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 worksheet works great with intermediate students. First, they complete the lyrics of the song The Beauty and a Beat by Justin Bieber with the missing words. Then, they work on several activit ...
This power point presentation is for beginners. It is a funny way to introduce past simple of verb be, jobs and prepositions of place. You can make it like a game and ask your students to guess th ...
This PowerPoint gives a brief overview of key points regarding Abraham Lincoln. It includes some vocabulary and links to a variety of websites for students to obtain additional information. Abra ...
This is a worksheet for elementary or pre-intermediate teenage or young learners. The activities in this worksheet should help the learners practice and improve their reading skills. The text its ...
In this worksheet, the student must describe Phoebe: build, height, hair, nose, eyes.... The beginning is written and the students have hints to complete the description.Then the student can descr ...
In this exercise, students must introduce the characters of "Friends" (surname, age, origin, likes and dislikes etc). The first one is Chandler, the beginning of the sentences is already written. ...
This worksheet contains the biography of Mark Twain which is followed by a reading comprehension exercise and some exercises to practise the Past Simple tense - regular and irregular verbs; affirm ...
This worksheet contains a lot of information about great and famous people' contributions to develop their countries. Students should know their heroes and be proud of them. It can be used after t ...
Speaking activity with famous people, that requires the use of the past of verb to be, especially. There are some famous people from the U.S. and from Brazil. If the students are not from Brazil, ...
This handout has guidelines for a writing assignment about a famous person. The students have to write a paragraph about a person, but through their point of view. They have to write a 10-12 line ...
This is a great activity to get students using the simple present and simple past tense (depending on who they have to make 5 clues about). Students are given one of the 10 famous people featured ...
Students have to find mistakes in given sentences and pictures help them understand any unknown words (the words I thought would be unknown are in bold). Then they can practice questions in pairs. ...
This is a mind map to help pupils select the necessary information on the internet in order for them to write a quiz about their favourite star. They can also use it to do a guessing game about st ...
Students work in groups and try to gather each person's biography. Then I suggest they write it fully changing some words, adding some linkwords to make the text more readable. Then we can ask pup ...
In this activity, students watch and listen to Obama's victory speech in the 2012 election. In the first phase, while listening to Obama's speech, they have to complete the transcript with the mis ...
A computer class is needed or students should do this task at home. Students go to the site of "Shakespeare's Globe" and try to answer the questions in the worksheet. We did the activity in class, ...
This is a prelistening worksheet for the song Ready or Not by Bridgit Mendler. In Part A, students discuss the 3 famous people mentioned in the song and what they know about them. In Part B, stude ...
Hey guys, this worksheet is designed to practice Simple Past Tense. It is a simple introduction of Vincent Van Gogh taken from the Internet. Students work in pairs and they have to ask each other ...
It's a reading and speaking activity.There's a text with some information about Kate Perry; right after there's a text comprehension activity. Ater the teacher has corrected it, he/she can go thro ...
Simple cards featuring a variety of famous people (most of them no longer with us) to be used when practicing years, birthdays plus introduction of the past simple of to be. I created them with my ...
This is a reading worksheet for intermediate and upper-intermediate students. It starts with a speaking warm-up where students are to discuss a few work-related quotes. Next, they move on to a spe ...
This worksheet describes the latina pop star Shakira and her involvement in UNICEF as a Goodwill Ambassador. It is designed for the advanced ESL student, whose primary orientation is Hispanic. It ...
This 26-page PPT can be used either to introduce the vocabulary around Halloween or to revise it. On each page there is a picture illustrating the vocabulary and students have to answer the quest ...
This worksheet is useful to get acquainted for students. They will learn what is necessary to tell people about themselves and what questions are necessary to ask. Ss are to pretend themselves one ...
An exercise to describe two famous people, Zac Ephron and Vanessa Hudgens by ticking in the correct boxes. The choices are: Body (height, build), hair (length, color) eyes, appearance and other de ...
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