A selection of English ESL reading printables

Ask your students to learn it by heart! Read it aloud and learn it as a poem. 
Practice with them! Teach them how to learn it.
For children, self-confidence is crucial because it influences their willingness to try new things, take risks, and persist in the face of setbacks. A confident child is more likely to participate in class, make friends, and explore new interests. 

"Boost-Their-Confidence" Reading For Young Learners!

This is a RC activity about Emmeline Pankhurst and Malala Yousafzai. Students read the texts and answer the questions; then, they do exercises to learn more vocabulary about the same topics and, finally, they re-write the stories as suggested. Key included.

Reading & Writing - Emmeline Pankhurst and Malala Yousafzai

This is a reading comprehension activity. Students do a matching exercise about three heroes of the 20th century and then they answer the questions in full sentences.

Reading comprehension - Heroes of the 20th century

This reading worksheet is designed to enhance comprehension and critical thinking skills. It includes a variety of engaging tasks, such as true/false statements to assess understanding, multiple-choice questions that challenge students to recall specific details, fill-in-the-blank exercises for vocabulary reinforcement, and short answer questions that encourage deeper reflection and personal connection to the text. Ideal for individual or group work, this worksheet aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of the reading material while making the learning process interactive and enjoyable

Reading Practice with a text titled "Karabakh"

This worksheets is mainly about a reading comprehension task talking about the Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran as mentioned on the UNESCO website. I hope you enjoy and learn!!

Reading Comprehension "The Golestan Palace in Tehran"

Tidy-up Your Town is about an initiative to clean your town. Besides improving their reading skills, students do a deep reading exercise and a gap-filling activity. 

Tidy-up Your Town Day (reading comprehension)

In this workshet students read an article about the effect of emojis on language.


They will read the article, answer true or false questions, then discuss their on opinions.

Are emojis ruining language? Advanced reading worksheet

This document has three parts. The first is short texts with emphasis on the same aspect of grammar. The second are texts with more gaps than in Reading Part 6 as intensive training. The third part are texts similar to those found in the exam, although a bit shorter. 

Reading Part 6 Cambridge B1. Intensive Practice.

1.	Do you think the deaths of Hans Steininger, Chrysippus, and Sigurd the Mighty were purely accidents, or do you believe there were other factors involved?
2.	Which of the four stories impacted you the most and why?
3.	Do you think they have been exaggerated or embellished the story in any way? Why?
4.	Do you think these deaths could be prevented from happening? How?
5.	Do you think these stories serve any purpose beyond entertainment? Can they teach us any valuable lessons? Explain
6.	Have you ever heard of any other strange or bizarre deaths in history or in popular culture? What are some examples?

Writing Task: Unusual events

Instructions:
Write a short story or paragraph about an unusual or bizarre event that happened to someone you know or have heard about. You can create a fictional story or base your writing on a real-life event. Be creative and imaginative in your storytelling, and try to capture the reader's attention with unexpected twists and turns.


Collaborative reading - too sad to be funny

This reading comprehension worksheet is talking about the Golestan Palace in Tehran (The capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran).. It consists of a small article (about 329 words) with five questions.

Reading Comprehension - The Golestan Palace in Tehran

Reading activity for the short story Tobermorey the Cat. Through the strategy SQP2RS, students will assume a prereading, reading, and postreading learning process.

Tobermorey the Cat reading activity (SQP2RS process)

Free Listen & Draw sample. This is a fun, engaging listening activity which is successful with all age groups. This is a great NO PREP activity to improve students' comprehension skills.



For younger students who can’t yet read, the teacher can read the instructions to the class. You may want to complete the worksheet before or during the activity.



Older students can work in pairs or small groups while the teacher walks around the room and addresses any questions. You will need to print the instructions for students.



You will find easy, intermediate and advanced versions of this activity included in this pack. Advanced versions include writing words.



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Listen/Read & Draw: Weather worksheets 

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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