A selection of English ESL writing assessment printables

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>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

Here is near final test to assess several points , personality adjectives , the use of gerund or infinitives, the  use of tags ( So do I , Neither do I..) and writing  an essay to apply to  accompany a trip to London

Multiple subject test: gerund personality adjectives  tags  modals and essay writing

This is a great task to assess comprehension and the expression of ideas in one's own words. AND it also introduces a bit of what London has to offer :)- Watch a video (about 7 minutes) about several tourist attractions in London. Lonk and QR Code included.
- Comprehension Questions: Answer questions based on the content of the video.
- Writing Task: Explain which two attractions you would like to visit and which two not.
- An answer Key is included.Have fun!

Let's visit London! London Tourist Attractions VideoQuest/Video Worksheets

This worksheet serve as a tool for teachers to assess students' reading comprehension skills, identify areas of strength and weakness, and tailor instruction accordingly.

Reading Comprehension

Learn how to discuss books and write reviews. This worksheet is a step-by-step guide to writing reviews in English. Students learn about the structure of a review and its elements. 

Book Reviews + Expressing Opinions FCE/ CAE

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This fun and multifaceted writing activity includes story planning, writing an article or story for a newspaper or magazine, grammar practice in the form of writing wh-questions and yes/no questions, and also group work with students creating, producing, performing, and peer-assessing role plays based on the original stories!



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Story Planning - My Life Without...

My school never even told me the ages I would be teaching before I arrived in Korea, even though I asked. In response, I created this assessment to gauge my students' abilities in English. It worked fairly well in my classes and showed me the wide range of proficiency levels present in my classes. Perhaps it can be of use to you too!

Easy Assessment Worksheet with Drawing and Writing Prompts

This is a brief reading and writing exericse for beginners to practise transforming a story from first person to third person. It is also good to review time of the day and assess the use of -s  in verbs in the third person.

Writing Prompt - Talking About Others - Present Simple

Your teacher enters the assessment hall and mentioning that you form an obliging argumentative paper without squandering even a particular second. On the off chance that you understand the writing measure of this particular sort of the essay, you will have the decision to write it completely. Else, it will seem like an issue condition.

Writing A Narrative Essay

Lesson Plan with warm-up activity. This lesson focuses on the descriptive part of grammar.  A Mad Lib exercise will follow to  assess students abilities.  This Lesson plan can also be used for ESL students at the Beginner level.

Creative Writing Exercise

English Level Writing Task - Instructions and Explanation
Introduction
This writing task is designed to assess the English language proficiency of 12-year-old students. It is intended for students who are developing their writing skills in English as a second language (ESL) or who are in an English language learning environment.

The test aims to measure various components of language, such as grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, coherence, creativity, and expression.

English Writing Task

This test was created to assess students's knowledge about some facts of the history of the English language and it also includes activities that  have to do with word formation (prefixes and siffixes) as well as reading comprehension activities and essay writing on the topic spoken over the English lessons.

Reading/writing test

Realizing how to contend and the explanation is a significant expertise that comes in convenient in your writing as well as in your day by day life as well.&nbsp;If you don't have writing experince you should take help from proffesional writers basically demand&nbsp;them to write my paper&nbsp;for me&nbsp;. We utilize argumentation in our everyday lives to get others energetic about our thoughts through thinking and influence. The disagreeable article assists understudies with creating this argumentation expertise by helping them take on different set up arguments, inciting them to disprove them, uphold them, or develop them.

Some of the understudies neglect to propel their antagonistic writing, and wind up asking others: 'Help write my article.' They neglect to refine their writing to coordinate the necessary level needed for the complex and entrusting argumentative article themes that understudies are incited for inside cutting edge scholastic years.

When understudies enter school training, they ought to have a decent grasp over their investigating capacities, their scholastic writing style, and the disagreeable rhetoric.&nbsp;

To create an ideal argument, they should have the option to isolate their reaction into a few premises through which they will uphold their principle quarrelsome theory. The article ought to clarify, produce, and back the premises and guide the peruser with coherent thinking to a particular end.

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Comprehend the article brief and guide out the reaction

You ought to comprehend the article brief to know precisely what the topic is and what the article task is. Investigate the brief for brief words that would mention to you what sort of scholarly writing that you need to create in the article: evaluative, basic, or logical.

Basic writing in an antagonistic article is the most exceptional sort of writing as it prompts the peruser to come up with new arrangements and discover a blend between decisions.

This should be trailed by conceptualizing for the premises that you will introduce in your argumentation.&nbsp;In case the correct response isn't satisfying, by then you don't have to pressure as you can without a truly surprising stretch select a paper writing service&nbsp;to help you with improving your innovative mind powers and observational capacities.&nbsp; The examination should then give the setting to enable your perusers to comprehend the point, and supporting information to help back it. Ultimately, you will create an article plan or framework to delineate your reaction.

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Argumentation through each reason in turn

There will be different premises introduced in the article (typically with the main one starting things out), and you will take on each reason independently.

To take the argument to its formal decision you should experience the accompanying cycle:

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Present the reason:

The theme sentence will come toward the beginning of the section introducing your thought, perspective, or arguments.

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Clarify it and additionally give the foundation:

As opposed to simply introducing the reason and moving into the argumentation, you should give foundation information about the point. You can disclose to ensure that your perusers have perceived it correctly.&nbsp;If you are stress over your assignment you can request 'write paper for me&nbsp;' that skilled writers they will assist you with it.

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Present the supporting proof:

The supporting proof ought to follow straightaway. The proof is the information, for example, citations, measurements, perceptions, and so on This information should be gotten from scholastic sources, for example, research papers and scholarly articles that are composed and surveyed by specialists and researchers.

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Dissect and assess the proof:

It's not barely enough to introduce the proof to the peruser and anticipate that them should arrive at the resolution you have arranged out for. Here you should show why the proof backings the reason, while likewise demonstrating the explanation behind its legitimacy.

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Tackle the counters:

No argumentation is finished and idiot proof without thinking about different counters to your arguments that follow your premises.&nbsp;If you do have comprehension and time to write your paper you ought to consider writers approach them to write my paper for me. These counters should be put down unequivocally by utilizing proof and thinking to show its false notion. In the event that the counter overwhelms your reason, you ought to ingest the counter into the reason to begin with.

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Connection it to the primary theory:

Wrap every one of your arguments by connecting the end to your fundamental postulation argument.

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