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Negative Prefix Taboo - Beginner (Verbs & Adjectives)
This activity is like the TabooTM board game. Students can work in pairs or small groups. The goal of the activity is for students to have their teams or partners guess the word on a card. Students can work collaboratively or competitively. They can act out a word, draw a picture (easier with verbs), or give a definition, but they CANNOT use the ba...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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At the Supermarket - Gapfill for Conversation Activity
This gapfill is a companion document for the three conversations at http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=439897#thetop.
I use these three dialogs for teaching supermarket vocabulary. Students can practice, in pairs, general conversation for learning about products found in various grocery store departments; another conversation for askin...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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Food Flavours (2 of 2)
This is one of several worksheets I use for lessons about basic food flavours and textures. Realia works well here. I bring in samples of various foods for students to taste. Students find these images helpful when completing the puzzle, and the gapfill above each row provides a bit of a post-instruction activity. Hope you find it useful!
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 26
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Adjective + Noun Collocations with the word HEAVY
I created this list using an online tool that builds lists of concordances and collocations. You can find it at http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx. You can enter any part of speech you want and specify the type of word you want it to collocate with. It searches books, magazines, radio, and newspapers (US and UK), AND ranks the result...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 11
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Negative Prefix TabooTM
This activity is like the TabooTM board game. Students can work in pairs or small groups. The goal of the activity is for students to have their teams or partners guess the word on a card. Students can work collaboratively or competitively. They can act out a word, draw a picture (easier with nouns), or give a definition, but they CANNOT use the ba...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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Past and Present Tenses - Timelines and Examples
This handout shows simple examples of past and present verb tenses, along with timelines to illustrate their use. I know not everyone is a fan of using timelines in the classroom, especially with beginners, but -- with adequate explanation -- I find them a very effective way to illustrate how tenses differ. I developed this tool for use along with ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 21
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Listening Lesson: The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)
Here is a simple listening activity for the Beatles song, "The Long and Winding Road". Useful for practice recognizing ING words. Lesson includes a gapfill and some post-listening questions. To prepare students, I show images of lonely, isolated roads, and we discuss roads as metaphors for life.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Mobile Phone Expressions
I created this handout to accompany a mobile phone roleplay for a Business English course I�m teaching. Hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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At the Supermarket - Three Conversations
I use these three dialogs for teaching supermarket vocabulary. Students can practice, in pairs, general conversation for learning about products found in various grocery store departments; another conversation for asking for help; and a third at the checkout. There�s a companion gapfill and matching quiz at http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.as...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 49
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Adverbs and Adjectives - Discerning the Difference
I made this worksheet for an advanced student who has trouble telling the difference between adverbs and certain adjectives that also end in "ly." This worksheet provides a tip for telling the difference, then provides practice in discerning among words, as well as writing sentences using common adjectives and adverbs ending in "ly". Answer key inc...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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