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Greetings: Beginning ESL Lesson
Introduce your ESL learners to some common English greetings in this basic presentation. Slides feature phrases such as Hello! and What's up? as well as Good to see you. You could use this slideshow in a class game or to reinforce...
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Work Conversation: Beginning ESL Lesson
Useful for a lesson about conversational English or vocational skills, this presentation features a short conversation between an employee and his boss. Pupils can practice their English greetings and occupational vocabulary. Pictures of...
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ESL: What's the Weather Like?
Beginning English learners practice describing the weather with help from eight picture clues. Questions are phrased like "How's the weather?" and "What's the weather like?" Tinker with the formatting to make it all fit on one page...
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Has Anyone Heard from Chris: ESL Conversation Practice
In this ESL conversation worksheet, students work in groups of 4-5 and make up "rumors" about where classmates might be going, then practice having a conversation. Students begin with "Has anyone heard from...?"
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ESL: Around Town Matching
Tiny pictures of buildings found around town can be matched with their names in this exercise for beginning English Learners. Indefinite articles are included with vocabulary; nice way to reinforce the "a/an" rule. Pictures are quite...
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ESL: Body Parts Matching
Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.
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Can / Can't Practice- Interview
In this ESL conversation instructional activity, students ask 8 questions of a classmate and record the answers. All questions have either "can" or "can't". Example: What could you do when you were a child, but can't now?
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Conversation Questions: Jobs & Occupations
In this job and occupations worksheet, students read and answer the questions related to jobs and occupations as part of an ESL conversation activity.
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Making Conversation
Young scholars develop their social skills to help them feel more apart of society. They practice initiating conversations and using common phrases. They also use small talk.
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ESL: Classmates Survey
Get your beginning English Learners moving with this class survey. They ask each other the 8 questions provided to find out "How many of your classmates..." Good practice for asking questions that start with"Do you..." including "make...
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ESL: Beginning Vocabulary Matching
Beginning English Learners match 10 line-drawn pictures of basic nouns with their names, such as kite, airplane, goat, and igloo. Indefinite articles are included, so this exercise also provides reinforcement for the a/an rule.
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Susan Marsh- Student A and Student B
In this ESL conversation starter worksheet, students collaborate with a partner, each person filling in the blanks in an identical biography. Students compare their results and talk about them.
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ESL: Basic Vocabulary Matching
Newcomers to English can practice vocabulary about food, daily actions, and school supplies with this 10-question matching exercise. Simple line drawings represent basic terms for beginners.
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The Sky is the Limit!
Go above and beyond the basic requirements to get your ESL learners excited about English.
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Frequency Adverbs: A Conversation in Class
For this frequency adverbs worksheet, students collaborate with a partner to ask and answer 15 questions in conversation. Students ask the question given, using the adverb "ever". Students answer the questions with a frequency adverb as...
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Money, Money, Money
In this ESL money conversation worksheet, students practice vocabulary connected to money and financial situations. Students engage in conversation with classmates in answering 20 questions about money.
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Things You Should or Must Do
In this conversations learning exercise, students read 8 short conversations. Students complete the conversations by writing the letter of the phrase that best tells what should be done.
ESL Kid Stuff
Intro ESL Lesson (Ages 8-14)
Introduce language learners to class behavior expectations, and each other, with activities that include greeting and name games, conducting a class survey, and creating a classroom rules poster.
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ESL: Advanced Conversation-Quiz #2
For this ESL advanced conversation quiz worksheet, students match definition to slang words and phrases, write past tense verb forms, write plural forms of nouns, meanings of idioms and take dictation.
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Interview
English learners practice basic conversation skills with a worksheet that exercises progressive/continuous verb forms. They conjugate given words to form correct sentences. Their partner does the same. They ask each other the questions...
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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
Students, at the advanced beginner to low intermediate ESL levels, demonstrate comprehension of the play or story, "Little Red Riding Hood." They construct interviews based on knowledge of the characters in the play Little Red Riding Hood.
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Right on Time
The hour is nigh for your class to practice equivalency problems in the form of time-zone conversions. They write equations to describe elapsed time and apply problem solving strategies, including writing a plan, to solve the problems.
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Christmas: Conversation
In this Christmas conversation worksheet, learners read and discuss fourteen key questions regarding Christmas and past Christmas celebrations. The conversation starters could also be used as writing prompts.
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Speaking Practice- Past Tense Review
In this speaking practice learning exercise, students collaborate with a classmate. Students finish the conversation sentences any way they like.