A selection of English ESL self help printables

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This worksheet is designed to be used with a YouTube video. It helps learners practise the use of the Simple Present tense to describe daily routines. Play the video using this link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXACPrJNHw&feature=youtu.be



It is a gap-fill activity. The video shows lots of pictures which show the Queen's daily routine. The pictures have sentences describing them with a word missing. There are three words to choose from written below the sentences. Learners must choose the correct form of the verb, using the Simple Present tense and with or without the third person singular "s" ending. 



It can be done as a speaking activity or as a writing task using this worksheet. The answer key is provided. 



Disclaimer: The video is simply a fun way to practise the use of the grammar structure. The information in the video is not a factual account of the Queen's daily routine. Also, it includes pictures of the Queen herself as well as actors impersonating her. I hope your students enjoy it!



Simple Present for Daily Routines - The Daily Routine of the Queen

I have created a worksheet to help students introduce themselves. It consists of a set of questions starting from name and age, and ending with job and preferences. I have also included "hints", a word bank, for some of the answers. 

All about You - Introduce yourself

A very simple worksheet which helps students to introduce themselves, and getting to know basic background information about each other.

Self-introduction Form

A nice song from Taylor Swift to find some regular and irregular verbs in the simple past.

Fully editable.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. Also, the solutions make the resource suitable for self-study.

Oh My My My - Taylor Swift - Song Gap Fill

I cannot claim to have written this text myself, but I have amended it over time and also 'anglosized' it a bit. I find it very helpful in travel and transport based lessons. Please feel free to amend it. I'm just glad if I can help.

Airport Procedure

IN FCE SPEAKING TEST, PART 2, candidates have to talk for a minute about a pair of photographs. Here are some phrases to help them! FIRST PUBLISHED BY MYSELF IN THE ESLPRINTABLES WEBSITE IN NOVEMBER 2011.

USEFUL PHRASES TO COMPARE  PHOTOGRAPHS

These worksheets are designed to help students learn/revise hotel related vocabulary and key phrases used when booking a hotel room. Students match the types of room and items to the pictures, then fill in the gaps in the conversation between a receptionist and a person booking a room (this was adapted from an excellent worksheet posted by Marg https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/questions-interrogative/making-enquiries-and-booking-hotel-accommodation/9203 (I hope that\'s okay!) 



After that, students design an advertisement for their own hotel, then repeat the previous conversation using their self-designed hotels as the basis for the booking role play.



My students had quite a lot of fun with this, hope it is of use to others on this site too.

Hotel Vocabulary and Room Booking Roleplay

This activity is designed for A1-A2 students and helps them at the very beginning. They can practice introducing themselves and other people such as their best friends. The emphasis is mainly on the verbs ´to be´ and ´to have got´. Hope you will find it useful! 

Speaking Activity Set 1 (Introducing yourself)

A simple matching activity to help students with their vocabulary for job interviews and applications. These are useful positive adjectives for describing yourself to potential employers. This sheet can be used as a starting point for a class on writing a resume or job interview role plays.

Adjectives for Job Interviews - positive personality traits

This is to practise different tenses, namely  Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Past Simple, and Future Simple. It helps to feel the difference when comparing them. It also helps to understand the usage of the given tenses. This task is useful in classrooms. It is also suitable for individual tutoring and self-practice. 

Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Past Simple, Future Simple. 

Two one-paragraph stories for self-study or for classroom. Student marks present-tense, past-tense, and helping verbs.

Key included

Detective short stories

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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318 Self help English ESL worksheets pdf & doc