A selection of English ESL should have must have printables

Students are given a budget of €40 and have to create a dinner party meal for some friends. They should come up with dishes and desserts, and must label each food item. 



Then they can present their plan to the class.

Shopping List activity

easy task to be done individual, pairs or groups. Great to deal with sport vocabulary  such as equipment, as well as rules ( have to, must, mustn't, should...). I've designed this as part of my ESL lessons with my 5th grade course. 

Desing a New Sport

modal verbs worksheets examples and written exercises must can should could may might different situations to use modals, also have to has to affirmative negative questions communicative situations and different aspects of the most common modal verbs for high school students non native who speaks Spanish

modal verbs

Template for students to create their own country, perhaps in pairs. They must draw a map and flag, name their president and vice-president (these should be the students) and a Minister for Fun and a Minister for Serious Things. They must also include 3 laws they would have.

Can be used as practice after discussing laws in their country, strange laws from around the world, or any related discussion about what makes a country good/bad, such as geographical features, infrastructure, government etc.

Create Your Own Country!

It is a worskheet of four exercises related to modal verbs. here, students can practice the sues of must/mustn't; have to/ don't have to/ should/ shouldn't. There is also an exercise on of vocabulary related to to world problems: natural disasters, homelessness... Then in the final exercise, students ahve to write sentences using the most appropriate modals and the words in exercise 5.

modals

I use this activity as an opener at the beginning of a new term.  Ask students to work in pairs. Tell them must complete the badge with the missing pieces of information about his/her partner.  Students cannot ask any questions. When they have finished, they must use the appropriate register to confirm their answers.



(If they are beginner students, you should brainstorm which questions we ask about NAME, AGE, ADDRESS, FAVORITE PASTIME ACTIVITY AND NICKNAME beforehand.)



Feel free to modify it if your students need a bit more of challenge ; )





Getting to know each other 

I´ve just done modals with my upper elementary students and they wanted to have some more practice on this topic. Hope you have fun with this ws, too. Let your students write down what the signs mean to them. You could ask questions like "What should/shouldn´t/may/must/mustn´t you do when you see this sign?" *** I took the signs from http://www.printablesigns.net/category/new

Practise Your MODAL VERBS - Writing

This is a version of a popular drinking game - Never have I ever - topic: travelling. The game should be played by at least 4 - 5 people. One person reads the question e.g. "Never have I ever been to the USA". If you have done it, you lose one point (you can count them on your fingers) - you have 10 points in total. The person who loses a point, must answer this question and talk about it for at least 30 seconds. The person who has the biggest number of points at the end of the game wins.

Never have I ever - a game - travelling

This is a Christmas version of a popular drinking game. The game should be played by at least 4 - 5 people. One person reads the question e.g. "Never have I ever sent Christmas cards". If you have done it, you lose one point (you can count them on your fingers) - you have 10 points in total. The person who has lost a point, must answer this question and talk about it for at least 30 seconds. The person who has the biggest number of points at the end of the game wins.

Never have I ever - a game - Christmas topic.

"Pet Persuasion Play" is a role-playing activity where students split into 'Teenagers' wanting a pet and 'Parents' pondering the decision. Teenagers must argue why they should have a pet, considering care and potential troubles. Parents express concerns about responsibilities and household impact. The goal is to use persuasive English and conditional sentences to negotiate a family decision on pet adoption.

Pet Persuasion Play

The students should give advice to solve the people's problems. The advice could be funny and creative

The students should give creative answers to the given problems.For example:

I'm in the desert and my car has broken down. I only have half a bottle of water.

You could take a camel.

Why don't you join a caravan?

Take a camel.

You should..

You must..

Giving advice - Help!

The is the game in which students work in teams and their task is to present the words on a card. Students have 90 seconds to do it and their team must guess all the words. If they guess one word - they get 1 point, if they guess two words they get 3 points and if they manage to guess all of them - they get 5 points. The first word should be drawn, the second showed and the last one talked about. If you have a weaker group, they can have more time to do this task. The group with the biggest score wins.

School: draw-show-talk - a game

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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92 Should have must have English ESL worksheets pdf & doc