A selection of English ESL jolly 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

I make use of a similar worksheet as a writing prompt for creative writing.  Inhibited writer feel more comfortable when exposed to ideas.  I start with exposing it to my students as a reading sheet.  We brain storm sentences by using the word bank and then they may work in pairs in order to make up a Santa Story.

a busy and a jolly Santa

This is the second of two pages for the Jolly Phonics Group 1.  They can be used for Infants from 3-5 to help reinforce pronunciation and also to assist with pencil holding skills.  They can colour the image and then draw their own in the box.

JOLLY PHONICS GROUP 1 PAGE 2 

Jolly Phonics book 3 Fun Final Test 

Reading. Writing/Tracing. Coloring.

Jolly Phonics worksheet for FINAL TEST.

Have the students read, answer or trace and color this page while the teacher is busy doing the oral reading exercises. The words chosen were easy to read and the pictures are easy to identify for EFL students as well. 

Similar exercises can be done prior to the final test to have the students adapt to the process.   

Once downloaded, two words in each item will be in tracing font. However, should your microsoft now allow the font, you may opt to edit and leave the a blank for the students to fill in. 



Jolly Phonics book 3 Fun Final Test 

Jolly Phonics Worksheet

Reading and Writing. 

Preschool Reading. 

Jolly Phonics Tracing Activity. 

Jolly Phonics Blending.

Jolly Phonics Short Sentences. 

Jolly Phonics Worksheet

Reading and Writing. 

Preschool Reading. 

Jolly Phonics Tracing Activity. 

Jolly Phonics Blending.

Jolly Phonics Short Sentences. 

Jolly Phonics Worksheet

Reading and Writing. 

Preschool Reading. 

Jolly Phonics Tracing Activity. 

Jolly Phonics Blending.

Jolly Phonics Short Sentences. 

Jolly Phonics 2 - Boy In The Park

The test is prepared to evaluate learners of Jolly Phonics Pupil Book 2. Teachers may choose cvc words for the first part of the test and tricky words for test b. Test c includes  the picture for the word "spray" which comes with the next lesson. The test item for test c is only 11. The word "spray" is but a bonus.Test d is for long vowels. Test e is for reading and comprehension. The students are to read and complete the pictures with the missing items and or colors.  

Jolly Phonics Pupil Book 2 Midterm Test

Jolly Phonics sample exercises on Tricky words. Prepared as supplementary activity for the Jolly book 2. Have the students trace the words as homework exercise. They can also practice reading similar sounding words. 

Jolly Phonics 2 Tricky words page 17

The jollyphonics bingo helps students to identify the English sounds  and relate them to the writen morphems in a funny and enjoyable way. The teacher drills the sound and the student have to find it and cross it in its bingo card. The first student to cross all the sounds is the winner and says BINGO

PHONICS GAME

 An worksheet created for my EAL primary children KS2 after reaching phase 5 using jolly phonics and Letters and Sound strategies! The words on page 3 can be changed regularly and the phoneme frames shortened. Enjoy!

English phonemes to check awareness

Six pictures of three-letter animals (cow, pig, ant, rat, dog, cat) with space underneath for students to write a description. Pictures are outlines, so students can colour in and then write adjective+noun underneath (e.g. red dog).

Designed to be used alongside blending sounds in Jolly Phonics

Colour the Animals

1. Print the boardgame. 2. Cut out the cards, characters (tokens) and dice. 
How to play: Each player chooses a character piece to play with.
All participants throw the dice to decide who starts the game. The highest number starts. 
Each player throws the dice to walk on the board. Then they  need to use the vocabulary given in a sentence or they pick a card from the deck to answer a question.
 If a player can’t use the vocabulary or answer the questions in ENGLISH, they must go back to the START square.
The player who gets first to the FINISH square wins the game.

Christmas Board Game

Lighten up your classroom with the Christmas Spirit with the help of this jolly activity. Students fill the gaps with the missing lyrics, while listening to the song. Enjoy!

23 Jolly English ESL worksheets pdf & doc