This is a worksheet to help students practice writing opinions and anecdotes. Students look at the pictures and try to write an appropriate opinion and anecdote for each one.
This is a worksheet to help students practice using quotations and statistics.
Causes & effects of stress
This is an introductory cause-effect worksheet for English language learners.Students match the vocabulary to the pictures and then complete the exercise at the bottom of the page. Click on the image below or the link to download the PDF file.
This is an introductory cause-effect worksheet for English language learners. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures and then complete the exercise at the bottom of the page.
The topic for this worksheet is “stress”. The exercise is similar to the one above.
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Idioms and common expressions worksheet
This is an ESL exercise to practice the use of some common idioms and expressions. They include “all ears”, “get somehting off my chest” and “hold my tongue”. Click on the image below or the link at the right.to download the printable PDF file.
3rd February, 2024
Conversational, visual and audio cues can help convey to students the primary uses of the future tense. Conversational cues give students communicative practice. Images containing action can be used for predictions. Moreover, teaching with the aid of audio can help students engage more deeply with the future tense. Also, calendars are used for plans and schedules.
These exercises include sets of future tense conversational questions, along with multiple potential responses and a follow-up question for each. This practice aims to help ESL (English as a Second Language) students improve their understanding and usage of the future tense in English. Students can familiarize themselves with various contexts where the future tense is commonly used, such as discussing plans, making predictions, and expressing intentions.
This is a structured exercise, with questions, possible responses, and follow-up questions, that allows students to get a more comprehensive understanding of how future tense conversations flow.
Future tense – going to conversational questions (PDF)
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More advanced students can practice conversations using the future perfect with the questions below as a guide or starting point. I’ve added a chart to show how the future perfect works.
A useful vocabulary and speaking activity for talking about plans with “going to”.
Expanding on the above, this exercise includes another instance when the future tense is used: schedules. The present tense is used for talking about scheduled activities in the future.
Plans and predictions and schedules (PDF)
(see the YouTube video version)
The two most basic uses of the future tense are for plans and predictions. This exercise includes some common situations when the future tense might be used: talking about the weather, economics (money), careers and immediate actions.
“Going to” is the most basic form of the future tense usually taught to students learning the English language. This is a good speaking activity that encourages students to speaking a personal way about the future.
Making predictions is a pretty engaging exercise. And I think this survey-type activity is an excellent way to have a discussion class. Moreover, it can work at fairly low levels.
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This is a speaking and writing exercise for English language learners to practice using the future tense. Students write 5 questions about the future using the questions at the top of the page as an example. Then they interview 5 students and write a short report about their survey. Click on the image below or the link to download the PDF file.
Being a celebrity/Being famous
This is an elementary ESL speaking exercise for talking about fame and celebrity. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures. Then they speak in pairs or groups about the advantages and disadvantages of fame using the questions at the bottom of the page as a guide. Click on the image below or the link to download the printable PDF file.
This is an elementary ESL speaking exercise for talking about fame and celebrity. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures. Then they speak in pairs or groups about the advantages and disadvantages of fame using the questions at the bottom of the page as a guide. Click on the image below or the link to download the printable PDF file.
Talking about success
This is an elementary ESL speaking exercise for talking about success and how to be successful. Students match the phrases on the left to the appropriate pictures Finally they can have a conversation using the questions at the bottom of the page as a guide. Click on the image below or the link at the right.to download the printable PDF file.
This is an English language exercise helping students learn language used to discuss movies. Teaching language with movies as the subject matter is always fun and cool. It creates an immediate buzz in the classroom. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures and then ask their classmates the questions at the bottom of the page. Click on the image below or the link to download the PDF file.
This is a challenging exercise that can be used to review and assess students’ knowledge of the language and vocabulary for talking about food and eating. Students use the pictures as cues and complete the speech bubbles.
