A selection of English ESL phrasal verbs printables

Multiple choice exercise on basic phrasal verbs to practise the vocabulary. This is a general review of a mixed collection of phrasal verbs to check if the student has mastered them.

Mixed Collection Of Phrasal Verbs - Multiple Choice

This printable ESL/EFL multiple-choice worksheet helps students practise 12 useful English phrases for creative collaboration, especially when prompting ChatGPT and other AI tools. Students complete sentences by choosing the correct expression from three options. The exercises feature practical situations involving giving feedback, suggesting improvements, revising designs and finalizing projects. Expressions include nail it, tweak, give it a shot, take another pass, build on, tone down, iron out, and good to go. Each question introduces a new context, allowing learners to apply the vocabulary beyond the examples in Pictionary 1. 

Language focus: Idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, collocations and natural conversational English.

Grammar: Verb phrases and their correct use in context.

Theme: Creative collaboration, AI tools, problem-solving and giving feedback.

CEFR level: B1–B2 (Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate).

Age group: Teenagers and adults.

Page 2 contains the KEY, with correct answers highlighted in green. 

An interactive multiple-choice quiz complements the printable worksheet, allowing students to press the correct option for each question.

You'll find a pictionary with all the phrases in this multiple choice worksheet here: 
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Creative Collaboration 1 - Multiple Choice with KEY

This Talking about Football ESL lesson plan and activity starts with some basic football-related vocabulary and past simple verbs. Next, the students read and role-play a dialogue between a father and son talking about football. 
 

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Talking about Football

A short grammar guide on common phrasal verbs with GET and a gap filling exercise. B&W version and KEY included. Hope it´s useful for your students. Have a nice week mada :) 



Phrasal Verbs - GET

This is the second part of the set dealing with English phrasal verbs.  Key is provided. The first part you can find here: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/phrasal-verbs/common-phrasal-verbs-l/128931

Common Phrasal Verbs - Gap Fill Exercises

students need to fill in the blanks with the right preposition

Phrasal verbs / look (key included)

This fun, Halloween-themed ESL/EFL picture story worksheet helps students practise the past simple and past continuous tenses through a colourful nine-picture story.

The story follows two brothers whose Halloween pumpkin-carving activity goes terribly wrong when the younger brother accidentally drops their jack-o’-lantern. After an argument and some tears, a friendly squirrel helps them make a new one, leading to a happy ending.

Language goal: Practise describing past events, narrating a sequence of actions, and distinguishing between completed actions and activities in progress.

Grammar focus: Past simple and past continuous, including affirmative statements, irregular verbs, and the use of while to connect simultaneous actions.

Theme: Halloween, family, sibling relationships, emotions, problem-solving, and cooperation.

Age group: Primary school learners (approximately 8–12 years old).

CEFR level: A2-B1 (because of the phrasal verbs "showed up" and "turned out")

Task: Students look at the nine illustrations and complete the sentences by writing the missing verbs in the correct tense (past simple or past continuous). The infinitive forms are provided in brackets as clues.

Page 2 contains the KEY, with the correct answers highlighted in green.

Interactive quiz: An interactive gapfill quiz complements the printable worksheet. Students type their answers into the boxes to complete the sentences, allowing them to practise and check their understanding digitally.

Jack o’Lantern Trouble - Picture Story Gapfill With KEY

This worksheet is supposed to help your students to get familiar with phrasal verbs with Take. It contains a picture dictionary and an exercise where students must fill in the gaps with the correct phrasal verb.

Phrasal Verbs with TAKE

This is a short grammar guide on common phrasal verbs connected with making telephone calls. It also contains 2 gap filling exercises, one on a dialogue . The sentences are also in different tenses.

Hope you find it useful

Phrasal Verbs For Telephone Conversations

A matching exercise with some English idioms. The teacher should teach the meaning of all the idioms before completing this exercise. This is a basic group of idioms.

Idioms - Match Idiom With Meaning

Practice fill in using the phrasal verb "take"  Twenty questions using the most commonly used phrases to help ESL students learn to use and understand English better.

Phrasal Verbs Using "TAKE'

A small worksheet about fame and celebrity along with a short quiz on the origin of the expressions. The quiz can be done in teams. This worksheet can be comfortably used with the CAE Grammar and Vocabulary book in unit 36. Answers are included.

Idioms about Celebrity and Fame

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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