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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This mind map may help you revise or develop your students' vocabulary in connection with family members. Can be used as a warm-up exercise or you can use as a tool for improving students' knowle ...
I use this Power Point Presentation with my students to revise family vocabulary. I hope your students will enjoy it! Study the Simpsons' family tree and then start the test. Read and choose the r ...
This is a worksheet about the family members. The first task is matching the family member to the meaning (English to English). On the second page there is a blank family tree for students to dra ...
I made this worksheet for my students to revise the vocabulary of family members. But instead of creating their own family tree, students can practice the vocab on a well-known family: The Simpson ...
A very simple movie activity for elementary students. Give students a photocopy and ask them the questions on it. Play the first minutes of the video and elicit the answers from them. Provide fe ...
A simple and easy worksheet for teaching family related vocabulary. There are 2 easy activities in which students are asked to look at the family tree and complete the sentences.
Friends, season 2 episode 16. The episode with Joey moving out, Phoebe and Rachel getting tattoos, Monica's and Ross's fathers birthday. Vocabulary building/talking exercise on roommates, age dif ...
Friends, season 2 episode 14. The one with Chandler's new bracelet, "Rachel is Ross's lobster" and the prom video. Vocabulary building/talking exercise on friendship and proms. "True or false" typ ...
Friends episode - The One After The Superbowl. The one with Ross finding out his monkey Marcel is alive, Joey's cute and crazy stalker and Phoebe singing "not-so-children" songs. Talking/vocabula ...
Friends worksheet, season 2, The One with the Lesbian Wedding. "I now pronounce you wife and wife." Talking/vocabulary building exercise on spirits, pressure management and weddings. Listening com ...
TV-series Friends, Season 2 Episode 10. The one where Rachel dates a guy who looks like Ross. Vocabulary building/talking exercise on reviews, habits and look-a-likes. "True or false" type exercis ...
Episode where Phoebe learns that her father is alive and she goes to meet him. It's Christmas time, so it's time to learn/review some common Christmas decorations. Exercises on listening comprehe ...
This is a very helpful presentation to practice Family Members vocabulary. The students look at the images, listen to the teacher's pronunciation of the vocabulary and repeat. Later, they describe ...
This worksheet includes a chart that explains how to compare people, and makes the differences between long a nd short adjectives. Students will have to classify long and short adjectives, and the ...
This worksheet includes different exercises. Students will read a comic strip and complete a family tree according to it. Then they will have to answer some questions about the text, and then agre ...
This worksheet is especially assigned to elementary students. It consists of family words together with genitive case. Students should answer the questions according to Simpson´s family tree ...
This is another of my discussion worksheets that I use with my adult students. They pretty much all have the same format. Each worksheet has 18 discussion/conversation questions that revolve aroun ...
Hi It can help the students to practice question making. After the cards are spread, the students are supposed to mingle and ask each other questions to find their family members. Questions regar ...
This is a great opportunity to let your students think about their families and their chance to education. This movie 'Matilda' gives a great start for a teacher who needs some segments connected ...
A great first day speaking activity. First student's complete the identification chart by themselves. Then elicit or teach the questions for each cell. At last let the students use the questions t ...
By providing the students with a picture of The Simpson's Family tree, they have to look carefully in order to find out what the mistery word is. This activity can be used as a warm up or revision ...
Use this handout to work on the possessive 's and the vocabulary related to family members. Example: Bart is Lisa's brother. It's a quiz with lots of vocabulary. Ss have the circle the correct op ...
In this memory game students will relate images and phrases about the quantity of family members, and especially, they will practice the use of [i][/i]I've got, the use of "s" in plural. Also, the ...
Hi. This is a class for adult groups since it talks about loneliness and painful moments. This is the teacher's guide. The song I choose is from the group Avenged Sevenfold - So far away. This cl ...
This worksheet reviews the family members vocabulary. It has the Simpsons' family tree, the students use it to write the family relationship of the characters. Teachers can adapt this activity in ...
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