Hobbies: What Do You Do in Your Free Time?
This Powerpoint is made for pre-intermediate students. It's about verbs of taste (like, enjoy, love) and expressions of taste (to be fond of, to be interested in, to be crazy about). Students learn to...
View ArticleTell Me about Yourself Board Game
A good fun worksheet to be used as a warm-up activity, get-to-know-each-other activity or an enjoyable way to practice habitual actions and likes and dislikes using both present and past tenses. It...
View ArticleCelebrities Worksheet
This worksheet contains the name, age, and country of origin of some celebrities. You can use it for practicing greeting and introducing the third person at elementary levels. Cut the slips and give...
View ArticleWho Are You?
This is a worksheet for asking about name, home address, and website address. Put the students into pairs. Ask them to imagine they are Natalie Portman and Harry Styles. Then, they are supposed to ask...
View ArticleSelf Introduction #2
This is the second in the series of mini self introductions to practice writing and presenting. These are designed to prepare the students for the final big presentation at the end of the year. "My...
View ArticleSelf Introduction #3
This is the third in the series of mini self introductions to practice writing and presenting. These are designed to prepare the students for the final big presentation at the end of the year. "My...
View ArticleBusiness English (ESL) Needs Assessment and Evaluation
This document is useful to business English (ESL) as a second language teachers to help assess their student's goals and needs. It should be used as the start of classes so the teacher can better...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: American English File 1
This worksheet based on the movie (American English File 1, part 1) which is about introducing and talking about families. It contains some questions related to personal information. It is appropriate...
View ArticleIntroduction Board Game - Going Back to School
The game was created for conversation class of English for teachers. It has 36 interesting ice breaking questions and some funny active tasks. Can be used for age 16+ or adjusted according to your...
View ArticleGetting to Know You
Very simple mingling worksheet. Give one to each ss and they must go around the class talking to other students finding out answers to the questions in the worksheet. Ideal for a first class or after...
View ArticleAlphabet and Basic Information for Young Kids
This worksheet is an idea for a first class with very young kids. I used this with 6- and 7-year-olds who are starting to be alphabetized. It's for the first contact with the English language. The...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself
You can use this information with your students for the first time you meet them in the classroom. It´s really useful for your first class with them. Introducing yourself to someone does not mean that...
View ArticleFirst Lesson Game - Get to Know Your Student
This game serves particulary well for individual English lesson or teaching English to a small group of students. It contains the basic questions like "What are your hobbies?". I recommend a teacher...
View ArticleSpeaking Activity / Adverbs of Fequency Questions Practice
I created this worksheet to allow my students a bit of speaking practice with adverbs of frequency. I teach adults and young people, so you might add verbs that are suitable at your students' age. The...
View ArticleIce-breaker Activity
This ice-breaker activity allows teachers to get to know their students in a fun and easy way using music. This activity is similar to the hot seat games, but in this case students do not leave the...
View ArticleFirst Lesson for a Complete Beginner
I don't like first lessons in student's books because they seem to me either too difficult for beginners or too easy. That's why I tried (and successfully!) my own version. After several minutes of...
View ArticleLong Time No See
A perfect worksheet to use if you haven't seen your students in a while. Use the questions as a conversation guide. Feedback can be given when required. It could also be used as a get to know each...
View ArticleBack to School - All about Me
This is great for handing out to kids at the beginning of class and can be used when students go back to school. They can write down a few things about themselves and get to know a little about the...
View ArticleBack to School - All about Me (2)
This is great for teachers to hand out at the beginning of class so they can learn a little bit about their new students. Students are asked to answer some questions about themselves and then draw a...
View ArticleFind Something in Common- Bingo
This worksheet is a wonderful get-to-know activity suitable both for your introductory lesson and as a warmer to start your class. It's particularly useful if you need to divide students into groups...
View ArticleListenings about Stereotypes
These two listenings deal with stereotypes. The first one is about how the French usually see the English and the second one is about clichés concerning the French. The two worksheets come with the...
View ArticleQuestion and Answer - Getting to Know You
Question words are listed in a box at the top of the page but encourage students to look there only when necessary. Great getting to know you task as it allows the student to complete the question...
View ArticleMeeting New People
'Meeting New People' has 5 practices that ESL students can enjoy and learn with ease. This has all reading, listening, writing and speaking aspects that can benefit the overall English language...
View ArticleFake Identity Cards
I have created these fake identity cards for my class. I think it's a good practice on forming and answering basic questions. Instructions: cut out the cards - you'll have two sets of cards - one with...
View ArticleReview - Objects and Numbers
This worksheet will help you review the numbers, objects, articles and verb to be. It was designed for elementary students. You can use this worksheet after you've taught personal information (name,...
View ArticleMusic Video Worksheet: 'Thrift Shop' by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
A worksheet for busy teachers who want to enjoy their lesson while getting the best out of their students. Contains true or false questions, fill-in-the-gaps, and opinion questions about the music...
View ArticleWelcome Back Cover
Students complete this worksheet with personal information the first day of class and then they can use it as a cover of their exercise books. It can be perfectly used with groups of kids that start...
View ArticleAn English Vendor-Purveyor of English Words
Do you sometimes find it difficult to connect well with students in the classroom setting? I do. How about becoming a vendor of English words and sentences on the sidewalk, outside school, etc.? It...
View ArticleKnow Your Friend
It´s a nice and simple way to get students talking and sharing information about themselves and it also gives the opportunity to ask further questions. It provides good practice of questions, answers...
View ArticlePersonal Information
A PowerPoint presentation to introduce the students. There are some questions that students have to complete and, at the same time, answer. The students share the information related to their...
View ArticleInformation Gap Activity (What Is Your Name/Surname?)
This information gap activity helps students to activate the following phrases in speech 'What’s the first name of…?' And 'what’s the last name of…?' For that, students work in pairs asking and...
View ArticleFace to Face Game
This worksheet provides nine role play cards. They contain information related to work and study, routine, family and hobbies. Students can simply ask each other questions and collect information, or...
View ArticleIntroducing Yorself and Classmates
This worksheet contains activities that students can use to learn about the alphabet and asking for and giving personal information. It uses other people's personal information to introduce them to...
View ArticleBack to School Survey
This resource can be used when starting the new school term. It is a nice way to learn a little bit about your new students! Kids answer the questions and can also compare their answers with their new...
View ArticleFind Someone Who...(2)
This resource can be used when starting the new school term. It is a nice way for students to start talking to their new classmates and finding out a bit about them. They can write the names of their...
View ArticleFunctional Language for Speaking
This is a powerpoint presentation which can be used during a roleplay and communicative activities based on a specific objective. It contains useful expressions and phrases for daily conversations;...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet:London Central Episode 1
This is a worksheet for the first episode of the TV series London Central. It contains watching, writing and speaking exercises about the first acquaintance and some simple phrases for meeting new...
View ArticleIcebreaker - Let's Get to Know Each Other
This is a list of questions and examples of answers that you can use as an icebreaker with your new students, it can be also helpful to teach new vocabulary and expressions! Suitable for elementary...
View ArticleSelf Introduction (Young Learners)
This worksheet is a genuine attempt to develop fluency in young learners while introducing themselves. They don't need to write much as we know it would be hard for them. So I have designed this...
View ArticleI Love My Family
This is a simple and easy reading comprehension worksheet on the topic family, physical description and the present simple tense. The worksheet is available in both colour and black and white...
View ArticleBeginning of the Year Conversation Game
This worksheet is a nice way to to review previous knowledge. Everything is here: grammar (tenses, modals), topic vocabulary (free time activities, school subjects, extreme sports, music, description...
View Article100 Would You Rather Questions
Discussions with young students can open up a road into a world of imagination and information. Students can be surprisingly informed about the world around them. At the same time, what they don’t...
View ArticleQuestions about Fall
A great tool and resource for conversation classes. This professionally illustrated PowerPoint will prompt your students to ask fun, meaningful and topic related questions about the fall. Perfect for...
View ArticleGetting to know you PowerPoint
It's a GTK (Getting to Know You) activity. Students can be divided in 3 or 4 groups each group has a minimum of 3 people. Teacher shows students each slide for around a minute and lets them share...
View ArticleWrite Your Personal Information Speaking Activity
This worksheet can be used to practice 'how to introduce yourself' and 'giving personal information' in a role play or just as a speaking activity. It contains 5 tables were your students can fill in...
View ArticleBeginners' Reader
This useful reader/worksheet is for very beginners both young and old who have absolutely no English. Print it as an A5 booklet and teach with the words, pictures and your actions and facial clues.
View ArticleReader – Language about colour and fruit
This simple reader/worksheet booklet is for complete beginners with little or no English. Colours are introduced as well as simple sentence structures. It can be used by teachers who have none of...
View ArticleAnswer the Questions
This list of basic questions is for students to practise short answers and simple sentences. It includes the following structures: to be, have got, do/does...like, there is/are and some basic...
View ArticlePersonal Information
This worksheet contains texts for when new students get to know each other. There are four texts relating to people introducing themselves: for example, name, surname, age, homeplace, family,...
View ArticleComic Strips
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. This comic...
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