A selection of English ESL verb 'to be' printables

Fill in the blanks activity. Idioms used: 

Shake a leg

Get out and about

Hit the road

Spill the beans



In addition you can encourage your students to create a short dialog using the image given.

4 Idioms Practice

READING VOWELS IN THE OPEN SYLLABLE



can be used for the beginners, any age.

teaches reading and writing the vowels in the opened (ending in a vowel) syllables.

is meant to be used for translation, too.

READING VOWELS IN THE OPEN SYLLABLE

Another fun and silly part to the horror holiday series! Hope you enjoy this one, what should happen in flights? What do you think could happen? Will Ted go crazy because there is not enough food?

Holiday Horror travel madness 

IELTS SPEAKING PART 2 TOPIC WITH HINTS WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR THE IELTS STUDENTS FOR THE GRADED PRACTICE.Speaking part 2 requires uninterrupted speaking. ESL students find it easy to speak on the topic with hints/ prompts.

IELTS SPEAKING PART 2 TOPIC WITH HINTS

This is another edition to my beautiful masterpiece. It has many different tenses and beautiful description of a amazing story that could have different endings. This story is a fantastic literature that is a must read.

RC SHOPPING TROLLEY MADNESS PART 2

it's a quiz that may help to write a paragraph about a person before he was nine years old and also it may help you in completing a text using the past forms of regular verbs 

quiz in Writing 

These sheets consist of necessary nouns and verbs written in English and translated to Russian, can be used by Russian speaking children or adults. Words are taken from my local secondary school program (7-9 grades). 

Necessary nouns_verbs for Russian speaking men

Linguistic Experiment in Multi-National Class.

Student sit in groups with (a) student/s of other nationalities.

They ask each other to translate the words into another language/s. 

They analyze the words and make conclusions.

Linguistic Experiment in Multi-National Class

I created this board game for my young learners to practice the present continuous tense and possessive adjectives. They have to make affirmative sentences with the characters on the pictures and the action verbs provided. When they find an asterisk they should also use the corresponding possessive adjective. For example:

Mr. and Mrs. Sharp are washing their clothes in the Laundromat.

Charlie Harris is doing his exercises in the Health Club. 

Alex Molina is feeding his dog, etc.

I hope you find it useful !



What are they doing?

This worksheet deals with the use of past simple tense on the lyrics of the song Hymn for The Weekend featuring Beyoncé. Ss will listen to the audio and fill in the spaces the right past tense form of the verb while they sing along. This song can be shown after talking about festivities since the video depicts dances and people during the  Phagwa festival which is celebrated to mark the beginning of spring and Hindu mythology. In Suriname, Holi Phagwa is a festival of colour.

Coldplay - Hymn For The Weekend

This is a shorted version of my phrasal verbs worksheet that I uploaded some time ago, on here and on ISL Collective. There is a bingo game, and mix-and-match, a snap game, and a Kahoot quiz, an article, and a debate to consolidate the phrasal verbs and to make it a bit more fun. The answers are at the back. The Kahoot quiz is in the link below. 



https://create.kahoot.it/share/phrasal-verbs-for-finance-and-statistics/c38f6626-87f9-4628-8b83-e8efdce81ff9

Phrasal Verbs about Finance and Money

A fun little wordsearch (no solutions provided sorry... to make it easier the past of hang I used is hung).



Basically, students have to look at the words and find the past versions in the word search. Some of the verbs are irregular so this helps them remember and practice their past tense. 



I use this with elementary age students who have been studying English for a while. It gives them a bit of a fun challenge that is different and can be done in groups.  

Wordsearch - It's in the Past - Find the Past Tense Verbs

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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