A selection of English ESL speech marks printables

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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Speech Marks

success criteria for setting out direct speech, suitable for display

speech marks success criteria

Five separate activities, with full key. Focus - past tenses/words instead of said and a short 'replace the speech marks' activity. I am addicted to this PhilipR template but I must move on! This is my last one. Maybe. 

Mini reading comprehensions. 

Students will use quotation marks correctly then will change direct speech to reported / indirect speech. Ws is EDITABLE and includes B/W version and answer key with possible answers(reported speech exercise). Much Love... Happy weekend! Yay!!!



Reported Speech

From eslpals.com, teach your business students all about digital marketing with this detailed ESL lesson. Through an excellent video; SEO, email, social, content and affiliate marketing will be explored.



This intermediate ESL digital marketing lesson is perfect for your B1-B2 students. Students get to talk about this interesting topic and explore each of the areas in detail. Students will discuss SEO, email, social, content, affiliate marketing and more!



Lesson Overview



This ESL digital marketing lesson starts off with a fun definition exercise, which is accompanied by some questions. Next, they have to complete a speaking task, where they discuss four real advertisements. As they are given the images, there are a series of questions too.



Following that, there are a series of detailed exercises related to the video. Students have to complete a vocabulary exercise at the beginning of the section which is related to the type of digital marketing that is being discussed. The sections include; content marketing, SEO, pay per click, social media and email. The vocabulary task includes; synonyms, definitions, opposites and sentence completion.



Then, there are four case studies which double as a reading and critical thinking exercise. Students read about businesses before deciding which type of marketing applies to them. Afterwards, there is a grammar exercise that focuses on ‘reported speech’. The lesson finishes with a list of fun questions about advertising.



Homework



This ESL digital marketing lesson plan is complete with a superb homework task where students are tasked with reading an article, before having to write questions related to the reading task. Also, participants have to complete an ‘affiliate’ marketing task, which is complete with a vocabulary and writing activity. The homework ensures that students continue to study and solidify their learning in their free time.



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Did you and your students enjoy this ESL digital marketing lesson? If so, be sure to check out the other business lessons on eslpals.com. You can also browse our grammar section to find complete grammar worksheets across all levels! These worksheets can be used as a lesson plan or additional homework for your students.



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I have created this board game to make grammar revision more fun! 

Rules of the game: 

A player rolls the dice, for example, he gets a four and has to gove a correct answer to a question on that field. If he does not give the correct answer he cannot move four spaces but stays where he/she is. 

The red explosions move a player three spaces back. 

The ckeck mark allows the player to move even if he did not give the correct answer. 

The black cross spaces indicate that a player has to skip one round. 

Also, two players cannot share one space. Therefore one player (the one who was longer on that space) has to go three spaces back. (This rule is used to make a game more competitive.)



This is just a simple board, you can change the rules and make it more suitable for you. 

Grammar board game 

Get your students to practice making present simple sentences whilst also having to elide sounds in connected speech e.g. "Where duzee work?" in order to make it 'fit' with the rythmn of the chant. Have half the class chanting the text in red on the left with the other half responding with the corresponding text in blue on the right. Beat out the rythmn with a marker on a desk! It's great fun.

Thai students respond well to visuals that are famliar to them but feel free to replace logos of Thai banks with those from your own country.

Jazz Chant - "Banker's Wife Blues".

Simple 50 mark assessment grid for talk to class. Give to students before they start writing their speech.

Speech Assessment Matrix

Listening activity with some speaking. Ss listen to an analiysis of Obama's 2004 Convention Speech and mark some statements true or false. They then watch some videos about antithesis and try to find examples in the transcript extracts. For strong upper int and higher levels.

The American Saga

Articles, plurals, and demonstratives

An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech.



In English, both "the" and "a/an" are articles, which combine with a noun to form a noun phrase. Articles typically specify grammatical definiteness of the noun phrase, but in many languages they carry additional grammatical information such as gender, number, and case. Articles are part of a broader category called determiners, which also include demonstratives, possessive determiners, and quantifiers. In linguistic interlinear glossing, articles are abbreviated as art.

Articles, plurals and demonstratives

Identify parts of speech. Students select simple words and classify them into columns. This activity can be done in teams to make it a fun game like  activity. 

MARKER MANIA 

English grammar rules are about how to structure sentences and use parts of speech. Sentences must have a subject and a verb, and they must agree in number and person. The subject is the “doer” of the action and comes before the verb in an active sentence. Punctuation marks indicate the type and end of a sentence. There are five overarching rules that govern grammar: subject-verb agreement, pronoun usage, verb tense, punctuation, and spelling. These rules are essential for clear communication through written language.

13 Speech marks English ESL worksheets pdf & doc