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

This worksheet is about information technology vocabulary. Students must match the pictures with the correct word or expression. Then they must complete some sentences with the words of the previous exercise.

Information Technology Vocabulary

This illustrated ESL worksheet / interactive quiz helps learners develop their English vocabulary skills to name problems in AI-generated text and request corrections from ChatGPT or other AI tools.

The worksheet features 10 common problems with AI-generated writing, including spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, unnatural wording, inappropriate tone, repetitive language, excessive or missing information, inconsistent terminology, and overly complicated explanations.

Students complete two activities:

1. Gapfill: Complete the names of the problems with suitable adjectives.

2. Pairing: Match each problem with an appropriate correction request, such as “Be consistent,” “Cut to the chase,” “Can you rephrase it?” or “Explain it in plain English.”

In the interactive quiz version students type in the gaps in the problem name headings and drag interactive 'correction request' elements from the right hand column and drop them over the problem cards.

Page 2 has the ANSWER KEY.

The colorful cartoon illustrations provide visual clues and make the vocabulary easier to understand and remember.

Language focus: The language of giving feedback, requesting revisions, evaluating written text, and communicating effectively with AI.

Recommended level: B1–B2

Target group: Older teens and adults, particularly learners interested in AI, digital communication and Business English.

Correcting AI Generated Text - Gapfill & Pairing Exercises 1

In the following lesson, the students will learn some car- related vocabulary, then read an article about slef-driving cars and practice summarizing the content of the article, as well as expressing their opinion about a trending topic.

Vocabulary and speaking practice: self-driving cars

Part seven in the Creative Collaboration Pictionary series helps learners build useful English for working with ChatGPT and giving creative or professional instructions. Through 12 illustrated phrase cards, students learn practical expressions such as “Let’s get down to business,” “give some context,” “prioritize,” “consistent,” “do a final check,” and “done deal.” The phrases are either for communication with AI directly, or for directing team members using AI. Each card includes the target phrase, a visual scene, a short meaning, and a contextualized example sentence connected to real-life tasks like content creation, design, editing, and publishing.

This picture dictionary is ideal for older teens and adults, especially learners interested in AI-assisted creation, workplace communication, and creative collaboration. It works well for vocabulary development, speaking, and discussion, and can also be used as a springboard for pair work, role plays, or writing tasks in which students give instructions, refine ideas, and describe project workflows. 

Recommended level: B1–B2.

Creative Collaboration with ChatGPT Pictionary

How can you communicate more effectively with ChatGPT or other AI tools when tackling difficult tasks, refining creative ideas, or solving unexpected problems? The sixth episode of the Creative Collaboration Pictionary series introduces 12 more practical English expressions that make AI-assisted teamwork more natural, precise, and productive.

The featured vocabulary includes 'tackle the hardest part', 'weigh our options', 'dependencies', 'needs a little polishing', 'plain English', 'sum up', 'a touch of humor', 'match the style', 'spot the mistake', 'workaround', 'take shape', and 'lock it in'.

Each phrase is presented with a colorful illustration, an accessible English definition, and a realistic example sentence. The situations range from planning a project and improving AI-generated images to checking factual information, adjusting visual styles, and finalizing creative work.

The pictionary encourages learners to move beyond basic instructions and express more nuanced ideas, such as evaluating alternatives, requesting clearer explanations, identifying problems, and approving finished results.

Language focus: Functional English, collaboration vocabulary, problem-solving, project management, giving feedback, and communicating with AI.

CEFR level: B1–C1 (Intermediate to Advanced)

Target audience: Adult learners, professionals, and students interested in AI, digital creativity, and workplace communication.

Suitable for Business English classes, vocabulary development, speaking practice, and discussions about effective human–AI collaboration.

Creative Collaboration with ChatGPT Pictionary 6

This colorful, illustrated ESL/EFL vocabulary worksheet introduces 12 useful English expressions for collaborating with ChatGPT and other AI tools. Students learn practical phrases such as nail it, tweak it, give it a shot, build on that, iron out the issues, and good to go.

Each expression is accompanied by a visual illustration, a simple definition, and an example sentence showing how it can be used in real-life communication.

Language goal: Develop vocabulary for giving feedback, requesting revisions, expressing preferences, evaluating progress, and collaborating creatively with AI.

Grammar and vocabulary focus: Idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, informal workplace English, and functional language for communication.

Theme: Artificial intelligence, creative collaboration, digital literacy, and effective communication with ChatGPT.

CEFR level: B1–B2 (Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate)

Age group: Older teenagers and adults, particularly professionals and learners interested in AI.

The printable works as a visual vocabulary reference, discussion starter, or speaking activity. Students can practice the expressions through role-plays, collaborative projects, and realistic ChatGPT prompting tasks. An interactive vocabulary quiz can complement the printable for additional practice and revision.

A multiple choice worksheet accompanies this pictionary:
https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/general-vocabulary-practice/technology/creative-collaboration-1-multiple-choice-with-key/170589

Creative Collaboration With ChatGPT - Pictionary 1

Creative Collaboration Pictionary is a printable ESL/EFL vocabulary worksheet that helps learners build useful English phrases for collaborating with ChatGPT and giving creative feedback. It focuses on high-frequency functional language such as “That's a wrap,” “Feels a little off,” “A better way to,” “Work best,” and “Have sg in mind,” helping students understand the meaning, usage, and context of each phrase through illustrations and model sentences.

This worksheet is ideal for older teenagers and adults, especially learners who want to improve their everyday communication, workplace English, and AI-related collaboration language. It is best suited to CEFR B1–B2 learners. The main language goal is to expand students’ vocabulary and speaking fluency in the area of planning, revising, evaluating, and finalizing creative work. It also supports the development of functional expressions, collocations, and natural feedback language.

The theme of the worksheet is creative collaboration with AI, making it especially relevant for modern classroom discussion, digital literacy lessons, and professional English contexts. Learners can use the poster-like layout as a pictionary, a discussion prompt, or a springboard for pair work in which they create their own requests to ChatGPT using the target phrases.

Creative Collaboration With ChatGPT - Pictionary 2

The fourth episode in the Creative Collaboration Pictionary series introduces 12 more practical English expressions for communicating ideas, giving instructions, evaluating suggestions, and refining creative work with ChatGPT or other AI tools.

Students learn phrases such as 'start from scratch', 'make sure to include', 'feel free to', 'clarify', 'rule out', 'push an idea further', 'have potential', 'trade-off', 'be sold on', 'overhaul', 'flag', and 'be all set'.

Each expression is accompanied by a colorful illustration, a clear English definition, and a contextualized example sentence showing how the phrase can be used in real-life creative tasks, including image generation, website design, and collaborative problem-solving.

Language focus: Functional English, collaboration vocabulary, giving feedback, expressing preferences, and discussing creative decisions.

Level: B1–C1 (Intermediate to Advanced)

Target audience: Adult learners, professionals, and students interested in AI-assisted creativity and workplace communication.

The worksheet is suitable for vocabulary building, speaking practice, professional English lessons, and discussions about working effectively with AI.

Creative Collaboration with ChatGPT Pictionary 4

Take your AI collaboration skills to the next level with this colourful, comic-style pictionary featuring 12 practical English expressions for working creatively with ChatGPT and other AI tools in the third episode of this picture dictionary series.

Each illustrated scene brings a phrase to life, accompanied by a clear definition and a natural example sentence. Learners discover how to discuss ideas, evaluate results, give constructive feedback and request improvements using expressions such as "explore possibilities," "come up with," "match your vision," "room for improvement," "compare against," "get lost in the process," "address an issue," and "revise accordingly." The phrases include collaborative language ("Let's explore a few possibilities for the poster design"), action-oriented language ("I'll revise the design accordingly"), and feedback language ("Does this match your vision?"). When collaborating with AI learners of English as a second language need to understand both what AI says and how to respond effectively and this series of pictionaries help with both these aspects.

The focus is on functional vocabulary, useful collocations and everyday expressions that make human–AI communication more precise and effective.

Designed for teenagers and adults at B1–B2 level, this visual vocabulary resource works well as a reference sheet, a springboard for speaking activities or a companion to hands-on AI projects. It also helps students develop the language skills needed to collaborate, troubleshoot and refine creative work in English.

Creative Collaboration with ChatGPT Pictionary 3

The fifth installment of the Creative Collaboration Pictionary series focuses on practical English expressions for planning projects, comparing ideas, explaining processes, and making creative decisions when working with ChatGPT or other AI tools.

This illustrated vocabulary resource introduces 12 expressions, including take it one step at a time, cluttered, stand out, keep options open, break something down, map out, walk someone through the steps, back something up with a source, put side by side, spot on, shape up nicely, and call it a day.

Each phrase comes with a colorful illustration, a simple definition, and a contextualized example demonstrating its use in tasks such as designing websites, creating posters, developing worksheets, and organizing AI-assisted projects.

The pictionary helps learners communicate more naturally and precisely with AI while developing vocabulary that is equally useful for teamwork, workplace discussions, and everyday problem-solving.

Language focus: Functional English, collaboration vocabulary, project planning, describing processes, evaluating ideas, and giving feedback.

Level: B1–C1 (Intermediate to Advanced)

Target audience: Adult learners, professionals, and students interested in AI tools, digital creativity, and workplace English.

Ideal for vocabulary development, Business English lessons, speaking activities, and exploring effective communication with AI.

Creative Collaboration with ChatGPT Pictionary 5

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Technology

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

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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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