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.
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.
8 Future Tense Exercises : Plans, Predictions, Schedules and more
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.
1 Basic future tense – conversational practice
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.
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2 Future perfect – conversational practice
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.
4 Plans, predictions and schedules ( with audio and answers)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Movies Language and Vocabulary Exercises and Worksheets
Elements of movie qualities
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.
This page focuses on essential terminology related to fears and phobias. It consists of a variety of vocabulary activities and speaking tasks that will help students practice expressing thoughts, opinions, and experiences related to fears and phobias.
1 The science of fear vocabulary
This a great way to introduce the vocabulary of fears and phobias. This helps students understand fears and phobias through visuals and multiple choice.
The activity consists of two parts:
1. Picture/Vocabulary Activity: In this section, students will be presented with a series of images depicting various fears and phobias. Their task is to identify the fear or phobia represented in each image and learn the associated vocabulary. This will enable students to better express their thoughts and feelings on the topic and expand their understanding of different fears and phobias people may experience.
2. Multiple Choice Exercise: This part of the activity will test students’ comprehension of the new vocabulary and concepts they’ve learned in the picture/vocabulary activity. They will be presented with multiple-choice questions related to fears and phobias, where they will need to select the correct answer based on the information provided.
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2 Fears and phobias vocabulary
This is similar to the above but focuses more on language use. The vocabulary section is for more advanced students (the grammar of fears and phobias is quite difficult).
3 Fears and phobias ranking and collocation exercises
Ranking and collocations exercises help explore the topic further. The ranking exercise will help you students recognize the differences between various fears and phobias. The collocations exercise will help improve vocabulary, fluency, and overall communication skills.
This is an ESL speaking exercise for talking about fears and phobias. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures and then interview a classmate about their fears and phobias.
First, draw a suggestive picture on the board and write the question template below.
Title: ?????? Location: ?????? Main Characters: ????? 2 Main Events: ???? Ending: ?????????
Then elicit first the questions and then answers imagining the students were entering a competition to create a scenario for a movie . The only guideline is that the picture is central to the movie. This is a fun and class warming exercise.
2. Group Work
Next, you need some pictures, one per group of three. Select some pictures which might be suggestive of stories for movies. It’s a good idea to try and select:
one action picture
one romantic picture
one comedy picture
one horror picture etc
to match as many film genres as possible. Try to choose larger pictures- poster size- because they will be put up on the walls around the classroom. Distribute the pictures and and tell the students to answer the above questions about their pictures in note form.
3. Speaking
Finally, put the “movie posters” up around the walls of the classroom. Ask one student from each group of three students to remain with his or her picture with the “movie notes”. The other two students walk around the room asking the questions above and choose the best movie story. At the end of the activity count up the votes to find a winner.
