Most ESL students identify the goal of ESL classes as helping them to speak English better.
But to speak better, they have to listen better. Speaking and listening comprehension are like the two sides of the same communication coin. Students who lack ...
Verbs are a straightforward element of the English language, aren’t they? Every sentence needs one, and they come right after the subject. Things can get complicated, though, and do when more than one word makes up a verb in English.
These word ...
Interview for students to practice speaking about their feelings in different situations. Great for practicing participles with -ed and -ing. Interview is for students to work in pairs. It contains three sets so you can make less copies. Hope it helps!
Halloween Myths and Supestitions.This presentation may help when speaking about superstitions and myths relating to Halloween.There are some images of well-known characters and some stories about them.When presenting you may want to provide some music ...
Worksheet to practice vocabulary (animals). Students must match the correct word for each animal(picture) and write the name in the box below each picture. You can show them flashcards of these animals before the activity and practice the use on "a" an ...
This is a power point presentation showing some problems we normally have. You can play with your students asking them to give each other a possible solution for those. Or you can make them act it out for everybody. A: What's the matter?(You show one o ...
Here is a power point presentation about foods. You can split the class in three groups. A type of food will be on the screen and, in groups, they have to discuss and dicover the food origin. I focused these discussions on simple questions they should ...
For practicing the present simple tense, you can play this game with your students. Here are some rules for the players.The Game Rules:
1-To start playing you should answer the first Q 2- Go up or down with the footprints. 3- Don't move to the next st ...
Upper Int level- based on the popular hit by Gloria Gaynor, there are two exercises. The first is a gap-filling activity to practise verbs patterns (gerunds or infinitive) and the second is a listening for detail where some words are wrong and students ...
The worksheet contains the secrets of a happy marriage by R.Hynes of Mornington in a table and the students have to order the words to form sentences based on the given codes. It can be used either as a filler or a warmer during the Valentine's day le ...
It's a simple cloze activity, use YouTube to watch the song by The Beatles. Students listen to the song and then underline or select the correct option. After listening they can try to identify the verbs in past and say whether they are regular or irre ...
In this worksheet the students revise the use of regular and irregular comparative adjectives. There are exercises where sts fill in the gaps with the correct comparative adjective. On the second page there are exercises to practise the superlative adj ...
Six pages of general questions to cut out and have students ask each other. Topics are very general, varied and random, so I usually use the questions as a warmer or a first class to get people speaking. You might want to select questions depending on ...
The Environment: Re-Use House Objects. Presentation with 50 pictures of re-used house objects. Students can use these ideas to create and describe their own eco-friendly invention. Some of these are quite extravagant/original/useless, but the ideas get ...
Halloween worksheet for kids who like China McClain (Disney Channel, Dynamite song,etc.) Listen, fill in the gaps, draw and describe your Halloween costume. I used the video from Youtube and pictures from www.cksinfo.com.
Cards are the good and convenient additional material for training of pupils of younger school age or children of kindergarden age. Letter naming is a strong predictor of later reading success. To train children's memory. Cut the cards and us ...
This worksheet is based on a special English broadcast by Voice of America. The corresponding mp3 file and transcript can be found on the Voice of America ESL website at http://www.manythings.org/voa/people/Johnny_Appleseed.html.Before you play the fir ...
This is an article suitable for business classes to improve their reading skills. It is about the past and future of Starbucks. It includes a vocabulary matching exercise and some comprehension questions. The questions can be dealt with while reading t ...
I used this song to revise and compare the present continuous and the present simple forms. I also focused on vocabulary and prepared another sheet to know a little more about the group and its music.It was also the perfect song to work with the Sant V ...
This is a colours worksheet. Students must colour the balloons accordig to the words writtennext to them. It can be a revision activity or a test to check if students know colours. Apart from common colours, you will also find light brown, light green ...