This is an elementary English language exercise practicing vocabulary used in laboratory settings. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.
This is an elementary business English ESL exercise exploring the language and vocabulary used to make short conversations or dialogues in various workplace situations. Students use their imaginations to identify the jobs and write short conversations for each situation. Then they can compare answers.
This is a elementary exercise for English language learners to talk in basic terms about some common jobs. Students match the words and expressions to the pictures and then have short conversations.
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This exercise focuses on modals for advice. It also includes answers and audio. English language learners practice listening to and using modals including “must”, “have to”, “should”, “need to”, “ought to” and “had better”. Students write the problems and advice under each picture. The audio can be used as a listening activity or a reviewing and comparing answers exercise after students have tried to guess the problems and and advice for each picture.
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This exercise focuses on modals for probability and possibility. It also includes answers and audio.
Modals for probability and possibility (PDF)
This is a grammar, vocabulary and speaking exercise and worksheet for English language learners that encourages them to use modal verbs. This exercise begins with a brainstorm exercise about the do’s and don’ts of travel. Students then match the vocabulary to the pictures. Finally, they can complete the travel advice questionnaire at the bottom themselves or they can interview a classmate.
This is an ESL speaking and writing lesson for talking about problems and giving advice. First, students complete five survey questions asking for advice about problems of their choosing. There are some examples of questions at the top of the page. When they have written five questions , they can walk around the class asking classmates their questions and noting down their answers on the worksheet. Finally, they write a short report from their survey question answers. This is a fun communicative exercise that allows students to mix freely.
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Below are some elementary English language exercises introducing body parts vocabulary. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.
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Below is a second elementary body parts vocabulary worksheet. Students try to match the vocabulary worksheet .
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And a third elementary body parts vocabulary worksheet. Interesting. Images engage students!!!
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This worksheet is designed to help students learning English become familiar with vocabulary for shapes. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures.
This worksheet is designed to help students become familiar with vocabulary and language for talking about shapes.
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This is an ESL vocabulary , critical thinking and discussion exercise for talking about technology and inventions . Students match the pictures and vocabulary and think about the most important inventions of the past hundred years. Click on the image or the link to download the printable PDF file.
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This is a great English language icebreaking lesson involving pictures, a game, creative sentence production and a drill to present or contrast verb tenses – excellent for teaching present simple or present continuous.
STEPS
1. Draw an empty grid 4 by 3 on the board and tell the students to copy it.
2. Then tell them to draw a boy and an ice cream in square 1. If they don’t follow draw it yourself so they get the idea you’re dictating pictures.
3. Have fun with the picture dictation and keep up a fast pace so they don’t linger on details. Keep the descriptions spare:
“square 12, a man, a woman and a heart”.
MODEL
When the pictures are finished explain the rules of the game.
STEPS
1. Play a little game of traditional tic tac toe with yourself on the board
2. Explain you’re going to play a variation of tic tac toe where one square is worth 5 points
and a row of 3 is worth a bonus 10
EXPLAIN THE RULES
1. All sentences in present simple or target tense.
2. No sentences shorter than 6 words.
3. Sentences must be correct.
MODEL AGAIN
Draw an example picture on the board and elicit a correct sentence using present tense( or target tense) i.e. “He plays pinball at the game center everyday”.
-make sure the students understand the connection between the pictures and the
sentences-the best way is by playing a little game with yourself on the board.
GAME
Then divide the students into 2, 3 or 4 teams of 4,5 or 6 students. Start walking around the class in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction asking for sentences (this is a spoken exercise..no writing…students must orally present a correct sentence). If a team gets a correct sentence mark it on the board “Tic Tac Toe” style. Play until the whole board is filled up- not until sometime gets “Tic Tac Toe”.
REVIEW DRILL
Immediately after the game and before the energy recedes….select a good student and say
“You are present simple”
“I (the teacher) am present continuous”
Systematically start to work your way through the pictures.
Picture 1
Student : “The boy eats an ice cream”
Teacher: “The boy is eating an ice cream”
Picture 2
Student: “He drives his car in the rain”
Teacher: “He is driving his car in the rain”
etc.
Click here for the Pic Tac Toe PDF file
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| Place | + | – |
|---|---|---|
| Blah Blah cinema | clean | crowded |
| Paradise City etc. | beautiful temples | a lot of pollution |
Give every student or every second student a picture (scenic or city pics from the “National Geographic” are best or choose a subject and search on the internet) with a sheet of blank paper attached to the bottom. Students write as many nouns and adjectives as they can in columns on the paper. Rotate the pics a few times.
Example of nouns and adjectives from a picture of mountain scenery: mountains far wild animals pretty etc.
Model a conversation and perhaps write cues on the board to clarify the use of conjunctions and words for contrast. Also, be careful of noun-adjective confusion.
Write these 4 words on the board:
but however though and
Talk to a student ..hold out the picture.
A: What’s it like?……….however…….
(the student must use the word “however”
in his or her reply)
B: There are a lot of wild animals. However, it’s really pretty.
(finally let the students walk round…….and do the exercise with each other)
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