Paragraph guidance for planning an essay about one’s family heritage.

2 activity types: fill in the blank with words from a box and choose the correct alternative Suitable for reinforcing correct verb agreement (she is, they are) with low level primary children. Also suitable for ESL learners and SEN pupils.

Help your low level ESL learners talk about their daily routine using a simple and clear speaking chart. By having learners tell each other about their own daily routine and that of others using this chart, they practice proper verb conjugation, learn useful verbs and phrases, and learn prepositions (at the weekend, on Monday, etc.). Use of this sort of speaking chart helps prevent small mistakes from becoming habit early one - repetition of the basics using the correct form can stop bad habits forming. This can be used either in a group with students in pairs or small groups, or in a one-to-one lesson between the student and teacher.

100 grammar questions aimed towards teenage ESL learners, covering a range of grammar skills including tenses, comparatives, modals, among other skills. Suitable for a first lesson level check, or to be used before a cumulative exam. Skills are grouped together, so it could also be used as an ongoing handout.

This is a simple activity to lead a conversation class with a low-level group of ESL learners. It may be adapted for a 1-1 lesson by simply the teacher being the partner. Print and cut out cards. Separate into 2 groups - questions and answers, and sentence prompts and extra general questions. Part 1 of the lesson: Organise students in pairs. Teach basic questions used when meeting someone for the first time by having students match questions to answers. Once they have matched pairs, have then organise the questions and answers into how they think the conversation would flow. Have pairs act out the dialogue. Tell students to act out the dialogue again but only using the questions. They should use the dialogue answers as models to create their own sentences about themselves. Part 2 of the lesson: Put 2 pairs together from Part 1 in order to form groups of 4. Hand out the second group of cards and tell students to mix them up face down. Students take turns drawing a card and must create a sentence using the prompt. If they draw a question card, they may ask anyone in the group the question. They should be encouraged to ask follow-up questions (depending on how strong the students are).

Visual presentation of the adverbs of frequency for ESL beginners, along with a present simple speaking chart to guide production of full sentences.

Either as a pre-course or pre-unit check to see what your students already understand, or as quick revision before a test. Suitable for B1 or high A2 language learners, or B2 if used as a pre-unit check.

Family Tree: In small groups, children use the cards as clues in order to organise the pictures in a family tree. An element of competition can be added, making the first team to solve how all the people are related the winner. This takes a bit of preparation, but if you laminate it, you can reuse it many times. This can be used with young children or ESL learners of many ages.

2 separate card games, both follow the rules just like the game ‘Uno’. Suitable for young learners of English from about age 5 to 12. Game play for both is suitable for 2-8 players. I have used them successfully with both individual pupils where game play was only myself and my pupil, up to groups of 8 in a classroom. Deck 1: Print 2 or 3 copies (depending on size of the group) double sided per group, cut out cards and shuffle. Deal 5-7 cards, depending on size of the group and age* Pupils must put down a card with either the same character or same pronoun. Only one card can be put down at a time (I know, this varies from the proper Uno, but makes it work better). When they put down a card, they should say the full sentence to get some speaking practice. If a player does not have a card, he/she must pick up one card. If that card can be played, then he/she can put it down. If not, he/she misses a turn and it goes to the next player. As a variation with older children, it also works to have to pick up until you can play. It gets a bit crazy sometimes with one person having 10+ cards in their hand, thus not suitable for the little ones. Chesire Cat - wild card. Can be played on any card and any card can be played on it. Draw 2 - can only be played on the correct character or another Draw 2 card. It makes the next player take 2 cards. That player then takes his/her turn - if he/she puts down another Draw 2 card, the next player takes 4 and so on. Winner - first person to get rid of his/her cards. Deck 2: This is a much bigger set than Deck 1, so only one copy per group is necessary. Print pages 1-7 single sided, then reload and print page 8 seven times on the reverse side, or use card stock so pupils can’t see through the cards. Game play proceeds as with Deck 1, except pupils put down cards with the same pronoun or same verb. Balloon cards are wild. *Dealing: younger children up to about 7 tend to do best with a maximum of 5 cards due to their small hands. Also, if you have a large group it’s best to only start with 5 cards so that there will be enough for a discard pile. **These cards are meant to accompany Alice in Wonderland (A2 reader). They use words and grammar found throughout this story. Look at my other resources for more games and activities part of this unit.

A basic worksheet to practice the past simple form and understand the meaning of 12 verbs. They are sorted into 6 groups of verbs with similar meanings to help comprehension. **Note: This worksheet is intended to accompany Alice in Wonderland (A2 kids reader). It practices words and verb forms from the story. Look at my other resources to find more games and activities part of this unit.

Speaking practice for young learners of English at the A1-A2 level. I could also be used for extra revision for young B1 pupils. It’s a guessing game for pupils to practice proper formation using past simple questions (Did you…?) and answers (Yes, I did / No, I didn’t). It can then be followed by a speaking or writing exercise in which the pupils must make full sentences about one person. Game Play: Prepare one game board per pupil. Pre-teach any necessary vocabulary. Remind pupils that in yes/no questions, they do not need to change the verb form. Player A decides who she/he is from the board, and keeps it secret. Player B asks yes/no questions to guess who player A is. To guess the name, pupils should be encouraged to use full question form - ‘Are you [name]?’ rather than simply saying the name (you know, extra practice and all!) Switch roles and repeat. verbs used: eat, drink, laugh, cry, go, look for, see other vocabulary: biscuit/cookie, mushroom, tea, water, beach, forest/wood, key, book, caterpillar, hare **Note: this activity complements vocabulary from Alice in Wonderland. Look at my other resources to find more games and activities part of this same unit on past tenses and Alice in Wonderland.

Fun practice for your ESL/EFL students with an often dreaded grammar point - conditionals! A lot of the vocab utilises topics related to beauty and appearance, amongst other topics. The two board pages are meant to be attached side-by-side. Ideally, print them, then place on a photocopier together and make yourself some A3 sized copies. The sheet of cards are to be printed double-sided and placed upside down near the board. Included are pdf files plus editable docx files, so that you can change some of the discussion topics to suite your group. Game Play: As with a typical board game, students take turns rolling a die and moving around the board. They must talk about the different topics on the board as they land on the spaces. Depending on your class, you may add a more competitive element here - make them time each other to talk for 30 seconds or 1 minute, if they succeed then they get to stay on the square, if they fail then they have to move back 1 space. On ‘NEGOTIATE’ squares, the student takes one of the cards and must follow the instructions. Encourage use of conditionals at this point (if you do my homework, I’ll buy you an ice cream). The first person to reach the end wins.

Essay writing template for teenagers to help structure an essay on the best inventions from the last 100 years.

Get your class interested in European geography by involving the current Euro Cup football championship! Worksheets and activities cover countries, capital cities and flags for all 12 countries part of the Euro Cup. Countries & Capitals: - worksheet - matching cards to cut out - can be used for initial learning or as a memory type game Flags - cut outs - full colour flags plus cards with country names - worksheet for pupils to consolidate knowledge from cards Posters - A4 posters to display in the classroom - 2 flags w/ country name per page ps. I'm new to selling on TES, so would really appreciate your reviews to hopefully help me sell more! Thanks!

Spelling practice on 15 compound nouns, suitable for KS2 prep. The first sheet is a spelling list with a ‘Look, Cover, Write’ activity. The second sheet includes a list of the same words which have been scrambled for pupils to unscramble. It also has 5 sentences with missing words for pupils to fill in with words form the spelling list. The third sheet is a wordsearch with these 15 words. Pupils must find the words and write them at the bottom of the page. The last sheet is a blank spelling test sheet with 15 spaces for pupils to be tested on these words. These worksheets could also be used for older ESL pupils learning about compound nouns. ps. I’m new to selling on TES, so would really appreciate your reviews to hopefully help me sell more! Thanks!

A quick worksheet for pupils to practice correct spelling of common jobs. Also a question for discussion afterwards.

The first file contains example sentences with underlined words which need to be matched to cards with the type of speech (verb, noun, etc). After practicing matching the example sentences to the types of speech, pupils can then try practice exam questions from past KS2 exams which test knowledge of parts of speech. ps. I’m new to selling on TES, so would really appreciate your reviews to hopefully help me sell more! Thanks!