A selection of English ESL routines printables with intermediate (b1)

This worksheet is a list of conversation questions about students' daily routine activities. This encourages them not only to practice vocabulary related to their routines but also the present simple tense.

Conversation Questions - Including Daily Routines

These activities are aimed at teenagers. Students will talk about what mascots are and what their importance is on the field. After that,students will read a text about the current mascot´s routine. Finally,students enter a website and guess where other mascots come from. Finally,students choose their favourite mascot. 

World Cup mascot 2022. Routines.

On those three pages, you can find healthy routines for the morning, the evening and for the homework session. It also includes affirmations to use before each routine.

Setting routines and reading affirmations

Reading and speaking. This worksheet helps students to develop reading comprehension. It includes vocabulary focus, gap-filling assignment based on the short text (adapted article from the Economist), and comprehension check (True/False statements). The students learn about some of the habits office workers developed during the lockdown. Students develop vocabulary with the help of collocation-focused interactive assignment.   Learners practice speaking while discussing their habits and new routines developed during the lockdown.

Lockdown and Office Routine

Reading Comprehension.Sts can talk about dangerous sports too. It's really helpful if you include the solutions in the resource as it makes it easier for us in class to check the answers. 

Joaquín Prat Reading Comprehension - Daily Routines

Reading about the past, but, surprisingly, created to teach and practice Simple Present. Ronald Reagan presented as a lifeguard, an actor and a president. 

Three daily routines of one man

This Daily Routine Sequencing and Writing Worksheet is designed for intermediate ESL students to practise organising daily activities in a logical order and improve their written English. By numbering events like waking up, brushing teeth, and going to school, students enhance their understanding of sequencing and time-related expressions. The second section asks students to write about their own routines using phrases such as “in the morning,” “after that,” and “then.” Perfect for building fluency and confidence, this worksheet is ideal for individual practice, pair work, or classroom discussions. An answer key is provided to support educators. Created by PrimaryLeap

Daily Routine Sequencing and Writing Worksheet

Here you can find a composition about a student´s daily routine on weekdays. The ss have to read the text then put the pictures in order. They can learn the words of this topic and have an example how to write their own ones. Hope you find it useful. The German version of this can be found on islcollective under my nickname. Have a great day. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi

Daily routines for students * elementary * with key

Describe the pictures and talk about your daily routine using the questions and the word bank. It can be used on level A2 or B1. Pictures from google images. Thanks in advance for your kind comments. Hugs from Hungary! 

Picture-based discussion elementary - (2) Daily Routine

This is a betting game about the teacher's daily routine. 

1.) Determine the maximum points students have that they can "bet" with then tell students (Eg. 'You have 100 points to use).

2.) List times for each daily routine item and have students write the times they hear (NOTE: SOMEOF THESE TIMES SHOULD BE WRONG).

3.) BETTING TIME! Students bet bout whether or not they think your routine times are true (0) or false (X) and bet a certain number of points. 

4.) Reveal the true routine times for you. Students earn the number of points they bet if they were correct. If they were wrong, they earn zero points.

5.) Students tally their points.

Betting Game about the Teacher's Daily Routine

This simple questionnaire can provide a smooth lead-in whenever you need to discuss lifestyle-related issues, it also works well when the spotlight is on work-life balance and health. You don't have to limit the conversation to hear only dry facts concerning your students' routines, the questions might be a sort of prod inspiring them to change whatever doesn't enhance their well-being. 

What's your daily routine? - speaking activity. 

This fun video activity is to practise using the present simple tense when describing daily routines. The video shows the daily routine of a Stormtrooper. While watching the video, learners must describe the Stormtrooper's daily routine using the present simple tense and sequence adverbs like "Next" and "After that". This can be done as a speaking and/or writing activity. There are more detailed instructions on the worksheet. URL:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkkQ3nhsNlc&feature=youtu.be

Daily Routines with Present Simple - Star Wars Stormtrooper 

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 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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