A selection of English ESL quiz printables

This Quiz will bring more fun to your lesson and help children to relax after grammar rules and exercises done during the lesson. You can use it in kindergarten, primary or elementary school.   

Game for primary and elementary school children

This is a St Patrick’s Day Idioms lesson. Students study idioms connected to luck in context and then match them to their definitions. Finally, they write mini dialogues to practise the idioms.


We have a teacher’s copy (including teacher’s notes) and a student version which you can email to your class for online lessons.


Level: This is most suited to B1 – C1 level students.


Time: 40 minutes + 


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St Patrick's Day Idiom | Idiom related to Luck

A fun game that motivates students to think outside the box and not choose the easy answer or the answer that they always choose. 



Make teams of students and have them answer category questions as a team. However, only unique answers to the category get points.



See lesson plan for more details

Student Feud Lesson Plan

This activity is designed for students to revise what they learnt about The Spanish Civil War.

1: They take a quiz on this period in the history of Spain.

2: They record a video as if they were war correspondents.



The Spanish Civil War

A worksheet for learning phrasal verbs that can be used when writing or talking about innovation. There is a mix and match exercise, a gapfill, a short article that has an accompanying video section with questions, a crossword, a FCE part 4 exam section, a role play, and of course a link to an online quiz for the students to do as homework. The answers are on the back and are the links for the online quiz and video are also included. 

Phrasal Verbs about Innovation

explanation of sentence word order in English : subject-verb-object and an explanations of  how we use  subject pronouns, object pronouns and possessive adjectives  with a short gap fill quiz 

subject and object pronouns

ESLFrog.com presents: Intermediate reading lesson made in May 2025. Includes original article, reading quiz, prompts for speaking and writing, and an answer key. https://eslfrog.com/animal-puppets/

Animal Puppets Travel From Africa to Arctic Circle

Students improve their listening skills. The worksheet contains pre-listening task, listening task, quiz and after - listening activity. Students learn about Covent Garden. They watch a short video produced by Jade Joddle (source- youtube)

Covent Garden

Practice homophones and confusing words with this Valentine's Day worksheet. Students must write the correct homophone for each sentence. Then students can practice writing sentences using any of the homophones listed on the worksheet. This worksheet goes along with this video: https://youtu.be/6wUOc4DVZic

 
Answers are provided. Make sure to check out my other lessons!

Valentine's Day Homophones Worksheet with Video

This A2-level video quiz introduces students to the process of starting and growing a vending machine business, as explained by Chief Edwards. The video discusses key concepts such as passive income, the importance of location, and the costs associated with vending machines. Students will practice listening comprehension while learning about real-world entrepreneurship. The quiz includes true/false questions and short-answer questions to check understanding, along with a vocabulary matching section that focuses on terms like “passive,” “commission,” and “foot traffic.” This activity is ideal for learners looking to improve their English skills while exploring business-related topics in a practical context.

How To Make Passive Income From Vending Machine Business

Reading activity using the Anansi story. 

After pre-teaching the vocabulary words, use the cloze and matching worksheets and follow with the reading and comprehension exercise. This lesson was divided in 2 parts.

I found an Anansi workset on Quizlet that blended great as a follow-up to the lesson and reinforced the vocabulary words.

The Anansi Story

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

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how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

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how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

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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

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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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