Looking to discuss family and friends in your ESL classroom? If so, you have come to the right place. With 346 free, printable worksheets in this section alone, BusyTeacher is here to make planning lessons easier. This activity for elementary learners looks at a family tree to help students understand family related vocabulary words. There are a number of activities included in this worksheet but you can choose the ones you feel are most important; it is easy to download and alter this worksheet to suit your needs. The last activity is a short writing activity that gives students the chance to talk about their own families which is great practice. If your students have already covered basic family vocabulary, take a look at the other worksheets in this section for something that will mesh with your lesson plan better.
Family and friends play an important role in our lives so students should have the opportunity to talk about them in class. These are important topics especially when studying family vocabulary or descriptive words and when discussing holidays or vacations. These are just a few times you should think about using these topics in your lessons but there are many more and the worksheets available in this section should give you some inspiration for lesson plans.
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Watch the movie and check how well your students remember facts from there by playing a game of trivia. The first slide is made to let students guess what movie they are going to watch: fact will ...
This is the second reading worksheet in this series for adult learners of English. It follows the O'Malley family (introduced in the last worksheet) on a Sunday morning. Generally, I give these w ...
Watch a legendary Christmas family movie with your students to enjoy Christmas season even more. The handout is based on the first part of the movie: 0:00 - 51:20. This is not an easy movie to wat ...
The first worksheet in a series of reading activities for A2 / B1 adult learners of English. This is one page of reading, with some questions on the back. I made these worksheets as the first ste ...
Girls Like You - Maroon 5 It is an activity with different exercises. Match the sentences, Choose the correct word, Find the extra word, Put the sentences in the corect order, Unscramble the word ...
A worksheet designed to accompany the first episode of the sitcom "Modern Family." Contains preliminary activities (family member vocabulary and a vocabulary match) as well as a series of discussi ...
This is a simple family tree with pictures of grandmother, grandfather son and two daughters and their respective wives, husbands and children. I use it to present family vocabulary and possessive ...
This is a great worksheet for young learners and is best used to reinforce family vocabulary. Have them fill in the blanks with the correct family member and have them draw a picture of that famil ...
This is a simple and easy reading comprehension worksheet on the topic family, physical description and the present simple tense. The worksheet is available in both colour and black and white ...
A basic lyrics gap-fill activity for beginner students for the "Baby Shark" song from Super Simple Songs. You can find the video file on Youtube. I used this worksheet as the first part of the les ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for young learners. It's suitable for reviewing school objects, family, shapes and rooms. In this game you will play a song, ask students to pass the b ...
This power-point presentation is appropriate for elementary students. This is helpful for reviewing numbers, school objects, family and body parts related vocabulary items. Hope you find it useful.
This power-point presentation is useful for teaching, practicing and reviewing family related vocabulary items. It's appropriate for elementary and young learners. Hope you find it useful in ...
This game is appropriate for young learners at elementary level. It's related to family vocabulary items. You have to divide the class into two groups. Each group should choose a letter, click on ...
This worksheet includes a reading passage in which students complete the passage by using the words from the table. It also includes two other reading comprehension exercises (answering questions ...
This is a speaking and/or writing drilling exercise to review or consolidate family members vocabulary and the famous possessive 's which may cause so many problems to some students when they refe ...
This is one of the best episodes in the series, suitable for Christmas. Will be suitable for B1+ levels. I divided the 21-minute long episode into two parts and made true-or-false statements to ea ...
Complete beginners worksheet to practice his and her adjectives. By making use of a well known family it will be easy to infer meaning to help ss go through the worksheet. It can also be useful to ...
I used this worksheet in values, when working with "friendship". There is also a video on youtube which supports the handout and will help the students to get a punctuation when finishing the "fri ...
I have designed this worksheet for my starter students. Have your students write the words. It is good for reviewing these topics: classroom, family, clothes and body parts. It's suitable for a sp ...
This worksheet is about the British Royal Family from Elizabeth II to Princess Charlotte. Students have to read and answer questions about the members of the Royal Family. There's also a guessing ...
Anti-Bullying Week is an annual UK event in the third week in November which aims to raise awareness of bullying of children and young people. Students look at the photograph and answer the questi ...
Anti-Bullying Week is an annual UK event in the third week in November which aims to raise awareness of bullying of children and young people. This worksheet includes 10 questions that are all rel ...
I've designed this PowerPoint for the first session of my starter class to review some topics. It contains different topics including classroom items, colours, family members, shapes, weather, and ...
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