A selection of English ESL teenager printables

This worksheet is about reading comprehension. It is an easy activity and it improves student's reading and writing knowledge by understanding the story and answering the questions. However, It has keys on the second page. This worksheet is made for beginners and ESL students.

Reading Comprehension - Max the Exciting Teenager

This activity containes a video about teenager's problems at schools (the common ones). A good material to talk about and learn English at the same time. Choose worsheets, which will also shape your student's perspectives on life.

Every teenager needs to hear it!

a worksheet composed of a list of differents chores parents can expect from a teenager (p.1) and the corresponding cliparts to match with the vocab (p.2)-  for English learners and teachers.

the ultimate chore list for teenagers

Fill in the blank reading exercise. There's a word bank and a vocab box to help them. There there's a brief writing exercise and 8 speaking questions to do as a class.

What scares you the most - Teenagers

This worksheet is for Teenagers and/or Lower Intermediate/Intermediate Level students. It focuses on a teenager's day with her friend and what activities they did. It can be used as warmer/cooler, as homework or as an activity to practice students' reading and writing skills.



Grammar: Past Simple

Key Vocabulary: Basic Verbs and Basic Activities

Skills: Reading and Writing

My Day Homework Sheet for Teenagers

This worksheet is designed for upper A2–B1 students and explores the topic of teenage behavior and brain development. Through a 400-word reading text, students learn why teens often procrastinate and how their brains are still developing in areas like planning and impulse control. The worksheet includes vocabulary support with Czech translations, comprehension questions, and follow-up discussion and writing tasks. It’s ideal for language school teens and promotes empathy, reflection, and critical thinking.

Are We Too Hard on Teenagers

Differentiated with 3 versions, starting with the hardest one, which has more questions. 

Suitable for 1-2-1 or a class. 

Pre-reading task for some key vocabulary - encourage Ss to use translate on their phones if needed too. 

Post-reading - 1) Write names under pictures. 

2) Fill in missing words in sentences copied from the main text. 

3) Comprehension questions. 




Reading comprehension about a family with teenagers

Reading Comprehension exercise. Find the synonyms. Speaking activity.

Teenager gets new I-phone for Christmas

This worksheet is designed for A2 level teenage English learners and focuses on the topic of hobbies and sports, emphasizing how these activities benefit teenagers. The accompanying article, “How Hobbies and Sports Benefit Teenagers,” introduces the idea that hobbies and sports are not just fun activities but play an essential role in teenagers’ growth and development. The language and content are tailored for teenage learners, making it engaging and easy to understand.
 

The worksheet begins with warm-up questions to activate prior knowledge and encourage students to talk about their own experiences with hobbies and sports. The vocabulary matching exercise helps reinforce key words from the text, while the true/false and multiple-choice comprehension questions assess students' understanding of the article. Open-ended comprehension questions allow students to reflect more deeply on the topic and share their opinions.
 

The discussion questions provide a platform for further speaking practice, encouraging students to talk about their own hobbies and how these activities affect their lives. The final homework assignment invites students to write a short essay about their hobbies and sports, allowing them to practice their writing skills while connecting the lesson to their personal experiences. This worksheet helps students build vocabulary, improve reading comprehension, and engage in discussions about their own interests and well-being.

How Hobbies and Sports Benefit Teenagers A2

Here you have the list of icebreaker questions for the first days of school to encourage students to speak an have fun at the same time. The list is adequate for teenagers. 

Back To school- icebreaker questions for teenagers

A test for 1as Algerian education related to unit 03 Back to nature, the test is combination of reading comprehension tasks alongside grammr, pronunciation nd vocabulary related to the unit


How to protect environment As a teenager

The text is about teenagers performing first aid after a first aid course at their school.
Besides improving their reading skills, students have to find the correct paragraph and do a gap-filling activity.  

Thank you, teenage first aiders. (reading comprehension)

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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351 Teenager English ESL worksheets pdf & doc