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Skill-based ESL WorksheetsEach of these worksheets has
been designed to print out on a single sheet of A4 or US Letter size paper.
Each worksheet may be downloaded, printed, photocopied, used and distributed
freely for non-commercial purposes provided you do not modify its content.
Macro Skills
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Listening |
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Numbers and Letters Bingo
Students listen to the
numbers and call out the corresponding letters - or vice versa. It's also a
great way to teach the phonetic alphabet. |
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Speaking |
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Getting to know
you
Ideal for first lesson. Students interview each other (and
Teacher?). Watch for trick questions. Clearly no-one in the class has gone to
London. |
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Reading |
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Reading
review
Form for completion by student reviewing book, short
story, article, poem etc. Includes Overview and Commentary fields. |
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Desiderata
There is some controversy as to the
source of this design for living prose poem. It is variously claimed to be
anonymous ('found in Old St Paul’s Church, Baltimore AC 1692') and to have
been written by Max Ehrmann in Terre Haute, Indiana in the early
1920's. |
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Futility
Sensitive First World War poem by
Wilfred Owen. |
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Writing |
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General knowledge quiz
1 [Key]
You may wish to allow students to use a
dictionary, subject to precise level, culture etc. |
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Spelling:
-ing
Students spell present participle of simple verbs:
like>liking, stop>stopping. |
Micro Skills
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Grammar |
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Expressions
of Quantity
Students insert the appropriate expression of
quantity: I have a few onions, I don't have much salt. |
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Regular/Irregular verbs
Sort the following verbs
into regular and irregular. (Some verbs may be both.) |
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Expressing the
Future
Explanation of Present Simple, Present Continuous, Going
To and Will for the Future. |
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Mixed-tense
Questions
Variety of questions in different tenses. Good oral
drill where Teacher fires questions at group or individual and requires rapid
and correct responses. Can also be used for pair work. |
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Question Tags
Students add the tag:
(You like
coffee, ___ ___ ?) |
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Gramatical Items
Students write a sentence for
each grammatical item, underlining the particular grammatical
item. |
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Verbs
and Tenses
Students write a short sentence for each structure,
underlining the particular structure. |
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Use(d) to [Key]
Students sort Used To Do, Used To Doing and
Get Used To into three groups and explain the difference between each
group. |
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Vocabulary |
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Country, nationality and
language
Students complete the chart - She comes from the USA,
she is American, she speaks English. |
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Describing
objects
Students describe various objects by shape, colour and
material. |
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ABC -
Animals
Can you find an ANIMAL for each letter of the
alphabet? |
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ABC -
Cities
Can you find a CITY for each letter of the
alphabet? |
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ABC -
Countries
Can you find a COUNTRY for each letter of the
alphabet? |
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ABC - Jobs
Can
you find a JOB for each letter of the alphabet? |
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Numbers
0-100
Explanatory list from zero to one hundred - ordinals and
cardinals. |
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Opposite
adjectives
Match the words in each column that mean the opposite
or very nearly the opposite. |
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Size
Put the
following words in order of size, with the biggest or strongest at the
top. |
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Abbreviations
Selected list of abbreviations in
general and business use. |
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Pronunciation |
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Word
stress
Teacher reads out two- and three-syllable words. Students
underline the stressed syllable. |
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Pronunciation
-ed
Students write the phonetic symbol for each verb -ed ending:
[d], [t] or [Id]. Includes a reading practice text laced with -ed verbs (and
adjectives). |
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