If you have never used celebrities or biographies in your ESL classroom, now might be the perfect time to try it out. Here we have gathered 257 FREE worksheets on this topic that are appropriate for different age ranges and ability levels. This celebrity worksheet, for example, contains the biographies of Prince William and Kate Middleton who fascinated people around the world as they prepared for their elaborate wedding. Created with intermediate learners in mind, there are no activities included but since the reading material has already been created, this is a good start on a lesson about this famous young couple. If you are not interested in this topic, there are other worksheets available too.
Since everyone has a favorite celebrity, try to include them in class from time to time. When teaching descriptive words, you can describe famous celebrities and let students guess who you are talking about. You can also give students secret celebrity identities that their partners have to guess based on the answers of yes or no questions. Description lessons are just one opportunity that you can use to talk about celebrities but there are many other times you might want to use them too. It is important to use age appropriate people so that students are sure to know who they are. Using celebrities that students have never heard of defeats the purpose. This is an opportunity to get students more interested in lesson material so go ahead and find out who they are interested in.
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This handout can be used for practicing either “Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives” or “Used to”. There are several pictures of celebrities students have to describe and ...
It's a worksheet about Obama's life, where your students will discuss the President's actions using 'since' and 'for' - according to the reading comprehension. They are going to compare the presen ...
A simple text i've made for one of my junior students. We were making a workbook built around a knight story, so the main character was Sir Arthur. This text describes his daily activities. Also c ...
The activities presented in the worksheet are designed to improve students’ listening skills in an exciting and amusing way. Nine questions are based on the video about Barbie and some fact ...
Song worksheet with different pre-, while and post-listening exercises. First there's Pink's biography with an activity. Then there are listening activities, for example find the mistake, match th ...
This is a pairwork activity in which students have to ask and answer questions about Charlie Chaplin and Agatha Cristie. Each student has to ask questions about a famous person in order to find t ...
Short Justin Bieber's biography with several comprehension questions + interview questions and answers for matching. After this activity do listening using his "Baby" song worksheet (w ...
It's an interview about the history of St. Patrick's Day and St. Patrick himself. The worksheet contains a list of comprehension questions for the video. You students are supposed to listen and th ...
Project: Interview with a celebrity (football player). It can be used as a model to teach vocabulary about football and first and second conditional. It is just a set of teacher's notes, you do n ...
This is a short article about Spiderman 4 which will be on in 2012. In the article Kirsten Dunst tells what she thinks about Spiderman series and about a new one - Spiderman 4, she says who will s ...
It contains a text with the title The story behind the bus which can be used within the subject of racism and discrimination, human and civil rights. It also contains questions to check ...
This worksheet provides good practice of present and past tenses along with adjectives while talking about a celebrity or one's champion. It is intended for pre-intermediate to intermediate learne ...
This is an important year for the Royals, and all the teachers of English around the world are looking for information about the most famous couple of the moment. So, I've prepared two short biog ...
This material is for a writing lesson. At first students have to write the answers to the questions in the boxes. Then they put the boxes in the correct order to make the story. Eventually, studen ...
Text about musicians who managed to follow their careers and become well known in the world of music. They are the perfect example that people with any kind of disability can lead a normal daily l ...
This worksheet helps you revise the past simple tense by combining the grammar activity with a guessing game about celebrities who are dead. A) in a first step you introduce a celebrity step by st ...
Here is a short biography of Bob Marley with the text of one of his best songs. You can have students first read a short article about the artist and then listen to this song downloaded from a CD ...
This is material for specialized school. This is material for for English literature lesson. It tells about one of the period of the English literature The Renaissance. There are also portraits o ...
This is an introduction to the past simple tense. First students read and answer some questions about Mata Hari, the famous spy, then they are asked to reflect on grammar rules based on the bio an ...
This is a great roleplay worksheet that will keep your students talking for as long as you want them to :)
There are cards with the situation about interviewing a celebrity who is 1000 year ...
Hello Folks! This worksheet is actually a "Back to School" lesson plan to review WH questions with students throught games. Students will be able to prepare questions and answer them during the cl ...
Great for intermediate-uppermediate level students. A lesson plan in two parts. Part A) Are you a compulsive shopper - a quiz.Then Ss read some extracts on copmpulsive shopping, compare shopaholis ...
Every teacher knows how exciting and motivating it is for students to 'try on' a new personality, to have a chance to be someone else - even for a few minutes!
That's why all sorts of 'impersonat ...
Read the text about Diego and answer some questions. Also fill in the blanks in a text about his daily routine. With this worksheet you can practice reading comprehension and question words, also ...
The first page has some international celebrities and the second one has some flags. The thing is that the students have to match the celebrities with their nationalities. They have to cut them fi ...
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