A selection of English ESL in on printables

This is a very simple worksheet for complete beginners. In the pre-listening students learn personal information about the singer and deal with the vocabulary. After that, they listen and choose the correct option and complete the lyrics. Finally, there are two questions to reflect on the meaning of the song.

Song: Changes - XXXTentacion

There are 2 tasks on topic "kitchen vebs" 1)  to  fill in the missing letters, 2)to  unscramble the words. It's usefull to  practice spelling skills and to  memorize words better.

kitchen verbs

In this reading task T can pre teach the vocab first and ask students to talk about the 3 questions and then have the paragraphs cut and ask them to put the pieces together. at the end there are some questions that students can answer based on their understanding of the text.

reading task for the history of music players 

You can use this worksheet as a warm-up activity or a timesaver. 

Students' task is to fill in the gaps while listening. 

For lower levels you may write down the words on the board.

Students are to revise the past simple forms of some verbs. 

Ed Sheeran - Perfect

This worksheet was created for adult beginner students. It only includes verb to be. Students are asked to match beginnings to endings  to make questions and answer them.

Question Making To Be (2) 

Gapfill and selecting word order on this lovely Ed Sheeran song. Give out the question sheet and play the song. Only use the lyric sheet for verification and help with the translation task. 



Used it with my 3ème today (15 years old - mixed class of 30) and it was a total success. They asked if they could sing it, which I agreed to - at the end of the lesson. Will do more of this (... and I believe that singing is really important - just that I didn't expect it with 15 year olds!!)  



(For homework, I asked them to go to the video on Youtube, and describe what Sheeran is doing at certain moments - eg, 0.32" - playing piano.)

Photograph – Ed Sheeran

A gap filling exercise on jobs for elementary to pre-intermediate students.
Hope it is useful for you all.

My strange family...

This is an extended vocabulary list - as well as the list for the word in the foreign and native language, there is space to write a sentence using that word... we all know how one word in English (especially!) can have many meanings!

You can adapt the English and Spanish headings to whichever are applicable to the languages you teach.

Vocabulary List

In this worksheet, you have 20 fridges. The way you play this game with your students is that you gave away copies of the worksheet to each student and pick one who is going to choose one fridge. Next, other students take turns asking that student questions to guess which fridge is theirs. In the 2nd page there are some useful phrases you may want to pre-teach or give out to your students. This game can be also played in pairs. 

The game goes like this:

A: Is there any fish in your fridge?

B: No, there isn’t.

A: [crosses out all fridges with fish]… etc

Is there any / Are there any questions training guessing game with food

Song by Sabrina Carpenter with Answer Key.

The song might contain language or content not appropriate for certain ages, use at your own discretion.

It has all kinds of exercises: matching sentences, completing gaps, unscrambling words.

The objective is to learn some new vocabulary while having fun with a song teenagers like.

Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter

The tasks are designed to help to learn vocabulary and spellings, then to switch from lower to upper case letters. 

1) Label the house with the words in the box above. 

2) Add labels for some more home words. 

3) Copy the words to learn spellings, or cover the words with one hand and test yourself by writing them without copying, then check. 

4) Do the word search to find the same words in capital letters, then write the words in capitals on the right.

House and home vocabulary

B1 suitable reading practice and exercise. A multiple choice questions exercise that aims to make students think around the subject and deal with sporadically unknown vocabulary. The goal is to teach them how to select a correct answer either by directly selecting it, or by using the process of logical elimination, if necessary.

The use of VGO robots in education - a reading exercise

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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