A selection of English ESL actions printables with pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching, vocabulary practice

ESL / EFL printable and interactive quiz. Unruly class goes to Paris for a class trip. Their teacher isn't exactly happy about this disorderly scene in the picture. In the interactive quiz version of this worksheet, students need to drag and drop each activity label to the right pupil.  

I deliberately did not use the most basic wording possibly. Instead I tried to make the right answers less obvious when I could, e.g. "creating huge crayon street art" instead of "drawing a big butterfly" or or "giving a gift" instead of "giving a flower" to make it a more  meaningful task for pre-intermediate learners, too. Nonetheless, with pre-teaching or a bit of scaffolding, I think, you can use this with elementary level learners, as well.

Page 2 has the solutions.

Unruly Class In Paris - Drag 'n Drop With Present Continuous

In this ESL / EFL printable worksheet and corresponding interactive quiz students are going to use their visual comprehension and deduction skills and decide which of the statements are true, which are false and which cannot be decided. If students don't have any clues about certain details of an action, and hence, can't make any deductions about it, they will choose: WDT ("We don't know").  The interactive quiz version of this resource is a multiple choice game.

Page 2 of the printable version shows the right answers. On Page 3 you'll find a detailed explanation about each right answer. Feel free to either elicit such explanations from your students in class (each class at their own level). If you have this part to the lesson, this resource would be adequate for higher levels, as well. You may find it useful to pre-teach some phrases to help students do the explaining bit more confidently. The phrases in bold on Page 3, which explain a deduction, opposition or talk about uncertainty or certainty, will come handy for higher levels. 

Unruly Class No. 3 - True or False or We Don't Know

This ESL / EFL printable worksheet features unruly class again, this time in the zoo. Your students need to label each misbehavior.

Page 2 features the solutions.

Unruly Class At The Zoo - Drag 'n Drop Pairing

This is an Action Verbs Pictionary for beginners, mostly for pre-A1 kids. It has as a purpose to introduce kids to common verbs and daily activities using colorful pictures. 

Action Verbs - Review Of Basic Verbs - Matching Exercise

An ESL / EFL printable and interactive quiz. Students decide if each statement is true or false or if there  not enough visual information in the picture to decide. 

Unruly class goes to Paris for a class trip. The teacher is yet again up against some naughty behaviors on the streets of Paris. In the interactive quiz version of this worksheet, students need to click on the right option: TRUE, FALSE, WDK (We don't know).  

I think the language used makes this activity best fitted for pre-intermediate learners, but with pre-teaching vocabulary and some oral scaffolding) I think you may try using this with elementary level learners. The featured tenses are mostly present continuous and two instances of the present simple.

Since there are multiple talents featured in this scene (balancing, juggling, drawing, climbing), you could follow up with talking about talents.

Page 2 has the solutions.

Unruly Class In Paris - True or False or We Don't Know - Present Continuous

Put the correct number beside the right picture. Then discuss about the following questions: Do you do any of these jobs? If you don’t, who does? Do you enjoy doing housework? Why or why not? Which of these do you really hate doing?

Housework - Picture Vocabulary Worksheet

This ESL / EFL printable worksheet and interactive quiz is about labelling each action with the right label. In the interactive quiz version students need to drag and drop each label. In the printable version they can simply connect each label with the right place with a straight line.

The task involves basic verbs and a few prepositions of place/movement. It's adequate for beginners and elementary level learners.

Page 2 has the solutions.

Unruly Class On The School Bus - Label The Actions - Drag & Drop Pairing

An easy way to learn vocabulary.Multiple choice of basic action verbs. Review the meaning of the verbs before beginning the exercise. Then use the verbs in a sentence with the class. For early learners.

Basic Verbs Pictionary

PICTURE DICTIONARY. This is a worksheet and a quiz that reviews common verbs. The teacher should review the meaning of the vocabulary before completing the quiz. 

Common Action Verbs Pictionary

A picture dictionary. The pictionary depicts all the basic actions that one may do at home. The teacher should review the meaning of all the new vocabulary words.

Daily Routines At Home Pictionary

The second part of Basic Verbs Dictionary.

Basic Verbs Picture Dictionary#2

In this ESL/EFL worksheet and corresponding interactive quiz students will identify each one of the pictures and label them with the right word from the word bank.

English basic actions picture dictionary

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Actions

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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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

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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77 Actions, Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching, Vocabulary Practice English ESL worksheets pdf & doc