A selection of English ESL workplace printables

Electricity can cause serious workplace hazards. Following electrical safety guidelines and procedures can prevent accidents, which helps protect people, property, and the environment.

Electrical safety tips


Embark on a fun journey with Business English Quest! This board game is perfect for adults looking to improve their English skills for the workplace. Roll the dice, move around the board, and tackle challenges.




Business English - boardgame advanced

This is a vocabulary building exercise designed for Pre-K kids. There are many pictures helping them to understand. The theme of this worksheet is Jobs/Work. Students will learn more about jobs and workplace. 

Jobs

This is a vocabulary building exercise designed for Pre-K kids. It is a revision exercise. Students will review vocabulary related to jobs, work and workplace. 

Jobs (Revision Ex)

The student completes this worksheet using work signs with the objective to share knowledge and know well and where can they apply it according the workplace thought match, and circle activities

This ESL lesson, based on the humorous article "Why AI Won’t Replace Us (And Will Probably Just Become Our Digital Sidekick)," is designed for intermediate to upper-intermediate students (CEFR B1-B2). It explores how AI complements human work but cannot replace the unique emotional, creative, and unpredictable aspects of human behavior. The article engages students in thinking critically about AI, while the grammar section focuses on future simple and future continuous tenses, helping learners differentiate between the two.


Students begin with warm-up questions to introduce the topic, followed by true/false, multiple-choice, and open-ended questions to check comprehension. The vocabulary practice integrates everyday expressions and idioms. A Bamboozle game, accessible via a QR code, allows students to review vocabulary in a fun and interactive way. This method engages learners and enhances retention.


The lesson then moves into inductive grammar learning with examples from the text. This is followed by detailed explanations of the future simple and future continuous, including rules, structures, and common mistakes. Finally, students engage in task-based activities where they create real-life scenarios, blending AI collaboration with their future plans, using both future tenses. This well-rounded approach ensures students not only understand the grammar but also apply it in meaningful, engaging contexts.

Why AI Won’t Replace Us; future simple and future continuous

This is the role play which focuses on dealing with the problems at the workplace. It requires at least 2 students to participate in this speaking activity. Hope this can help!

Problems at work

This is a vocabulary building exercise designed for Pre-K kids. There are lots of pictures helping kids to understand. The theme is Jobs/Occupations. Students will learn about jobs and workplace. 

I use this worksheet as a first introduction to colours. 

As I cannot print in colour, at my current workplace, I draw little patches of colour next to the colours on the second page and have my students connect the correct colour to the word.

Colours

Students discuss the issues related to women's rights, gender, stereotypes, equality, empowerment, feminism, women in history, women in politics, women in workplaces, women in families, trans women, men in feminism.

Speaking: Women's rights and Gender

This worksheet is designed for **A2-level students** according to the CEFR framework. It focuses on **participial adjectives (-ed vs. -ing forms)**, helping students distinguish between adjectives that describe feelings (**bored, tired, stressed**) and those that describe the cause of those feelings (**boring, tiring, stressful**). The worksheet includes a variety of exercises—warm-up questions, vocabulary matching, true/false statements, multiple-choice questions, and fill-in-the-blank tasks. These activities give students ample opportunities to practice the grammar point in different contexts.


By engaging in discussion and guided practice, students will develop a deeper understanding of how to use **-ed and -ing adjectives** correctly, reducing common errors. The article "Hacks to Deal with Stress" is relatable to students, as it addresses everyday stressors while introducing the target language naturally. The task-based homework encourages students to apply what they've learned in real-life scenarios, solidifying their understanding of these commonly confused adjective forms.

Hacks to Deal with Stress: participial adjectives (-ed vs. -ing forms)

A short worksheet about professions. Students have to decode the names of the professions by filling in the gaps and then match them with the right workplace.   

Professions

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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42 Workplace English ESL worksheets pdf & doc