Song: Beyond (J.Ezpeleta & Chris Tara)

I made this worksheet for my students preparing for the health problems. They will practice the most common illnesses. There are three different exercises. 1- Ss will give their advice for the problems using the modal verb "Should/Shouldn't. 2-They will first complete the missing letter then find them in the wordsearch. 3- They will fill in the blanks with the suitable words in the box. Hope you will find it usefull. 

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU ?

A pair game to revise days of the week, time and free time activities. Based on New English Adventure 3 Unit 6. The aim of the game is to name the activities, unscramble words, fill in the missing letters, tell the time and then if it is done correctly cross 1 square. Players take turns to cross a square. The first who crosses 4 squares in a row wins.  

A pair game. Revision of days of the week, free time activities, time. Based on NEA 3 Unit 6

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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93 Fill in missing letter English ESL worksheets pdf & doc