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 video worksheet practises listening comprehension - your students will be watching a famous tv series episode. While watching the episode your students will be doing the following activi ...
This worksheet, called 'Family Worksheet: Bride and Groom’s Wedding Activity Book' is a fun way to introduce the topic in class. The activities suggested by the book include coloring the pag ...
It is a useful chart about family relations for every level. It contains kinship terms, inlaws and other relations with phonetic transcriptions .Each level can enlarge vocabulary quite autonomousl ...
Read about a day in the life of Arnold. Number these pictures in the correct order. It is an interesting activity where your students will need to match the pictures after reading the text. You c ...
A powerpoint presentation to assist you in teaching family vocabulary. I've been using this to teach how everyone is related using basic visuals and the necessary vocab. Vocabulary: Grandfather, g ...
This is my new ppt for your students. After my speaking activity (Peter's Family 1) they can play and practise family vocabulary using possesives. I usually use it when they work in groups. One of ...
Vocabulary revision and extension exercises on the topic family. Includes a study sheet followed by 3 different tasks. Recommended for intermediate level, this worksheet can either be used in the ...
It is my new powerpoint for our students. They will need to make sentences about the members of the family using possessive 's and possessive adjectives. They will need to complete the sentences w ...
With this PowerPoint Presentation your students will have the opportunity to practice family members vocabulary. Included is a small lesson with sound to learn the vocabulary, followed by a game i ...
A fill in your family tree basic worksheet including names of relatives, a good starter with visuals to start at the beginning do a hands up. Who knows their grandparents (for example grandma's ma ...
This is an elementary reading passage including comparatives and superlatives forms. The title is My Family. Eric tells about his family. He describes his sisters, parents and grandparents, and al ...
This handout is aimed at practicing vocabulary on the topic "Family" and presents 5 different activities. At first, by means of pictures and prompts students are presented new vocabulary. Then the ...
This word search contains 20 names of the members of family and relations between them - hope you find it useful. List of words used in this word search: MOM, SON, UNCLE, FATHER, AUNT, BROTHER, D ...
This is a Power Point presentation to introduce vocabulary at the early stages of teaching the topic “Family”. It is an easy and fun way for the elementary learners to get acquainted ...
This a worksheet for practicing the Present Simple Tense and Family vocabulary through reading. It was specifically designed for beginners or pre-intermediate students, therefore all the exercises ...
Family vocabulary with synonyms for young learners. List of words used in this word search: FATHER, GRANDMA, DAD, GRANDMOTHER, BROTHER, GRANDFATHER, MUM, SISTER, MOTHER, GRANDAD, FAMILY Created ...
This is a very simple word search with family relations words. Will work great with a group of Complete beginners - no matter adults, teenagers or kids. List of words used in this word search: GR ...
This is a two-page worksheet about the family. The first page can be used as a classroom poster or a study sheet and on the second page you can find a word search puzzle and a matching activity ...
Here's a simple word search with 16 names of family members. Will work best with elementary learners.
Hope you find it useful! List of words used in this word search: NEPHEW, GRANDFATHER, FATHER ...
Just a simple family-related vocabulary wordsearch to make my students get "familiar" with those words, so necessary when they are the parents of your own kid's fellow pupils. Thanks a lot BusyTe ...
This wordsearch contains a lot of Relatives vocabulary and should be very useful if you are teaching or revising the Family/Friends/Relatives topic.
Have fun! List of words used in this word sea ...
I made this family worksheet for my first lesson with elementary students. There are some vocabulary pictures, new topic words, one matching activity (family members with descriptions) and homewor ...
This is the 4th part of my worksheets "Let´s read and write about...´ Students have to read the text on the given topic, then they do some post-reading tasks.
The task are:
1.Read an ...
This is the third part of my worksheets "Let's read and write about...'. Student have to read the text on the given topic, then they do some after-reading tasks. First they have to decide if the s ...
This is a worksheet about the British Royals. The family tree on the first page can be used to practice the possessive case and the dates. On the second page there are some interesting historical ...
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