A selection of English ESL make friends printables

Simple activity to use during the first days of class

Making Friends

This project aims to involve our 11-12 years old students in an exchange of emails with different topics such as 

“All about me”, “My school”, “My town and my country” and so on. That gives students the chance to get to know each other with other schools around Europe and learn about similar and different things from neighbouring country in order to practice their writing, reading, speaking and listening skills. We are going to record videos, take photos or PowerPoint presentations to share information with our European friends. 



Making friends around Europe!

Basic matching /pelmanism activity for beginners. cut out and stick or use as mini flashcards.

Hello, Nice to meet you. Basic conversation. making friends. 

This is my 5th listening task. In this the ss have to fill in the sentences with the correct words while they are listening the recording. Here you can find the task (level B2), the solution, the reach of the recording (youtube) and the text. I hope you find it useful and download it. There is an online version from this exercise (http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5093&ads=no). You can use it as well. 

Listening (5) How To Make Friends At a New School with a key and source

With this board game, students will practise GIVING ADVICE in an enjoyable way. Pre-teach possible ways to give advice first, focusing ont he form SHOULD or SHOULDN´T, although there are many other ways to give advice (short grammar summary included). Answer key with sample advice included for almost half of the game squares. Let´s make learning fun.

Board Game - Advice Needed

Ask your students to read the text about a group of friends and answer the questions below. ask them to make sentences about themselves and their friends using as ... as, comparatives and superlatives. 

My best friends comparatives and superlatives

This is the 4 th part of my worksheets "Let´s read and write about...´ Student have to read the text on the given topic, then they have to do some tasks connected with the text. The task are: 1.Read and decide TRUE or FALSE, 2. Match the halves to make phrases.3. Read the text again and write the names to the table, 4. Read the text about Uncle Chris. Write some sentences about your family member or a friend. HAVE FUN :D

Let´s read and write about ...(4) - Family and friends - My uncle.

The "What's This? What's That?" English Race Time Game Board" is a fun and simple game like Snakes and Ladders for students to play with their friends or with the teacher. Practice the accompanying song on YouTube with your students at https://youtu.be/mU-xKGmWcOc to learn all of the animals and the sounds they make.



Simply roll the dice and move along the board, asking each other, "What's this?" or "What's that?" depending on the space. You can use simple answers such as "It's a ...," or for more advanced students, use the  patterns, "This is a ..." and "That is a ...".



Find the original worksheet and the rest in the series at:



https://www.bingobongokids.com/product/whats-this-whats-that-free-english-race-time-game-1/



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What's This? What's That? | English Race Time Game | Snakes and Ladders

The difference between 'What about ..? and 'How about' are contextualized and explained in a colourful dyslexic-reader-friendly dialogue.  Explanations for each use is given.  If you find this useful a hit on 'like' or a 'thank you' would be greatly appreciated.

Difference  'What about..? How about ..? + Suggestions 

Part of a collection of materials that are good for up to 6 hours of lessons depending upon the level of your students.

I teach in Thailand so it was designed primarily for my high school students but it can be adapted for your personal needs.  It comes with 5 crosswords which although they have the same answers they are not the same clue numbers - i love seeing the faces of the 'copiers" when they realise that their crossword isn't the same as their friend's!!!  Survey sheets are also included.   

Personal Information (1) Roleplay Cards

Students have to ask their friends whether they have to do the house chores or not. In the end of speaking practice, they have to make a summary about their friends' responsibility at home. E.g.: A has to clean the table but B and C don't.

Has to/ Have to

There are 5 activities 1- read and match 2- make sentences using the comparative or superlative form 3- rue or false 4- answer the questions 5- match the opposites

LILI'S BEST FRIENDS

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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