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Classroom Language and Vocabulary Exercises and Worksheets

1 Brainstorming classroom expressions (with answers)

This is a good icebreaker for talking about classroom language.

(download PDF)

2 Classroom language: rules & commands (with audio and answers)

  The  exercises below are for introducing, reviewing or reinforcing commonly used  classroom language. Depending on the level and ability of the students, a teacher may ask students to listen and write down the rules and commands (imperatives) they hear. I have also used these exercises for teaching teachers who use two languages in the classroom and who generally use their native language for technical subjects such as science and medical technology but like to occasionally communicate in English. This helps familiarize the students with classroom communication in English.

Classroom language: rules and commands (PDF)

Classroom language: rules & commands

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3 Classroom instructions – imperatives (with audio and answers)

         Below is another exercise for  expanding the range of ESL students’ or teachers’ vocabulary. These are a collection of common imperatives used in the classroom.

Classroom language and instructions  with answers (PDF)

4 Classroom requests & queries (with audio and answers)

The elementary exercise focuses on classroom requests.

Classroom requests worksheet w. answers (PDF)

 

5 Classroom objects (with answers)

Students match the classroom classroom objects to the appropriate pictures. If they are good enough, they can try to make sentences using the words. Then they complete the gap fill exercise with the appropriate words.

Classroom objects vocabulary exercises (PDF)

Related Resources

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5 Elementary Create a Conversation Exercises for Speaking Classes

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5 First Day Activities for an ESL Class

10 Really! Elementary ESL classroom icebreakers

7 Essential Speaking Activities for ESL Classes

3 Great Icebreakers to Start a Class

8 Invitation and Request Dialogues for Everyday Scenarios

 

6  Elements of classroom communication (with answers)

Students match the classroom expressions and language to the appropriate pictures.

Elements of classroom communication (PDF)

 

 7 Brainstorming instructional vocabulary

This worksheet is a brainstorming exercise challenging students to explore and expand   their knowledge of classroom language. The teacher encourages students to think of any words, expressions or collocations that might be used with the encircled words.

Brainstorming instructional vocabulary for the classroom(PDF)

8 Teacher language: advanced classroom language

The following worksheet is suitable for more advanced learners. It focuses  on word formation.

Advanced classroom language (PDF)

9 Common classroom expressions matching exercise

The exercise below is for helping students to understand and explore classroom language and expressions. Classroom language can often be confusing due to the various ways of using phrasal and two-part verbs. It is often surprising how  far students advance without fully understanding classroom language.   I have also used this exercise for teaching teachers who use two languages in the classroom and who generally use their native language for technical subjects such as science and medical technology but like to give instructions and directions in English.

Common classroom expressions matching exercise (PDF)

 

10 Common classroom language and expressions

The exercise below is another exercise exploring commonly used classroom language with the aid of pictures.

Common classroom language  and expressions (PDF)

 

7 Present ContinuousListening/Speaking Exercises and Worksheets

At a basic level the present continuous or progressive tense is fairly easy to teach. It lends itself to miming activities and  exercises using pictures. At a more advanced level it becomes more difficult and students have to understand that some verbs may be used  differently depending on the context (ie.stative vs progressive).

1 What are they doing ? for routines  (present continuous with audio and answers)

    A worksheet for practicing the present continuous tense for routines. One of the easiest ways to teach the present continuous is with the aid of pictures. Students have to describe the action in the pictures with phrases or sentences. They should feel free to use their imaginations and be creative. This now includes audio so it can also be used as a listening activity)

What are they doing? with answers (PDF)

(see the video version on YouTube)

2 What are they doing ? for general situations (with audio and answers)

    This is an elementary ESL listening/speaking exercise  practicing the present continuous tense for general situations. Students make sentences about each picture in the present continuous. This can be done as a listening/speaking or writing activity.  As a listening activity, the students have to match the items to the pictures.

What are they doing ?- general situations (PDF)

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Phrasal verbs and the present continuous

7 Essential Speaking Activities for ESL Classes (PDF)

Adverbs Listening/Speaking Exercises

Gerunds/Infinitives Listening/Speaking Exercises

 

3 Have collocations worksheet (with answers)

    This is a sentence writing exercise to help students understand collocations with “have” and also the stative and progressive uses of “have”. Students are often confused about whether to use the verb “have” in the present simple or present continuous/progressive tense. This exercise aims to clarify that a little bit.

Have collocations (PDF)

4 Present simple vs present continuous

    This is an elementary writing and  speaking exercise  to help students understand the differences between the present simple and present continuous tenses.

Present simple vs present continuous (PDF)

5 What is he doing ? with answers (present continuous tense)

    This is an elementary ESL speaking exercise  practicing the present continuous tense. Students make sentences about each picture in the present continuous. This can be done as a speaking or writing activity.

What is he doing ? (PDF)

6 Stative/progressive verbs sorting worksheet (with answers)

    This is a sorting exercise that helps students learn  when to use verbs in the present simple or present continuous/progressive tenses.  

Stative vs progressive (PDF with answers)

 

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7 What is happening ?  with answers (present continuous tense)

    This is a more advanced and challenging ESL exercise  practicing the present continuous tense   for actions and events  happening now. Students need to have a broader knowledge of nouns and verbs to be able to complete this exercise. Students have to describe what is happening in the events and situations depicted in the pictures.

What is happening ? (PDF with answers)

Other Resources

6 Exercises for Teaching Transitions for Essays

Transitions  and linking words are essential for giving clarity and structure to paragraph and essay writing. Moreover, transitions help   students to demonstrate their understanding of logic, knowledge, thoughtfulness and ability to organize their ideas.

1 Writing sentences with transitions 1 (with answers)

Understanding and knowing how to use transitions is essential for anyone who aims to be a good  writer. In this transitions worksheet students use the pictures and their own ideas to write appropriate sentences using transitions. For me, this is the most enjoyable activity as the pictures give the  students more freedom to use their own ideas.

Transition sentence writing worksheet 1 (PDF)

   (see the YouTube video)

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 2 Transitions vocabulary sorting 1

A vocabulary sorting exercise is a great way to slowly  introduce students to transitions.  This is the smoothest and easiest way to start a class on transitions or essay linking words. It can start out as a class activity and then transition (!) into an individual activity. Students sort the essay transitions or linking words into appropriate categories.

Transitions for essays sorting worksheet 1 (PDF)

3 Transitions vocabulary sorting 2

A transitions sorting exercise for conclusions, time sequencing and comparisons to help students improve their understanding of language and writing techniques. Students sort the essay transitions or linking words into appropriate categories.

Transitions for essays sorting worksheet 1 (PDF)

4  Transitions for argument essays (with answers)

This is an exercise to help students understand how to write counter arguments in their argumentative essays. Audio and video versions of the exercise offer a choice of studying or teaching techniques.

Using transitions to write counter arguments (PDF)

       (video mp4)      (video mp4 YouTube)

5 Writing sentences with transitions 2 (with answers)

This is another activity similar to the one above but using different transitions.

Transition sentence writing worksheet 2 (PDF)

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Transitions home

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6 delightful descriptive paragraph and essay writing exercises  (PDF)

 6  Sentence rewriting

Giving students sentences to rewrite helps to make transitions more accessible. This takes the students deeper into the uses and meanings of transitional vocabulary.

Rewriting sentences with transitions worksheet 1 (PDF)

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Comparative adjective exercises

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3 Parts of Speech Exercises

7 Picture-Based Present Continuous Worksheets

8 Preposition Exercises for Location, Time and Movement

5 Future Tense Vocabulary and Speaking Exercises

5  Useful Passive Voice Practice worksheets

6  Present Perfect Language and Speaking Worksheets

11  Incredibly Useful Past Tense Simple Teaching Activities

3 Great Exercises for the 2nd Conditional

Parts of Speech Vocabulary and Language Exercises

Understanding the parts of speech is fundamental to learning the English language.  Sorting exercises help students become familiar with different types of word formation.  The exercises below can be used to introduce, review or reinforce students’ knowledge of the parts of speech.

The two most common exercises for basic parts of speech:

1. Have students identify parts of speech.

2. Have students create a sentence using a certain part of speech.

1 Understanding elementary parts of speech 

   This is an elementary ESL sorting exercise for practicing the parts of speech .  First, the students sort  the words into the appropriate columns. Then they try to write sentences using the words.

Understanding 4 parts of speech (PDF)

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2  Parts of speech for neighborhoods (with answers)

This is a fairly elementary parts of speech exercise for elementary language that students need to know when talking about their homes, local communities and neighborhoods.

Parts of speech for neighborhoods (PDF)

3 Parts of speech sorting for personality

When you look at the grammar of personality, it is quite interesting that  most of the words are adjectives. But it is worth helping students get to  know  the noun forms of these adjectives too.

Parts of speech for personality (PDF)

4 Health vocabulary parts of speech sorting

 Another specific topic that is great as a  parts of speech sorting exercise is health.  The language of health has such a wide variety of word  formations that it becomes quite obvious why it is very difficult for second language learners.

Health parts of speech (PDF)

5 Parts of speech for relationships sorting

Parts of speech for relationships is a  worksheet and sorting activity to help deepen students’ knowledge of the vocabulary of love, romance and relationships.

Relationships parts of speech (PDF)

 6 Advanced parts of speech sorting

 I had to teach a group of words and I thought I’d just do a sorting exercise to reinforce the vocabulary a bit. But I gradually realized that this set of words was a pretty good demonstration of a variety of noun endings. Students were pretty curious about the endings and so this exercise worked really well.

Advanced parts of speech (PDF)

7 Writing sentences for the parts of speech

  This is an elementary ESL exercise for practicing the parts of speech by writing sentences. It is a good way to guage the students’ knowledge of basic grammar. First, the students match the words to the pictures. Then they try to write sentences using the words.

Writing sentences for parts of speech (PDF)

 8 Brainstorming elementary parts of speech

     The exercise below is for introducing, reviewing or reinforcing commonly used parts of speech. Depending on the level and ability of the students, a  teacher  may ask  students to work in groups or work independently. This activity works really well as simultaneously an individual, group and class activity. While students work independently the teacher can walk around and choose some  of the best ideas and write them on the the brainstorming diagram (which they have already drawn) on the board.

Brainstorming parts of speech (PDF)

Related Resources:

Comparative adjective exercises

Teaching Gerunds and Infinitives

Indirect and Reported Speech

10  Adjectives Exercises Including Adjectives for People and Things 

6 Picture-Based Present Continuous Worksheets (PDF)

8 Preposition Exercises for Location, Time and Movement (PDF)

5  Useful Passive Voice Practice worksheets

6  Present Perfect Language and Speaking Worksheets

Incredibly Useful Past Tense Simple Teaching Activities (PDF)

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Great Exercises for the Conditionals (PDF)

11 Essential Speaking Activities for ESL Classes

Speaking activities are essential for English language speaking classes (obviously!). However, designing  the right speaking activity for a topic is not always an easy task. Teachers need to be aware of the students’ abilities and   personalities as well as the language and grammar they will be presenting. It’s good to be able to run through or think through a list of teaching possibilities before preparing a class. Below I offer some essential speaking activities that have helped make seemingly difficult teaching  challenges a lot of fun.

• Also, see my my post explaining how to use artificial intelligence to create speaking activities:
  • The Art of Prompting Artificial Intelligence for ESL Teachers

1 Conversation and dialogue exercises: routines and daily activities example

Write-a- conversation exercises work really well for many topics including routines and daily activities.  I always get the students to perform just for me …not in front of the class..as they are more relaxed and I get a close up and personal look at their performance. Also, I can ask them to repeat the conversation easily if it is not fluent enough.

Routines and daily activities (PDF)

(YouTube video gap fill version)

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2 Conversation and dialogue exercises : food conversation example

Dialogues are a great way to get students talking. Students just need to be presented with an easy example or model that they can practice Once they have mastered the model they can alter it with their own ideas.

Food conversation (PDF)

(see the exercise on YouTube)

3 Questionnaires: Present Perfect Questionnaire example

    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. 

Present perfect questionnaire (PDF)

(see the YouTube video)

4 Vocabulary and discussion questions: artificial intelligence apps

Artificial intelligence is now a part of everyday life. This is a vocabulary/listening/speaking exploring ideas about AI apps that people use everyday.

(download PDF)

(see the video of this exercise on YouTube)

5 Questionnaires with pictures: talking about shopping example

This is an elementary ESL speaking activity for practicing language useful for talking about shopping. Shopping is a great topic for English language students  as it is universally accessible. Using pictures with the questions gives context. The vocabulary at the bottom of the page can be matched to the pictures as an icebreaker. Students can discuss and answer the questions in groups or in pairs.

Talking about shopping (PDF)

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Listening exercises for all levels

6 Role plays: Bad vacation example

This is a role play about a bad vacation

Bad vacation(PDF)

(see the “Bad vacation” role play on Youtube)

7 Role plays : celebrity interview role play example

Role plays can be really good speaking activities. However, students really need to be able to identify with and be interested in the characters they are playing. The easiest and most successful  role play I have encountered is the celebrity role play. It is also the most  popular role play idea on my website by miles. This is a fun communicative exercise that allows students to to be creative and to improvise.

Celebrity role play (PDF)

(see the YouTube video)

8 Surveys: fashion choices survey example

This is an ESL  speaking and writing lesson  for talking about clothes, accessories and fashion choices. Fashion is a great classroom topic as it easily engages students. In this exercise, students have to write their own questions, survey their classmates and write a short report about their findings. This is a fun communicative exercise that allows students to mix freely.

Fashion choices survey (PDF)

 

9 Expressing opinions

This is an ESL or English language  exercise for  practicing conversational English.  Brainstorm collocations for the verbs and then create short conversations using the model on the hand out as an example.

Circle of determiners (PDF)

 

10 Socializing speaking activities : eternal mingle example

In socializing activities, students write one of more questions on a piece of paper and then walk around the classroom speaking to as many people as possible. This is an excellent all-purpose communicative activity for big ESL classes. It’s effective because it just about ensures a high level of student participation. It also lowers inhibition levels, encourages student centered correction and frees the teacher to observe and field questions from students. The possible variations are endless. It can be used as an icebreaker, for drills, or as an initiator of free conversation.

Eternal Mingle (PDF)

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11 Interviews: personality interview example

One-on-one interviews also work well in ESL classes. Several good options are the job interview, the personality interview and the “getting to know you” interview.

Personality interview (PDF)

 

12 Discussions: cities-good or bad example

Discussion activities on topics which students encounter in their everyday lives are also generally successful. Getting students to provide both sides of an argument  helps them to  develop their critical thinking and speaking skills. Discussion topics like this example can be done in pairs, groups or as a class.

Cities- good or bad?  (PDF)

Clothes, Accessories and Fashion Vocabulary and Speaking Exercises

•  Fashion, accessories and clothes vocabulary and associated expressions and language can be taught with a variety of techniques including vocabulary-picture matching, class surveys and word maps.
• These exercises engage the students and encourage them to interact.

1. Clothes, accessories and fashion choices survey and speaking lesson

This is an ESL  speaking and writing lesson  for talking about clothes, accessories and fashion choices. First, students write five survey questions about fashion choices. There are some examples of  questions on the first page of the PDF.  When they have written five questions on Page 2 of the PDF,  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. 

Fashion Choices Survey (PDF)

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2 Fashion and shopping word maps

This wordmaps exercise is a great way to explore the language of fashion, shopping and taste. It can be done collectively or individually. Once enough vocabulary has been generated on the board or on worksheets, students can write their ideas and opinions about fashion and shopping using the sentence cues at the bottom of the page.

Fashion and shopping wordmaps (PDF)

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Describing People Home

First, Second and Third Conditional Listening/Speaking and Grammar Exercises and Worksheets

Summary of the conditionals

1. The first conditional is used to talk about possible future events.

2. The second conditional is used to talk about unlikely (imaginary or unreal situations) future events.

3. The third conditional is used to talk about past events that didn’t happen (regrets!).

1 First conditional for possibility listening/speaking (with answers and audio)

  This is a first conditional complete-the-sentence exercise  for English language learners. . Students complete the sentences using their own  ideas generated by the pictures and/or listen to the audio.

First  conditional grammar exercise (PDF)

(video mp4)    (video YouTube mp4)

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2 An introduction to the unreal conditional (2nd)

Here is a short introduction or guide to the unreal conditional.

(download PDF)

(see the video on YouTube)

An introduction to the unreal conditional

3 Imaginary (2nd conditional for unreal situations with answers and audio)

  This is a 2nd conditional complete-the-sentence exercise  for English language learners. It is used for imaginary situations. 

Imaginary: 2nd conditional grammar exercise (PDF)

(video mp4) (video YouTube mp4)

4 Introduction to the past unreal/past possibility/3rd conditional

Here is a short introduction or guide to the past unreal conditional. It is often used when talking about regrets or possibilities in the past. Ok, there are many ways to describe this aspect of grammar. Down below, I even use “alternate reality”,

(download PDF)

5 Alternate reality (3rd conditional with answers and audio)

  This is a 3rd conditional listening/speaking complete-the-sentence exercise  for English language learners. It is used for thinking about changes in  the past.  

Imaginary: 2nd conditional grammar exercise (PDF)

(video mp4)    (video YouTube mp4)

6 2nd conditional grammar and critical thinking exercise (with answers)

  This is an exercise to challenge students’ grammar and critical thinking skills.

2nd conditional grammar/critical thinking exercise (PDF)

7 3rd conditional grammar and critical thinking exercise

  This is an exercise to challenge students’ grammar and critical thinking skills for the 3rd conditional.

2nd conditional grammar/critical thinking exercise (PDF)

8 Amazing situations in the 2nd conditional

    This is a conditionals  question-making exercise and speaking activity  for English language learners. It is used for imaginary situations. Students complete the questions using their own  ideas generated by the pictures. Then they can interview their partners. 

Amazing situations 2nd conditional questions (PDF)

Related Resources:

“Wishes” speaking and writing activities

Comparative adjectives listening/speaking

  Adjectives Exercises Including Adjectives for People and Things 

3 Parts of Speech Exercises

Picture-Based Present Continuous Worksheets (PDF)

Preposition Exercises for Location, Time and Movement (PDF)

  Useful Passive Tense Practice worksheets

  Present Perfect Language and Speaking Worksheets

Incredibly Useful Past Tense Simple Teaching Activities (PDF)

Reported speech and indirect requests

 

9 Making sentences with the 2nd conditional

  This is another  2nd conditional complete-the-sentence writing exercise  for English language learners.

2nd conditional complete the sentence exercise (PDF)

Movies brainstorms and speaking activities

1 Movies brainstorm and speaking activity

    This is a movies language exercise  for English language learners to practice the present simple tense.  Students  try to identify movie genres and brainstorm the names of movies for each genre. Then they write questions about movies and ask a classmate.

Movie brainstorm and speaking activity (PDF)

2 Write a conversation exercise: going out to a movie

“Going Out” is another good conversation topic. When students write these dialogues in pairs or small groups they automatically fall into a role play mode without any direction from the teacher.

Going out (PDF)

(YouTube gap fill version)

3 Elements of movies vocabulary

In this exercise, students learn language used to discuss movies. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures and then ask their classmates the questions at the bottom of the page.

 Elements of movies vocabulary(PDF)

4 Elements of movies qualities

This exercise explores the language of movies more deeply. Students may have to think a bit more to match the words and expressions to the pictures.

Elements of movies qualities (PDF)

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11 Classroom Debate and Discussion Language Activities

5 Complaints and Annoyances Language and Speaking Activities

5 First Day of Class Activities

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8 Invitation and Request Dialogues for Everyday Scenarios

Revolution in the Listening/Speaking Classroom

Listening teacher’s paradise: Ipad Pro and JBL Charge chargeable speaker

• New mobile, lightweight technologies using bluetooth and rechargeable batteries are  totally changing the lives of ESL teachers.
• In particular a combination of the Ipad Pro and the JBL Charge speaker are  pretty much the stuff of dreams (of the 20th century teacher!!) come to  life.

Click here for a PDF file of this article

ESL Listening Activities Guide

When I started teaching listening/speaking  I had to teach with cassettes. Anyone who used to do this knows what a time-consuming, annoying hassle it was rewinding and  forwarding tapes. There was no way you could pay attention to individual students and easily manage listening materials at the same time. That’s to say nothing of  the irritation when tapes got old or broke. And if you worked in  a sound lab you had to master dashboards with a thousand functions.

Wow…. sound labs seem so dated now! Do people still use them?

New technology has revolutionized the life of a listening/speaking teacher. It’s so refreshing to walk into a classroom and do nearly everything more efficiently than ever before. I use an Ipad Pro with a bluetooth connection to a JBL Charge chargeable speaker.

This set up is so light and mobile and  has many benefits. As a remote to manage the listenings, the Ipad Pro is better than using an Iphone or any other mobile phone as its screen is bigger and the touchscreen is more sensitive. With this set up I am in total control of my equipment and never have to worry about what  audio equipment is available in the classroom. I never have to worry about finding technicians when equipment breaks down.

When I’m teaching I can move around the classroom and monitor students at the same time as I am controlling the listening. If I realize the students are missing  something I can stop on the spot and explain or clarify or replay instantly. Moreover, I find that  I am able to think of  new techniques and put them into action instantaneously.

Listening resources

 16 Elementary Conversation Exercises for Speaking and Listening Classes (including worksheets, gap fills, audio and video)

Comparative adjective worksheets

Past (simple) tense listening exercises

“used to” and past continuous listening/speaking and video exercises

11 role play listening/speaking Activities

7 essential listening exercises for English as a second language classes

Listening/speaking exercises for the latest technological advances

6 present perfect grammar, speaking and listening Exercises

Listening/speaking exercises for conditionals