A selection of English ESL printables with mingling activity, speaking practice

Mingling activity

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

Set of 20 prompts (Find someone who) which students have to use to make correct present simple questions. This ESL worksheet can be used individually, as a whole class exercise or for group or pair work (on the second page the questions are divided into 4 sets of 5 questions). Students can mill around the classroom if so desired, asking and answering questions. Answer key included.

Find Someone Who - Present Simple Questions (1)

Bingo game that is great for a warm-up activity, encourages speaking and wakes the class up! It is a mingling activity where students have to walk around and chat with several partners in turn.

FInd Someone Who Bingo - Present Simple

Set of 20 prompts (Find someone who) which students have to use to make correct past simple questions. This worksheet can be used individually, as a whole class exercise or for group or pair work (on the second page the questions are divided into 4 sets of 5 questions). Students can mill around the classroom if so desired, asking and answering questions. Answer key included.

Find Someone Who - Past Simple Questions (1)

In this ESL printable worksheet students have to ask their fellow classmates questions in order to fill the blanks. A good ice-breaker for a new class or new term!

Find someone who ...

12 cards + directions for a "Speed Date" style lesson.

Students practice using "Prefer." We've been working on the comparative so I encouraged them to make comparative sentences.. but they don't have to. 



Speed Dating using Prefer and Comparatives 

I always enjoyed this activity but was frustrated when the students couldn't convert the statements into questions and would just read 'someone who likes cake?!' to which the other student would say 'yes'. This way they know what the question should be and then can provide the answers in the third person when you ask them what they found out. 

Find Someone Who

A classic "Find someone who ..." game around the topic of TV watching [with solutions]. 



I took a bunch of comments from an online forum where teens answered the question: "How much TV do you watch a day?"



The answers are neatly formatted to like like the actual comments on the net [pages 2-3]. Cut them all up, and hand them out evenly to the kids. Help them with any difficult words they are not familiar with.



Then hand out the questionnaire [page 1] with the types of people they have to find among the online respondents. They will have to walk around and ask questions from each other to be able to fill their questionnaire.



You'll also find a vocab list and some other exercises on pages 4.



Page 6 contains the solutions.

Find Someone Who ... [Topic: Watching TV ] with KEY

An ESL mingling activity. Students ask: Do you know the English word for this? (and points to the drawing). Gets a signature from a friend if he can name the English word.

Find Someone Who...Halloween

I used this ESL activity with music. Once the music starts students must walk around. When the music stops they need to ask another student 'Do you like X?' If the response is "Yes", the interviewer should write down the student's name. If the answer is no, they need to move on until they find someone who does.



Then once the music begins the question time stops and walking starts again. 



First to complete the worksheet wins.



There are 4 blanks at the bottom for the students to add their own ideas.

Ice Breaker: Find someone who ...

I made this ESL worksheet for adverbs of frequency classes centering around the topic of healthy habits. You can use it to teach healthy habits for kids while using adverbs. Kids will love it!

Find someone who - Healthy habits

A speaking activity to practice BE GOING TO. This ESL worksheet contains a mingling activity to practice this future form in an authentic way to communicate personal meanings.

BE GOING TO - Find Someone Who - Future Plans

A classic 'Find Someone Who' ESL mingle activity but with gerunds and infinitives. This activity only uses seven verbs: love, want, enjoy, try, start, learn, and finish. A great ESL activity to complement lower level classes learning about gerunds and infinitives for the first time. 

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