English Worksheets

Hello dear teachers.

How are you doing? Is the lockdown increasing your anxiety when planning your lessons?

Today we want to help you by providing a great bank of pdf worksheets for your classes. 

This website offers a large variety of accurate and concise skill building resources geared towards a range of ability levels. It is suitable for every ESL course and for students of all ages. 

Enjoy it by clicking here.

Writing prompts for all teaching levels

Hello dear teachers and educators.

It has been a while and in this difficult moment of lockdown education in many countries, we will try to update this blog twice a week.

Today we bring you writing worksheets which is something that many of you frequently ask for.

hese worksheets will get your little pen-smiths going. Writing prompts are conversation starters that will direct students to share their feelings or knowledge about a topic and at the same time they get to practice their writing skills. Sometimes it just takes a shove to get the information pouring out of you. As you will see below, we have writing prompts available for all types of grade levels. These worksheets are great for students or teachers that are looking for extra writing practice.

Check the writing prompts here.

English Worksheets Land: a paradise for ESL Primary teachers

    Hello folks! Today we present another subject site with free worksheets. This one has over 5,000 printable worksheets in PDF format. 

    The site was designed as a primary and elementary level free resource. Middle level grade content is being added as well since it is updated monthly. You may find the material classified by grade or topic.

Visit English Worksheets Land and download free material for your lessons by clicking the photo below:

Cambridge PET free resources

Hello dear teachers.

Today I prepared a list of useful links where you will find free resources to use in your PET lessons. 

If you can recommend any other, please send it so we can include it here.

Let's get going with the links:

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In this website you will find some Practice tests (not the listening part), grammar exercises and activities related to vocabulary topics.

Vocabulary PET list

This is a pdf file with all the terms your students will need to manage when sitting for PET.

Free PET worksheets

This is a collaborative website where teachers upload their worksheets and share them with their fellow teachers. It requires registering but it is free. 

Free listening exercises online (PET format)

Listening sample exercises to use in class. It requires wifi and speakers of course.

Online extra practice

Recommended online worksheets to solve in class with a smartboard.

Enjoy!

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Writing essays: Basic tips

Teenage students usually find it very difficult to write their complex and critical ideas in a logical and well ordered format. This is why writing essays is so difficult for them. It's not the lack of ideas, the problem is not knowing what to do with those ideas.

Here is a quick guide with 14 steps that you can share with your students so they can write a good essay with the expected worldwide format:

1. 1. Select the topic of your essay.
2. 2. Choose the central idea, or hythesis, of your essay. For example: Information technology has revolutionized the way we work.
3. 3. Outline your essay into introductory, body and summary paragraphs.
4. 4. The introductory paragraph begins with an interesting sentence. For example: Home workers have grown from 150,000 to over 12 million in the past 5 years thanks to the wonders of the computer. There are a number of types of introductions: Interesting statistics, a quote from a famous person, or a rhetorical question such as "Did you know that ...".
5. 5. After this first sentence, add your thesis statement from above. The thesis clearly outlines what you hope to express in the essay.
6. 6. Use one sentence to introduce every body paragraph to follow. This linking to ideas you will develop further in your body paragraphs provides structure to your essay.

1. 7. Finish the introductory paragraph with a short summary or goal statement. For example: Technological innovation has thus made the traditional workplace obsolete.
2. 8. In each of the body paragraphs (usually two or three) the ideas first presented in the introductory paragraph are developed. Remember that referring to ideas first introduced in the initial paragraph provides structure to your essay.

1. 9. Develop your body paragraphs by giving detailed information and examples. For example: When the Internet was first introduced it was used primarily by scientists, now it is common in every classroom.
2. 10. Body paragraphs should develop the central idea and finish with a summary of that idea. There should be at least two examples or facts in each body paragraph to support the central idea.
3. 11. The summary paragraph summarizes your essay and is often a reverse of the introductory paragrah.
4. 12. Begin the summary paragrah by quickly restating the principal ideas of your body paragraphs. For example: The Internet in the home, benefits and ease of use of modern computer systems...
5. 13. The penultimate sentence should restate your hypothesis of the essay. For example: We have now passed from the industrial revolution to the information revolution.
6. 14. Your final statement can be a future prediction based on what you have shown in the essay. For example: The next step: The complete disappearance of the workplace.

Free apps for young ESL learners

Happy 2017 everyone! Today we bring you 3 apps that your kid students can use in class or at home in order to keep developing their English skills. All of them are downloadable for free and support iOS or Android. Let's get started:

1. DUOLINGO

Duolingo is one of the best English language apps today and highly recommended for English beginners. The gamified learning system of the app helps you learn English quickly by spending twenty minutes a day. Duolingo structures your lessons that teaches you about seven new words based on a topic and skill points being awarded for completing the lessons.

More info and iOS download
More info and Android download

2. BESUU: Learn Languages

Busuu helps you learn English language on the go and the lesson's quality are guaranteed as it is based on CEFR language framework. Lessons range from beginner to advanced through comprehensive vocabulary, lesson dialogue, writing practice and tests. Busuu is actually a great English app if you want to improve your spoken English.

More info and iOS download
More info and Android download

3. MEMRISE

Memrise uses some creative and easy way to remember words for learning English. The focus of this app is to help the users expand their vocabulary by learning English words in a effective way. Memrise also offers an offline mode to continue learning without internet connection.

More info and iOS download
More info and Android download

Homophones: worksheets for kids

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. With this worksheets, kids choose the homophones that make sense in the sentences. Practice with common homophones helps kids with vocabulary development as well as spelling. Here we present a selection of free worksheets on this topic:

http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/homophones-same-sounds-second/

http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/homophones-see-the-sea-second/

http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/too-two/

http://www.jumpstart.com/common/beasley-and-homophones-view

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/homophones/homophone-clues_WBRMN.pdf

http://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/correct-the-homophones/view/

http://www.tlsbooks.com/pdf/homophones1and2.pdf

http://files.havefunteaching.com/free-worksheets/language-arts/homophones-worksheet-1.pdf

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0SPeY_PyGOodlFCMWY4ei1zUUk/edit

Test your Gammar Level Online

How well do you understand English? Which exam should you study for? 
This test contains grammar and vocabulary questions and your test result will help you choose a level to practise at. You will not be able to see the correct answers to the questions.
At the end of the test your level will be assessed at a CEF level (A2 to C2). You can choose to have the results sent to your email address.
You should complete this test in about 10 minutes. You can also do a listening level test.

Father's Day Worksheets for primary students

In many countries of the world we celebrate Father's Day the third sunday of June. For this reason I would like to recommend a really awesome website with plenty of nice activities for kids to celebrate this occasion. It has colouring worksheets, write-a-poem worksheets and game worksheets. All printable and free. Click the link next to the picture to check the worksheet collection. To access the worksheets you need to register to the site with an email address and username only.

Education.com

Listening comprehension activities with rock&pop songs

This website has very nice worksheets with lyrics of top40 songs and youtube videos from the songs attached to each entry. 

Teaching through songs with listening activities is an amazing opportunity to teach your students phrasal verbs, vocabulary terms, reported speech and passive voice rules.

Check the website here and let us know if it was useful :)

Free printable flashcards for young learners

Hello dear followers!

Today I bring an insteresting resource for those teachers who teach Vocabulary to children. This website contains many cartoon flashcards grouped by topic.

There are 100+ sets of free flashcards to print designed for curriculums for children ages 3-9 and 6-10.  These cards are excellent image quality and as such some of the files are quite large (1mb~4mb.)

For free download of the flashcards, click here.

Grammar Bank : Rules and worksheets 4 all

GrammarBank is where you can learn and practice English free online. We offer hundreds of online and printable grammar exercises, EFL ESL quizzes, lessons, reading comprehension worksheets, essay writing, vocabulary practice, great resources for teachers to use in their English classes. Learn the basic grammar rules, test your learning with numerous multiple choice or fill in exercises. All exercises, worksheets and handouts, printable or online, are free to help you learn and practice English or teach if you are a teacher, for you to use in classrooms, as homework assignments or as testing material.

Grammar Bank Printables / pdf

Free lesson plans and worksheets

School Specialty Intervention is part of School Specialty Inc., an education company devoted to providing a broad range of innovative programs and services designed to help educators engage, instruct, and inspire students of all abilities. EPS is proud to work with experts in the fields of reading, comprehension, vocabulary, phonics, critical thinking, and learning differences. Their published books are based on one common ground: to educate all english students, no matter their abilities or disabilities. Here we recommend their FREE TEACHING RESOURCES.

Great lesson plans, educational articles, and a wealth of other information available for teachers.

Teaching English with minimal resources

Every junior teacher who is facing her/his first teaching year is always hunting for tips and ideas for teaching English with minimal or no resources.
What happens when we have no coursebooks? Broken photocopier? Your favourite onestopenglish writers have come to the rescue with a section which is jam-packed with tips and ideas for teaching English with minimal or no resources. You and your students will love their ideas! Click on the author's name to read their suggestions.

Writing and Grammar Worksheets

Hello everyone! Today we want to recommend you EZSchool . It is a website that provides free printable ESL worksheets, maths worksheets, online games, study tools, tutorials, and stories for grades K-12. Everything is ready to print. Check it out here:

EZschool Worksheets

Teacher resourse bank (OUP Vocabulary Worksheets)

Do you need new ways of expanding your lower-level learners' vocabulary? Every month we have a new lesson Link with activities and worksheets for teachers to use in class and help learners discover and learn new words. Check it out !

Teacher Resource Bank by Oxford Univeristy Press Online.

Free grammar worksheets in pdf

This site offers a lot of free grammar (pdf) exercises, with answer key. Enjoy!
Vocabulary
Holidays
Phrasal Verbs
Tenses
Prepositions
Nouns and prenouns
Articles
Adjectives and Adverbs

Lanternfish ESL Worksheets and Lesson Plans

This is a great site containing lesson plans, worksheets, croswords, flashcards and articles about Grammar and Science for ESL children. Very resourceful !

Lanternfish ESL Worksheets and Lesson Plans

Welcome everyone !!

Welcome to our blog. The idea of the blog is to create an online community of teachers who can share ideas and materials for free in order to maximize time, quality and innovation in our lesson plans. Fell free to use / download any of the material posted here and we would appreciate if you could contribute with your own original material as well.

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