A collections of ESL worksheets to teach directions / giving directions in English. Download and use in class today!
Check out the top icebreakers and ESL activities for first day of class that will get your students talking and getting to know each other.
Looking for first day ELA ideas? Try these fun get to know you activities in your middle school or high school English class!
In this worksheet there is a crossword. There is also an activity where the students read and follow the instructions (Ex. Colour the t-shirt red) For lower level students you can read out the instructions instead. - ESL worksheets
Have students write about and take pride in their culture! -tap into background knowledge -discuss aspects of culture -embrace each child's unique identity...
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These are two super ESL games and activities for verb tense review lessons. If you are going to do verb tense review lessons, this printable and editable resource is perfect for you. Instead of reviewing dried grammar rules, students can learn, play, interact and have fun with each other. It is suitable for young learners, adults and homeschoolers. These games and activities cover 9 tenses (present/past/future simple; present/past/future continuous and present/past/future perfect). They are designed to help students review o verb forms, helping verbs in those tenses and their uses. Your students can also practice various skills from writing to speaking with this resource. Instructions for each activity is included. Two games are: 1. Basketball sorting game - Shoot the basket (colour and black and white versions) 2. Helping verb dice (colour and black and white dice templates) with 114 common English verbs. This resource is printable and editable. You can edit the content on Google Slides. All templates are provided. Suggested uses for the activities: 1. Sorting activities: You can use the basketball templates for your sorting activities when teaching parts of speech and other grammar rules. 2. Four-in-a-row: Instead of cutting up the verbs into small pieces, you can keep the whole table and play four-in-a-row (or tic-tac-toe) games with your students. Please check the preview for more details of the resource, I hope you enjoy the resource. Please read the Terms of Use carefully. Click the Green ★ to follow my store and get notifications of new product launches and freebies! ------------------------------------- Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • You can earn credits by leaving feedback on purchased items. Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to log inV-ing). Beside each purchase, you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a review for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I highly appreciate your feedback as they are useful suggestions for my development as well as my products. And I look forward to hearing your feedback after using this material. ------------------------------------- Also available: ESL Activities: Present Continuous Booklet - Worksheets and Charts ESL Activities: Present Continuous - Presentation and Quiz ESL Activities: Articles - Worksheets, Quiz and Posters ------------------------------------- Follow me on Blog Instagram Pinterest
An explanation of how to pronounce the letter S at the end of words in English including a summary chart.
This is a great worksheet to practice structures with can or can't for your ESL students.
Pair Work exercise useful for practising speaking and listening skills and giving/following instructions. Put students in pairs and give each half of the worksheet. Student B tells student B where to go on the grid and what to write or draw. Make students can not see each other´s sheet. This ws allows the whole class to practise simultaneously. At the end of the exercise, Ss should compare their answers to the teacher´s answer sheet. Enjoy. - ESL worksheets
Telling the time worksheet. There are 6 different exercises to pracise telling the time. Students have to write the time under the clocks, match the time with the sentences, fill in the dialogue or guess what time it is. It is a very easy worksheet for student who want to have fun while practising telling the time. This can be a kind of revision worksheet as well as a test. - ESL worksheets
There 5 parts of the house; bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen and garage.
There are three kinds of teacher-decorators: those who were born for Pinterest, those who can’t, and all the ones in between (such as the broke, the tired, and the I-have-no-time-to-decorate). However, making a classroom appeal to middle and high school students doesn’t HAVE to involve serious crafting or expensive, time-intensive projects. Check out these tips from me and Bonnie from Presto Plans as you prepare your classroom for the fall (or at any time of year that you want to give it a boost!) You might also like Sara's more recent blog post, Inside My Farmhouse Classroom Makeover. 1. Have a color scheme (if you can) Sara: My principal gave each teacher the paint for one accent wall, so that shade of turquoise inspired the rest of my blue decor: milk crates, bulletin board borders, etc. It helped unify the room to make it look pulled-together instead of random. I've also learned about the importance of contrast. Even a full-blown rainbow color palette can look clean and cohesive (instead of cluttered) if you pair it with black or white to balance it out. Bonnie: If you are looking for inspiration for colors that look great together, check out this Pinterest board. There are lots of combinations that will help you choose colors when you are shopping for classroom materials. 2. Stick to a few favorite fonts Sara: Just like businesses create a brand, you are creating a classroom “look” or persona that you will be known for... or, at least a mood you will create. (Friendly? Professional? Fun? Minimalist?) Try to pick a few fonts that most of your labels, signs, and other wall-hangings will consistently use. For example, I used the Google font Crushed to make and laminate labels for my whiteboard (see below), along with mint-colored painter's tape. 3. Make your classroom library a focal point Bonnie: Your class library should draw students in and works well as the focal point for any English classroom. Here are a few things you can do to make your library stand out: Give bookshelves a makeover by rolling them a new coat of paint and/or taking the shelves out and attaching wallpaper or scrapbook paper to the back. Put a few floating shelves on the walls near your library area where you can feature particular novels recommended by students. Add comfortable, flexible seating near a library to make it more welcoming. These items can be more expensive, so shop around online or scour garage sales until you find seating that may work. Use old books as decorations! When a book is unusable, find a way to repurpose it. One easy way to do this is to cut out the pages and write a reading-inspired quote in black permanent marker on top of the page. Frame the page and put it on your bookshelf! Sara: If your classroom library is small, nonexistent, or needs some attention, check out this blog post for more ideas about how to strengthen it. 4. Display student work Bonnie: Use student work as decor by making a framed gallery wall. All you have to do is pick up some inexpensive 8x10 frames (check your dollar store) and arrange them on your wall. When you get a piece of exceptional student work, add it into the frame! If you don’t want the hassle of buying and hanging frames, order a pack of mixed color picture mats and use them to frame student work on a bulletin board. Sara: Another way to get student work on display (while also practicing literary analysis!) is to have them complete this Quote Illustration and Analysis assignment; students use Canva (or any tool you wish) to make an inspirational or literary quote come to life. The results are stunning! 5. Use author-inspired decor Bonnie: Find ways to incorporate the authors you will be studying into your classroom decor. You can do this by featuring fun facts or by sharing quotes by the author. For example, I use an interactive Shakespeare Hashtag of the Week bulletin display that exposes students to one quote from a Shakespeare play each week. If you don’t want to make your own, you might even consider assigning an author to each student and having them develop a bulletin display with a biography, fun facts, and quotes that you can swap out weekly. Sara: Don't forget to interject moments of literary ALLUSION or author-inspired inside jokes as well, like my favorite light switch art... 6. Make your posters work together Sara: On at least one bulletin board or section of wall space, add some symmetry or consistency by hanging posters in a similar style (color, font, or other), or by displaying images that have a common theme. For example, check out these posters of stylized quotes to get some English class wisdom on your walls. Bonnie: If you are looking for some ideas of common themes you could use for posters, try some of these ideas that could work in any English classroom: funny grammar quotes or fails, literary terms or genres, author quotes, famous lines from literature, idiomatic expressions, or jokes using puns! To read more about my favorite bulletin board ideas for middle and high ELA, check out this blog post. "English is Weird" poster set 7. Make displays that are EASY to update Sara: Two of my favorite bulletin board spaces were ones that took VERY little effort in updating, so I didn't have the self-imposed pressure to redo the whole thing multiple times per year. For example, my Word Nerd Challenge is quick to update on a Monday morning because all I have to do is add this week's word to the list. (I made each word tile a magnet that can go on my whiteboard!) I also made low-prep Quote of the Week flipbooks of reading and writing quotes, which students often asked to flip FOR me. I used Command hooks and spiral binding to hang it on a cabinet. Do you have additional ideas? Tell us in the comments!
This is a fun animals exercise for beginner ESL students focusing on the verb can and can't.
Do you struggle with finding interesting ways to teach ESL listening skills? Maybe you have an activity or two already but you want to be able to mix it up and keep things interesting. By the end of…
Much like students who spend more hours on the hook of an essay than they do the bulk of an essay, I often found myself with a case of English teacher writing block when it came to planning my first day of school activities. Though I have ten years (x two semesters each) of ... Read More about First Day of School Activities for High School and Middle School English
Tongue twisters are a fun and challenging way to improve pronunciation, fluency, and accent. They are not just for children but are also used by actors, politicians, and public speakers who want to sound clear when speaking. Tongue twisters are phrases or sentences that are difficult to say quickly and correctly due to their alliteration ... Read more
Full year lesson plans provide huge time savings to busy teachers. It is important to have lesson structures and assignments in your classroom that can be used all year.
5 creative first day of school activities for high school English so you can ditch the syllabus and start getting to know your students!
Get to know your students with Tessellations! Great for bulletin board display! Within this resource: Hexagon Tessellation ready to print See preview for more details!
