A selection of English ESL reduce printables

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

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)

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

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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

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)

Improv game / Role play / Miming or drama activity

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

You are going to find on this newspaper article an interesting study according to how our healthy eating habits can help in lowering the risk of depression. There are two different exercises on this activity. The first one is a multiple choice exercise and the other has some sentences in which the students need to find the correct number that the sentences ask for in the text. 

Authentic Reading - Eating healthy foods may lower depression risk 

This test focuses on the impact of globalization in developing countries and whether it reduces world inequalities. It includes several reading comprehension tasks, grammar and a writtten task (writing guidelines are included). Key is provided.

TEST (B2/C1) on GLOBALIZATION

Article about the importance of recycling and its impact on the planet and on our lives. Questions to answer and debate. Good worksheet to students have their say about it, get conscious of how important recycling is and change bad habits. Intermediate and upper intermediate level,

Recycling

This two-part activity ESL climate worksheet is good as a culmination knowledge classroom and group discussion and speaking exercise reviewing about what they have learned followed by cutting, arranging and pasting carbon footprint action steps that they and their families can take to reduce their carbon footprints.  Have your students first arrange the carbon-reducing steps from top to bottom on their desks to test previous knowledge and then show the video and have students glue them in place in their notebooks.  You might also want to include a chart on your PPT after the movie that shows the final pasting order as there are several versions to choose from.  Enjoy!  

Best Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint - Climate Change PBS

This WS is based on Oscar the Grouch´s song. He is one of the famous characters from Sesame Street. I use this song to teach my Students about the 3rs (redue, reuse, recycle). A nice way to introduce sustainable development!! The WS is fully editable, the keys are provided and the picture is copyright free (at least that´s what google picture told me!!!) any feedback is welcome ;) 

I Love Trash ***song*** 

This worksheet supports teaching the different ways we pronounce the "O" in American English.  If an ESL speaker wants to reduce his foreign accent, he needs to learn the different SOUNDS of English.

Different Ways to Pronounce O in English

A total of 19 Questions to check how eco friendly you are. 
 
The quiz I got the idea from had many questions that were impossible to answer in the context of the city I live in right now, so I did another worksheet that can be applied no matter where you live. 
 
And to use the blank space left on the second page, I post a poster of 9 ways you can reduce ocean plastic.

The Eco Friendly Quiz

The first part of the worksheet gives an insight into what the participle clauses are and what three types we can distinguish. The second part is a task, where students have to change the underlined part so that they create a participle clause.

reduced participle clauses

The lesson is based on this video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasbYWF4_S8" target="_blank" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasbYWF4_S8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasbYWF4_S8</a> 
 
There's a vocabulary exercise for pre-teaching new lexis and 3 exercises to do while watching (questions and a gap-fill).

Environment, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (video lesson) 

This worksheet will give students practice in merging two or more sentences into one.  It uses simple conjunctions and commas to reduce the writing. I used it as a warm-up for the class to work on immediately when they come into the room

Sentence Combining

This single page worksheet is intended to review and assess how well students have taken on board the basic rules of defining/non-defining and reduced relative clauses. 
It is intended for studetns to work together in groups and then feedback to the class.

Relative Clause Review

Short reading activity and grammar drills to practice reduced relative clauses. Activities focus on the identification and use of the correct verb form in participle clauses. 
(Adapted from Pearson Speakout Upper-intermediate 2nd Ed)

18 English ESL worksheets pdf & doc: reduce