A selection of English ESL so do i printables

(In case you can't see some of the text or if the page looks weird to you, you'll have to download it as doc and edit it, I don't know what happened, sorry!) A worksheet for students to talk about their summer. Students write notes about their holiday and then speak in front of the class in full sentences. Could also be done in pairs where students ask each other follow-up questions, for example "What did you do at (place)?" or "What did you do with (person)?" Good for practising making questions and past tense. 

Summer holiday report

This Mini-Presentation Activity features eight topics, including prompts to help your ESL students prepare for the task. The students choose a topic to do a mini-presentation on and spend some time preparing before doing their presentations for the class. Topics include an interesting festival, my dream career, a famous person I admire, and more.


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Mini-Presentations Activity

In this festive month I like to spice lessons up with Christmas activities that promote kindness but also allow pupils to practise their English. This is why I\'ve created this ADVENT CALENDAR, which I cut up and put into different envelopes, usually I hang them up on a string with clips and then pupils open them every day. We also open weekend envelopes on Friday, so that they can do the weekend activities (in light blue) at home. Different level pupils can do these activities, from beginner to intermediate if you adjust the vocabulary.

I hope you like it! :)

ADVENT CALENDAR for ENGLISH CLASSROOM

A gap-fill exercise to read about the earthquake in Christchurch and practice filling in the past tense verbs. The worksheet talks about the earthquake using relevant vocabulary for advanced beginners. After doing the verb sheet you could also facilitate a discussion to go with it. For example: Where were you on that day? How did you feel when you heard about it? What would you do if you were there?  The Japanese architect also has a very interesting TED talk you could listen to, about sustainable temporary architecture, though it is more suited to a higher level class.  

Christchurch Earthquake

This Notes sheet comes with a series of four reading comprehension sheets, all of relatively the same level of difficulty. They are printables, but you'll find them in the "Projectables" part. It is aimed for the students to take notes, first as a group, and then individually, listening to other groups presenting their work to the class.



It starts with a very short reading comprehension, aimed as an introduction - to create a need to find out more information about NYC. Further down you can read more of my lesson planning. 



On the first lesson, students read the introductory e-mail, then work in groups on different topics. 



On the second lesson, I give them one photocopy per group of my handwritten answers - photocopies that I collect back at the end of the marking time; so they must mark their work themselves. After marking their work, they 1) get some sentences ready and 2) present their work to the class, who is taking notes. During the presentation, as the class is taking notes, I tend to ask for only one person per group to speak, one to write difficult words on demand, and a third one to check the information being given. 





INTRODUCTION E-MAIL



1. 	Type of document? ==> an e-mail. Not a spam or a fraud!

	Who? ==> from Betsey Brandon to English students

	Where? ==> In NYC; in “the Big Apple”.

	When? ==> During Spring Break

	How long? for a week-end



RECAP	==> Betsey Brandon is writing to tell English students that they have won a week-end in NYC, during Spring Break! 



2. 	What do we need to do, now? // What must we do, now? 

	==> Read the information enclosed, so we can PLAN our trip. 



BRAINSTORMING: 



	What can you do / see / visit in New York?

	==> Loads of things to do and places to go. 



	We need more info:  



	WHAT MONUMENTS? 

	GENERAL INFO ABOUT THESE MONUMENTS

	WHAT ACTIVITIES CAN YOU DO?  





Plan a week-end to NYC (Notes sheet)

Lead in is to focus on scare/scary/ be scared
The main body of the lesson is watching a video about the whistling scarecrow with tasks to assess comprehension
Finally a gapfill summary task and a create your own story are tasks to extend the theme and productive skills.

Halloween Activities - Speaking & Listening

With this file you will get PROMPTCARDS with questions to provoke lively discussions NOT about trivia but about values, beliefs, life in general, love, generosity, death etc. Let the students find out more about themselves. Some questions might confront ethical dilemmas in a concrete rather than an abstract form. There are no correct or incorrect answers to these questions. For students to probe, discuss and explain their ideas about life using upper-intermediate and advanced language skills. Example questions: “If you new there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do?” “Given the ability to project yourself into the past but not return, would you do so? Where would you go and what would you try to accomplish if you knew you might change the course of history?” This activity is requested by my students once a semester! I hope you will enjoy it as much as they do! *** USE PAGE 3 AS BACK ***

ADVANCED Conversation Promptcards about VALUES, BELIEFS, ETHICS

Earth Day is coming soon, so I have prepared  my pupils' favourite homework : a minibook. This one is about Earth Day so they will learn about Earth Day and what to do to protect the planet.

Hope you'll find it useful too. Have fun!

EARTH DAY MINIBOOK

Some animal' names do not follow the phonics rules so this is not absolutely about phonics focus. However, practice phonics with kids at the same time with introducing the vocabulary for them is still an essential way for English learning. Used mostly for ESL students. 

Animal Flashcards with Phonics 

A fun word search for students to do together in pairs or by themselves. It's a collection of all things in London, so there should be some interest. I've used something similar I designed before which was great, so passing on my own. Enjoy!

The Great British Word Search

An exercise on the use of look, watch and see. There are thirty sentences so it may be a good idea to do half of the worksheet in one lesson and the other half in the following one (or to set it as homework).

LOOK, WATCH, SEE

I have always been a fan of PhilipR's Let's Talk About worksheets. So, I decided to compile them all into all into one document. I do not claim credit for any of the documents he created, and thank him very much for creating these resources! 

COMPILATION:‌ ‌“LET'S‌ ‌TALK‌ ‌ABOUT”‌ ‌WORKSHEETS‌ ‌FROM‌ ‌ ISLCOLLECTIVE‌ 

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

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how to blame somebody for something in English

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how to express agreement /disagreement in English

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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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