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Adverbs of Frequency
This is a very very basic practice of the frequency adverbs always, frequently, usually, sometimes, rarely and never, as well as some of their synonyms, aimed at basic learners and for personal...
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Christmas Battleship Game
Like a battleship game, the card on the top is to write your partner's answer when asking the question. The bottom card is used to hide your answers, to let your partner guess on it !
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What Are They? (Jobs)
This worksheet makes students practise vocabulary about jobs through answering questions such as "What is he?". Questions are also asked in the plural (What are they?), so that students can practise...
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Song Worksheet: Affirmation by Savage Garden
This is a fill in the blanks activity with Savage Garden's song: Affirmation. I believe the song promotes good values and it's a great starting point for conversation. The verb tense is present simple,...
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Song Worksheet: All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
All I want for Christmas is You, sung by Mariah Carey. First, students study the vocabulary related to Christmas, and then complete the song using those words. Students are going to love singing this...
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Christmas Matching Activity
This is a colourful matching activity for teaching Christmas related vocabulary.Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the words given with the pictures.The worksheet is available...
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Christmas Classroom Poster
This is a classroom poster which can also be used as a study sheet or a picture dictionary for teaching or revising Christmas related vocabulary.Recommended for elementary students but it can easily be...
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Quiz: How Fashionable Are You?
This is a funny quiz to test the importance students give to fashion and their looks. A good way to express their opinion on the influence fashion has on our lives and the value others give to us...
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What Is There On The Table? [There Is/Are & There Was/Were]
Oral activity in which students have to explain what they see in the picture they have in their worksheets. There are two different worksheets, and they will also be expected to ask their partners what...
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Top 10 Tips for Giving Individual Attention to Students in a Large ESL Class
You've probably asked yourself this one simple question before: how do you teach a large ESL class and give each of your students the attention they deserve? The answer is not as simple. Obviously, the...
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5 Best Ways to Improve Students’ Conversational Skills
The ability to hold a conversation is a vital part of the human experience. While most children develop a conversational repertoire by listening, observing, asking questions and interacting with a...
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Teaching Tips Do’s and Don’ts: Back to Square One
For many years I have been teaching English to non-native speakers, both around the world and in the USA, my home country. Upon returning to the USA in Fall 2008, I started teaching at an Intensive...
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Lessons You Can Use Often, Sometimes, Always: Teaching Adverbs of Frequency
Adverbs may not be the first topic you cover in your ESL class, but they are sure to come up sooner or later. Once your students understand the basics of how this part of speech works, it’s time to...
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I Have to Teach Writing: Now What? Where to Start with Your First Writing Class
You walk into your writing class on the first day of the semester. Your students are sitting patiently with their textbooks and laptops, waiting for you to begin. But where do you start? What do your...
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Have Got Has Got: Personal Descriptions
To practice the use of "have got" and "has got" with elementary students after explaining the verb "have got". I used it with my pupils as a test. It contains two exercises, in the first one they have...
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Video Worksheet: Christmas Gifts
In exercise 1, students discuss some questions about gifts. Then, they watch the first video and answer the questions in exercise 2. After that, they watch the second video and answer the questions in...
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Places Around Town: Prepositions of Place Worksheet
One page worksheet for ESL learners at a beginner level learning places around town and the basic five prepositions related to directions (between, next to, near to, behind and opposite). There is a...
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Hobbies and Interests [cards]
A set of cards with vocabulary concerning hobbies and interests (including verbs like, love, enjoy, prefer). You can use them in different ways:1) As a simple exercise: students make sentences...
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Song Worksheet: I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake
This is a fairly simple song, which is clearly and slowly sung/spoken.Students listen to the song several times with sheet two, hiding the missing words by folding over the bottom of the...
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Sports Of The Summer Olympic Games [Matching]
This worksheet is about some of the more well known sports of the Summer Olympic Games. Students read a text and then do a matching exercise about the sports they read about. The matching is made more...
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