A selection of English ESL prediction 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

In this worksheet students will learn how to express predicting the future with BE GOING TO ny means of visible signs. Pictures to match to the sentences. Enjoy!

Making Predictions - What Are You Going To Do? Be Going To

This ESL worksheet offers a guided grammar production exercise: it is generally meant for pair/group work and requires a little bit of imagination. The students are to suggest as many versions of what the people mentioned are going to do as possible, e.g.:



Ted is putting on a warm sweater. He...



Student A: ...is going to take a walk, and it's winter now.

Student B: Or he is going to visit his grandma. (The sweater is a present from her.)

Student C: Maybe he is going (to go) to an "ugly sweater" party =)



etc.

What Are They Going To Do? BE GOING TO For Predictions

Picture matching and gapfill task. 20 pictures, 20 sentences and 20 verbs. The students have to choose the correct verb to fill in the gaps with the BE GOING TO form to talk about intentions. Hope it's useful!

What Are They Going To Do Next Summer? Be Going To - Predictions

Guided grammar production activity. This ESL worksheet is meant as an oral exercise, but can, of course be done in writing. The students read the situations and say what these people are going to do.

Picture Primpts - What Are They Going To Do? BE GOING TO - Predictions

In this ESL printable students use the BE GOING TO future form in positive and nagative sentences with the verbs in brackets, then match the sentences to the pictures, e.g. "He's going to carve a pumpkin for Halloween."

What Are They Going To Do In Autumn? BE GOING TO - Predictions

Get some great tips for understanding English pronunciation. https://purlandtraining.com/2021/09/23/30-clues-for-predicting-the-pronunciation-of-words-in-english/

30 Clues for Predicting the Pronunciation of Words in English

AIMS:
The major aim of this exercise is to talk about plans.
•	to practice target language of be going to
•	to practise informal, spontaneous conversation
•	to practise asking for and giving information
•	to practise time expressions

Predict What You and Your Partner Are Going To Do

Students write the sentences according to the pictures. An ESL worksheet to practice the BE GOING TO future form to predict the future based on visible signs. Hope you'll enjoy! Ana :-)))

What Are They Going To Do? BE GOING TO - Predicting the Future

In this worksheet you can find screenshots from a short animated video about five tips every presenter needs to know about people. Students describe what they can see and try to guess the tip the pictures represent.



We mentioned this video in our new tutorial on How to teach English using videos:

https://youtu.be/ktqPSH6s854 



The key idea is that you give out these five pictures to students, each of which represents one idea from the video. They speculate what the tip for presenters might be, then watch the video to check.



We found the video at film-english.com: 

http://film-english.com/2014/07/07/5-things-every-presenter-needs-to-know/  

You will also find a lesson plan here with ideas about how to use this video in class.



5 things every presenter needs to know - Using screenshots to predict content

warm up: explain the words from the box, use dictionary (online or paper) if you're not sure.
pre-task activities: get students into groups, hand out post it notes. Ask students to write down things they would like to change in their classrooms, lessons or school. Discuss in groups, elicit phrases: 'I think', 'I believe', 'I would like to change'
main part: watch the video (link provided) and answer the questions

Video based lesson about future classrooms. Interactive resource to consolidate technology topic and use future forms to talk about hope and predictions. Suitable for young learners A2-B1. Triple copy to save on printing.

Those cards can be used to introduce the future tense. 

The teacher can play the role of a fortune teller; the pupils pick a card and read the predictions about their future.

Fortune teller cards

This worksheet focuses on telling weather forecasts for three different cities, including high and low temperatures.

128 Prediction English ESL worksheets pdf & doc