A selection of English ESL hacking printables

this test deals with computer security. How secure is our data in our computers? Hackers are out there waiting to break into our systems.

Computer hacking

Listening and understanding news. Tasks are followed by speaking about current events (computer and social media hacks). The tasks can be used in a listening and speaking lesson or be a warm-up exercise for a speaking class. Students learn about the latest Twitter hack and its effects. There are True/False statements to check understanding.  Students listen for details and then research the reports about social media hacks in the past. 

TWITTER HACK

Students watch a couple of videos explaining some life hacks about food. Can be used for lots of discussion, writing activity and even as inspiration to prepare their own video.

life hack video class

the worksheet is based on this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5kYC6NDtKM

First, give your students the worksheet, make them explain the new words. After that, play the video, get some feedbacks, answer the questions from the worksheet.



Health hacks by Jessica Alba 

Are you looking for a fun and practical activity to engage your students in reading and comprehension? Our "Five Kitchen Hacks You Wish You Knew" worksheet is perfect for you! This activity not only teaches useful kitchen tips but also enhances students' critical thinking and discussion skills.

The worksheet begins with a conversational and engaging text about five essential kitchen hacks that everyone should know. From preventing tears while cutting onions to reheating pizza perfectly, these hacks are practical and easy to understand. Following the reading passage, there are comprehension questions including multiple-choice, true/false, and short answer formats to test students' understanding. These questions encourage attention to detail and comprehension.

Additionally, there are discussion questions designed for pairs or groups, where students discuss which hack they found most useful, share personal experiences, and brainstorm other kitchen problems that could use a clever hack. This promotes collaborative learning and critical thinking. 

The worksheet also includes an internet search and writing activity, where students research and write about a new kitchen hack they find online. This activity develops research skills and the ability to explain processes clearly. Furthermore, students are encouraged to think creatively by coming up with their own kitchen hack to solve a common problem, which they will describe and share with the class.

For a visual and creative touch, students can choose between drawing a diagram or comic strip illustrating one of the kitchen hacks or creating a short video demonstrating a hack. This option allows students to express their understanding in a visual or practical manner, making the learning process engaging and multifaceted. This worksheet is a fantastic way to blend practical knowledge with educational skills, ensuring your students have fun while learning.

Five Kitchen Hacks You Wish You Knew

The "Husband Hacks" worksheet offers fun and practical strategies for wives to create a peaceful home environment by keeping their husbands happily occupied. The hacks include buying a gaming console, keeping a bottomless snack bowl, setting up a man cave, swapping chores for enjoyable activities, and introducing new hobbies. These tips aim to entertain husbands and provide wives with uninterrupted quiet time. The worksheet features warm-up questions, reading comprehension, vocabulary matching, true/false questions, and a creative writing activity to help test and apply these hacks effectively, promoting a balanced and harmonious household.








Husband Hacks : a cheat code for wives

This worksheet helps students engage with the practical and surprising cleaning hacks discussed in the article. It includes vocabulary matching to reinforce key terms, reading comprehension questions to ensure understanding, and discussion prompts to encourage deeper thinking and sharing of personal experiences. Teachers can use this worksheet to create an interactive and educational lesson on effective and natural cleaning methods.

5 Surprising Cleaning Hacks You Probably Didn’t Know


This worksheet is designed to help husbands find creative and thoughtful ways to make their wives feel appreciated and loved. The "Wife Hacks" include organizing a surprise spa day, stocking up on favorite snacks, planning cozy movie nights, taking over least favorite chores, and leaving hidden love notes. These hacks aim to enhance relationships by showing empathy, thoughtfulness, and genuine appreciation. The worksheet includes warm-up questions, reading comprehension, vocabulary matching, true/false statements, and a creative writing activity to help husbands test and apply these hacks effectively. By implementing these ideas, husbands can ensure their wives feel valued and cherished, strengthening their bond and promoting a harmonious household.

Wife Hacks: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Her Happy

This worksheet is designed for **A2-level students** according to the CEFR framework. It focuses on **participial adjectives (-ed vs. -ing forms)**, helping students distinguish between adjectives that describe feelings (**bored, tired, stressed**) and those that describe the cause of those feelings (**boring, tiring, stressful**). The worksheet includes a variety of exercises—warm-up questions, vocabulary matching, true/false statements, multiple-choice questions, and fill-in-the-blank tasks. These activities give students ample opportunities to practice the grammar point in different contexts.


By engaging in discussion and guided practice, students will develop a deeper understanding of how to use **-ed and -ing adjectives** correctly, reducing common errors. The article "Hacks to Deal with Stress" is relatable to students, as it addresses everyday stressors while introducing the target language naturally. The task-based homework encourages students to apply what they've learned in real-life scenarios, solidifying their understanding of these commonly confused adjective forms.

Hacks to Deal with Stress: participial adjectives (-ed vs. -ing forms)

This worksheet helps teens navigate relationships and achieve success through practical mind hacks. It covers strategies like active listening, giving sincere compliments, mirroring body language, using people’s names, and practicing empathy. Each hack is explained with actionable tips, emphasizing the importance of genuine and respectful interactions. The worksheet includes warm-up questions, vocabulary matching, reading comprehension, true/false statements, discussion prompts, and a creative activity to reinforce learning. These activities aim to build teens' social skills and confidence, enhancing their ability to positively influence others.

Mind Hacks for Teens to Influence People and Excel in Life

The "Teen Hacks: The Ultimate Guide for Parents to Navigate Teenage Turbulence" worksheet provides parents with practical strategies to improve their relationships with their teens and navigate common challenges during the teenage years. The hacks include listening before reacting, setting tech boundaries together, focusing on positive reinforcement, having regular low-pressure conversations, and gradually increasing responsibilities and privileges. These strategies aim to show respect, build trust, and foster better communication. The worksheet also includes warm-up questions, reading comprehension, vocabulary matching, true/false statements, and a creative writing activity to help parents effectively apply these hacks and create a more harmonious household.

Teen Hacks: The Ultimate Guide for Parents to Navigate Teenage Turbulence

This worksheet offers teens practical strategies to build better relationships with their parents and earn their trust. The hacks include completing homework before being asked, doing chores without complaining, using polite language like "please" and "thank you," proposing compromises, and helping out with younger siblings. These tips aim to show maturity and responsibility, which can lead to more trust and freedom. The worksheet includes warm-up questions, reading comprehension, vocabulary matching, true/false questions, and a creative writing activity to help teens apply these hacks effectively. By implementing these strategies, teens can navigate parental expectations more easily and strengthen their family relationships.

The "Parent Hacks: The Ultimate Guide for Teens to Navigate Parental Territory"

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 give permission, authorization in English

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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

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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

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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)

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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