A selection of English ESL games and activities printables

Another Card Game for your collection. Print them and lamintae for longer hold and you have a nice material for extra actitivities or for a day of games at school. The game gives and tests students knowledge about the USA.

Have fun!

USA Card Game

After years of teaching ESL and training TESOL teachers, I have compiled an anthology of tried and tested warmers, coolers and fillers. There are some old classics, as well as new ideas. Hope you enjoy! Any contributions welcomed, e-mail me: teacherdianarenke@gmail.com

Warmers, Coolers & Fillers Teachers' Handbook

This Advent Calendar contains 24 Christmas tasks, one for each day before Christmas. E.g. Wordsearch, Matching, Songs, Noughts and Crosses, Crossword, Double Puzzle, Secret Message, Colouring and many other activities. The Booklet consists of 17 pages + Key and Notes for the teacher. 

Hope you and your students will have fun while playing the games or doing the tasks. Merry Christmas! Eve

Advent Calendar - Christmas Activities

This engaging Minecraft-themed worksheet is designed to spark students' creativity and imagination, making learning fun and interactive. It includes a variety of activities that encourage kids to think critically about how to enhance their favorite game. Starting with comprehension questions, students will reflect on ideas such as flying dragons and underwater cities, solidifying their understanding of the text. Group discussions foster collaborative thinking as students share and debate their favorite new features. A creative writing task gives students the chance to brainstorm and write about their own unique Minecraft improvements, followed by a research activity where they explore and describe additional ideas from the internet. The DIY Minecraft mod section challenges them to solve common in-game problems with innovative solutions, promoting problem-solving skills. For homework, students can choose to draw a comic strip or create a video, helping them visualize and present their ideas creatively. This worksheet not only enhances reading and writing skills but also integrates technology and art, making it a comprehensive tool for engaging young learners in a subject they love. Teachers will appreciate its versatility and the way it captivates students' interest, encouraging active participation and creative thinking.

Five Awesome Ideas to Make Minecraft Even Cooler!

Game to review means of transport in a funny way. Pair work activity. Speaking, listening, writing and spelling skills. Suitable for children, teenagers and adults.

Means of transport battleships

This worksheet provides a reading passage about Markus Persson, creator of Minecraft, detailing his development of the game and its impact. The passage covers key events including the game's release, its features, and the sale of Persson's company to Microsoft. It concludes with his current activities in game development. Comprehension questions follow the text to assess understanding of Persson's nickname, Minecraft's release year, gameplay activities, details of the company's sale, and what Persson does now. Designed for upper elementary and middle school students, this worksheet aims to enhance reading skills and stimulate discussion on creativity and entrepreneurship.

The Father of Minecraft: Markus Persson

This is a paired speaking grammar and vocabulary activity designed for beginners. It practices the verb \'can\'. The students ask questions and their partners give short answers. It is an engaging fun activity and repetition helps the students consolidate the vocabulary and grammar. This can easily lead to a writing activity where the students use the information they got from their partners and write small sentences about what they can or can\'t do.  (games/ sports/ video games/musical insturments)

Can you...?

What is danger? Play and discuss about dangerous subjects such as fire, natural disasters, and ferocious animals. Vocabulary building and conversational aid- besides being a subject that appeals to most students.









Speaking cards with facts:









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Role Play - Danger Ahead Boardgame

An activity to practice spelling and learn about games

Vocabulary Playing

A game to practice the possessive adjectives his/her and also the possessive pronouns his/hers. You can tell sentences such as: "his dog" and kids will have to put the dog's flashcard in the boy's grill. OR they can fill the grills with the images and then ask questions like: "whose sweets are these?" and kids will have to answer "his" or "hers" depending on where the sweets are.

his / her activity

A short reading about friendship with a TRUE/FALSE activity, a matching exercise and a word search to learn and practise children’s games. Fully editable! Have a nice day!

ARE FRIENDS IMPORTANT TO YOU? (READING + CHILDREN’S GAMES)

That's the best worksheet about The Olympic Games. Timeline, history and curiosities in  a colorful and modern activity. Ideal for students to learn about the most important sport event.

THE OLYMPIC GAMES

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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153 Games and activities English ESL worksheets pdf & doc