66 FREE Politics Worksheets

FREE Politics Worksheets

You have found the politics section of Busy Teacher where you will find 66 related worksheets. There are a number of ways you can include this topic in your classes and the different worksheets available reflect that. This is one such worksheet. It has a number of activities that can help intermediate students learn about elections. The topics of the sample elections are a little basic so you might want to alter them a bit for classes with high school students or adults. There are other worksheets in this section that can help you address different aspects of politics.
This is another topic that is not suitable for everyone and will certainly ruffle some feathers if you plan to discuss a specific historical or current event. To avoid controversy in your classroom consider conducting an activity like the example above. A good time to look at the passive voice is when you are reading political articles because it is often used in them. Rather than place the blame squarely where it belongs by using the active voice, things are phrased differently to deflect the blow. “The President did this.” is totally different from “This was done.” where no one is accused of performing the action. Whether or not you decide to include this topic in your course, the worksheets are here and free for you to use at any time.

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The Election Day (USA)

The Election Day (USA)

Renata Bródka
  This text is adapted from the NYT and provides information and language practice for upper intermediate students. It includes two reading comprehension exercises. It can also be read to ...
1 Views 13,597 IntAdv
Past Simple Tense: How Kamala Harris Went From Prosecutor to Vice Presidential Candidate

Past Simple Tense: How Kamala Harris Went From Prosecutor to Vice Presidential Candidate

Anastasiia
  This grammar practice and listening worksheet focuses on the use of the Past Simple tense. The video helps students to check their answers. They observe the use of the tense and practise ...
1 Views 33,427 Pre-IntInt
Biography – Barack Obama

Biography – Barack Obama

  This biography about Barack Obama can be used when teaching students about political and historical figures. Students carry out research and find out more interesting facts about the 44t ...
2 Views 13,384 ElemPre-Int
Maps, Central Europe and History

Maps, Central Europe and History

Anastasiia
This worksheet introduces the historical and political changes in Central Europe and can be used to teach history and geography-related modules. The activity is organized around the video that ...
1 Views 6,027 IntAdv
Cloze Exercise – Abraham Lincoln

Cloze Exercise – Abraham Lincoln

  This fun educational cloze activity can be used in your class when teaching students reading comprehension. Students read the facts about the 16th President of the United States, Abraham ...
1 Views 6,692 ElemPre-Int
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American Elections Debate

American Elections Debate

Hellen Haga
  This group activity can also be done in pairs. It includes 4 tasks and a warm-up: Warm-up: ask what students already know about the electoral college; Task 1: watch and discuss a video i ...
1 Views 5,478 Adv
Comparing Athens to Sparta Worksheet

Comparing Athens to Sparta Worksheet

Mark T
We owe a lot of our military tactics, culture, and democracy to Ancient Sparta and Athens. This sheet looks at the contributions from both civilizations and allows students to reflect on ho ...
1 Views 12,577 IntAdv
Constitution Day in Russia

Constitution Day in Russia

The worksheet includes 4 short texts about Constitution Day in Russia and 10 exercises. Most of the exercises are based on the texts, but some of them are also connected to the topic "The Politica ...
1 Views 7,020 ElemPre-Int
Second Conditional - If I were President

Second Conditional - If I were President

English Through Videos
This worksheet is designed to be used with a YouTube video. It helps learners practise using the Second Conditional or Unreal Conditional. It is a multiple choice and discussion activity. Studen ...
1 Views 47,091 Pre-IntIntAdv
Vote for Us! - 1st Conditional Practice

Vote for Us! - 1st Conditional Practice

Tom Leventhall
•, Politics
A fun, interactive way to practice the first conditional. Students begin by discussing and assessing a number political parties (some real, some just for fun). After that, each group gets to des ...
1 Views 32,848 Pre-IntInt
Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech

Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech

Angie Kokolaki
Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes and gave an amazing acceptance speech. You can watch it via YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube=http://www.youtube.co ...
9 Views 11,874 Pre-IntInt
White Helmet Heroes

White Helmet Heroes

Larysa Honcharuk
white-helmet-heroes.docx [74.12 Kb] (Count: 1739)A video-based activity about war in Syria and White Helmet Heroes. The worksheet can be a good conversation starter focusing on the notion of heroism and bravery as well as war ...
4 Views 11,355 IntAdvExam
C1/C2 Conversation - $1 Could Soon Be Worth ˆ1

C1/C2 Conversation - $1 Could Soon Be Worth ˆ1

Dale Kirkwood
A nice worksheet for advanced students. I couldn't ever find anything challenging enough for C1/C2 students who wanted to learn some complicated words and have a good read. I think this would make ...
13 Views 51,911 AdvExam
Movie Worksheet: What Is the U.S. Electoral College and How Does It Work?

Movie Worksheet: What Is the U.S. Electoral College and How Does It Work?

Adele
Electoral procedures in the US can be difficult to understand as they are complex and unique. Here's a link to a video on youtube that explains in simple terms what the US Electoral College is an ...
4 Views 10,531 IntAdv
Reactions to US Elections Results: Trump's Victory

Reactions to US Elections Results: Trump's Victory

Chocolate addict
This worksheet includes a video about the reasons of Trump's victory and a short article from the New York Times (a reaction by a contributing opinion writer). We are not supposed to discuss our p ...
18 Views 19,987 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: US Elections 2016

Movie Worksheet: US Elections 2016

Ellen
Worksheet about the US elections in November 2016. Includes speaking, reading, vocabulary, listening based on Trump and Clinton's post Orlando speeches and a writing prompt about global risks.&nbs ...
29 Views 19,132 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Brexit Advanced

Movie Worksheet: Brexit Advanced

hellen haga
This was designed to discuss the arguments which led to the referendum result on 23rd of June. It has interesting vocabulary to work with, it envolves a great deal of speaking because students mus ...
3 Views 16,051 Adv
Movie Worksheet: President Obama's Statement on the Paris Attacks

Movie Worksheet: President Obama's Statement on the Paris Attacks

BusyTeacher Contributor
This is a worksheet for a listening and viewing comprehension about a statement that President Obama gave just after the attacks took place. Recommended level is pre-intermediate. It goes with thi ...
4 Views 15,801 Pre-Int
Song Worksheet: Million Voices by Polina Gagarina (Eurovision 2015)

Song Worksheet: Million Voices by Polina Gagarina (Eurovision 2015)

Lerlechka
This beautiful song performed by Russian singer Polina Gagarina is represented at the contest "Eurovision 2015". It is about faith in future, friendship of all peoples and world peace. In this wor ...
7 Views 10,697 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Speaking Club Lesson Plan

Speaking Club Lesson Plan

•Politics,
A lesson plan for a speaking club meeting at the end of which students will make a presentation of their project and film an advertising campaign video. The topic of the project is how to imp ...
7 Views 74,812 Pre-IntInt
The Rabbits Who Caused the Trouble

The Rabbits Who Caused the Trouble

A fable by James Thurber , reading comprehension. I love this story because it shows how prejudice can lead to hatred and the text can lead to a debate or discussion with students . Here are t ...
9 Views 17,802 Adv
Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution

Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution

• » Politics
This activity is about Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. There is a listening exercise in which students will watch a video in the background of the protest and answer some questions. In the other ...
5 Views 6,873 IntAdv
Auschwitz: Surprising Beginnings 1 of 5

Auschwitz: Surprising Beginnings 1 of 5

This is a listening activity with a set of questions with a link to youtube video included in the file. Nothing extraordinary but fits perfecty well when you want to conduct a lesson about history ...
3 Views 9,019 IntAdv
The British Royal Family 5 (1-5)

The British Royal Family 5 (1-5)

This is a set of five sheets that can be used for speaking lessons.  The first sheet offers an introduction to the members of the royal family, the second sheet uses a youtube inter ...
4 Views 14,168 Pre-IntInt
The British Royal Family 3 (1-5)

The British Royal Family 3 (1-5)

This is a set of five sheets that can be used for speaking lessons.  The first sheet offers an introduction to the members of the royal family, the second sheet uses a youtube inter ...
5 Views 13,002 Pre-IntInt

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