A selection of English ESL rainbow 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>

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WEATHER - YOUNG LEARNERS



Weather vocabulary and speaking base for young learners.

Practice some different weather types while working on pronunciation, spelling, and writing.



Cut the words out from page 3 and have the kids glue them on like stickers.



The extra rainbow is optional to do (it is just to use the remainder of the page).

Weather - Young Learners

HOW TO PLAY

Before starting the game, each player secretly draws a color to know which turtles they are with. Turtles' movement is controlled by cards drawn from a common pool (always chosen from 5 cards in hand). These cards depict colored (one-color or rainbow) cards and movement (1 or 2 steps forward, 1 step backwards; also, in case of rainbow-colored cards with an arrow, the last turtle is moved forward). When a turtle moves on a space where another turtle is waiting, it is placed on the top of that turtle. When a turtle with other turtles on its back is moved, all the other turtles on top of it are carried with this turtle. The first turtle to reach the last field wins. In this version of the game players must complete a task included in the card e.g. give past forms of irregular verbs. Print laminate and cut out turtles. Attach them to bottle cups.



Classroom Game - The Great Turtle Race - Card Game

A fast and easy lotto for beginners. Here we have 11 words: rainbow, sunny, windy, partly sunny partly cloudy, rainy, cloudy, snowy, stormy, foggy, hot and frosty (or cold if you want) weather.

weather lotto

The song written by J. P. TAYLOR. You may use it when working on such topics as Environment, Nature, Animals. The worksheet includes tasks appropriate for different ages. (12-18) The song can be found on YouTube. You can start the lesson with it or just give the new topic vocabulary using this song and task. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVyMrPTm5tU the video with subtitles 

This song is to use in Rainbow English 10 by Afanasieva and Mikheeva. First listen to it with no video and then give them opportunity to check themselves. 

The Rainforest song J. P. Taylor 

this worksheet focuses on different activities and tasks.

the first activity is picture-based activity to present school subjests followed by a variety of practice exercises.

the second activity centers on teaching colours using the rainbow colours song with a painting activity

aticles a/an with a simple presentation and follow up exercises



school subjects, colours, a/an, this/that, what's /who's

This is a lesson to develop students\' vocabulary on the topic of the natural world (e.g. mountain, valley, field, river, rainbow, sunset). Before the lesson, large pictures of different scenes are put up around the room (see link below for the printouts) and students have to find the pictures that correspond to the descriptions on their worksheet, using the key vocabulary to fill in the missing words. I have also made a powerpoint slideshow to accompany this and to add an extra describing/drawing activity on the same topic (see ppt file).



Pictures:

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary/places/beautiful-view-pictures/117997



PowerPoint:

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-powerpoints/vocabulary/places/beautiful-view/117998

A Beautiful View

fill in the blanks / circle the right option/ put in the right tense or form

mid term test

8 pages file, greeting & colours. 

1st page - What are they saying?

2nd page - What is your favourite colour?

3er page - Let´s do an experiment.

4th page - How are you today? (Pupils have to draw their face, stick some wool on the head, googly eyes, etc)  

5th page - What happened? (volcano experiment)

6th page - Is it raining? (experiment)

7th page - Elmer has lost all his colours. Can you help him? (video watching)

8th page - Trace the lines of the rainbow. (Pupils use cotton swabs to paint it)

Greetings / Colours

We can learn and teach with songs!! The students use the song to talk in English in a funny way. I hope help you someway to prepare your English lessons. Enjoy it! 

Over the rainbown 

colour the rainbow, join the dots and colour the picture,I hope you like it!

Colours

thr children should colour the page with the rainbow in the right colours and put attention to the guiding lines and the names of the colorus as indicated in the worksheet.

fill it in the coulours of the rainbow and enjoy colouring al the painting :)

colouring page

Memory game board : 



tiger, monkey, elephant, dog, cat, zoo, girl, boy, sun, moon, rainbow, tree, forest, jungle, river, mountain,town. 



For Kindergarten and primary shool kids. 

63 Rainbow English ESL worksheets pdf & doc