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Gender Opinions Using Adjectives
Activate personal experience and opinions with this graphic organizer. Learners response to 8 questions about gender and then record responses from classmates. This activity could be set up as a give-one/get-one and class members could...
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Habits Cloze Exercise
For this habits worksheet, students complete a Cloze paragraph activity by reading the paragraph and inserting the vocabulary words.
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Describing People Easy Crossword Puzzle
Young learners discover adjectives to match each small description provided. While this crossword is labeled easy, I would recommend having upper elementary learners help youngsters, if possible.
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Animal Mommies and Babies
Looking for an ESL learning exercise on animals? In this one, learners complete mazes helping the mommy animal find her babies. They write the names of the mommy animals and baby animals next to their pictures. A chart is included with...
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Information Gap 1: Looking for a Job
For this ESL looking for a job worksheet, students work in pairs to ask questions that will elicit information that is missing from their page. Each page contains ten gaps in job advertisments from a local paper.
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High Frequency Phrases: Second 100 Words
Use this resource to reinforce language skills in an ESL classroom. Learners review high frequency phrases such as, I think so, it's your place, and read the book. While there is not a description of how this presentation could be used,...
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Discussion Starters
When working in an ESL classroom, this resource could be used to provide discussion starters. Phrases such as, "through the day" or "around here," could be used as a way to spur discussion.
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Common Phrases
While not a complete lesson, this activity could be used to launch a discussion of common English phrases. In this series of slides, phrases like "come back now" are shown. A teacher could augment this activity with more variety of phrases.
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Wrap a Gift
With wrapping a gift as the focus, this instructional activity has learners practice vocabulary and formulating descriptions. They wrap and unwrap a gift identifying the objects as they go. This activity could be enhanced to make it a...
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Reported Speech Soccer for ESL
Students explore English by participating in a class trivia activity. In this group speech lesson, students collaborate in small groups and identify phrases and terms on flash cards which they keep track of. Students utilize their...
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ESL Activity: "Name Three, Four and Five Things"
In this ESL naming worksheet, students are given a list of features and list 3 things that fit the description given, then do the same for sets of 4 and 5 features/descriptions.
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Tarzan: Writing Exercise
In this writing worksheet, students write a letter to the woman Tarzan fell in love with on his trip to England, writing in first person, as if they are Tarzan.
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The False Friends Exercise at Auto-English
In this ESL "false friends" worksheet, students choose the correct word from a pair of words to complete each sentence.
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Class Survey 2--Free Time
For this ESL speaking and listening skills survey worksheet, students determine the free time activities of their classmates and complete a survey.
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Test Your Research Skills: Spotlight on Canada
In this ESL research on Canada worksheet, students search the Internet or a research library to find answers to questions about Canada.
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Context Clues II Pretest
For this ESL context clues worksheet, students choose the answer that best defines a word that is given within the context of a sentence.
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Vocabulary Test--Proper Nouns
In this ESL proper nouns worksheet, students write a proper noun beginning with each letter of the alphabet.
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Vocabulary Test--Verbs
In this ESL verb worksheet, students write an infinitive verb starting with each letter of the alphabet.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills: Word Pyramid 1
In this ESL word pyramid worksheet, students write words to correspond with the letters A through H. Each word must be one letter longer than the word prior to it, creating a pyramid of words.
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Advanced Spelling Challenge
In this ESL advanced spelling worksheet, students are provided an incorrect spelling of a word and are asked to provide the correct spelling and a translation.
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Test Your Reading Skills
In this ESL reading skills interactive activity, learners choose the best answer to each question or comment given.
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Class Survey 1--Food and Drink
For this ESL class survey worksheet, students complete a survey of their classmates to discover items that they eat and drink.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills: What is the Time?
In this ESL telling the time worksheet, learners draw the hands on clocks to match given phrases.
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Test Your Reading Skills: Completing Sentences
In this ESL intermediate level completing the sentence worksheet, students choose the word that best completes each sentence.