A selection of English ESL my frien printables

They read a funny anecdote and then do the true or false activity and answer the comprehension questions. Full key included. A friend told me this story so it's true. 

Who ate my popcorn? Easy reading.

This is my 12th logic game. It´s about favourite colour, food and subjects. You can find out these information about the 5 children. The key is on the 2nd page. The clues are very simple. The cliparts are from Grace Lee. Thanks for them. Hope you like it. Have a wonderful Wednesday. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi

If you don’t know how to solve this kind of game, you can look at the Einstein riddle on the net or have a look at my 33rd logic game, called Best friends where I wrote down the solution step by step.

Logic game (12th) - My favourite *** with key *** for elementary level * reuploaded

THIS WRITTEN TEST WAS DESIGNED TO REVIEW AN SPEAKING CLASS WITH USEFUL EXPRESSIONS OR PHRASES. IT HAS THREE PARTS. ALSO, I ADDED THE VOCABULARY AND THE ANSWER KEY FROM THE TEST.  THEY DID A CONVERSATION IN GROUP USING AS MANY PHRASES THEY COULD BEFORE THE TEST. EVEN, THE THIRD PART WAS ALSO A LISTENING PART BECAUSE I RECORDED MY VOICE WITH A FRIEND.  I HOPE YOU CAN FIND IT USEFUL.

ENGLISH PHRASES

Three exercises for reading. Thank you!!!

My friendTom

SS puts some cues in each space and swap papers. Each SS read what the other whote and ask questions while the other answer it using present perfect. example: S a: Paul: Who is Paul? S b: Paul is my best friend I´ve known Paul since...

Present Perfect 

Happy Family – Friends

Everybody must have a card. You are the boy or girl on the left side (the biggest picture on the card)

Find your friends without looking on each other cards. 

Ask each other questions about cloths, hair, skin, bags, etcetera.

You can practise different grammar constuctions:

For  example:

•	Do you have a green shirt?

•	My friend has a green shirt.

•	I am looking for someone with a green shirt.

•	My friend is wearing a green shirt.

Answer with:

•	Yes, I have a green shirt.

•	No, I haven’t got a green shirt.

•	No, I don’t have a green shirt.

•	I am wearing a green shirt.

•	I am not wearing a green shirt.

If you found one of your friends, go on looking for other friends. Who is the first who knows all of his friends?



If you cannot make groups of 4 in your class, you can give a (few) student(s) two cards.



Happy Family - Friends

This is a worksheet about tourism in the student's hometown where they have to think about things to do with an international friend of theirs who is coming to visit. Lead-in phrases are provided for four activities in both summer and winter (because at least here in the Nordics the activities you can do vary a lot in the summer and winter). I used this with my 15-year-old students, who had been studying English for six years, when we were discussing tourism in Finland so that they would have to think about their hometown from the perspective of a tourist guide. I used a version of the worksheet where I wrote the name of the town where I was teaching instead of "your hometown" and provided the link to the town's tourism website down below after "Need tips?".

Tourism in your hometown worksheet

A great beach picture to cheer us up in this miserable weather (in England anyway) and my friend on holiday in Rome says it's stormy:(. They have to decide which tense and they circle the correct choice. There is also a T/F .

Present simple or present continuous?

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Sorry! There are two spelling errors I didn\'t notice before the upload! 



This is for practicing simple comparatives as well as review for "What does he look like?" (e.g. He has short straight hair and is wearing a cap.) It uses the characters from Recess.

Who Are My Friends?

I created this environmentally friendly worksheet to assign listening homework to my students. I copy the worksheet, cut the papers from the signed lines and want my students to read the QR code at home and answer the questions. QR code leads them to a listening file that published by British Council. My students love it. I hope you like it, too.

Listening Homework (inviting someone to the cinema)

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

Read the brief explanation carefully in order to help you decide whether the given adjectives are either attributive or predicative. There is more than one adjective in some sentences. Hope you like it :) . I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year my friends!

attributive and predicative adjectives

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>

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241 My frien English ESL worksheets pdf & doc