A selection of English ESL placement printables

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

Speaking/listening game where students sit in pairs back to back. One student has a filled out chart, the other one has a blank one. Student A has to explain the placement of the objects to student B through descriptions. Student B has to listen carefully to make sure that they put objects into correct places in the chart.

Put food in the right place

A very easy handout for younger classes to practise replacement of names or subjects with personal pronouns. Can be used with young learners or adults who are at an early/beginner stage. 

Names and Personal Pronouns

This a worksheet working on the present tense vs. the present continous. This worksheet is fill in the blank as well as a section where students have to find and then change the verb tenses that are incorrect. This can be used as a supplementary worksheet for beginners, or can be used as either further practice or review for more advanced students. It could even be used for a placement evaluation if needed. 

Present tense vs. present continuous

This is an activity for 2 people, where one asks a question mentioning an object from below the picture, while the other has to describe its placement in the picture. 

Classroom (school objects) information gap

A gap fill activity (key included) based on a video and an article I came across on the internet (addresses included). 

It can be used on World Animal Day (October 4th). 

(Product Placement)

WORLD ANIMAL DAY

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This handout was created to improve knowledge of basic contents after a Placement test at an Adults school. It includes Prepositions of Place, Pronouns, Verb Be in Simple Present, Wh-Questions and Word Order exercises. You can modify anything you want and erase my name.

 It doesn't include Answers. 

BASIC GRAMMAR CONTENTS

The cost of education continues to grow as economic factors persist to make saving for college beyond the reach of many families. Even if you don't have an overflowing college fund, don't give up on earning a degree. However, avoiding a student loan burden takes substantial effort and planning. Here is an overview of some options from https://buyessayclub.com/write-my-essay.php to help you achieve your goal.



Earn dual credits

If you can find summer work, put your earnings in a savings account for college - you'll be glad you did. Also, if your high school offers Advanced Placement (or AP) courses for college credit, take them. Your school may also allow you to take courses for college credit at the local community college. Testing out of subjects can save you a semester's worth of tuition, and a high GPA makes you eligible for more scholarships and awards.



Apply for financial aid

Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Even if you do not believe that you'll qualify, it is worth the effort to find out the results. There might be aid available after all.



Apply for national grants, including the Federal Pell Grant, Academic Competitiveness Grants, and National SMART Grants. Your high school guidance counselor should have access to additional grant information. Also keep local grants in mind - awards may be offered by civic or religious organizations in your area. Scholarship research is a time-consuming task, so getting to work on this during your junior year is a good idea.



The more schools you apply to, the better your odds of both acceptance and a good financial offer. Once you're accepted, you can negotiate. Even if a college states that they only provide need-based aid, there can be disparities in their aid offers. Award letters describe your financial aid package, including scholarships and grants, federal student loans, or federal work-study. This information can help you hammer out the bottom-line details of your college budget.



There are multiple organizations that offer tuition assistance to student participants. You may be most familiar with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (or ROTC), but the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, and National Health Services can all provide college money for your service commitment.

Read and write skills

When You Need to Exclude Your Education and Learning from Your Resume



Deciding whether or not to include your education on your resume can be tough. It's not as though employers will not familiarize your education history before making the decision to employ you, yet its presence on your return to (in addition to its absence) can make or damage your capacity to land a task.

Below are 8 concerns to think about when thinking about whether to consist of education and learning in your resume:

1. Do you have a level?

If you only have a high school diploma, you can likely get by without having an education section.

Even if a senior high school diploma is specifically provided as a requirement for the work, this detail is generally addressed in the actual work application or throughout the meeting and also does not need to be resolved in the restricted area of a return to.

If you attended college but really did not graduate, you can still detail your education on your return to. Detail the name of your institution, along with a line clarifying "X years completed" or "X credit history hrs. finished."

If you are an existing pupil, include your anticipated graduation date, come before by "level expected" or comparable wording.

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2. Is your resume too long?

Ideally, your resume needs to be limited to one web page. If you find that your return to material is spilling onto a second page, and you have cut all the info you can, consider eliminating the education and learning area.

Education and learning are generally addressed in the official task application, and this is where working with supervisors seek the base demands throughout the background check.

3. Is your return to as well brief?

Early in your job, your return to will look a little sparse. An employment background that does not get to back very far is a clear sign of lack of experience. Relying on what you're making an application for, this can decrease your possibilities of being considered.

By including an education area, you can fill several of the gaps and also expand your return to so it stands a much better possibility of being taken seriously. Probably you have a lot of current and relevant coursework, or demonstrated management by working as head of state of a club. Including relevant details can boost your candidateship.

Examine to see if your return to is the optimum length:

4. Is your education your toughest qualification?

You may have little or no work experience in your selected area, however a current and also appropriate degree is occasionally all you need to obtain your means of access.

If you attended an exclusive college, got a prestigious scholarship, or finished a thesis or dissertation, your education credentials could be specifically interesting to companies.

If your education and learning is your greatest asset, your education area should be plainly featured on your resume-- you can also lead with it.

5. Is education and learning a primary demand?

For medical work or other specialized such as law or science, a particular education degree can be an outright need. Don't leave your education and learning off your resume if you have the educational history that is required for the setting, undoubtedly.

As an example, a research assistant might be anticipated to have a relevant degree or be actively going after one. If education and learning is an essential requirement for the task you want, it needs to definitely be provided in your resume.

6. Does your education and learning open you approximately age discrimination?

Age discrimination is a real issue employee face today, specifically with many start-ups being run by young business owners.

A candidate's age can, also subconsciously, affect hiring managers to make judgments about their fit with the firm society or their ability. Infant Boomers are particularly susceptible to this type of judgment.

If hiring supervisors take a look at your return to as well as see that you graduated from college decades ago, they could discount your education and learning as out-of-date.

Think about leaving off the years you participated in, or your graduation date. This does not indicate you ought to try to hide your age, but be tactical concerning what info you reveal when. The much less a hiring manager learns about you at beginning of the employing process, the less likely they are to utilize this information against you.

The best guideline below is: When unsure, leave it out.

7. Is your degree unrelated?

Are you obtaining a task as a banker, but you hold a degree in basket weaving? A situation such as this could stand between you and also a work, and leaving your education and learning off your resume can really keep the door open for you to make it to the next phase.

If you are requesting a task totally unassociated to your level, it can offer the perception that you are not really bought the role, and would certainly be more likely https://www.haggadot.com/clip/how-to-choose-reliable-coursework-writing-service-part-2 to leave the business for one more possibility. If a level isn't required for an offered position, then listing one that does not even relate isn't always misting likely to help you.

On the other hand, some hiring managers are trying to find a level as a sign that you are capable of sticking with something, as well as absolutely nothing even more. Gaining a degree reveals a particular quantity of dedication and also drive, which interest hiring managers.

8. Does your education and learning make you overqualified?

Somebody that appears overqualified for a placement is seen as a trip risk. That is, a hiring supervisor presumes there is a likelihood they will discover something that far better matches their experience degree and also dive ship after the business has actually spent time and money right into training. Worker turnover is pricey, and also something companies clearly want to stay clear of.

The outcome: Extremely qualified professionals are being ignored instead of applicants who fulfill just the minimum demands for a task.

Not all is lost right here. You still have the possibility to excite the hiring supervisor during the interview and make on your own the clear choice. You simply have to do what you can to reach that action, which could imply cutting out unnecessary educational certifications.



When You Need to Exclude Your Education and Learning from Your Resume

I made this as a place to take notes when I have my first class with a new one-to-one student. The idea is that during your first class with a student you can ask them questions and include the information here. 



I use it in conjunction with this oral placement test from Cambridge: https://www.cambridge.es/en/content/download/1504/9776/F2F%2BOral%2BPT%2BQuestion%2BBank.pdf 

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59 Placement English ESL worksheets pdf & doc