A selection of English ESL first class printables

Ss ar going to learn how to create their own biography using a questionnaire. Moreover, Ss are going to be able to learn about Wh-words using pesonal information giving in some writtenbiographies about famous people around the world. 

WH-words along with biographies for English language learners.

A quiz of 16 idioms with the verb GO. The first page can be done as a team quiz for large classes. The second page is practice and consolidation. The third page has another quiz on the origins of the expressions. The answers are on the back. If you would prefer to do the first page as an online quiz, the link is contained in the document or you can copy and paste the link to a Kahoot quiz below. Drugs and alcohol are mentioned so, if you teach children, you might want to change that part.


 https://create.kahoot.it/share/what-does-it-mean-idioms-with-go/b44205e3-928d-447a-84b1-65e7e382da3f

What does it Mean? Idioms with GO

This activity is modified for pre-intermediate to intermediate. Still, it can obviously be adapted for more advanced levels by requiring ‘that’ on all answer sheets to be replaced with ‘who’ ‘where’ or ‘when’ where appropriate (ex. It was three days ago when Alex bought his cards), and removing the template for the answers. Hence, they have to construct the grammar themselves by speaking. 
 Divide students into three teams/groups 
 Cut the running dictation sheet into 3 pieces and put each piece at the back of the room. Spread them out. 
 Have the students play running dictation to gather all their information (messenger). 
 When all teams have finished, give them the answers so they can check to see if it's all correct. 
 Cut up the questions sheet into three pieces and give one piece to each group (note) each group should have four questions to answer, and each group will already have one answer for one question. The other three answers will need to be collected from other groups in the final activity. 
 Now have the teams interview each other for the missing information. Make sure they aren't showing their answers. They must ask questions and provide answers by speaking. 
 Compare answers as a class and put all the information together to discover 'who, what, when, and where'.

Cleft sentences with the Trading Card Brothers (running dictation, puzzle, interview).

An easy worksheet for the first day of pre-junior class. 
Learning Objective: 
Hello. What`s your name? 
I`m.../My name`s... 
Match, "read" and colour.
Characters from Disney and looney Tunes

Pre-Junior Hello

PART A . The students are given an M and M with a different colour. They have to speak following the instructions given for each colour. Allow them 10' to think of the sentences. Then they must speak in front of the class. The rest of the student try to understand doing some listening practice.
PART B.  A wordwall random wheel game is included.
The  teacher shows the students the different adjectives to express feeelings and emotions using the random spin picker and make the students repeat and learn the different synonyms ( In the wordwall game there is also the possibility to choose the "random cards" or the "open the box" version to help the students associate the face expression of the M&M character and the synonyms).
All the students having the M&M with the same colour join and  will have to invent a short story (hey can prepare and write it first) using an specific situation where the M&M character shows that feeling. 
When every group has finished their story, they will tell it to the rest of  the class. 

   
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Adjectives Related To Emotions

I´ve just prepared this lesson plan, wich contains some ideas on how to use the Serie "LOST", Episode 20 from Season 1. I use my netflix account to watch it, but you can find the serie on dvd. My esl students always ask me to practice their listening skills and pronunciation. One of the best ways to do this is by using medias, such as series and movies. I choose this episode because it contains a beautiful message by the end, while the action gets the viewers and makes the video interesting. Instructions and Ideas for teachers: This kind of worksheet can be worked on many different ways, and you are able to invent your own way of using it. 1)	You can give the first part of the transcript to the students read, as they are reading a drama piece. They will imagine the scenes by reading. The teacher can help with the translations by giving an vocabulary background. The students can also be divided in characters, so each one reads its speaks on the role. 2)	Before showing the episode, you can create a talking about the reading and ask the students to try to imagine the characters they acted. You can work on adjectives and describing people here. 3)	Now you have some options. I would start by showing the episode, till the part they’ve read, with subtitles (in Portuguese, in my case). They’ll have the opportunity to watch the episode relaxed, because they already know the speaks and the story. So they must focus on trying to listen and read the transcript, while they verify the pronunciation. They can take notes and discuss with the class after watching. 4)	An other option could be by playing the video but they will only listen to the audio, without watching the scenes. They’ll be reading the transcript while listening. You can use a “gap fill” system to test their listening skills. Hope you enjoy! Sincerely, Teacher Mariana Fonseca - Brazil

Serie Activity: Lost - Episode 20, Season 1 - PART 1

I used this chart with beginner-intermediate students. When I called out a topic, we went around the room and whoever had that topic on their bingo board told us something about themselves related to that topic. It was a great first-day-of-class warm up/discussion starter.

Bingo Chart

english worksheet for preschoolers to initiate them in the class and feelings.



they just have to signal, draw and color   

it doesnt require extra material. 



you can add welcome songs and encorage them to draw bearing in mind the shapes and colors, be expressive when teaching the feelings



my first day

This worksheet can be used as preliminary material to get students to revise the simple sentences needed to introduce yourself. (I use this as complement to Info worksheet 1 to avoid having small kids copy all the sentences up since they are quite slow!)

I have students fill in Info sheet 1 first and express themselves to see what sentences they can come up with by themselves then i give them Info sheet 2 to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Then I shuffle all Info sheets 1 and students must describe their classmates using the cues.



Afterwards, I use an empty Info sheet 1 (given to all students in class) to have them complete it by listening to a recording.



In the end, students are evaluated on the following skills, being able to:

- introduce yourself briefly.

- introduce someone else briefly.

- talk about the things you like or don't like.

- talk about the things someone else likes or dislikes.

- give a phone number.

- spell a name.



Students must master the following lexicon:

- numbers

- alphabet

- occupations

- hobbies

- pets

- allergies

- sports and extra-curricular activities

Info worksheet to get to know each other 2

Worksheet is suitable for beginners. The exercises are devoted to basic verbs, time, family, numbers, dates etc. I use the worksheet to revise the first classes of the course. 

Revision for beginners

Row your boat lyrics 

These are the lyrics of one of the nursery rhymes students love. they usually know the first verse but if you give them the whole poem , it will be fun. It's a word document so you can change it the way you see fits your class.

Row Row Row your boat

There are three tasks to carry out. A drawing dictation, a game of pictionary and finally an elimination discussion about which three people should be saved from a volcano.
Start the class by eliciting natural disasters. Then, play a suitable video from ISL collective. Then, hand out paper. 

DISASTER DRAWING DICTATION. The teacher reads the paragraph out loud as the students draw. They could write their own descriptions of other disasters for each other to draw as homework. Vote whose picture is best.
DISASTER PICTIONARY. Cut up the list of disaster words and have the kids form into two teams. The first person to shout out the disaster in English gets a point. 
DISASTER DEBATE. Cut up the list of people and hand them round. If necessary invent more (or ask a friendly AI). A volcano is erupting nearby. A helicopter can only take three people. 1. Each person introduces themselves and explains why they should be saved. 2. A discussion ensues. 3. Everyone writes on a slip of paper one person to be evicted. If there is a tie, vote again. If there is a stalemate, they are both eliminated. 4. Further discussion. 5. Vote again etc. until there are only three people left.

NATURAL DISASTERS FUN LESSON PLAN

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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