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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The worksheet consists of bio-like story of famous singer Lady Gaga and has some funny facts about the singer below. I edited information as much as possible and avoided long sentences with many d ...
It's a worksheet to help you practice British Royal Family vocabulary to the text "Royal Couple" (Solution Elementary 2 ed. Unit 1 p.10 ) The task can include: reading the text and filling the bl ...
I made a worksheet for my intermediate students about American presidents. I know that there a lot of texts about them but I don't really like boring texts. So I found that Animaniacs' song is fun ...
The worksheet includes four biographies of famous people (Thomas Edison, Ada Lovelace, Elvis Presley, Leonardo da Vinci) with gaps to fill in correct past simple forms. My suggestion is to divide ...
This is an activity of our foundator Saint John Baptiste de la Salle. You can project a video or a presentation and then you can build a similar timeline in a student's notebook. For this activity ...
Read the text comparing famous people nowadays and heroes in the past, and do different activities: answering questions, finding synonyms, true or false statements and writing. Designed for elemen ...
An interesting interview with Emma Watson from the Times magazine series "Ten questions for..." where the questions asked are selected from the questions sent by readers. There are several questio ...
This is a worksheet to review simple past and present perfect related to famous singer Rihanna. Students complete the sentences related to her life, write her biography, complete an interview and ...
This role play represents an interview between a celebrity and a journalist. Apart from students’ worksheets it is also supplied with 6 short biographies of famous people from Wikipedia that ...
This activities are about Bob Marley, they were taken from http://famouspeoplelessons.com/ In the webpage you have the audio if you would like to use it. The activity includes: synonym m ...
This is a great gap-fill exercise to practice asking and answering questions in Past Simple for elementary students. This activity can involve up to 8 people with the aim to collect all the inform ...
Reading comprehension - Nelson Mandela. This English worksheet includes a short comprehension about Nelson Mandela and was created for children of 7 - 9 years old. Children read the text and answe ...
Famous people: Nelson Mandela. This English resource was created for children of 9 - 11 years old. It is a research topic that asks students to write a short article about Nelson Mandela. There ar ...
Use these five dictations after covering such topics as Famous People, Traveling, Health and Fitness. Make sure that you pre-teach unknown vocabulary in class before your students put their pencil ...
This is a worksheet I used with my 4th graders. It contains the biography of this popular singer as well as of his band. They work with vocabulary from the biographies and it also contains 2 readi ...
A basic reading comprehension exercise based on a famous film actor. It practises the simple tense of ' to be', personal subject pronouns, and some useful vocabulary like the family words. It can ...
This is a coloful PPT presentation which will help you to monitor the knowledge of your students about the biography of the playwright, his works and quotations in an amusing way. This game is bas ...
A PPT presentation is devoted to the age of Elizabeth the First, a prominent playwright - William Shakespeare, places of interest in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's works and the "Globe". The ...
This song is used as the basis for an American literature class:as it is the soundtrack of the movie "the Great Gatsby",it gives teachers the chance to explain a little bit about Fitzgerald and hi ...
This worksheet is created to work on present simple and the adverbs of frequency, and at the same time to learn about the everyday activities of a tennis player. Students must put the verbs ...
The activity is based on the song Faster by Sofi de la Torre. It contains the text on the unique way of Sofi's singing, the lyrics of her song with gap filling tasks and some questions to compare ...
This activity is based on the song Look at Me by Geri Halliwell. It features some facts from the singer's biography and contains a task where students should put the lines in the correct order whi ...
I use this Power Point Presentation to get my pedagogical college students interested while studing the topic "Your futute profession". Students are to find the equivalents for topic words, to rea ...
This is a quizz about what the students know about South Africa and Apartheid. Before doing this test, we studied the history of South Africa, the Apartheid system and Nelson Mandela's biography. ...
Students love music, it's a great source for teachers to connect to their feelings and experiences. I've designed a lesson plan using this famous singer profile. Adele´s story can inspire a ...
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