A selection of English ESL go swimming printables

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>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

This two-page worksheet introduces the most popular leisure activities and hobbies. Your students practise talking about what they like or dislike doing in their free time using such expressions as 'I enjoy'/ 'I prefer' or 'I hate'/ 'I can't stand'. There is also a short paragraph on gardening as one of the most popular hobbies in the UK.

Leisure activities

The students have to match sports vocabulary with the pictures and make questions. Can you swim? 

There is also a cross word. 

If you want other worksheets about the same subject, you can find them here:

https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/resources?Tags=sports&searchworksheet=GO&type=Printables&id=5163



Modals - Can you...? - Sports

34 verbs dominoes cards. Ss connect the words to the correct pictures. They lay out on a table in a continuous chain which can end in a complete circle. (play football, walk, run, sleep, play, read, write, talk, listen, jump, drink, eat, open, close, count, go, come, watch TV, play TV games, speak, sing, dance, ride, laugh, cry, swim, study, fight, clean, catch, throw, draw, wait, climb)

Verbs Dominoes

Here is a set of 24 Card Game with the Smurfs (print them twice so 48 in total). Students have to ask questions and they have to choose the verb that goes with the action: play football, do archery, go swimming....Page 3 is the back of the cards. Instructions included on the last page of the document Enjoy :)

Go Fish with the Smurfs - Sports with Play/Go/Do

First go over questions to make plans and both positive and negative responses.  ie "Let's go swimming" or "Why don't we see a movie?" "Sure, sounds good."  "Sorry, I can't." etc.  The students secretly put their battleships in their oceans, and get into pairs.  They attack by trying to make plans on the given days, and the partner responds based on whether they hit or missed the battleship.  

Battleships Making Plans Speaking Game

Either we are go to our neighbour or to another planet, we need some transportation system :)



Keep asking further questions about travelling!

Did you ever fly with a plane?

Which cities did you go to?

Do you always wear a seatbelt?

Where do you want to go?

How do you go to Paris / Hawaii / the park?

...



bicycle - neighbour - wear a helmet

taxi - shopping - wear a seatbelt

bus - school - hold the grip

subway - work - offer my seat

train - another city - buy a ticket

ship - another island - wear a swimwest

airplane - another country - have a passport

rocket - another planet - wear a spacesuit

Transportation

Here is an ESL worksheet for students to practise the BE GOING TO + infinitive form to express plans for the coming summer. Students are going to watch fireworks in villages and towns, meet their friends at the swimming pool.

Our Plans For the Following Summer- BE GOING TO Practice 2

Mickey Mouse Sports Bingo contains 20 types of sports in 6 bingo cards 4X4 each. The sports are boxing, golf, football,  ice hockey, basketball, motorsport, handball, tennis, skiing, cycling, running, gymnastics, roller skating, swimming, baseball, rugby, skating, horse riding, badminton, volleyball.

Mickey Mouse Sports Bingo

This is an edited article from Sky news.

It is for advanced classes.

I found it very relevant and scary at the same time.

Just the thought of kids not being allowed to swim in the ocean is very relevant to what is going on in the world today.

My students could relate to this because it is a bleak picture of their future holidays if something isn\'t done now.

Climate Changes

Number of players: 3-30 + game leader



Learning Goal: 

Thestudent knows the verbs: 

 ask, bake, brush, build, carry, catch, clap, close, color, cook, dance, dig, drive, eat, fold, follow, hit, hop, kick, knock, lead, lift, march, mix, paint, paste, play, point, push, rake, row, run, see, scrubb, shout, show, skip, sleep, slide, stop, sweep, swim, tell, tie, throw, wave, wipe, work

 

Content:

•	3 overview cards with the pictures and the words

o	Print one for the game leader and one to hang in front of the classroom

•	Word cards  (cut them apart)

•	30 bingo cards for the students (print 2 pages on 1 sheet)

What you need more:

•	16 buttons or little stones for each student



Game procedure:

The game is played on a scorecard that's made up of 16 squares — if you get 4 squares in a row, you win!

•	All the players get a bingo card with 16 squares/pictures

•	The leader takes a card from a pile and reads the verb. He puts this card on the right place of the overview cards to know which words he already read.

o	If the player has the corresponding picture on his card he puts a button on its place. If he has 4 buttons on a row, he wins the game. 

(The leader can check with his overview cards if the player played the game correctly)

•	You can go on with the game with a new goal: a full card. Who can cover all the pictures wins.



Bingo - verbs

In this worksheet beginner students will have to complete the actions according to the images, the sentences include a complement. Include verbs such as: to read, to swim, to ride, to sleep, to play, to eat, to run, to drink, to go, to walk, to wake up, to dance, to sing and to fly.

What do they do?

This game is a bingo game. It is planned to practise vocabulary related to outdoor/ free time activities. Vocabulary: go rowing, go skiing, go campìng, go snowboarding, go swimming, have a picnic, take a photo, play beach volleyball, go sightseeing, stay in a hotel, go to the mountains, go to the beach, go snorkelling, write a postcard, go horseriding, go hiking, throw a beach ball, make a sandcastle, go to a fairground, and pack.

19 Go swimming English ESL worksheets pdf & doc