A selection of English ESL speaking practice printables

Students can practice their past tense skills using this speaking exercise. They pick a scenario, create a story, the link to the “Wheel of Destiny” adds twists to their stories! 

Past Tense - Speaking Practice

A short, silly reading to practice pronouncing "h" and "r". Particularly helpful for Brazilian students. 3 readings per page.



I hugged my sister on the rug in the hallway. I ran to the kitchen because I was hungry. There was no food so I went to a restaurant for hamburgers. I am responsible and I like hippos. It is raining, so I will run and hide.

H/R Speaking Practice

There are 100 open ended questions to be answered.The questions are in different grammar structures .The students will practice nearly all the grammar structures in English when they are answering them.

SPEAKING PRACTICE WITH 100 QUESTIONS !!

Ielts speaking practice with tips on how to answer the questions as well as useful vocabulary and phrases. There is also exercises to help embed new vocabulary. The worksheet is also excellent practice for learners wishing to practice conversation.

IELTS Speaking practice - being famous

Don't take this one literally, of course. :) The title of this questionnaire is simply to gave your students a clear indication that they will do some emotional 'stripping' as the issues like personality, phobias, relationships etc.  will pop up in the session. It's not easy to weave this aspect into our regular classes, because most of us are reluctant to talk about feelings in our mother tongues, let alone in English. But everything is possible if you dare, so this exchange may reveal a totally new universe both to your students and you as their mentor. Good luck! 

A good psychologist ...? - speaking practice

AIMS:
The major aim of this exercise is to talk about experience and about your student(s) past.
•	to practice target language of Past Simple, Present Simple, Present Perfect
•	to practise informal conversation
•	to learn about classmates' important issues
•	to integrate skills of communication and meaningCONTEXT:
Tell your students they can imagine a converation with a person they have just met in a bar or pub and they're just having a friendly conversation. Some questions may sound like therapy questions so let the student talk as long as he/she wants.PROCEDURE:
1.	Tell your student(s) to get into pairs and inform them that they are going to exchange information on important issues in their lives.2.	IN A GROUP/ONE-TO-ONE: This is an excellent exercise which allows to practise various tenses and grammatical structures as well as vocabulary taught during the course. Student(s) practise here note taking, summarizing (as there isn't much space in the worksheet). Depending on what you want to focus on during the lesson you may pay attention to:
•	reporting
•	vocabulary
•	starters, movers, closers in a speech

Tell me about - speaking practice

IELTS speaking practice with tips on how to answer the questions as well as useful phrases and vocabulary. In addition there are exercises to help embed new vocabulary. This worksheet is also great for those who want conversation practice. 

IELTS SPEAKING PRACTICE - BEING FAMOUS

In the following lesson, the students will watch a video about ChatGPT and answer some questions to practice expressing their opinion about a trending topic. The lesson can be used both as a homework and as a class activity. 

Listening and speaking practice: ChatGPT

Students write or say the simple past and past participle of these irregular verbs. They can later do a crossword using these verbs to challenge their classmates. Thanks.

Speaking Practice - Say Verbs Outloud

The task aims at practising speaking skills with A1-A2 students. It allows to bolster skills in asking and answering questions, using vocabulary words on the topic "Jobs and Occupations," and creating a monologue on a given topic.

Speaking practice: Jobs and Occupations

Students are supposed to use the Halloween vocabulary to create a spooky story. One student starts and the other ones need to continue the story using the words given. They need to use all the words to finish the story. The idea is that they can use their creativity to create a story with the vocabulary. Happy Halloween!

Speaking Practice - Halloween Spooky Story

Students should already know how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet and how to form upper and lower case letters. Cut the page in half (partner a and partner b). Students spell the words to each other (they have half of the words each).

English alphabet speaking practice 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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