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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A simplified and blank family tree designed to teach students about family relationships such as Mother, Father, Uncle, Aunt, Son Daughter, Cousin, Grandmother, Grandfather, Granddaughter, Grandso ...
This is a great activity to be used on the first days at school. It shows the importance of having a friend and what we are willing to do to work things out. There are also warm up questions about ...
-Students will learn the names of the members of the family with a very famous cartoon family: The Simpsons. -They will practise the quantifiers: how much/ how many. -There are some questions in ...
Single page giving subject formulaic language learners could use in speaking exams/everyday English (a bit formal tho) as well as a word cloud highlighting some key topic vocab with synonyms. IELT ...
An easy word search on Family and People vocabulary for beginners. Can be also used for elementary students to test their knowledge of these words. List of words used in this word search: SON, BO ...
A song that talks about the importance of having a good friend beside you, sustaining you and giving you a helping hand. it can be a good introduction to teach the expression have/has got to your ...
This reading comprehension worksheet is for pre-intermediate or at least high elementary students. The topic the text is related to is family. There is some information about Sally's Granny. Afte ...
This reading activity is for elementary learners of English. There is a text related to the topic "family" and two exercises - true or flase and to insert the correct word (mostly members of the ...
It's a short reading quiz for students with lower level of English vocabulary and skills. Students mainly have to find some particular information about the characters in the passage, then they mu ...
Creative writing prompt:
What if somebody offered you one million dollars to betray a friend? Would you do it, and if so, how would you explain your actions to them?
Talking about preference has always been something fun. That's why I want to share what I've done in my class with "Preference" as a topic. This activity can encourage the students to talk about w ...
Fill in the blanks in the lyrics. This song in one of the most famous Queen's songs, and my students really enjoy doing this kind of activities. This kind of activities are very useful for student ...
Three simple activities for A1 - A2 level, describing family relations and a family tree: a gap-filling, answering questions and writing/speaking tasks. Answers provided. Have got, possessive 's a ...
Students write the words of the members of the family of the image. then they look at the picture and complete the test below. At the end they listen to their teacher and numbers the family membe ...
This worksheet can be used with begginers. It contains two activities where students can practise vocabulary related to family through a corssword and the affirmative and negative form of HAVE GOT ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for elementary students on family related vocabulary. Students are asked to look at the family tree and answer the questions and then find the words in the wordsearch p ...
This is another picture description about this family. There are 2 exercises. This time there are also true or false questions, and the second exercise is about inserting some basic prepositions. ...
This worksheet contains four different tasks which are all related to the picture description: 1) complete the sentences with Present Continuous 2) True or false, 3) Insert the correct prepositio ...
It´s a simple text about Penelope Cruz for beginners but it has comparitive /superlative to be and Simple present. Students like it as they can understand a lot. I usually use it when teach ...
This worksheet will help students to understand Simple Present. It also helps students to use verb -s or -es for third singular person (he, she, it). Students have opportunity to use not only affi ...
It is a very good activity for the first class. It is like getting to know your friends. A student finds his/her partner, then they ask each other these questions. It can help students to form que ...
With this worksheet you can explain family vocabulary by asking your students to answer questions about several members of the family, which means they will have to pay attention to the pictures. ...
Here's an easy crossword worksheet on vocabulary about family members. It contains nice (and funny!) images and simple vocabulary suitable for beginner and low elementary learners. Hope you l ...
The worksheet is created to help students introduce themselves. The template contains such items as name, age, address, family, job, hobby and interests. A student is supposed to fill in personal ...
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