A selection of English ESL start printables

Students answer questions about the song's title and the artist, then listen to the song and fill in the gaps in the lyrics. Then they find different verb tenses in the lyrics, identify rhyming words, and have a discussion using the questions provided.

From The Start - Laufey (listening activity)

This worksheet aims to checks students retention by identifying pictures that start with letter 'Dd'. This worksheet allows the learners to remember the vocabulary words previously learned. This worksheet also serves as a guide for review. 

Identifying pictures that start with letter "Dd"

Only a collection of pictures and verbs in the Present Continuous which I trust my colleagues to use in a variety of ways, for instance, MIMES. Really Nothing extraordinary, but you never know what might help a colleague.

Present Continuous - A Few Verbs To Start With

Another nice song for kids and teens from the young singer Sabrina Carpenter. There are several exercises: choose the right word, match the lines, fill the gaps, complete the missing vowels and find and correct the mistakes. I hope you like it!

Song: The middle of starting over - Sabrina Carpenter

What an absolute bop! It would be a fun song to listen and practice listening. Should work pretty well with Beginner level students. Hope your students have fun with learning something!

Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now  (Song Listening Practice)

You can use this file to start teaching your kids letters and reading. This file of the series helps primary students to compare difficult letters and be successful in remembering them. The file is colourful and simple to use. Usually Grade 1, the second half of the school year. Enjoy your teaching kids.

Start reading file for kids. Comparing difficult letters.

Memory of words starting with J or Y. There is always a picture to the corresponding wordcard. Print it in colour, so that yellow makes sense. 

The exercise is for practising the different sounds. 

Memory of words starting with J and Y

Hey  Teachers!



I recently published an updated free lesson plan on Fluentize based on a short informational video from Business Insider about the morning routines of some famous billionaires.



I would say this lesson plan is probably most suitable for intermediate (B1) - upper intermediate (B2) students.



In order to view the video, please visit the lesson page on Fluentize via the link below.



https://app.fluentize.com/lesson/morning-routines-billionaires



I've recreated the lesson plan here and attached the first half of the lesson up to the Viewing Activity. You can download the full PDF lesson plan with all of the post-viewing activities directly from Fluentize for free when you're registered and logged in.



As you'll see in the lesson plan, students discuss topics and questions related to morning routines and what kinds of morning habits are good or bad to do as part of a routine. Students also learn some of the important phrases that they'll hear in the video such as make something a priority, get right to work, and stay true to a brand.



There is a short grammar activity on the usage of indirect and direct speech, which seemed to be pretty prevalent as a grammatical theme in several cases throughout the video, including...



"Warren Buffet likes to sleep. He says he usually sleeps a full 8 hours a night."



"Jack Dorsey says he gets out of bed at 5 AM."



You can follow everything up with additional discussion based on some of the following topics...



- Whether students make it a priority to get a full 8 hours of sleep per night



- Whether students think it's better to read news stories in the morning or read a book



- What students would think the pros and cons would be of being a billionaires



From the creator’s standpoint, my favorite part of the lesson is the second speaking task on Post-Viewing 3 after the discussion topics mentioned above, as it gives students a chance to not only learn some healthy new habits, but practice explaining why certain habits are good for them. I especially enjoy doing lessons in which you can teach actual life skills as a natural result of the topic you're covering!



I hope you have a great lesson exploring the topic of morning routines with your students! I've attached the full materials for the printable, interactive, and teacher's guide below.



Thanks and enjoy the lesson!



Jake from Fluentize

How 9 Billionaires Start Their Mornings - ESL Lesson Plan

This is a listening activity geared towards upper intermediate and advanced students. It is based around a controversial/taboo topic which can affect anyone. I plan to lead into the lesson with the song "I'm not OK" by My Chemical Romance. 

Ted Talk: How to start a conversation about suicide

You can use this file to start teaching your kids letters and reading. This is the first file of the series with letters A-B-C. The file is colourful and simple to use. Usually Grade 1, the second half of the school year. Enjoy your teaching kids.

Start reading file for kids (letters A-B-C)

Start reading file for kids (letters P-Q-R)

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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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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