1 Ed/ing adjectives exercise (with possible answers)
Students practice using ed/ing adjectives by looking at the pictures and writing sentences. Students label the situations shown in the pictures and complete the short conversations using the pictures as cues. They try to use ed/ing in the conversations:
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2 Ed/ing adjectives exercise 2(with possible answers)
Use ed/ing adjectives to write sentences about the pictures. Adjectives to use: relaxed/ing, bored/ing, confused/ing, annoyed/ing, disappointed/ing, excited/ing, disgusted/ing frightened/ing, tired/ing, shocked/ing. embarrassed/ing, exhausted/ing.
Elementary Health Problems, Symptoms and Illnesses Vocabulary and Listening/Speaking Exercises
28th December 2023
1 Elementary health problems and illnesses vocabulary and listening/speaking worksheet
This is an English language exercise introducing and practicing the language and vocabulary of health problems and illnesses. Students listen to the audio and try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures. Students then answer the questions at the bottom of the page.
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2 Create a health and illness conversation
Here, students have to write a health and illness conversation or dialogue . This is a good way to assess students understanding of the vocabulary and grammar of this topic.
3 Common verbs for health, illness and treatment listening speaking worksheet (with audio and answers)
This is an elementary English language exercise exploring verbs commonly used in health and medical treatments. Students listen to the audio, match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures and complete the sentences. Then then they answer the questions.
These worksheets contain a wider range of common health problems and symptoms vocabulary. Vocabulary for talking about health is quite difficult. So once the students have matched the vocabulary to the pictures I get them to read the words and/or post videos of themselves reading the words as a pronunciation test. This exercise also works really well as an online listening assignment. Just post page 1 and 2 (page 2 if students are being presented the vocabulary for the first time) of the PDF, along with the audio file to Google Classroom. Students listen to the audio, write the vocabulary on the pictures digitally and then return the assignment.
4 Parts of speech for health, illness and treatment worksheet (with answers)
Although this exercise is a little more advanced, it works surprisingly well in the classroom. It’s a great way to reinforce and deepen students’ knowledge of health and illness vocabulary.
Mastering Graphs and Statistics Vocabulary in English
Graphs and statistics form an integral part of various fields including business, science, finance, and even daily life. Being equipped with the appropriate English vocabulary to describe and interpret graphs, charts, and statistics allows learners to effectively communicate complex data and information. This not only enhances their academic and professional prospects but also strengthens their overall language competence. Moreover, it is essential practice for students attempting to pass English language tests such as IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC.
30th June 2024
1 Brainstorming graphs and trends
This brainstorming exercise is useful for engaging students with the topic: describing trends and graphs. It provides a simple framework for categorizing different types of changes (going up, going down, fluctuating, staying steady, and peaking) along with relatable, everyday examples.
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3 Prepositions for graphs, trends and statistics (with audio and answers)
I’ve always been familiar with prepositions for location, time and movement. But for years I have been teaching English for graphs and statistics to pharmacy and medical technology students. And I’ve noticed a recurring problem with prepositions when they try to use statistics to describe graphs and trends. So, finally I’ve done something about it.
This is a fun “describing graphs” vocabulary worksheet for English language learners. Students think of a topic in their lives and draw a graph illustrating how it affects them on a daily, weekly or monthly etc. basis. An example is included on the worksheet and there are also some suggested topics. After they draw the graph, students write sentences to describe and explain their graph. It is also a great online teaching exercise. Students have to create a graph about a topic of their own choice, Then they have to create a video and describe their graph. See the video below as an example.
6 Describing graphs and sentence writing worksheet (with audio and answers)
This is a follow-up “describing graphs” vocabulary worksheet for English language learners. Students match the words to the graphs then write sentences using their own ideas. Or students can listen to the audio and fill in the missing words
8 Describing graphs and trends: making sentences worksheet (with answers)
This is a worksheet to help English language learners write and talk about graphs and trends. Students try to write appropriate sentences for the pictures using the vocabulary at the bottom of the page.
This is an introductory “describing graphs” vocabulary worksheet for English language learners. First, students sort the words into the appropriate columns. In the second exercise they match the phrases to the correct lines on the graph. Finally, they unscramble the words in the third activity to make sentences and match these sentences to the 5 lines on the graphs at the bottom of the page.
10 Describing graphs parts of speech sorting (with answers)
A parts of speech sorting exercise to help students understand the difficult vocabulary and grammar of language used for describing graphs. Many of the words can be used as either a verb or a noun.
Halloween is one of the better holidays for a language lesson as it offers up a whole lot of fun, weird, and bizarre images and vocabulary. It’s great for picture-vocabulary matching and word-sorting exercises, It’s also a pretty interesting discussion topic and questionnaires and surveys could also work well.
1 Elements of Halloween vocabulary ( with answers)
In this Halloween vocabulary worksheet students match the Halloween related words and phrases to the pictures. Click on the image below or the link to download the PDF file.
Useful cause/effect writing and pre-writing activities can include brainstorming, outlining, vocabulary sorting, gap fill exercises and sentence writing activities with picture cues. Teaching cause/effect is pretty enjoyable as it can be applied easily to just about any topic including the environment, technology, social issues, social trends and behaviour.
6th January 2024
1 Cause/effect language sorting exercises
These are cause/effect sorting exercises that can be used to introduce students to the vocabulary and construction of casue/effect sentences.
In this cause/effect sentence writing worksheet students use the pictures to write appropriate cause/effect ideas. They decide whether they want write the causes or effects for each pictures and try to think of 3 causes or 3 effects.
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3 Cause-effect sentence writing
In this cause/effect essay writing worksheet students use the pictures and their own ideas to write appropriate cause/effect sentences.
5 Environmental issues cause/effect worksheet (with audio and suggested answers)
The listening/speaking exercise below is for discussing environmental issues in the classroom. Students have to try and describe the problem depicted in each picture and suggest causes. effects and possible solutions to each problem. Students can listen to the audio before or after filling in the worksheet, depending on the level of their language skills.
This is a cause/effect lesson about causes and effects in bad situations. The format is a class discussion about the causes and effects of various situations shown in photos.
This is a cause/effect lesson about causes and effects in good situations. The format is a class discussion about the causes and effects of various situations shown in photos.
This worksheet is to help familiarize students with cause/effect transitions. Understanding and knowing how to use cause/effect transitions is essential for anyone who aims to be a good writer.
In this cause/effect worksheet students use the pictures to write their own ideas. They try and identify the social issues and think about causes, effects and solutions.
Essential Opinion and Argument Writing Templates and Worksheets
Opinion and argument writing is a great topic if you have good activities and exercises to develop students’ ideas. Brainstorming and organizing exercises help students generate language and ideas that can be the basis of good opinion/argumentative writing.
1 Controversial topics
This is a discussion and argument essay brainstorm worksheet for controversial topics. Students need to decide whether they are pro or con each issue and support their position with three reasons.
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2 Working from home vs working in the office argument essay lesson
This is an excellent engaging essay writing lesson. It’s topical, engaging and highly relevant to students’ lives. The lesson includes vocabulary, brainstorming, sentence writing and essay outlining.
This is an elementary and introductory opinion writing lesson for lower level or beginner students including brainstorming, outlining and paragraph writing.
This exercise is a great way to get students started on opinion or argument essay writing. It’s a brainstorming worksheet for controversial issues. Students try to fill the worksheet in with appropriate topics, sub-topics and questions about controversial issues.
This is a brainstorming template for an argument or opinion essay. Students choose a topic for their essay, write it in the centre of the worksheet and then brainstorm the benefits/disadvantages ..pros/cons …etc.
This is a matching exercise for an opinion essay outline. Students have to match the sentences of an essay about distracted driving on page 2 to the correct parts of the essay outline on page 1. This helps reinforce or review students’ knowledge of essay structure. Answers are provided on page 3 of the PDF file.
This is an outlining exercise for an opinion essay. Students choose a topic for their essay and then try to plan their essay by filling out the worksheet with ideas and information appropriate to each part of the essay. The first page of the PDF worksheet has an example essay template already filled out for reference.
As above , this is another exercise practicing the outlining of an opinion paragraph. Also, before this exercise, it could be a good idea to brainstorm about uniforms. Click here for brainstorm worksheet
This an exercise for practicing the outlining of an opinion paragraph. Students look at the information already filled in. Then they complete the outline with their own ideas.
10 Writing opinion sentences about new technologies (with answers)
This worksheet that can be used to help students improve their writing skills and express their opinions about automated and robotic technologies including driverless vehicles, smartphone payments and smart watches.
This is English language exercise for practicing essay writing. The topic is Students look at the information already filled in. Then they complete the essay with their own ideas.
12 Argument essay: advantages /disadvantages of starting a small business
This an argument essay exercise including a brainstorming activity to generate language and vocabulary about the advantages and disadvantages of starting a small business followed by an outlining exercise for an essay on this topic.
17 Rocking Role Play Listening/Speaking Activities for Language Learners
15th June 2024
1 Husband-wife phrasal verb and request role play (with audio)
This is an elementary English ESL role play exercise for practicing requests and phrasal or two part verbs. Students complete the conversations with suitable expressions. Then they can compare answers and carry out the role play.
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2 Supermarket enquiries role play
This is a fairly elementary role play for practicing general English for shopping and customer service .
A gift shop customer – salesperson role play is nice because there are so many kinds of gifts and a big variety of conversations/role plays can be created.
This is a role play and listening/speaking exercise with a celebrity chef . This is a really fun exercise with broad appeal. I noticed many of my online students went straight to this exercise ahead of many other exercises.
Not all students love sport, but for those that do, this is a great exercise. They can watch/listen to the model role play(which can also be used as a listening exercise) and then create a role pay about their sports hero.
This is an ESL or English language role play listening /speaking lesson for practicing conversational English. It’s a bit of an old classic and allows for imagination and creativity while practicing the past tenses and vocabulary for describing people.
7 Interview with a famous celebrity role play (with audio)
Easily the most popular and appealing role play activity is the celebrity interview role play. I suggest that the teacher models this activity with a student as a warm-up and to get students in the mood. Then students can be put in pairs and groups to carry out the interviewer-celebrity role play themselves. The teacher can roam the room to monitor grammar and language. At the end of the role play exercise, it may be a good idea to get the students to write out the complete questions and answers so the teacher can check on accuracy. This is a fun communicative exercise that allows students to to be creative and to improvise. This activity can also be done as a listening activity. Listen to the interview and take notes of Selena’s answers.
This is a listening/speaking exercise for English language learners to talk about personality and first impressions. This exercise focuses on a woman. Students look at the pictures and try to create a story about how they got to know this woman. Or, the exercise can be used as a listening activity. Students listen to the audio and fill in the answers.
This is another first impressions role play exercise. This exercise focuses on a man. As above the exercise can be used to try to create a story or role play about how they got to know this man. Or again, the exercise can be used as a listening activity. Students listen to the audio and fill in the answers.
11 Checking into a hotel (with audio and answers) worksheet
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring hotel language and vocabulary. Students try to complete the conversation. Then they can listen to the conversation and check their answers.
12 Ordering in a restaurant listening activity and conversation worksheet (with audio answers)
This is a fun “Ordering in a Restaurant” gap fill speaking activity for an English language class. Students listening to audio and complete the conversation. Then the students can practice the conversation, perform role plays and/or write their own “Ordering in a Restaurant” dialogues.
14 Job enquiry by telephone (with audio and answers)
This is a listening/speaking telephone dialogue activity. A job candidate telephones a company manager and asks about he requirements for a job position. It includes language and vocabulary commonly used during the job application process. Students listen and try to complete the conversation.
This role play activity focuses on the language necessary for customer service, INTRO: This role play activity is a suitable activity for: Elementary students- for present simple requests: “Where is..?”
“Could I ?” “How much?” etc. Pre-Intermediate students- indirect requests with verb “to be”: “Do you know where it is?” and “to do”: “Could you tell me how much it costs?” Intermediate students– requests using “if” and gerunds: “Is it Ok if?” “Would you mind if?” “Would it be OK if..?” “I wonder if I could? Would you mind telling me if? “I was wondering if..?”
This is a lesson appropriate for pre-intermediate and intermediate ESL/EFL students. It would be a suitable activity for using with career vocabulary or with comparative adjectives and nouns.
9 Present Perfect Grammar, Speaking and Listening Exercises
4th June 2024
Teaching the Present Perfect
These present perfect exercises provide learners with a variety of practical opportunities to master this essential tense across contexts like casual conversation, business English, and personal experiences, building the skills to confidently discuss completed or ongoing actions, recent events, and short or long timespans.
1 Present perfect: since or for ? (with answers and audio)
This is a listening/speaking activity to help English language practice using “since” or “for”. Students use the time cues in the pictures to write complete sentences in the the present perfect tense. Or use it as a listening exercise. Students listen to the audio and write appropriate sentences for the pictures.
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2 Present perfect: What has just happened?
This is a present perfect exercise for English language learners to practice using the present perfect to talk about events that have just happened (a past event affecting the immediate present). Students use the picture cues to write appropriate sentences.
3 Present perfect awareness exercises
This worksheet helps students really understand how to use the present perfect correctly. It makes them think hard about time expressions, how recent actions are, and how long they last. By explaining their answers, students show they truly grasp the concept, not just memorize rules. As a teacher, you can see their thinking and help them learn better.
These present perfect conversational practice exercises contain sets of conversational questions, along with multiple potential responses and a follow-up question for each. The questions aim to help ESL (English as a Second Language) students improve their understanding and usage of specific aspects of grammar in English. In my experience, these kinds of exercise are really useful teaching one-on-one online, but they also work really well as pair work activities in the classroom.
This is a present perfect exercise and worksheet for English language learners. Students answer the questions with their own ideas and using appropriate tenses. For the last two items, they write both questions and answers.
6 Present perfect: already or yet? (with answers and audio)
This is a listening/speaking present perfect exercise for English language learners to practice using “already” or “yet”. Students use the cues in the pictures to write complete sentences in the the present perfect tense. Then students can listen and compare their answers to the audio.
7 Present perfect continuous conversational practice
This is a practical worksheet focusing on the present perfect continuous tense, ideal for both one-on-one, pair work and online teaching settings. The questions are a catalyst for short exchanges involving various scenarios. It offers learners the opportunity to enhance their conversational skills. The responses help engage the students and the follow-up questions allow for the exchanges to be expanded into conversations.
8 Present perfect continuous: stative vs continuous
Understanding stative verbs is crucial for anyone studying the present perfect continuous, as it aids in differentiating between states and ongoing actions or events. Stative verbs, which usually depict unchanging situations or states rather than actions, aren’t commonly used in continuous tenses, leading to frequent errors in English usage. This exercise aims to strengthen students’ understanding and application of stative verbs, reducing common grammatical mistakes and enhancing your overall fluency in English.
In this table, the stative verbs in the present perfect form describe a state or condition that has existed up to the present, while the active verbs in the present perfect continuous form describe actions that started in the past and are still ongoing or have just finished.
18 Classroom and Online Debate and Discussion Language and Critical Thinking Activities
Introducing a topic in the classroom can be one of the trickiest tasks for a teacher. Sometimes, it can take a a lot of experience and a lot of practice to get the icebreaker, or warm-up, or introduction to a topic just right. However, when you do get it right, you usually know that you have got it right forever and you can slide right into that topic effortlessly. The right set of vocabulary, the right listening activity, the right set of images, and/or the right brainstorming format can help get debate and discussion topics moving and flowing smoothly.
1 Expressing opinions about careers
A vocabulary and discussion exercise for talking about aspects of work and employment.
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2 Functions of the brain
I think the brain is a great teaching topic. I really look forward to teaching this. There are so many things to talk about. To just see the images, go to @eslflowlessons on Instagram.
Everyone has fears and phobias. So this is a good topic for English language learners. It’s also useful for students to learn the different words used for talking about fears and phobias.
This is a brainstorming/ listening/ critical thinking discussion worksheet for talking about controversial topics. Students need to decide whether they are pro or con each issue and support their position with three reasons. Then they can listen to the audio and compare answers.
I have noticed over the years that students struggle with the words “success” and “failure” and their various forms. They struggle with the pronunciation (hmmm.. “success” vs “succeed” ,“fail” not “fell”! – and “failure” pronounced as “failyer”) and the grammar. But success and failure is a fantastic stand-alone topic for a class. It’s great for brainstorming, discussions and much more.
The pronunciation of the word “risk” is another word that many English as a Second Language students find difficult to pronounce. They have trouble with the ending sounds and also the past tense form (“risked” pronounced as “riskt”). But like success and failure it’s a fantastic stand-alone classroom discussion topic. In fact, these two topics are really quite complementary. They are ways we talk about work and living.
7 Advantages/disadvantages of watching TV (with audio and script)
Students look at the pictures or use their own ideas to list the advantages and disadvantages of watching TV. Then they can listen to the audio and add to their answers.
“Working from home” is a great topic for English language classes. In the current circumstances nearly everyone has some experience of working from home. So it’s a great discussion topic, and it could also used for classes involving giving opinions, making comparisons (home vs office), teaching argumentative writing or discussing technological change. It also has its own fairly specific set of vocabulary.
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring the language and vocabulary of global issues. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures. They then rank the issues1-10 in order of importance.
11 Brainstorming offline learning vs online learning (with answers)
This is an exercise for discussing the advantages/disadvantages of online learning and offline learning . Students look at the pictures and then try to write down as many ideas as they can on the second page of the PDF.
Globalization is a topic for a more worldly class capable of talking about some complex issues. This probably won’t suit everyone but for the right class it might be a good icebreaker and intro into a really interesting topic.
16 DNA testing – vocabulary and speaking worksheet
This English language academic vocabulary and speaking worksheet can be used to introduce the topic and vocabulary of DNA testing Students match the vocabulary to the appropriate pictures then try to answer the questions at the bottom.
17 Personal opinions about the internet and social trends
An English language speaking worksheet for generating discussion about the internet and social trends. Students write the benefits/disadvantages of each issue on the worksheet.
20 Rise of the robots and automation brainstorming and discussion worksheet (with answers)
This is an exercise to explore the vocabulary and language used to talk about new technology and encourage discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of robots and automation.
Environmental issues listening, speaking, vocabulary and critical thinking exercises
12th July 2024
1 The Water Crisis
The exercises in this worksheet are about water conservation and the water crisis, including methods of conservation, causes of the crisis, sources of clean water, and opinions on water-related issues.
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2 Decarbonization
This is one of the most pressing topics of the 2020s! It’s a little more advanced than other exercises on this page, but it’s very interesting. The decarbonization and the clean energy transition lesson includes vocabulary, listening, comprehension, discussion, and review exercises covering key concepts, critical minerals, and geopolitical implications.
The listening/speaking exercise below is for discussing environmental issues in the classroom. Students have to try and describe the problem depicted in each picture and suggest causes. effects and possible solutions to each problem. Students can listen to the audio before or after filling in the worksheet, depending on the level of their language skills.
The exercise below is for introducing and exploring academic vocabulary for environmental issues in the classroom. First, students listen to the audio and match the items to the pictures. Then they match the vocabulary to the pictures. Or vice versa.
More exercises and options for teaching climate. This PDF includes vocabulary matching, sorting, question-answer matching, classifying, and ranking exercises about climate change concepts, causes, effects, and solutions.
The exercise below is for introducing and exploring language for endangered species in the classroom. A teacher may ask students to work in pairs, groups, or as a class. First, students can match the vocabulary to the pictures. Then they can use the conversation cues at the bottom of the worksheet to discuss endangered animals. If they are weak, they should try and write a conversation before they practice with a partner.
As above, students are again encouraged to think critically about their familiarity with various types of renewable energy, the benefits associated with using renewable energy sources, and the challenges that renewable energy technologies face.
Another exercise for environmental issues ….. a teacher may ask students to work in pairs, groups, or as a class. First, students can match the vocabulary to the pictures. Then they can use the conversation cues at the bottom of the worksheet to discuss environmental issues. If they are weak, they should try and write a conversation before they practice with a partner.
The exercise below is for introducing and exploring language for natural disasters in the classroom. A teacher may ask students to work in pairs, groups, or as a class. First, students can identify the natural disasters depicted in the pictures. Then they can use the conversation cues at the bottom of the worksheet to discuss natural disasters. If they are weak, they should try and write a conversation before they practice with a partner. This exercise helps familiarize the students with the vocabulary of natural disasters in English.
This is a creative and fun lesson designed to help students learn and use the vocabulary and language of environmental issues. Environmental Island is a model guide and example worksheet for a speaking activity that teaches the vocabulary and language for environmental problems. Read the instructions about this activity on the PDF.
