A selection of English ESL fool printables

A comprehensive lesson on April's Fools and the History of April Fool's Day. 



Start your students off with some warm-up questions, complete a vocabulary matching activity, watch a YouTube video full of visual aids to help students better learn and remember vocabulary, answer listening comprehension questions, retell the passage on the history of April Fool's Day using visual aids, teach idioms related to joking and April Fool's Day, practice listening with a gap fill and complete the lesson with some discussion questions. 



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The link to the video is in the lesson, but check this link out for a sneak peek: https://youtu.be/h-IeEV1hlLc

History of April Fool's Day

Vocabulary WS : Months

It's a simple matching exercise. The pupils have to match each picture with the related month. July & August can each be matched with the other "summer" picture.

B/W so printer friendly & 2 in 1 WS : you can drill months and related vocabulary with colours with a colouring dictation (Colour December blue / Santa is red, ...)

Answers here : 

January = balloons

February = masks

March = Flowers

April = April Fools Day

May = Mother's Day

June = Diploma

July & August = car & beach

September = school bus

October = pumpkins

November = turkey

December = Santa

Months

This April Fool’s Day reading includes a reading text on the origins of April Fool’s Day, vocabulary focus, collocations matching, comprehension questions, and speaking practice.


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April Fool's Day Lesson

Rread about some of the pranks that have been pulled over the years and make your own.

April Fool's Hoaxes

An upper-level discussion worksheet. Replace the faces on the jester and monkey with those of your co-workers or students(currently my co-workers). Njoi!

April Fool's Day - Discussion Worksheet

This conversation-based lesson on an April Fool's Day Prank will get your student talking. 



Start the lesson with a few warm-up questions then move on to a vocabulary matching activity. 



Watch a YouTube video which you can get a sneak peek of here: https://youtu.be/LZEb9i__AeU

and then answer listening comprehension questions. 



Retell the conversation using visual aids, teach idioms related to April Fool's, joking, and humor. 



Students will discuss humor in their countries, then use some vocabulary and phrases from the lesson as they write sentences and personalize the language. 



Ask students to watch the video again and complete the lesson with a missing words gap fill. 



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April Fool's Day Prank

Tom tells the practical joke that he played on his parents on April Fools´ Day with his history teacher´s help. Three types of exercises: reorder pictures, a true/False activity and answer questions.

My Best April Fool's Day

This is a short passage about a boy who really fancies a girl, but makes a bit of a fool of himself. The students have to put the verbs in brackets into the past simple tense and then answer the T/F questions. This worksheet is a recycled one of mine - I have uploaded a version previously. 

RC: Jake fails to make a good impression.

Students have to listen to the song and complete it with the verbs in brackets. All verbs go in their present progressive form. Afterwards, they can autocorrect themselves by watching this fantastic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAFS43NKFag (not made by me)

Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree

A quick survey on the subject of books. The questions are simple but foolproof - you'll always get some nice insipration from your students even if they are not much into books - sometimes even one title dropped can be a total game changer :) Enjoy!

Are you a bookworm? - speaking activity

It isn't a worksheet really, but a poem. Currently  I haven't got any special ideas what to do with it. But April Fool's Day is tomorrow and I see that there aren't many handouts on ISL collective connected with it. I hope it will inspire some of you to prepare a surprise for your pupils. Enjoy!

April Fool's Day funny poem

A lady feels sad because her son is leaving home, but hey!  - he's only moving round the corner and she will still be able to cook for him and do his washing. Silly old fool. T/F about the picture, short passage and comprehension questions. 

RC: our son is moving out

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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