A selection of English ESL writing activities printables

writing activity card making and prompt questions

writing activity card making and prompt questions

writing activity card making and prompt questions

writing activity card making and prompt questions

writing activity card making and prompt questions

Students must write a list of ingredients for a magical potion called Giggleberry Elixir. This potion makes the drinker laugh and giggle for 10 minutes straight! Students must describe what the potion looks like and tastes like. They must also write a funny story about a person who drinks the potion during a serious moment.


This video matches the worksheet and makes for a fun Halloween class activity: https://youtu.be/-z-Ui5Mythw


The teacher guide provided offers examples of how the students can answer the questions. This activity can take around 10 minutes or so.

Magic Potion Creative Writing Activity with Video

A1 (Beginner) – Suitable for 2nd grade students in the Turkish curriculum. 

Magic Friend Worksheet covers greetings, possessive 's, numbers 1-12, colors, body parts, wild animals, action verbs, and plural ‘s.’ It reinforces key grammar structures such as possessive ‘s,’ using numbers with plural nouns, describing appearance with adjectives, can/can’t for abilities, and expressing likes. This worksheet provides guided speaking and writing practice for young learners in a fun and structured way.

Magic Friend Worksheet – Guided Speaking & Writing Activity

This worksheet is a sequel to the coordinating conjunctions worksheet. In the woods is a writing activity that would let the students to practise what they learnt from the brief introduction of the coordinating conjunctions. 

IN THE WOODS: WRITING ACTIVITY TO PRACTISE FANBOYS

Practice giving thanks with this worksheet that teaches students how to express gratitude in English by saying "I'm thankful for" and "I'm grateful for". Students have to answer different writing prompts related to being thankful for people and places. Matching video: https://youtu.be/u6JWnxnVZwc


This is a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving in your classroom.

"I'm Thankful For" Thanksgiving Writing Activity Practice + Video

Encourage your students to create their own sweet Owl or Bunny craft and practice writing skills during Valentine's Day celebration.



These Valentine's Day activities include craftivity and different writing projects. They are great for decorating bulletin boards or they can be used as a nice gift for students to take home to a parent.

St. Valentine’s Day Writing activities  Owl Always Love You

Unscramble these Halloween sentences and put the words in the correct order. Students also must write their own sentences related to Halloween. Matching video: https://youtu.be/qwt6BPgeVFg


This is a fun 5 minute classroom activity you can use as a transition between classes or as a prompt for a creative writing activity. Students can come up with their own wacky sentences and have their classmates unscramble them.

Scrambled Halloween Sentences and Creative Writing Activity with Video

This WS aims to consolidate grammar rule - Present Simple 3d person singular in affirmative sentences based on the topic Daily and Free Time Activities. I created it to go along with Super Minds 2 Unit 1.

Daily and Free Time Activities - Present Simple 3d person singular - Writing activity

Students must select which Easter activity option they prefer and check the appropriate circle (Left or right). Then students must write out 5 other choices in the spaces below. The options should be related to Easter or spring. The worksheet can be paired with this fun short video: https://youtu.be/Fa5UJi3HVUg


Practice Easter vocabulary like bunny, chick, chocolate, Easter eggs, Easter egg hunt, hopscotch, and more!


Would You Rather? Easter Writing Activity - This or That Worksheet with Video

Students learn how to write New Year's resolutions in simple steps. They learn phrases used to talk about future plans like "I will," "I want to," "I promise to," etc. Students are also given ideas for coming up with resolutions. This is the matching lesson on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IM2dMeuopzU


Students are given steps on how to make resolutions and provided with space to be able to write their own using any of the provided phrases. This is a great worksheet to encourage dialogue about New Year's and celebrate the holiday!


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How to Write New Year's Resolutions for Kids in Simple Steps - Writing Activity

Grammar-based themed worksheet aimed at practising reading comprehension, the use of present simple questions and adverbs of frequency, speaking, listening, asking for clarification, asking to repeat, note-taking, short presentations or talking in front of the class and writing a paragraph. Fully editable, printer-friendly colours (background colour does not print) and plain vanilla version (without any colour or clip art) included on 2nd page. Answer key provided. NOTE: If you want students to practise more listening you could cut the ws into two halves (or use 2 wss) and let Ss interview each other without them having seen the questions beforehand (pair work). Also, you could use more of these worksheets and do a group work exercise. 

Grammar Meets Conversation 12 - How often do you (12) - Asking about regular activities

Here is a worksheet with 5 activities to learn/review and practise the use of IN, ON, AT as time prepositions. Besides, the students review the use of the simple present, question formation and writing. Enjoy it!

Time Prepositions: IN, ON, AT

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

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how to ask for something, make requests in English

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how to give permission, authorization in English

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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

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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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