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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Students have to complete the gaps with a word or two while watching a video about unsuccessful plastic surgery. It's suitable for the topic of beauty, physical appearance.
I used this animated PP to tell my students about this famous writer: her family, education, private life, novels, writing style. PP gives some information on women's writes in the 19 century. It ...
It's a useful Power Point presentation about William Shakespeare's works and the theatre of the Renaissance. It helps students who study a bit of English literature to better understand the magic ...
I designed this worksheet to practice indirect questions. A student will play one of the roles in it as a celebrity, while the others may ask questions based on the gists given. Of course, you can ...
This is a role-play game for intermediate and advanced students. They have to work in pairs, one student will be a famous person and the other one will be the interviewer. Students will practice t ...
This vocabulary may be useful for your students when they need to talk about their birthday parties and also students will use some verbs for celebrations. The power point presentation will contai ...
This Elvis Presley biography is a good reading practice, as well as a gap-fill exercise where our learners decide whether to use active or passive. There's a song ''Suspicious Minds'' with a link ...
You'll find the answers to the worksheet Sport at Heart. First of all, the students must pick out the different monuments they can recognize. Secondly, they must match the sportsmen and sportswome ...
First of all, the students should work in a computer room or a language laboratory in order to check the information they need on the Internet. The first part is based on the visual aspect of the ...
This is an interesting activity for your students to use past tense and question formation. In pairs they have to prepare an interview to a famous person, the dates and facts are provided. 10 minu ...
It's a board game based on the game "perfil". This board game contains two categories: person and country. The teacher prints the board and the cards. At the classroom, the teacher divides the stu ...
Younger students will have fun meeting and colouring (they can paint the original colours or maybe their flag colours) the 2012 Olympic (Wenlock) and Paralympic (Mandeville) Mascots. You can also ...
This listening gap-fill and speaking activity sheet is designed to help students learn and detect some common idioms and expressions as well as giving them some informal English. It works well as ...
Mr. Bean's real identity is revealed. This worksheet contains Rowan Atkinson's biography as well as reading comprehension questions and the key. This worksheet was designed for Mexican ELL's in th ...
A power point with famous people from all over the world to teach about countries and nationalities. The teacher can use it to review the names of the countries and the nationalities of people who ...
This worksheet is designed for elementary students of English. It can be even used as a review of past simple, present simple and adjectives. The first famous person is Ayrton Senna and there are ...
This is a worksheet that can be used to revise the past simple tense of some regular and irregular verbs. In this exercise you can find eight extracts from famous people's biographies. To this tas ...
A short biography of M. Thatcher for some students might not know her with a very easy exercise on vocabulary and questions for post watching discussion. The aim is to get intermediate and higher ...
This is a fun activity to revise common adjectives of description. There is a picture of a famous person on one side of the domino and an adjective on the other side. As with normal dominoes, the ...
This is a current events activity using the passive voice. Students will read the information and then create passive voice questions and answers for discussion. Two examples are given. It can be ...
It is a very easy comprehension activity for complete beginners. A short video clip can be shown and students are encouraged to speak about their hobbies and their favourite footballer. Then the ...
A very short and simple exercise to work the simple past tense. In this page, the students must read and write the correct form of the verbs that are in brackets in simple present, this exercise i ...
This is a short presentation about Roald Dahl that you can use when discussing his books. Besides there is an extra task to encourage your student to speak (to tell about the book they would take ...
This is a bio you can use to teach american history in a funny way. students love to pretend to be important people. I use it in a role play activity where students pretend to be wax statues in a ...
This worksheet is a test in which you have a reading comprehension activity, use of english and writing, where students have to use the three tenses, past simple, past continuous and present perfe ...
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