ESL Kid Stuff
Time Frequency - "How Often ...?"
How often do you ride a bike? Time frequency words are featured in a lesson designed for ESL/ELD classrooms.
British Council
Learning English through Short Stories
Use short stories to teach English? Yes! Designed as a professional development opportunity for English language teachers, the ideas in this booklet can easily be adapted to advanced ESL/ELL classes.
Curated OER
Social Problems
An adult ESL class brainstorm what they believe to be the major problems in Namibia. In groups, they use the list of problems and put them into the order of the most critical and the reasons why. They research possible solutions and...
Curated OER
Reading Skills: Chunking
Prepare advanced English learners and low-level readers for the reading demands of post-secondary education with skill of chunking. Readers learn to make meaning from phrases rather than individual words, helping them to read more...
Curated OER
How Much Is It? A Shopping Lesson Plan for ESL
Young scholars participate in a role-playing activity in order to practice conversational English used while shopping. In this practical vocabulary lesson, students practice etiquette as it pertains to grocery shopping. Young...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature: Friend and Foe: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 6)
If readers don't understand key portions of a text, it may seem more like a foe than a friend. The second resource in a series of three ESL lessons designed to accompany the texts in Nature: Friend or Foe makes the texts easier to...
Curated OER
Reported Speech Soccer for ESL
Students explore English by participating in a class trivia activity. In this group speech lesson, students collaborate in small groups and identify phrases and terms on flash cards which they keep track of. Students utilize their...
Curated OER
Film Festival: An ESL Lesson Plan to Get Students Talking About Movies Part II
Learners discuss movies currently playing in theaters. In this class discussion, students practice their oral dictation, retelling of information and the ability to carry a social conversation. Learners also complete a worksheet...
Curated OER
Airport English: A Role-Play for ESL
Learners explore the skills needed to navigate an airport. In this foreign language lesson, students discuss the skills they will need in order to make it through customs with as little trouble as possible.
Curated OER
Community Language Learning
Students discuss whatever they wish and have their English conversations recorded by a tape recorder. If Students speaks using incorrect English, the teacher repeats what was said with proper English for the student to hear. Students...
Curated OER
ESL: Present Forms
In this ESL present forms activity, students choose the correct word to fill in a blank in a sentence, selecting from a drop down list. Page has a link to additional resources.
Curated OER
ESL: Gerunds and Infinitives
In this ESL gerunds and infinitives worksheet, students complete 10 multiple choice questions, choosing the phrase that correctly completes a sentence. A website reference for additional resources is given.
Curated OER
ESL Spelling #4
For this ESL spelling worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct spelling of words. A website reference is included for additional resources.
Curated OER
ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?
In this tense worksheet, students use a given verb and re-write sentences using its correct form: continuous or simple past. Links to additional resources are given.
Curated OER
ESL: Possessive Nouns
In this possessive nouns worksheet, students read 4 rules for making possessive nouns, completing short exercises after each. Page contains multiple links to additional resources.
Curated OER
Various Questions
A great exercise for English language learners or youngsters learning how to question, this resource provides practice using pictures to recognize words. After the class has completed the fill-in-the-blank portion, have them walk around...
Curated OER
Adjectives: ESL
In these English Language adjectives worksheets, students learn adjectives by tracing the words, printing them on their own, and then using the pictures to help them write the matching adjective on their own.
Curated OER
ESL Verbs 2
In these verbs worksheets, students trace the verbs in the first worksheet several times, print them on their own in the second worksheet, and finish by writing the verbs on their own in the final worksheet.
Curated OER
ESL Vocabulary Trace: Places
In this English Language vocabulary acquisition worksheets, students trace the vocabulary words for the places. Students also print the words on their own.
Curated OER
ESL Vocabulary Trace and Read: Animals
In these English Language vocabulary worksheets, students use the pictures to first trace the animal words, print them on their own, and then identify the words to write them on the blank lines.
Curated OER
ESL Verb Word Search
In these verb worksheets, students complete several word searches by finding the verbs in the word searches. Students are given the verbs to find in the first worksheet, but must use the illustrated pictures to determine the verbs to...
Curated OER
ESL Trace and Read: School
In this English Language trace and read worksheets, students learn vocabulary words about school by tracing and then printing the words for each school picture.
Curated OER
ESL Vocabulary Word Search: Fruit
In these English Language word search worksheets, students search the six different crossword puzzles to help them find the fruit vocabulary terms.
Curated OER
ESL Vocabulary Word Search: Animals
In these English Language vocabulary worksheets, learners complete six word search puzzles by finding the animal vocabulary words in each puzzle.