A selection of English ESL text comprehension and production printables

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Reading comprehension on an article about the phenomenon of greenwashing, a practice some companies engage in consisting in marketing their products as being more sustainable than they really are. General reading comprehension questions and a vocabulary activity about words from the text. 

What is greenwashing?

This reading comprehension worksheet is designed to introduce learners to the topic of wellness innovations through a short informational passage about Area 52, a company known for its natural, hemp-derived products. The text highlights the brand's commitment to quality, product variety, and customer satisfaction. After reading, students complete a range of tasks, including multiple-choice questions, true/false statements, and short answer questions to test their understanding of the content. This activity aims to build vocabulary, improve scanning and skimming skills, and encourage discussion around health, technology, and consumer choices. Ideal for intermediate to upper-intermediate ESL learners.

Area 52 – A Modern Wellness Brand

this is a test for 9th form tunisian pupils; it has a text and comprehension questions; it also has three languge activities ; the last part is a production activity.

test 6 9th for Tunisian learners

Read the text beside the pictures

Guess what the picture is beside the description of the plant. 

Can ask follow on questions about the pictures for extension and comprehension.

What's the commodity? (Is it tea, coffee, sugar or bread?)

the test has three parts. the first part is a text and comprehension questions. the second part contains three language activities. teir main idea is school life. the last part is a production task.

Test 6 7th form Tunisian pupils 

A test based on the algerian english as a foreign language curriculum for 3as related to unit to safety first under the theme of consumerism and advertising, it includes reading comprehension activities plus grammar and vocabulary tasks related to the unit

3as second term test (safety first)

A2+ B1–B2 Business English listening worksheet about Parmalat’s factories, marketing, logistics, and working conditions. Includes comprehension tasks, numbers practice, mistake correction, and discussion questions. Teacher scripts are included at the end and can also be added to a text-to-speech app to create different accents and listening variations for students.

Business English- Parmalat Company Listening | Production, Logistics & Marketing Jobs- Numbers

This is A SAMPLE of a full lesson A2 Reading & Speaking lesson is built around the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37) and is designed to help students speak with confidence, express opinions, and discuss kindness and helping others—without grammar drills.

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Using a simplified, student-friendly version of the story, this lesson guides learners from prediction and comprehension to personal discussion and real-life speaking tasks.

This lesson is suitable for both individual or group use.

What’s Included

✔ Simplified A2-level reading text
✔ Pre-reading discussion questions
✔ Vocabulary matching activity
✔ Story prediction task
✔ Comprehension questions (pair-friendly)
✔ Helpful Language Box to support speaking
✔ “What Would You Do?” real-life situations
✔ Values-based discussion prompts

The Good Samaritan - A Reading/Speaking ESL Lesson Handout (A2)

This is a comprehensive, multi-part English grammar worksheet focused on vocabulary for professions and the use of the modal structures "have to" and "don't have to" to express necessity and lack of necessity.

Part 1: Vocabulary Practice introduces the topic by asking students to write the names of various professions, which are depicted in accompanying images. This section serves as a warm-up and vocabulary builder.

Part 2: Grammar Practice provides controlled practice where students must complete sentences with the correct form of "have to" or "don't have to" (including the third-person singular "has to" and "doesn't have to") based on a given positive (+) or negative (-) context. This helps students understand the core grammar rule.

Part 3: Make Sentences moves to a more productive exercise. Students are given prompts with a profession and two verbs, and they must form their own correct full sentences, following a provided model. This reinforces sentence structure.

Part 4: Answer the Questions further develops writing and comprehension skills. Students must answer both open-ended ("What does a doctor have to do?") and closed ("Does a police officer have to wear a uniform?") questions, requiring them to apply their knowledge creatively and accurately.

Part 5: True or False acts as a reading comprehension and concept check. Students read statements about professional obligations and decide if they are true or false, testing their understanding of both the vocabulary and the grammar point.

Professions and Obligations: "have to/don't have to" Practice Worksheet

This Mother’s Day reading includes a reading text on the origins of Mother’s Day, vocabulary focus, collocations matching, comprehension questions, and speaking practice.
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Mother's Day Reading

This Mother’s Day reading includes a reading text on the origins of Mother’s Day, vocabulary focus, collocations matching, comprehension questions, and speaking practice.
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Mother's Day ESL reading

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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27 Text comprehension and production English ESL worksheets pdf & doc