A selection of English ESL go fish printables

A selection of cards that focus on vocabulary related to toys.  Can be adapted to suit your lexical needs.  Suitable for all age groups.  Can be laminated for future use. Second installment

Go Fish - Toys2

To play Sports Go Fish print out two or four sets of the cards, ideally on card stock. Deal out four cards to each player and place the remaining cards in a pile. Each player then tries to get pairs by asking any player they choose, for example "Do you like badminton?" If the player has the card they must reply, "Yes, I do" and hand it over. If they do not they must reply "No, I don't – go Fish!" Pairs are placed in front of the player and the player who gets rid of all their cards first wins. You can also use the cards for Memory and Snap... btw I've notice there are two climbing cards... c'est la vie, sorry. I will try to update the file later... 

Sports Go Fish

25 pairs of matching cards 

  - 13 pairs: "I can"

  - 12 pairs: "I am"

(the last page is an image for the back of the cards)



Students match the pictures to the sentences. 





GO FISH (play in groups of 3-5)



Deal 5 or 7 cards to each student. Put the remaining cards facedown in a stack in the middle of the group.



First, each student removes any pairs in their pack and makes a pile for their matching cards.



Then students decide who plays first (rock, paper, scissors).



Students will now ask each other questions to get new cards to make as many pairs as possible.



The first student chooses ANY other student to try to get a card from.



The student must use the picture or sentence on their card to make a question. 



QUESTION FORMAT: 

Can you *verb* *noun*?  OR  

Are you *adjective*?



For e.g. "I can speak Chinese" -> Can you speak Chinese?

  "I am hungry"  ->  Are you hungry?



If the student has the matching card, they answer [Yes I can / Yes I am], and gives the student the card.



The first student will take the card and add that matching pair to his pile. 



If the student does not have the matching card, they answer [No I can't / No I'm not]. 



The first student will take a new card from the stack in the middle. 



If the new card makes a pair, the student adds that matching pair to his pile. 



Then the play moves to the next student, and so on. 





The GOAL is to make as many pairs as possible (not to finish first). So if a student runs out of cards, he will take a new card from the stack in the middle to continue play. 



The key is to listen carefully to everyone's questions because that will tell you which cards they have, so you know who to ask when it's your turn. 





You can also use these cards for Memory, Karuta, or any number of activities. For example, have students change tenses, or change subjects, etc. 

Go Fish cards

ss play in small groups practicing questions with is there..? are there...(the number that appears on the cards?. Ex.Is there a carpet?yes, there is. No, there isn't. Are there three wardrobes? Yes, there are. No, there aren't. Hope it's useful :)

Go fish furniture Game

Practise first person questions and answers: yes I do./no I don't.Print page 1 and 2 twice and they play the game. The third and fourth page are flashcards. Fifth page os the back of the cards. Enjoy!

Go fish present simple

A traditional game Go Fish for my young students based on my ABC animals list. The object of the activity is to help students to remember and to read the new words they are learning in  funny way. 

ABC animals (go fish)

I've created a series of simple games for children to learn and revise basic halloween vocabulary. Here comes the go fish game. For those who don't know how to play -instruction is inside the file so I won't repeat it here in the description. I hope your students will enjoy it.

Halloween Go fish game

To play Foods Go Fish print out two sets of the cards per group of 4 to 6 students, ideally on card stock. Deal out four cards to each player and place the remaining cards in a pile. Each player then tries to get pairs by asking any player they choose, for example "Would you like some bread?" If the player has the card they must reply, "Yes, please!" and hand it over. If they do not they must reply "No, thank you – go Fish!" Pairs are placed in front of the player and the player who gets rid of all their cards first wins. You can also use the cards for Memory and Snap...

Foods Go Fish Cards

To play Christmas Go Fish! print out two sets of the cards per group of 4 to 6 students, ideally on card stock. Deal out four cards to each player and place the remaining cards in a pile. Each player tries to get pairs by asking any player they choose, for example "Have you seen the Christmas tree?" If the player has the card they must reply, "Yes, I have!" and hand it over. If they do not they must reply "No, I haven't – go Fish!" Pairs are placed in front of the player and the player who gets rid of all their cards first wins. You can also use the cards for Memory and Snap, perhaps Old Maid if you take one card out...

Christmas Go Fish! Cards

WINTER ACTIVITIES vocabulary through Go fish game, my students´ favourite game. Print pages two times to have a pile. Compeletely editable. Hope you like it!You can print it and laminate to keep the pages for a long time to use.

Go fish WINTER ACTIVITIES 

This game "Go Fish" to practice sea life vocabulary and also  the verb "there is/ are"

The rules of the game are the same as in any other game of this kind: 5 cards each player, -you should print at least two copies, depending on the number of students- and the rest of the cards in a pile in the middle of the table (4 copies, two pairs, ideal)

Sea life Go fish

To play Animals Go Fish print out two sets of the cards per group of 4 to 6 students, ideally on card stock. Deal out four cards to each player and place the remaining cards in a pile. Each player then tries to get pairs by asking any player they choose, for example "Would you like a pet dinosaur?" If the player has the card they must reply, "Yes, please!" and hand it over. If they do not they must reply "No, thank you – go Fish!" Pairs are placed in front of the player and the player who gets rid of all their cards first wins. You can also use the cards for Memory and Snap, perhaps Old Maid if you take one card out...

Animals Go Fish Cards

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)

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

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A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

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A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

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Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

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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

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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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