A selection of English ESL gist printables

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A game to practise the conditional and reported speech. A good activity to open a group up and have some fun in the class.



Teacher's notes

Objectives



1.Provoke a fun and light hearted conversation in the classroom.

2.Conditional Type II

The doctor must use the conditional type II as mush as possible with phrases such as:

I think you should … if you were a dog, you would …

3.Reported speech

The patient will practice reported speech when they report back to the class about the advice the doctor has given them.



Level



Intermediate-Advanced



Time Allowance



20-40 minutes



Group size



2-24 students



Procedure



1.Cut out the situation cards.

2.Cut out the top half of first page and give out.

3.Split the class into groups of two.

4.Talk about the joke.

5.Go over any relevant vocabulary.

6.Explain the role play situation to them.

7.Tell each group who is the doctor and patient.

8.Give the patient one card face-down.

9.Give each group 5-10 minutes to develop the situation.

Note:  Try to encourage the groups to act out the role play situation as they will enjoy it much more.

10.Each patient reports to the class saying what the doctor advised them to do.

11.Change roles in each group.

12.Vote which doctor gave the best advice.



PSYCHOLOGIST'S GAME

this is part of a series of worksheets I prepared for learners to teach them shopping and food related vocabulary. this worksheet focuses on reading for gist and detail

healthy eating

Vocabulary about making a reservation, places in the hotel, and words seen in the airport and on the hotel registration papers you have to fill out

Making a Hotel Reservation

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This is a great game to develop fluency and bring some fun into the classroom. Students take turns to choose a topic/card and talk about the topic for a minute/2 minutes.





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Level: This is most suited to A2 / B1 level students.





Time: 30 minutes + 





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Talk for a Minute (A2/B1)

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This is a great game to develop fluency and bring some fun into the classroom. Students take turns to choose a topic/card and talk about the topic for a minute/2 minutes.





We have a teacher’s copy (including teacher’s notes) and a student version which you can email to your class for online lessons.





Level: This is most suited to A2 / B1 level students.





Time: 30 minutes +





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Grab and go lesson for when you have to jump into a class at the last minute.


30mins.



Talk for a minute about... A2-B1 level

This is a chart showing all tenses with examples in use. Students can keep this handout in their file or it can be used as a poster.



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English Tenses Chart /Table

This is a lesson to teach phrasal verbs related to holidays and travel. It includes a phrasal verbs/definition matching exercise, a gap-fill exercise, a prepositions gap-fill, conversation practice and a game to revise the phrasal verbs.
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This is a speaking exercise and web quest on the topic of International Women’s Day. Students ask and answer the questions in pairs or small groups and then do a research task to find out about important women in history and society. They then report their findings back to their group. We have a teacher’s copy (including teacher’s notes) and a student version which you can email to your class for online lessons.







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International Women's Day

Expressions to use in an e-mail to a friend and a few do's and don'ts.  High school students rarely send e-mails but are required to do so for official tests. They often find it difficult to use the correct register.

Creative Writing: An e-Mail to a Friend

I found this text on an ESL website and then added comprehension questions to it. It is great to get students thinking and they can do it on their own.

The Noisy Neighbour Comprehension

Put students in pairs, then tell them they’re going to act out psychologist and client. Client will describe his/her dream and they will interpret it together. Let them decide who will be the pscyhologist first.  Then make the pscyhologists close their eyes before showing the clients one of the four “dream images” in this document. They should describe the scene to their partners and invent some more events to the dream. Finally, they should interpret the dream together.



Warmer: Interpreting dreams

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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