A selection of English ESL not me printables

This document came about through working with high level students including teachers who insisted on using high frequency / low value words - especially nice, lovely, cute, awesome! Not appropriate I would argue at high B1 and above where students need to stretch their vocab. Though this can be shortened for them.



This can be challenging but your B2s think more about word choice and nuance and above never use 'nice' again. C1s and 2s realize there is more in their passive vocab than they use.



There is no correct version, it depends on your particular take. In a multicultural class it can be interesting to compare answers and attitudes. 



It can of course be adapted, extended, reduced, used with other materials with alternatives given or adjectives categorized for lower levels. 



Best done individually then in groups. Usually about an hour needed.



Enjoy - I don't anymore, but it is very effective and  I have yet to find a group of students who have not found this memorable.

Nuance 

This is a pretest paper for the students aged 11 or 12 years in Slovene Primary Schools.



The intention of this pretest paper it to test the students' knowledge on the English alphabet, giving personal information, days of the week, months of the year, colours, numbers from 0 to 100, possessive 's, personal and possessive pronouns, conjugation of the verb "to be", Singular and Plural of nouns, names of certain countries, words denoting family members.



It can also be used for students with special needs.

PRETEST PAPER

This is an a speaking and listening activity to accompany the song Cover me in Sunshine by Pink.

The activity has two stages.

Stage 1, Students are given the paper with either the 1st or second column filled. They work impairs and describe the words to each other and fill in the empty column. Tell them to ignore the narrow columns for the time being.

Stage 2. Tell the students that some of the words come from a song. Play the song (with video if you like) and students have to use the narrow columns to tick off the words which they hear in the song.

The words not in the song are all from the Cambridge Flyers vocabulary list but I have used the activity with higher levels too and the set their own level with the way they described the words,

Cover me in Sunshine by Pink. Song activity

A Great Family Tree Project.

This well-built worksheet combines family members and jobs / occupations.

The learners will have fun while cutting and finding the right place to paste each individual family member. They may learn in the meantime how to collaborate in a team.



The interesting part comes during the presentation and the questions/answers.



My 1st graders were so impressive on this project.

So don\'t come and tell me that your upper graders cannot handle it :)

Great Family Tree and Jobs Project _ Part 3

Students will be asked to select or write down the name of the place that appears in each image. This task will not only help reinforce their knowledge about the city, but will also foster curiosity to explore these places in real life.

Places in the city

ANTI-BULLYING CHEAT SHEET 

FOR PROFESSORS, TEACHERS, ADULTS, PARENTS.

WHAT TO DO? WHAT NOT TO DO?

WHEN?

 TO CALL MEDICAL SUPPORT?

WHEN TO CALL THE POLICE?

HOW TO BEHAVE?

ANTI-BULLYING CHEAT SHEET 

Here you will find great sentences to practice your JUNIOR CLASS reading skills. Yo can also give them as homework all the verbs that they do not know. Ask them to read it lout and clear to practice their reading skills and see the verb "be" how it is being used in sentences!
You can ask them to write sentences about themselves and their family members What they can do but they can't dos omething else.

Practice Your Junior's Reading! Verb "Can / Can't"

Based form tasks
meaning based task
communicative based form tasks
exercise 3: ask questions on the underlined words
a: …………………………………? b: in algeria pupils used to study 6 years at primary school. a: …………………………………? b: no ,they did not use to study french at the 3rd level of primary school. A: …………………………………. . ? B: yes they used to study english at the 4th level of primary school, but now they study it at middle school. a: …………………………………. ? b : no, they did not use to take the final primary exam t the 5th level , but they used to take it at the 6th level. a: …………………………………………………………? B: yes pupils used to have meals at the schools’ canteensbe able to
1-when i was young, i ________run fast
a)be able to b)able to c)was able to d)were able to2-we__________to play computer games 25 years ago
a)were able to b)weren’t able to c)wasn’t able to d)weren’t able3-sally has a great voice. She _____sing very well. A)is able to b)was able to c)isn’t able to d)is able4-____you _______ride a bike when you were a child? A)are/able to b)were/able to c)were/able	 d)be able5-i________drive a car two years ago. But now i______drive very we

Expressing Past Habits

Taboo game for beginners. Basic vocabulary. Words that are not allowed to be used while describing the word are written below. One Student picks a Card and tries tp describe the word. The other members of his or her team have to guess within 60 seconds. If the guess it, the next card can be described - until time's over. 

Time can also be prolonged to up to two minutes depending on the learners' language Level.

A member of one of the other teams checks that no forbidden word is used.



Taboo_elementary 1

A little worksheet to practice prepositions of verbs. Some sentences are good, some are not, students have to correct the sentences. It may be used as a warm-up revision. 

Prepositions 

Saint Valentine's day is coming. Why not watch the clip and try to decipher the lyrics ( and meaning ! ) of this beautiful song ? Could be interesting if you need something different !

Love is strange ( soundtrack from "Dirty Dancing" )

Nice warmer for Pre-Intermeadite students. Listen and fill in the gaps. 



It´s midnight. I lock all the doors and turn out the lights. Feels like the end of the world this Sunday night. There's not a sound outside the snow's coming down and somehow I can't seem to find the quiet inside my mind.

3:02. The space in this room has turned on me and all my fears have cornered me here. Me and my TV screen. The volume's down. Blue lights are dancing around; and still, I can't seem to find the quiet inside my mind.

Daylight is climbing the walls. Cars start and feet walk the halls. The world awakes and now I am safe, at least by the light of day…

John Mayer_Quiet_Song Worksheet_Pre-Intermediate

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>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

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