A selection of English ESL gap-fill printables

This is a very popular christmas song in the uk. The video can be watched herehttps://ww w. Youtube. Com/watch? V=bpfhsqlxepi. Students listen to the song and fill in the gaps

Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody - Gap Fill

Students are going to listen to the song "Yesterday Once More" - The Carpenters then fill the blanks to recognize the verbs in past simple form.

Teachers then reminds students with some irregular forms of verbs.

Yesterday Once More - Song Gap Fill

Song for elementary students.The song includes 3 different activities: fill in gaps, choose the right word and fill in the gaps represented by the picture next to it.

THE BEATLES - OBLADI OBLADA Gap Fill

A filling the gaps exercise to practice Past Simple with irregular verbs (drink, drive, get make, wake, break, etc.) and a couple of regular verbs (start and want)

The Way - Fastball - Song Gap Fill

This worksheet is to work with the simple past of some regular and irregular verbs. The activity is developed through a song of the musical group puddle of mudd. Students have to complete the song with the past of the verbs. It is divided in different steps: write the past, complete the song, order a part of the lyrics and finally, ask some questions to a classmate. There isn't a solution, because the song is pretty clear and easy to complete. You have to explain the students what's the activity about, the stepts and finally check with them the corrects answer. At the end, they have to report about their classmates answers or talk about what they remember about the questions they are going to ask to a classmate. 

Puddle of Mudd - Song Gap Fill

This worksheet comprises twenty sentences designed to reinforce understanding and usage of the simple past tense. Each sentence presents a scenario or action in the past, with a verb missing, requiring students to fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb provided in parentheses. The exercise covers a range of activities and events commonly associated with everyday life, such as going to the store, having dinner, playing sports, and experiencing various occurrences like storms or losing items. By completing this exercise, students not only practice forming sentences in the simple past tense but also engage in comprehension and recall of past events. The diversity of scenarios ensures a broad application of the past tense, promoting a comprehensive grasp of its usage. This worksheet is suitable for learners at various proficiency levels seeking to consolidate their knowledge of past tense verbs in a practical and engaging manner.

Simple Past Tense Gap Fill Exercise

Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (Lyric gap fill)
Students listen to the song 'Torn' by singer Natalie Imbruglia and fill in the gaps in the lyrics. Teacher may play song more than once.

Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (Lyric gap fill)

DAFT PUNK not actually a song but a monologue with daft punk background beats.  A different way of letting students listen to English with a foreing accent. It is suitable for revising simple past, regular and irregular verbs. It can serve as a model for students to write their own biographies which at the same time and with the help of ICT they could even record themselves  and edit their presentations so as to come out with something similar to this "song". 

Giorgio by Morodor - Song Gap Fill

Listen to the happy sound of splish splash from Bobby Darin, get into good mood and fill in the missing words with some sound of the 50´s. Have fun with this easy going groove.

Splish Splash - Bobby Darin - Gap Fill

2 exercises: Complete the questions using the correct form of to be (am, are or is) then write answers to the questions. This exercise is for a Dutch student [adult] so some questions might need to be changed to suit age/nationality.



I, and my students, loved PhilipR's brilliant 13 questions worksheets:http://en.islcollective.com/worksheets/worksheet_page?id=19573. I got the idea for these worksheets from the 13 questions exercises but all questions are my own. We usually discuss the answers together or in a group and do the writing exercise for homework. This helps reinforce what we have covered in the lesson.

Gap-fill exercise: Am, are or is?

Multiple choice and gap-filling on relative pronouns to practice or review the topic, designed for upper-intermediate students. It's fully editable, so you can edit whatever you need.

Relative Pronouns (multiple choice and gap-filling)

A gap-fill worksheet created for my Ss who struggle with the pronunciation of three and four syllable words. After putting them in the correct stress box, this is a closed activity to back-up understanding. Hope is works well for you too!

3 and 4 syllable word gap-fill

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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501 Gap-fill English ESL worksheets pdf & doc