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 worksheet would be useful to practise simple grammar constructions (to be / have / has / positive and negative statements). I usually use it when we talk about families and friends. You can a ...
Here is a text "My Family" for beginners in English. It has got a pre-reading and after-reading tasks (questions). New difficult words are written in bold as it's easier to find and learn them pro ...
A song to enjoy! Ideal for teens or young adults. A vocaculary activity: matching words and pictures. A simple fill in the gaps with the words presented in the images. A great opportunity to refl ...
This worksheet is suitable for learning about thefamily members.. In the first one there are two puzzles. The second one is a matching exercise. You should laminate the worksheet and cut out the p ...
It's a game for elementary or beginner students revising body parts, family and colours. Each group gets a blank chart and a chart with words. They have to make guesses where the words (ship) are ...
This power point is a game you can play with your students. There are four different kinds of tasks: look and listen, yes or no, look and say and pig in a poke. You can get from ten to forty point ...
This worksheet is thought to be used with beginner students who are either in kindergarten or the 1st grade of primary school. Students have to trace each word on the left and then match the ...
There is a pre-reading activity to practise vocabulary as well as a gap fill activity for students to do while reading the excerpt from the book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ ...
This worksheet can be used by a learner as a visual aid for speaking about himself and his family. It offers some useful phrases to improve his speaking skills. It can be used by elementary studen ...
This sheet is for teaching expanded family vocabulary. You can use it individually or in groups. There are descriptions adapted from Wikipedia about celebrities and their ancestry and studen ...
This mind map can help teachers revise or develop students' vocabulary in connection with family members. It can be used as a warm-up exercise or as a main activity. It is a great tool for i ...
It's a nice and rather wise cartoon, simple at first sight, but deep and educational at the end. There is a Halloween topic, teenager problems, siblings relationships, friendship and lots more to ...
The woksheet is designed to practice possessives and some family vocabulary. Give each group of 3-4 students a picture of the family, one set of object cards and family members cards. Students put ...
This is a quiz of the family in English , using all the most common people that the kids may know when they start to learn English. I used the family of Simpsons to teach them because its e ...
A word search designed by Busy Teacher Word search tool. Very effective as a post-reading activity. Students have fun finding the targeted vocabulary and focus on the spelling of these words.This ...
This is a worksheet for B1 or B1+ students to recap family members, talk about the use of social networks in every day life. Hope you enjoy it as my students did. You can use it to introduce the t ...
This is great for handing out to kids at the beginning of class and can be used when students go back to school. They can write down a few things about themselves and get to know a little about th ...
This simple role-play has worked like magic with every class I've tried it with. I've tried to provide enough direction and suggestions that students take an interest in the activity and don't ta ...
This presentation contains speaking questions about family such as family members, parents, brother and sister, which will help your students with speaking skills and exchange some of the i ...
This power-point presentation helps you to teach family related vocabulary items such as: father, mother, family, grandparents, brother, aunt, uncle and cousin to the young learners and elementary ...
This is a 3-page worksheet which includes four activities for practicing the rooms of a house and family members. It is designed for elementary level and you may find it useful at the study part o ...
This is a worksheet for practicing family members and third person singular and it is designed for elementary level. It includes an activity in which students are asked to write sentences using th ...
A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things that are alike in some way. This worksheet was created for primary/elementary children and asks students to complete the similes describing ...
A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things that are alike in some way. This worksheet was created for primary/elementary children and asks students to complete the similes describing ...
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