A selection of English ESL labor day printables

A worksheet with an article and two types of reading comprehension exercises. It's fully editable, so you can erase or add anything you need to. I hope it helps.

Labor Day 2022 - reading comprehension

This worksheet contains questions about Jobs and Occupations, Daily routines and Hobbies. This is to practice speaking about yourself and introduce yourself. This is great for highschool students and adults because some questions are elaborate and some require that you express personal thoughts.

Conversation Topics

A song activitiy I elaborated to my beginners focusing on Days of the week, frequency adverbs and some new verbs they learned. You can edit the sheet and use it as you wish. I used the acoustic audio from youtube because it's slower and clearer. Hope you guys enjoy it, my students did! :)

Friday I'm in love - The Cure

**Description of Present Simple**

The present simple tense is used to describe habitual actions, general truths, and routines. It is formed using the base form of the verb for all subjects, except for the third person singular, which adds an -s or -es (e.g., "he walks," "she watches"). 

Common uses of the present simple include:

1. **Habitual Actions:** "I go to the gym every day."
2. **General Truths:** "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius."
3. **Scheduled Events:** "The train leaves at 6 PM."


Present—- simple

Simple Present Activities I elaborated to my teenager English students. Hope it's useful to you too!

Simple Present Activities

Horrible Histories Rosa Parks Equality Song from episode 1 series 5.



#RosaParks is here to sing about how she sat on a bus and kick- started a massive Civil Rights movement in #America.



This is an activity that you can do in class with students.

It's a Listening activity from which you can draw discussion by having converstations and going through the storyline in the song.





Horrible Histories - Rosa Parks - 'I Sat On A Bus' - Worksheet

In this advanced worksheet, students read a Guardian article about the history of International Workers' Day, also known as May Day. It includes a vocab match activity and a true/false activity. Answers are included.



The full version of this worksheet is available on my website hottakeenglish.com and includes teachers notes as well as fun activities for teaching students about British May Day traditions.

May Day

"Global Story Sprint" is an active and engaging activity where students work in teams, taking turns as 'runners' and 'writers' to piece together stories about people from around the world. Runners dash to read and memorize details from texts posted around the classroom, then sprint back to dictate what they've learned to their writers. This fast-paced challenge culminates in students writing their own global stories, combining language skills with a dash of physical activity. Ready, set, learn!

Global Story Sprint

This ESL teaching material outlines an activity focused on daily routines using a character named Tom Smith. Students engage in arranging sentence strips of Tom's routine, then create their own stories and posters about a chosen character's daily life. Activities include character selection, story arrangement, writing, and presentation, encouraging creativity and practical application of language skills in describing jobs, commuting, and weekend activities.







My name is Tom Smith

This worksheet immerses students in the life of a factory worker during the Industrial Revolution, fostering empathy, cross-cultural communication, and critical thinking. Designed for advanced learners (CEFR B2-C1), it focuses on reading comprehension and speaking skills. The scenario places students in the harsh working conditions of the late 1800s, highlighting the challenges faced by workers and the rise of labor movements. Through detailed narratives and discussion questions, students explore the impact of social norms and the significance of workers' rights, encouraging them to reflect on historical and contemporary labor issues.

A Day in the Life of a Factory Worker during the Industrial Revolution

This engaging worksheet is designed to help students understand the qualities important in finding a significant other, using a fun and relatable context of a reality dating show. The worksheet includes a variety of activities to enhance comprehension and encourage personal reflection.

Starting with comprehension questions, students will solidify their understanding of the text through multiple-choice, true or false, and short-answer questions. Group discussions foster collaborative thinking, allowing students to share what they value in an ideal partner and why.

The creative writing activity gives students the chance to describe their ideal partner, promoting personal reflection and storytelling skills. A research and report task encourages students to find and write about inspiring real-life stories of couples, enhancing their research and writing abilities.

A role-play activity allows students to practice their communication skills by acting out a blind date scenario, where they highlight different qualities that make a good match. This interactive element makes learning fun and engaging.

Overall, this worksheet helps students develop a deeper understanding of relationship qualities, improving their language skills while making the lesson enjoyable and relevant to their lives. Teachers will appreciate its versatility and the way it encourages active participation and creative thinking.

Finding the Perfect Match: Meet Jack

This engaging worksheet is designed to help students understand qualities important in finding a significant other, using a fun and relatable context of a reality dating show. The worksheet includes a variety of activities to enhance comprehension and encourage personal reflection. 

Starting with comprehension questions, students will solidify their understanding of the text through multiple-choice, true or false, and short-answer questions. Group discussions foster collaborative thinking, allowing students to share what they value in an ideal partner and why. 

The creative writing activity gives students the chance to describe their ideal partner, promoting personal reflection and storytelling skills. A research and report task encourages students to find and write about inspiring real-life stories of couples, enhancing their research and writing abilities. 

A role-play activity allows students to practice their communication skills by acting out a blind date scenario, where they highlight different qualities that make a good match. This interactive element makes learning fun and engaging.

Overall, this worksheet helps students develop a deeper understanding of relationship qualities, improving their language skills while making the lesson enjoyable and relevant to their lives. Teachers will appreciate its versatility and the way it encourages active participation and creative thinking.

Finding the Perfect Match

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)

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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16 Labor day English ESL worksheets pdf & doc