When you tell your ESL students that there’s a test coming up, they won’t be surprised. Tell them that the “grade” is not important, and they just might be a little bewildered.
You see, ESL students still think like “stud ...
When you tell your ESL students that there’s a test coming up, they won’t be surprised. Tell them that the “grade” is not important, and they just might be a little bewildered.
You see, ESL students still think like “stud ...
Having an arsenal of effective and engaging listening exercises is a must for all ESL teachers.
Once you organize listening exercises, it is beneficial to be able to reshape exercises for all levels. Try out these three listening activities adaptable ...
How long...? Getting kids use to asking questions using " How long...?" Having fun measuring things. Getting the kids to ask each other How long questions and a couple questions that you cant use a ruler to measure. how long talking about duration and ...
Students studying for the FCE need lots and lots of key word transformation practice. This includes prefux and suffix practice. I like using short worksheets as warmers. This multiple choice worksheet will allow the student tto revisit or be introduc ...
At that crossover level from the pre-intermediate B1 to the intermediate+ B2 students need lots and lots of review of the -ed versus the -ing. At this point they just need to practice practice practice.
This worksheet will help your students to better train themselves in changing the Direct Speech into Reported one. It contains all the types of sentences. The author's words are in the present tense. It is the first step to teach your students to use r ...
This one-page worksheet challenges elementary ESL students to write and say correct responses that requires them to use common demonstratives like There is, There are, This is, These are, That is, and Those are. The images used in this worksheet help ...
![Demonstratives: There is, There are, This is, These are, That is, and Those [Images]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2013-02/thumbs/1359978574_there-is-there-are-pictures-with-exercises.png)
This one-page worksheet is good for highly visual learners who easily learns grammar points through pictures. This allows students understands very clearly the application of these common demonstratives in context. Elementary teachers may modify this ...
This is an easy worksheet for ESL pupils to practice the vocabulary of 'the farm'. I used it with 15-year old pupils who enjoyed it very much. You can use this worksheet as practice as well as for evaluation.If you have comments, please let me know!!
This is a reading activity on a newspaper article, which tells us the story of a designer's dog that burnt down the kitchen when she was trying to get some left-over pizza on the stove. It's surprisingly a good way to make students read, discuss the vo ...
![Punctuation Matters: Correct Use Of Commas In Direct Address [Poster]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2013-02/thumbs/1359982727_punctuation-matters.png)
Incorrect use of commas in direct address is a common error committed by students and adults alike. This poster/handout depicts the concept pictorially. It will help learners understand that the use or omission of comma in a direct address can change t ...
This worksheet/poster will be a great way to challenge your learners to test their knowledge of apostrophes. Learners, students and adults alike, will love to take the challenge of identifying the twenty-five errors in two minutes. Encourage them to ta ...
Saint Valentine's Day.The topic of this color presentation is St.Valentines Day. Can be used for holiday English lessons with school children. They can learn the history, customs and traditions. It will help young students to understand new material.
Students will create a book cover to represent a particular literary genre by showing its main features and giving examples. You can choose to assign different genres or let them pick. Great to use as visuals as you teach genres throughout the school ...
It is a worksheet related to the topic of hobbies, namely collecting thingss. It can be used in lessons dealing with young kids practising their free time activities in holidays.
This Teacher's resource pack contains 16 songs to study (and - I hope - to speak) English. I used them during my lessons, made some corrections and finally decided to share.
The structure of the pack is: Teacher's notes for a song followed by a studen ...
![Cartoon Worksheet: Paperman [for St.Valentine's Day]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2013-02/thumbs/1360009095_paperman-0.png)
It's a lovely 6 minute cartoon about love at first sight. It can be watched and used almost with all levels as it's a silent cartoon.As for the discussion it can be changed a bit according to your Ss level or age. This cartoon created by John Kahr ...
This presentation is perfect to teach presentations of place to beginners and children. It contains the prepositions in, in front of, behind, above, under, between and next to. First you have to show the pronunciation of each word and the give a full s ...
This is my first worksheet and I really hope that it will help you. The sheet has the most basic rules for reported speech then different exercises on it. The sheet has exercises on reported statements which will be suitable for elementary and Pre-Inte ...
![Song Worksheet: Moonshadow by Cat Stevens [Superstitions]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2013-02/thumbs/1360019037_moonshadow-cat-stevens-exercises-song-first-0.png)
This five-page worksheet is designed especially for pre-intermediate and intermediate. However I am quite sure it can be assigned to all levels. It consists of exercises firstly based on the song "Moonshadow", by Cat Stevens. After presenting some new ...