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 simile is the comparison of two different things using the word 'like' or 'as' e.g. as brave as a lion. This worksheet for primary/elementary children, asks students to write down ten similes ab ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary school students and can be used as an English resource for Mother's Day. Children are asked to look at each picture and put a circle around the le ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary school students and can be used as an English resource for Mother's Day. Children are asked to look at each picture and put a circle around the le ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary school students and can be used as an English resource for Mother's Day. Children are asked to look at each picture and put a circle around the le ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary school students and can be used as an English resource for Mother's Day. Children are asked to look at each picture and put a circle around the le ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary school students and can be used as an English resource for Mother's Day. Children are asked to look at each picture and put a circle around the le ...
An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word. Students are asked to write an acrostic poem about thei ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary school students and can be used as an extra resource for Mother's Day. Students are asked to put all of the words in alphabetical order and write ...
A simple listening with some comprehension questions. The questions only check for the content of the video and its comprehension. There aren't grammar/vocabulary exercises here. The scene was ta ...
Yet another PPT by Alex. This one is about "Friends and Friendship". At first students are offered to answer and discuss a few open questions (connected to the topic, of course, then talk about so ...
This is an entertaining worksheet to practice family members vocabulary, your students are going to enjoy playing it. It can be used to introduce the topic or to practice after you checked it. &nb ...
It’s not easy remembering events from your childhood. In fact, there were probably many things you used to do that you can’t do now as a grown up. Or, can you? What things ca ...
This is a PowerPoint for revising family members and apostrophe s ('s) as possessive and short of is. It contains an activity in which the language learners are asked to write five sentences about ...
This is a PowerPoint for teaching about friendship. It is appropriate for elementary levels, particularly kids and it is designed my students, Masoume and Maede. You may find it useful at the ...
This PowerPoint deals with vocabulary items related to family. It includes interesting clip arts to attract the young learners' attention. It is appropriate for absolute beginners of learning Engl ...
This worksheet intends to revise family vocabulary and personal information, by drilling elementary grammar points in a funny and contextulized way. Students use short questions and answers and pr ...
With the help of this worksheet you will have the opportunity to enrich your students’ vocabulary on the topic "family", involve them in speaking about their families using the new vocabular ...
This is very easy worksheet for teaching or revising family related vocabulary at elementary level. There two simple activities in which students are asked to complete the columns given and c ...
This worksheet contains the family tree of the actor, Michael Douglas. Put the students into pairs. Focus on the example. Encourage the language learners to point to the names and ask their partne ...
This song helps to enlarge the vocabulary studying the topic friends. Can be used at the beginning of the year or during all the year as a warming up activity or at the end of the lesson. As a pre ...
Information-gapped worksheet for use in pairs or groups. Student A has information about Juan's family, and Student B has Emily's. They must ask each other questions to complete. Focuses on correc ...
This is a fun activity for kids or Harry Potter fans. You have here the illustrated Weasley family tree followed by some questions about them to practice family relations. I recommend to teach you ...
This review is based on the first unit of Total English 1 book. It brings greetings, personal information (full name, age, hometown, telephone number, email, free time activities, etc) and family ...
This story is titled 'My Baby Brother' and was written for early readers. A girl is talking about her baby brother. Students are asked to read through the short passage and then answer the multipl ...
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