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Grammar corner How Technology Has Changed Our Lives

This is a productive activity for speaking and writing skills, based on cartoons that express through humorous pictures how technology has changed our lives....

Christmas Speaking Activity

This is a great speaking activity to develop fluency at Christmas time. Students take turns choosing a question to ask another student in their group....

Let's Talk about Christmas

This is a fun speaking activity that is great for developing fluency on the topic of Christmas....

Unreal Conditionals - Speaking Cards

This is a set of cards to practice unreal conditionals questions and short answers with your ESL students. They work in pairs or groups and interview each other....

Most Important English Formal and Informal Words

Here is a collection of the most important English formal and informal words....

12 Differences Between Pictures

This is a fun ESL speaking practice but also vocabulary and grammar reinforcement....

A Day at the Beach Picture Description

This is a set of images that ESL students can use to talk about a story in the past in English. You can also use these images to have them talk about things that are happening right now in the image using the present continuous tense. ...

Daily Routines Picture Description

This is a set of images that ESL students can use to talk about daily routines. You can also use these images to have them talk about things that are happening right now in the image using the present continuous tense....

Traveling Conversation Questions

Here are various discussion topics about traveling to encourage your ESL students to speak....

Summer Holiday Board Game

This is a fun conversation board game to speak about summer holidays with your ESL students....

Personal Information Questions and Answers

This is a great way to prepare students for their beginner's speaking and listening exam....

Annoying Habits

This is a great idea for a conversation class. Discuss these questions about annoying habits with your ESL students....

Conversation Cards about Experiences

These are fun conversation cards about experiences. Have your students pick a card, read out the questions and answer them....

At the Travel Agency: A Dialog related to Traveling

This is a conversation related to traveling. Read this dialog with your ESL students and create a similar roleplay in class....

Telephone Phrasal Verbs

Here are some useful telephone phrasal verbs that will help improve English speaking skills....

Idioms Using Travel Words

Here are some fun idioms using travel words to share with your ESL students....

10 Idioms About Books

Here are 10 fun idioms about books to share with your ESL students....

Roll a Silly Sentence

This is a fun silly sentence worksheet for English fun in your ESL classroom....

Likes and Dislikes Cards

Cut out the cards. Students work in pairs, put the cards face down and Like-Dislike cards face up on the desk. Then they take turns and say whether they like something or not and explain why....

Phrases For Disagreeing In English

Here are some useful phrases for disagreeing in English....

How to Give Bad News in English

Here are some useful phrases for giving bad news in English....

How to Politely End a Conversation in English

Here are some polite ways to end a conversation in English. ...

Ways to Say Delicious in English

Here are some alternative ways to say "delicious" in English....

Ways to Say Interesting in English

Here are some alternative ways to say "interesting" in English. ...

Ways to Say Because in English

Here are some alternative ways to say "because" in English....

Talk for a minute about - Speaking Cards

This "Talk for a Minute" topics activity is a great game to develop fluency and bring some fun into the ESL classroom. ...

Happiness Speaking Activity

This is a fun two-part speaking activity about happiness. First, have a class discussion with the question of part one and then have students discuss the quotes of part two in pairs....

Debate Cards about Technology

These are some fun cards you can use to practice debates in your ESL classes. Cut out the cards, students pick the card and should give their opinion on the statements written on it....

Would You Questions for ESL Students

These are some fun conversation cards with "Would you" questions for your ESL students. ...

All About Me Board Game

This is a fun board game with 'All About Me' related questions for intermediate and advanced students. This is a great way to get to know them at the beginning of a course....

My Favorites Board Game

This board game is a great way to get to know each other a little bit more and have fun at the same time....

The Feeling Circle

This feeling circle is perfect for ESL learners to expand their vocabulary and learn new ways to express themselves....

Let's Talk About Education

This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards and a matching exercise. The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions. Can be used with both young learners and adults (pre-int to upper-intermediate). Suitable for older teens, university students, and adults due to the more serious nature of this topic....

Let's Talk About Crime

This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards, a matching exercise, and some quotes. The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions. This can be used with both young learners and adults (pre-intermediate to upper-intermediate). ...

Talk About Love Speaking Cards

Let’s talk about LOVE! Here are fun ESL conversation cards for elementary to intermediate level students....

Let's talk about the NEWS

This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards and two vocabulary matching exercises (one with pictures). The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions. ...

Classroom Actions

These classroom actions are ideal to teach your beginner ESL students for smooth classroom management....

New Year's Speaking Activity

This is a great speaking task to develop fluency for talking about New Year's Eve, the past year, and the year to come. Have your students take turns to choose a card and ask the question to their partner/group....

5 Fun Christmas Idioms

Here are 5 fun English idioms and provers related to Christmas....

Christmas Party Vocabulary

If you are invited to a Christmas party, then you will need some English words and phrases connected with the Christmas Party season....

10 Christmas Idioms and Proverbs

Here are 10 fun English idioms and provers related to Christmas....

ESL Christmas Speaking Activity

This is a great speaking activity is for developing fluency on the topic of Christmas....

Advantages and Disadvantages Board Game

This is a fun ESL board game about the advantages and disadvantages of different topics. The students roll the dice and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the topic they land on....

ESL Speaking Activity about Animals

These speaking cards about animals are ideal for teen ESL students to practice speaking or can be used as class openers or finishers and even as writing prompts....

Reported Speech - 12 Dialogs

This activity will help your EFL students practice the usage of reported speech. Students work in pairs/groups take the cards and should report the dialogs in the indirect speech....

English Idioms about Happiness

Here are 8 English idioms about happiness. Teach them to you ESL students and have some fun!...

Places in Town - Giving Directions

Have the students match numbers to the pictures of places in town on this ESL worksheet....

Asking for and Giving Directions ESL Worksheet

This ESL worksheet focuses on asking and giving directions ...

Fruit Idioms and Phrases with Meanings and Examples

Here's a list of commonly used fruit idioms in English. They are incredibly fun to teach to your ESL learners....

Time Idioms and Phrases with Meanings and Examples

Here's a list of commonly used time idioms in English. They are incredibly fun to teach to your ESL learners....

Animal Idioms and Phrases with Meanings and Examples

Here's a list of commonly used animal idioms in English. They are incredibly fun to teach to your ESL learners....

Let's Talk: Daily Activities

This is a great speaking activity to talk about daily activities. Your students roll the die twice to find a question to talk about. The first roll determines the number on the top and the second roll determines the number on the left....

Where Are You - Giving Directions

Look at the map and then complete the sentences using the right prepositions of place....

Asking and Giving Directions Phrases in English

These phrases will help your students learn how to ask and give directions in English....

Giving Directions Tips

Here's a great activity for practicing how to give directions in English. Help your students ask how to get from one place to another....

Interactive ESL Transportation Board Game

This is a fun board game around the topic of travel and transportation to help teach students language connected to traveling and modes of transport....

Role-play: Complaining at a shop

This is a role-playing game to practice complaints in a shop. There are four different situations to complain about....

Asking for Clarifications in English

Here are some useful phrases for asking for clarifications in English....

Phrases for Holding Presentations in English

Here are some useful phrases for business presentations in English from setting the scene, over announcing the new topic to finishing off....

Business English Phrases for Meetings

Here are some really useful Business English phrases for starting and closing meetings, conference calls, and small talk with other business professionals....