A selection of English ESL listening task printables

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Winter clothes worksheet with listening reading, speaking   tasks can be used when you deal with the topic " clothes". Find the audio at this link https://english-portal.com.ua/worksheet/Winter_Clothes#topadv 

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Winter clothes worksheet with listening reading, speaking tasks

I’ll use this worksheet with my beginners to reinforce and provide practice on “will”. The ws contains 3 tasks (listening & writing) and after the correction I’ll encourage them to talk about their plans using will in a conversation task. It’s completely editable, hope you can use it. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

Songs4Class: We will rock you – will (affirmative, negative, interrogative) • 3 tasks • conversation • editable

There are 3 tasks: listening and recognizing, gap-filling, comprehension. After listening, filling in and sharing their ideas about the lyrics, the students will fill the blanks with the present perfect or the simple past and then choose the sentences in which both are possible. The keys are included in the second page and the worksheet is completely editable / correctable, hope you can use it. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

Songs4Class: Your're not alone - MJ - comprehension, listening and grammar tasks • past simple vs. present perfect  

Four skills worksheet about (zoo) animals. Includes a reading passage, writing tasks, interview and some critical thinking questions.

Four Skills Worksheet: At the Zoo

Fully editable. A song to teach the Present Perfect. Answer Key. 5 tasks of varying difficulty. Choose the activities you want and make up your own worksheet. Various activities including: listening for specific info; error correction; vocabulary matching task; gap fill; idioms (with 'fight') matching task; Pronunciation (syllable stress); ordering task. 

Song for Present Perfect - 

This listening test has 2 parts:

1) an airport announcement -  a multiple choice task

2) a flight reservation - a table completing task.

Key, audio files and scripts are included. NOTE: TRY TO SAVE THE DOCUMENT AS WORD 97-2003. I hope this way the audio files will work. If not just pm me and I'll send them to you by email.

LISTENING TEST - AT THE AIRPORT (A2/B1) - 9th grade

Toys. Christmas. This Christmas worksheet includes Listening comprehension, Speaking activities and Reading tasks. https://english-portal.com.ua/worksheet/Toys_Christmas 

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Toys. Christmas. Listening. Speaking. Reading. 

I prepared this ws to practice and introduce the grammar topic (before explaining the rules, they had oral practice for a week). I included a listening and written task in the ws. I’ll also use this song to promote a conversation class, teaching them how to give suggestions and express opinions. It’s editable, hope you can use it. Thanks for downloading and have a nice day!

Songs4Class: Should I stay or should I go? – should (affirmative, negative, interrogative) • 2 tasks • conversation • listening • editable

Students listen to two short texts (these are included + the link to where you can download the audio file) and do two tasks:

1- using the pictures as clues they write down the name of the hobby/free time activity

2- filling in a table with information they hear

For a written test on the same topic go to:

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/free_time_activities_-_test_a1-a2/present-simple-vs/91824

MY HOBBIES - listening test (A1-A2)

This is a worksheet I prepared for my sts at High school. It has 2 different tasks. First True and false exercise and then a Matching. I hope it will be useful for you. modify if necessary. Blessings from Costa Rica. In the worksheet you will find a link to download the audios. http://www.mediafire.com/?b7c72pdo5zggllk 

Future events - Listening Exercises (With audio

This worksheet contains 4 different graded tasks - key, texts and audio file links are included.

Task 1 - 5 short conversation about eating habits - multiple choice with pictures

Task 2 - a reservation at a restaurant - table filling

Task 3 - a news item about healthy eating - gap filling

Task 4 - a conversation at a restaurant - multiple choice

This listening test is part of the written test

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/fast_food_-_a1_test_version_a/quantifiers-eg-some/94661

LISTENING A1 TEST - FOOD 

This worksheet includes 3 different tasks to test students' listening skills.

a) 5 short dialogues - multiple choice with pictures

b) 1 text - table filling

c) 1 dialogue - True/False

Key and audio links are included.

Summer holidays - listening test

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

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how to blame somebody for something in English

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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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