When each pdf file opens, you can print it out or save it to your computer. English esl worksheets, activities for distance learning. Put them into pairs to ask and answer the questions in. You can use this activity as a way ofputting students into pairs for another activity. It is suitable for preintermediate and intermediate students and compliments well coursebook chapters about technology. Murderous dinner party roleplay conversation cards 7. If an activity works, the class is much more entertaining, fun and helps students get over their reticence to speak english. Free online english exercises and lessons for adult preintermediate students of english and young learners. To ask for and give directions in and around an office building. Travel and holidays reading, listening and vocabulary quizzes and printable worksheets for english language learners, and free lesson materials for tefl teachers. Preintermediate speaking, role play, topics lesson plans.
Check out the menus on our site for hundreds more free lesson resources, games and quizzes for adult efl students and young learners. Superlative adjectives esl activities worksheets games. This will probably be suitable for students in their first year of english studies. This country producer of gold, and it exports wine and wool it has more diamonds, too. Preintermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate type. All of our activities are designed around themes engaging and relevant to secondary learners and can be used to complement your school curriculum, giving students an opportunity to develop their english language and skills in motivating and enjoyable ways. It is a detective story that engages students in conversation and will practice mainly questions and answers in simple present and simple past. Cut the cards and divide your students into small groups. Printable pdf lesson plans and teacher instructions for preintermediate speaking and role play lessons. Free online english exercises and lessons for adult pre intermediate students of english and young learners. Liz regan 2007 page 1 of 2 activity 1 discuss with your partner what the party phrases below mean. You can print out the pdf file and cut the questions into strips.
Practise the sounds of english, and play sounds and word stress games. Pre intermediate worl students exchange opinions about hypothetical future situations. With higher level students, writing activities can still be a great way for students to work on their accuracy, but its also good for fluency practice. Students now change roles and repeat the activity so that the journalists are now rich people and so on. Facebook lesson plan offers a lot of facebookrelated vocabulary practice, grammar practice, and speaking. These esl listening activities for intermediate students are game changers in the classroom. To practise everyday requests when travelling on business. Allot students two or three minutes to think of ideas, take notes, or check dictionaries. This dialogue and videoaided lesson looks at the life and works of william shakespeare.
The subject performs the action expressed in the verb. The students then stand up and go around the class, asking and artswering questions about their pictures until they find the student who has the identical card. I have designed this pdf for my preintermediate class. This is a powerpoint presentation which can be used during a roleplay and communicative activities based on a specific objective. Give students one minute to look at the conversation topic card and think about the questions before they do the task. It includes business role plays, icebreakers and problem solving.
Make one copy of worksheet l b information sheet for each student in the class. In this area you will be able to download the speaking tests for the pre intermediate level of the big picture. Preintermediate a2b1 in this lesson, students learn and practice words for feelings. Students communicate words for countries and tourist activities without saying them mime. Beginner, intermediate, advanced printfriendlyage group. Click on the button below to launch the test studio. Successful english language speaking exercises are perhaps the most interesting and enjoyable part of teaching esl. Engaging tefl writing activities tefl teaching tefl tales. All talking point conversation worksheets are designed for use with students who have reached pre intermediate level, though they are also very successful with.
If there are more than 14 students in the class, divide the students into groups. Preintermediate a2 teachingenglish british council bbc. Students role play a family meeting and use the causative to discuss what their parents will letmakehavegethelp them to do. Esl superlative adjectives board game reading and speaking activity low intermediate b1 30 minutes. This game works well with students at pre intermediate level or above and can be adapted accordingly. Students take part in a wholeclass roleplay to practise using the present perfect, then switching to the past simple. In this activity, students work in pairs and the information, i. Here you can find activities to practise your reading skills. Talking about humor this is an esl discusssion exercise useful for talking about humor.
Prepare in advance, on an overhead transparency or whiteboard, a mind map of yourself. Candidates are assessed on their performance throughout the test. Students appreciate the controlled, yet free use of the language and find these types of classes more enjoyable than traditional teacher focused lessons. Active and passive voice preintermediate learn english. Conversation worksheets esl worksheets englishclub. Travel and holidays esl lesson activities and printable.
Esl activities for intermediate students esl expat. The selfstudy lessons in this section are written and organised according to the levels of the common european framework of reference for languages cefr. Hand out the appropriate worksheets to the students. Colour pdf, 3, 051kb, black and white pdf, 376kb grammar exercises. Preintermediate a2b1 students watch a breaking news video clip about captain tom moore, a 99yearold army veteran who walked 100 laps of his garden to raise money for britains national health service. Are you a preintermediate cefr level a2 learner of english. Preintermediate english lessons and games for english. For example, if there are ten students, make a copy of the worksheet and cut off the last four lines of the information chart, before making a copy for each student in the group. Interacting and engaging with students and getting students to interact with each other is possibly the most rewarding and fulfilling part of a language teachers job. There is also an explanation on the different verbs that can be used when people talk about how they feel. Below are our lessons for preintermediate level students. All new language items are well dealt with in this communicative section of preintermediate.
Includes mobile friendly listening and reading lessons, song based activities, video listening comprehension quizzes, grammar tests and quizzes, plus tefl teaching resources for english language. Fun and engaging esl activities, games and worksheets for english teachers to use in. Time 30 to 40 minutes procedure 1 if there are more than 14 students in the class, divide the class into groups. Final speaking activity allows students to talk about what they like or dislike. A british english worksheet to complete a quiz about the world. Suitable for strong pre intermediate students and above. The worksheet includes visual, textbased and speaking activities. Conversation worksheets the main aim of these talking point conversation worksheets is to promote english fluency by presenting students with stimulating discussion questions. It uses many communicative activities to encourage students to draw on their own experience and develop the ability to talk about a variety of topics and situations.
Dont forget to assign who will support and who will oppose the idea. Speaking activities on these pages you will find ideas for classroom activities which involve speaking 1 staged roleplay jeff fowler, teacher, trainer, british council naples this is a series of engaging roleplays based on the concept of the gap year a round the world trip. This professionally illustrated powerpoint will prompt your students to ask fun, meaningful and topic related questions about the fall. Next they exchange questions and find a new partner. Here are free materials that are for students at a preintermediate level of english. View preintermediate listening lesson plans on the premium site. If you would like to save a file to your files, please sign in using login form below. Check they understand the instructions and the activity. Give one set of unfinished sentences to each group. Games and activities for the english as a second language. Kids, adults storytelling esl activity preparation.
All talking point conversation worksheets are designed for use with students who have reached preintermediate level, though they are also very successful with. Click on the image below or the link at the download the printable pdf file. This section offers listening practice to help you understand common vocabulary and expressions in short, clear dialogues. Pre intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate type. Speakout preintermediate 2nd edition students book and dvd. After doing some work on positional prepositions and phrases, there is a speaking activity in which the students get to practice also their drawing skills. Reading will help you to improve your understanding of the language and build your vocabulary. They have to be designed so they are easy to explain and understand. Before the class, find a cartoon with at least four vignettes. The best time to use pair work is during oral activities, as these activities allow students to get more speaking time than they would in a class setting. In this section of preintermediate, you will find such materials. Procedure give each student a conversation topic card.
Teacher or learner a significant learning resource and learning experience. The worksheet focuses on listening comprehension, vocabulary development and speaking. A speaking lesson by lindsay clandfield for students to discuss issues related to football and the world cup. Future perfect simple and continuous progressive tense. Tell the students not to show their cards to anyone else. The speaking activities in this text come from a variety of sources. Each activity also comes in userfriendly a4 pdf format with full teachers notes. Fundamentalism and british values preintermediate 1 1. Super elementary speaking activities are a really good way to get students speaking at a low level.
Either it never rains, or it and sports, swimming, and rains a lot. Students must work collaboratively to put the story together in the right order. Click on the link icons to download lesson textbooks and powerpoint slide shows. A variety of speaking and icebreaker activities for esl. Dec 02, 2015 in this activity students need to come up with various sentences using will to express promises, offers, decisions and threats in different contexts. Situations include simple explanations, introductions, messages and announcements. Describing things, gettingtoknow each other, saytellspeaktalk, mingling activities. There is a huge amount of resources in this section for preintermediate which reflects the fact that students communication has improved markedly by the preintermediate level. It is an original way of introducing yourself as a teacher to a class for the first time, but could also be used later on. Suitable for students who have already worked with the concept of using will, pre intermediate and intermediate levels. You will be able to access all of the rest of the tests available through here. He then selects a student and an expression for the continuation of the discussion. There are many exercises on grammar and vocabulary as well as whole text activities.
Each lesson has a preparation task, an audio recording and two tasks to check. A british english worksheet to read and match sentences to an american english or a british english speaker. They make teaching much more enjoyable and fun and encourage students to really. This is a vocabulary lesson for preintermediate intermediate students. On these pages you will find ideas for classroom activities which involve speaking 1 staged roleplay jeff fowler, teacher, trainer, british council naples this is a series of engaging roleplays based on the concept of the gap year a round the world trip. Students can be hesitant to speak for a wide variety of reasons fear of mistakes, peer pressure, or lack of selfconfidence are some of the main factors.
Pre intermediate phrases for conversation low intermediate conversation starters rejoinders giving opinions agreeing disagreeing asking for details. Download the students hand out and teachers lesson plan below. Find a range of full lesson plans to use in the english language classroom with teenage learners at level a2 pre. Travel holidays english language skills practice esl. Students design an activity and then invite other classmates to. This could be compared to cooking on impulse rather than. We also provide test practice activity for students who are. Choose yourself as conductor and 4 other students to be conducted. Students at preintermediate level are able to express themselves better and there is more need for resources that prompt or guide communication and not dictate it so much. Student s book headway john and liz soars oxford university press contents language input vocabulary everyday 1 getting to tenses using a bilingual dictionary p9 social expressions 1 know you present, past, future p68 parts of speech have a good weekend. This page contains activities and worksheets for practising speaking english as a foreign language. In this preintermediate level lesson, students predict content from a text, then read for gist and specific information, as well as giving reasons for why they agree or disagree with a topic. A lot of the tasks sprang from my own imagination, stimulating me to go into the classroom, feeling motivated by the freshness that accompanies a new inspiration and being eager to share it with my students. It was inspired by the video whats on your mind which went viral and inspired some discussion about the way we use social media to create our online persona.
If there are fewer than 14 students in the class or group, use the appropriate number of identity cards. You were invited to mr erringworths dinner party in his mansion. Travel anecdote staying in a hotel with bed bugs that can be cut into strips 15 30 students. Here you can find a range of short activities to use in your secondary classroom with students at preintermediate level.
An interesting preintermediateintermediate lesson in which students warm up by. A collection of games and activities for upperintermediate and advanced students of english. With an uneven number of students, 1 journalist will now interview 2 rich people. A great tool and resource for conversation classes. Some vocabulary work on the use of positive and negative adjectives to describe moviestv programs. Speakout pre intermediate 2nd edition students book and dvdrom pack by antonia clare, 9781292115979, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The book contains tasks and activities based on pair and group work, including discussion of texts and pictures, problemsolving, games and puzzles, and there is an emphasis on. It contains useful expressions and phrases for daily conversations. Formal and informal english politeness or colloquial language future continuous tense. A pairwork activity at preintermediate level to practise. Students give a high five to students they have something in common with.