Ready to start your class off right? The first day of class is an important time for teachers and students alike - it’s the time to learn all your students’ names, set the tone for your classroom, and make sure everyone’s feeling relaxed and ready to learn. You probably don’t want to charge in with too much new material on the very first day - after all, it’s important for your students to feel relaxed around you, and around each other, so they’ll be comfortable enough to learn and produce the new ESL concepts you’ll be sharing with them. The question is, how can you help them feel relaxed?
With BusyTeacher.org’s 265 resources for the first day of school, of course! Whether you’re kicking off a class with a brand-new set of level-one ESL students, or launching a final class with a group of level-five students approaching full fluency, you’ll find resources here to break the ice and get your class laughing and talking like they’ve known each other for years.
Want to start things off as simply as possible? BusyTeacher.org has simple fill-in-the-blank worksheets that can encourage your students to share a few basic facts about themselves. Want to open with a fun game? We’ve got a wide variety of games for all ESL levels. Want to kick off your class with a funny activity that’ll get everyone laughing together? BusyTeacher.org has got you covered, with silly exercises that’ll melt even the most frigid classroom.
Whether your class if full of young kids or full-grown business English students, BusyTeacher.org’s 265 first-day-of-school worksheets offer something just right for your class. We’ve got worksheets with friendly pictures and simple vocabulary, worksheets based on popular movies and songs, exercises that let your students review what they did over the holidays, and even colorful posters to hang on your classroom wall.
All this variety comes thanks to BusyTeacher.org’s worldwide community of participating ESL teachers, who are kind enough to share the worksheets and other resources they develop in their own classrooms. Every worksheet you’ll find on this site is completely free to download, print,and use as you see fit - no registration required. But if you ever have a worksheet you’d like to share with our community, don’t hesitate to click the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page, because we’d love to see your creation.
You can dive into our collection of first-day-of-school worksheets in a few different ways. If you’re not sure where to start, you can take a look at the top ten most popular worksheets - or search our collection using the search box at the top of this page. If you’d rather browse, you’ll see that all our worksheets can be previewed in handy “Quick View” mode, so you can get a good look at their first pages before you download them.
BusyTeacher’s 265 first-day-of-school worksheets are here whenever you need them - so don’t forget to bookmark this page, and come back whenever you need some ready-made resources for the first day of your class. And when you find something you like, just download it, print it, and use it - it’s all here for you!
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Can your students recognize common classroom objects? On this worksheet, students must look at the picture, and then select the classroom item that best connects with the picture. Find more themed ...
With this worksheet, students can practice writing plural nouns and learn words for common back-to-school objects. Students must look at the picture, and then select the correct form of the plural ...
Teach students words related to going back to school with this Back to School Word and Picture Matching Worksheet. Students must draw a line to match each picture with the word that represents it. ...
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I use this activity at the beginning of the school year to make a revision of the basics: ame, age, expression of love and dislike, conjugation, etc.. Students usually love it. First I introduce t ...
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