Have your ESL learners practice their written and oral English grammar skills, with this highly engaging ESL Lesson. Budding grammarians mingle across the room discovering what they each know about the Royal Wedding between Kate and...

Improve reading comprehension with a set of ESL worksheets. Kids read through various passages, note which facts are true or false, mark their opinion on two statements, and write a short reply based on a writing prompt.

Practice English vocabulary and dialogue. An ELD class completes a true/false worksheet about aging and wrinkles, then read an article entitled "Wrinkles Give Clues to Bone Condition" using context clues to determine vocabulary...

Help to educate your ESL students about World Suicide Prevention Day with this series of activities. Matching key phrases, completing CLOZE paragraphs, and choosing appropriate words based on context clues are just a few of the many ways...

Enjoy the thrill of the movies with this ESL activity! Not only can learners talk about their favorite films, but in creating riddles about their chosen movies, they can practice the skills of context clues and deductive reasoning. This...

In this ESL/EFL comprehension learning exercise, students read or listen to an article entitled, "Water Supply returns to Chinese City." They participate in discussion activities, and written exercises. They complete fill in the blank,...

Students complete ESL/EFL reading comprehension and vocabulary building activities. In this ESL/EFL current events lesson, students read or listen to the article "Paralysed Man Takes Hopeful First Steps," (22nd May, 2011). They work on...

In this ESL/EFL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to an article entitled, "Kyoto Protocol Heated Bra Developed." They participate in discussion activities, and written ones including true or false, matching, and short...

For this ESL/EFL reading comprehension lesson, students read an article entitled, "Impeach Tony Blair." They participate in discussion activities, debates, and answer a variety of question types based on their comprehension of the article.

English language learners act out verbs, discuss their importance in constructing grammatically correct sentences, and then learn about helping verbs. They use helping verbs in a sentence then discuss how they are different from action...

Students visually represent information by using magnetic letters of the alphabet and understand and use technical vocabulary. They are able to repeat the name of the letters and sing the "Alphabet Song". They show what they have learned...

Here is an engaging and creative project to do with your ESL learners in preparation for back to school night. A digital camera is used to photograph each pupil, and everyone completes a short writing assignment that goes along with...

Practice vocabulary and speaking skills in this ESL reading comprehension lesson. Middle and high schoolers participate in a number of before, during, and after reading activities based on an article entitled "Footballer Sent Off for...

If your ESL pupils love talking about movies, here is an activity ideal for providing practice with both informational reading and elements of a story. Given fictional movie posters, they decipher the information and put it into a...

Thorough and well-organized, this lesson plan helps pupils to weigh, build, and refute an argument (the latter of which is featured here; the first two parts are linked within the resource). Given a simplified argument and counter...

In this ESL advanced vocabulary formation worksheet, students fill in the blanks in each sentence using the correct form of the words that are given in bold beneath each sentence.

A great ESL instructional activity focuses on Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims, and the Mayflower. Printable versions of the Mayflower, a Thanksgiving booklet, a Pilgrim house pattern, and links to other free sites that offer all sorts of...

Advanced level ESL students engage in an increasing verbal communication skills through children's literature. The focus of these activities is for children to develope presentation skills. Each activity would compliment any class room.

Students play a game in which they try to speak hypothetically. In this ESL questioning lesson, students play a card game in pairs in which they ask hypothetical questions and attempt to guess how the other student will answer.

Students describe what animals look like. In this ESL vocabulary development lesson, students complete worksheets and use images to help them describe what animals look like. 

Students in an ESL classroom are introduced to the American tradition of creating a yearbook. Using previous yearbooks, they note the various components and practice using new vocabulary. They brainstorm a list of items they would like...

In this lesson movies are used with ESL students in order to start a dialogue. Students explore the terms associated with movies such as genre, setting, plot and climax. Through the use of role play students identify the various aspects...

In this ESL vocabulary practice worksheet, students read a 1 paragraph piece entitled "Min's Story" and fill in the 8 blanks in the sentences with words from the word bank.

In this ESL conversation worksheet, students roll and dice, saying 2 sentences and asking 1 questions about topics landed on. Students are instructed to use who, what, where, when,why and how when asking questions.