A selection of English ESL young children printables

You can use this worksheet with young children after listening and singing the song "if you're happy". They cut and paste in the heart the emotions they are feeling on that day. When tey are done they can present their heart to the other children : Today i'm feeling ... It's a relaxing activity to finish the lesson!

emotions for young children

Learning children how to read
learning children how to read
learning children how to read
learning children how to read
learning children how to read
learning children how to read

Phonics and Pronunciation for Young Children - Multi-Page

Worksheet for practicing preposition of place such as in front of, behind, opposite, next to, between. Also for practicing "places in a town" vocabulary (post office, bank, hospital, etc.). Suitable for children, young adults

Prepositions of place

It's a simple worksheet for young learners focused on animal vocabulary and the verb can. Children look at cute pictures, revise vocabulary, practice 'I can...' and fill in gaps. 

I can jump

Matching and letter-tracing worksheet for (very) young learners who have just started learning the alphabet and need writing practice. Target vocabulary: animals.

Matching, Letter tracing, Writing - Animals

The story of ´Up´, the children´s movie released by Disney/Pixar in 2009. The reading is followed by mixed exercises, including work with verbs, adjectives, opposites and vocabulary (names of animal young, collective nouns), comprehension and writing short notes. Fully editable. Answer Key included.





UP (the movie)

This is a two-page worksheet, I find doing the second page first is easier for students since it tells them exactly which type of pronoun to use. I tried to make the sentences as easy for children to understand as possible and kept the plurals more obvious on the first page. I use this for young students, probably 8-9 years old who have been learning English for about a year or so. 



Personally, I change the names every semester to match the names of the students who will be doing the sheet. It makes it much easier for them to understand which gender pronoun to use (since gender pronouns are so annoying). Since this is a .docx it is fully modifiable and nothing is locked down. 



I am pretty sure I adapted this from somewhere but it has been modified so much that I figured I would upload it. 

Possessive Pronouns

A very easy worksheet for young learners. The children have to make sentences writing the name and the age of the children in the picture.

If you want to practice more, you can find more of my worksheets about the same subject here: 

https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/resources?Tags=presentation&searchworksheet=GO&type=Printables&view=grid



Presentation - What's your name, how old are you?

A minibook with some christmas exercises for young children. It goes together with the exercises and games that I've uploaded before. I hope it'll be usefull. Have a joyful and merry Christmas! :)

Christmas minibook

This handout consists of 4 different moods for very young learners. It is a cryptogram they have to solve in order to find out the moods and then match them to the corresponding pictures. Have fun! 

MOODS/FEELINGS for little children

A lesson plan with a WS to teach young children vocabulary

related to parts of the body. Editable. Two posters included.

I hope it can be useful :)

Head and shoulders

This game is a combination of a bingo and a concentration game. It contains 7 boards and 70 picture cards related to food and drink vocabulary that students need to know for starters, movers and flyers exams.

Place all the cards face down. And give each child a board. Each player has to call out any food item or related vocabulary he/she has on his/her board. And then picks up a card and looks at it, but without showing it to the other players. If the picture card matches the word the player has called out, he/she places the card on the board. If not, the student has to return the picture card to the table in the same place it was before and face down. The first player to collect all the pictures on his/her board is the winner.

Note: It’s important that children call out the word first, before picking up a card. Otherwise the game will become too easy and therefore boring.

Also, make sure that you only place the necessary cards on the table according to the boards that will be used. 



FOOD BINGO CONCENTRATION GAME

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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420 Young children English ESL worksheets pdf & doc