A selection of English ESL trivia printables

This ESL worksheet is based on a short ODN video about two divers jumping from Victoria Falls. It contains a cloze test, a True/False exercise and a trivia quiz about Victoria Falls. Answer key included.

Cliff Divers Jump 30 Metres from Victoria Falls

The United Kingdom quiz is a trivia quiz about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nortern Ireland. The objective of the quiz is to revise and check the learned material. There are multiple choice and matching questions.

The United Kingdom quiz

A fun video with some light facts and trivia about the USA. A teaser lesson with a few different activities to show you different types of activities in our new course. Great for building vocabulary, improving listening skills, and English conversation. 



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Fun Facts About the USA 

Cards to play Trivia pursuit with your students. They wrote them themselves (in groups) before strating playing

Trivial Pursuit cards (examples)

This worksheet is based on a short BBC video about the escape of an octopus from a New Zealand aquarium. There is a vocabulary matching exercise as a pre-listening activity, a True/False comprehension exercise, a grammar exercise (students are given the transcript and are asked to put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense, active or passive) and finally there is a trivia quiz about octopuses. Answer key included. 

Octopus Escapes from Aquarium

A fun lesson about the history of the airplane. Learn about the Wright brothers, when and where airplanes were invented, some trivia, and lots more. This is a teaser lesson. To get full access to the entire lesson with lots of great exercises, transcripts, and answer key, sign up: www.pocketpassort.com





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History of Airplanes

‘WORD UP’ is a fantastic game for students learning English.

If you haven't got it yet then go out and find it. You will be glad you did.



The genius of this game is that students are reading, speaking English and listening to English IN English without even realising it!



However, my students are younger than those that this game was designed for and so I have been forced to make my own questions and answers and also to uncomplicate the rules a bit!



The idea is still the same, but FIRST…



You will need to print out and make the dice included in this document.

You will need to print out all the WORD UP 'Chance' cards.

You will need to print out all the question sheets and answer sheets.

You will also need eight tiddly winks (or something similar) of each of the following colors: Orange, green, blue and yellow.

(I use plastic colored clothes pegs which the students can clip to their Q & A cards.)



There are four types of questions.



ORANGE:  Missing words.

There is a short sentence with a word missing.

(Tell the student how many letters there are in the answer.)

GREEN:  A crossword clue.

General knowledge or easy trivia or logic based questions.

BLUE:  Do you know the answer?

Each question has TWO options. Choose the correct one to win the token.

YELLOW:  Spelling.

A basic list of words to spell. (The words are on the same side as the answers.)



RULES:



The game can be played by up to four players or teams.

Each team or student has to get two questions right from each of the four categories.

The first team to collect two tokens from each category (eight in all) is the winner.

Roll the dice to determine the kind of question you will be asked.

The team on your right will ask the questions. (The same player asks you the questions throughout the game.)

If you land on a ‘Word Up’ chance card then read and follow the instructions on it.

The questions are numbered but they can be asked in any order.



NOTES: 



PRINTING: 

All the question sheets and answer sheets are numbered.

The sheets are laid out so they can be printed 'back to back'. 

This means that the questions for sheet 1, for example, will have the answers to sheet 1 on the reverse.

(This requires some nifty finger work when operating your print preview panel!)



OBJECTIVE:

For most children who play this game there is usually only one answer. 

In fact, some of the questions have more than one possible answer.

For example the color of blood can be crimson as well as red.

But most young learners won't need to be confused by such complicated alternatives just yet!



Although the game is competitive (and winning is important despite what the tree huggers tell you) the objective of the game from the teachers point of view is that the kids are talking and listening in English as much as possible.



(Unfortunately the images are degraded slightly because of the size limitations of this website. Email me for a better quality set of images.)



Good luck and send feedback, please! KKM



WORD UP (For kids!)

Student should make a relative sentence about a person (who), a thing (which), a place (where) or an expression (which), depending on the cell they fall. They must take a card for the proper group. 

Trivial relative sentences

Conversation topics about Qatar and the World Cup 2022. The teacher can read the topics and discuss with the students, there are some fun facts and trivia about the World Cup.

QATAR WORLD CUP 2022

In this worksheet, you will find exercises about the How-questions (how long, how many, how much, how often, how far, how big...) and the cardinal and the ordinal numbers. Pupils will learn trivia about the London attractions too. 

London attractions, How-questions, and Numbers

A worksheet themed with Michael Jackson's song Beat It, including an MJ trivia quiz. I designed it for a vocabulary class, but it could be used as a cultural or listening exercise just as easily. ANSWER KEY INCLUDED

Beat It

Here are 3 question pages that I use to encourage students to look things up on Google or the internet. The questions aren't particularly hard but the students will hopefully not know the answers and will have to look them up. I use this for upper elementary esl students. This is also a chance to get students to think of which words totype into the search engine. Answers can be from a few words to full sentences, depending on level. Can be done in groups.



Google Quiz 1,2 and 3

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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66 Trivia English ESL worksheets pdf & doc