A selection of English ESL maturita printables

This worksheet combines reading, speaking, and writing activities to prepare students for the Maturita exam topic Art. It begins with eight short reading texts, each followed by comprehension questions to build topic knowledge and vocabulary. Students then move into a structured speaking activity that includes exam-style prompts and a bank of functional lexical chunks to help them give longer, more natural answers. The final task is an in-class writing activity where students research an art period, organise their ideas, and write a short paragraph using targeted vocabulary and useful phrases. These activities give students the opportunity to talk about art history, famous artists, types of art, the role of art in society, and the influence of modern technology on art, while practising comparing, giving opinions, describing, and agreeing or disagreeing. This resource is ideal for upper-intermediate teens, high school Maturita preparation, and cultural discussion lessons.



Art – Maturita Speaking & Writing Practice

Maturita Speaking: Filler Phrases and Sentence Chunks (with Czech Translations)

This worksheet helps students improve their fluency for speaking exams like the Czech Maturita or any B1-level oral exam. It focuses on teaching useful filler phrases and reusable sentence chunks that help students speak more naturally, even if they make some grammar mistakes.

The first part of the worksheet explains why these tools are important. Many students freeze or give very short answers during speaking tests. Filler phrases give them time to think, while sentence chunks help them express their opinions and compare ideas without struggling to find words.

Czech translations are included to support understanding. However, the translations can easily be switched to match the students’ first language if you are working in a multilingual classroom.

The second part includes a pair-work activity where students practise answering questions using the phrases. This gives them a chance to build confidence and use natural-sounding English in a structured way.

This worksheet is ideal for teachers preparing students for the Maturita, the PET exam, or any situation where speaking fluency and exam confidence are key goals. It works well as part of a regular speaking routine, and it helps students develop strategies to stay calm and keep talking during oral exams.



Maturita Speaking: Filler Phrases and Sentence Chunks

This worksheet is part of a global interview series designed to help students prepare for the Maturita exam by exploring real-life topics in context. In this edition, students meet six speakers from different English-speaking countries (Canada, USA, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the Czech Republic) who describe shopping and services in their cities. Each speaker lives in a different urban area, offering contrasting experiences between local shops, online shopping, markets, supermarkets, and customer service. The texts are approximately 250 words long and written at a B1 level.

Each reading includes five comprehension questions and is followed by a vocabulary-building section focused on lexical chunks (useful expressions and fixed phrases) students can use to talk about shopping and services naturally. There's also a gap fill activity to reinforce these phrases in context, and a final pair-speaking task where students ask and answer questions using the new language. At the start of each interview page, students can describe the photo provided for additional speaking practice. This task is ideal for vocabulary expansion, fluency building, and functional language practice tied to real-world topics that commonly appear in oral exams.

Shopping & Services Around the World – Interview Series for Maturita Preparation

Role-play cards, communication, Customer X Assistant roles
Students practise making a complaint in the shop. They can change the roles. Use the cards to test students in pairs. 

Maturita Solutions Pre-Intermediate Unit 9 - A complaint in a shop

This worksheet is mainly for Czech highschool students who study for their finalexam (maturita). It is a topic based worksheet dealing with political system of the Czech Republic. There are gap-filling and matching tasks.

Czech Republic - political system

worksheet summary
Title: Working with AI – Reading, First Conditional & Vocabulary Practice (B1-B2)

Description:
This worksheet explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting different jobs today and how it may influence the future of work. The reading text is presented as six mini-interviews with professionals — including a teacher, electrician, welder, and nurse — making it relatable and practical for students in technical schools or those preparing for the Maturita exam.

The worksheet includes:
 Vocabulary matching and gap fill
Work-related phrasal verb matching and usage
 Grammar focus on the First Conditional with a clear explanation
 Grammar correction and sentence creation tasks
A speaking activity where students interview a classmate and report their answer using the target grammar

Designed for B1–B2 learners, this worksheet is especially useful for conversation practice and Maturita-style preparation.
No L1 is included, but it can easily be adapted with translations for additional support.

Using AI at work (first conditional)

Title: City or Countryside? Reported Speech + Vocabulary (B1)

Description:
This worksheet is designed for B1 learners and explores the topic of city life vs. countryside life through a reading-based lesson. The text is written in a magazine-style format, presenting five natural opinions from people of different ages and lifestyles. Students first engage with the content through vocabulary matching, gap fill, and phrasal verb practice related to daily life in different environments.

The grammar focus is on reported speech (statements). The worksheet includes a detailed, student-friendly explanation of structure, tense backshifting, pronoun and time/place changes, along with plenty of guided practice. Students then convert direct speech from the text into reported speech and complete a pair-work speaking task where they report a partner's opinion.

This is an ideal worksheet for students preparing for speaking exams like the Czech Maturita, as it integrates grammar with functional speaking skills and meaningful vocabulary. No Czech is included in the file, but you could easily adapt it to other L1s if needed.

Skills: Reading comprehension, vocabulary building, grammar, speaking
Target grammar: Reported speech (statements)
Level: B1
Topic: City life vs. countryside life



City or Countryside? Reported Speech + Vocabulary (B1)

This worksheet is designed to help students prepare for the Maturita topic of “Generations and Relationships.” It contains six engaging reading texts, each narrated by a different expert who shares insights into topics such as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, grandparenthood, and intergenerational challenges. The language has been adapted to an upper-intermediate level, making it accessible while still providing rich vocabulary and lexical chunks for speaking practice. Each reading is followed by comprehension questions to check understanding and discussion questions to encourage deeper thinking and personal connections to the topic. The activity can be used for reading comprehension, vocabulary building, and speaking practice, either individually or in groups. It is ideal for classroom use or exam preparation.

Generations and Relationships – Reading, Vocabulary, Discussion

This B1-level worksheet explores how people in six different English-speaking countries spend their free time. Each page begins with a photo prompt for speaking or writing. Students first describe the picture, then read a short (~250 word) monologue from a speaker living in that city: Chilliwack, Brno, Wellington, Gold Coast, Manchester, and Austin. Each speaker talks about their hobbies, local lifestyle, and what people typically do in their area.

Each reading is followed by five Maturita-style multiple-choice comprehension questions. After reading, students learn useful lexical chunks (e.g. “In my free time I usually…”, “I'm into…”, “It’s common to…”) and complete a guided gap-fill exercise.

To support active use of language, students personalize the vocabulary by completing sentences about their own lives. Then, they work in pairs or with the teacher to answer speaking questions designed to build fluency and prepare them for the oral Maturita exam.

Use the photos at the top of each page as warm-up material. Students can describe what they see, what the people might be doing, and how that activity is popular (or not) in their country.

Free Time Around the World – Reading, Vocabulary & Speaking Practice (B1)

This worksheet is designed to help students develop their skills in describing pictures, a key component in exams like Maturita and Cambridge. It guides students through the process of providing a detailed and organized description, focusing on essential elements such as people, setting, objects, and mood. Students will also practice making logical assumptions about what’s happening in the picture and expressing their personal opinions. The worksheet includes clear steps to follow, making it an excellent resource for preparing students to confidently approach picture description tasks in exams. The included visuals and practical activities encourage engagement and help students improve their observational and descriptive abilities in a supportive learning environment.

picture description cambridge

This worksheet package introduces all ten systems of the human body in a clear and engaging way for A2–B1 level students preparing for the Czech Maturita exam. It includes short readings (150–200 words each), comprehension questions, Czech-English vocabulary boxes, mini speaking cards, idioms and phrasal verbs related to the body, and lexical chunks for structured speaking. A model 2-minute answer is provided to help students practice full-topic responses. The material can be used over multiple lessons or split between classwork and homework. Designed for both oral exam prep and general English skills development.

The human body package

This worksheet is designed to prepare students for the Maturita speaking exam on the topic of “Our Planet.” It combines reading, speaking, vocabulary, and critical thinking activities in a structured way. Students begin by working with useful opinion phrases and key vocabulary related to the environment. They then read six different texts, each written as a short speech by a speaker from Canada, the USA, the UK, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, and Australia. Each speaker introduces their hometown and shares their personal opinion on environmental issues such as climate change, nuclear energy, renewable sources, recycling, or the balance between economy and ecology. The readings are 250–300 words each and are followed by comprehension questions for homework, so students can practice scanning for information and summarizing ideas. In class, students also practice picture description with contrasting images of clean and polluted environments, as well as map work where they locate each city mentioned in the texts. The final activity is a ranking discussion in which students decide which environmental actions are most important, using opinion phrases to agree, disagree, and negotiate with their classmates. Czech translations are included for the ranking task to support lower-level learners. The worksheet gives students practice in reading comprehension, speaking fluency, describing visuals, and building topic-specific vocabulary, while also encouraging debate and critical thinking about real-world environmental issues.

Our planet package: Exam prep

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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