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 PowerPoint presentation is useful for teaching different members of a family such as father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents and also, different parts of a house like kitchen, bedroo ...
A beautiful song for little kids about the Earth.You can teach the importance of the 3 R´s. Reduce, reuse and recycle. Also, you can review numbers with little kids. Kids would love this son ...
This is a short listening comprehension for A2 level students. It has a link to a YouTube video and exercises. I usually start with the vocabulary and then play it for my students twice. The ...
This is a worksheet to practice the family vocabulary and describing physical appearance. Students have to read a description and match it with the picture. Then students practice the family vocab ...
Written test for the 5th grade. It starts with a text; then a true/ false exercise; completing sentences; aswering about the text; asking questions; completing (verbs exercise); labeling about hum ...
Great dialogues to introduce the "Where Are You From?" theme ad to review some basic grammar points (such as the verb "to be", the possessive adjectives, the subject pronouns). At the end of the l ...
A very simple short vocabulary revision suitable for the first lesson of students in their forth year of English. It contains matching, completion and gap filling exercises about the days of ...
This song by Lindsay Lohan talks about family relationship. Before using it, you can do a warm up with your students about her and her family. Also, you can do a brainstorming about good x bad thi ...
In pairs each student receives one of two family trees along with a fact sheet that corresponds to his/her partner's family tree. Students take turns sharing information so that they can each com ...
This worksheet is great for elementary students or ESL beginners to draw and color faces of people in the family. It also helps young students to practice family vocabulary and relationship. Ask y ...
This worksheet is designed for adult students with the intention of encouraging them to talk about themselves. It can be used in a group setting or in pairs. The worksheet has open ended leading ...
Objectives: pupils will be able to demonstrate basic listening and reading comprehension skills as well as HOTs – inferring (reading between the lines) and generating possibilities. Aft ...
This worksheet is good for students when teaching family members vocabulary. In addition, it is very good when a teacher provides communicative tasks in order to give an opportunity for every stud ...
This is a worksheet to help first graders to learn how to introduce themselves and their family members. The worksheet is designed in a way with some help initially and then no help. There are two ...
This worksheet is great for revising some useful vocabulary, namely: countries and nationalities; numbers; days of the week; plural form of words; jobs and professions; family; telling time; free ...
This worksheet will help students to practise family words and relationships on the basis of a family tree. They have to find out the relatedness between the family members - who is related to who ...
This worksheet is intended to introduce the titles of family members for young, beginner students. It includes: a family prompt and questions, a word search, a match the person with the descriptio ...
Topic "Family" seems too boring to your students? Engage them with this handout. Let them find something they most probably knew but never paid enough attention to. Discuss the theory of birt ...
A very popular song from the 70's about a father and a son who have problems communicating. This worksheet includes a pre-reading task for prediction, a listening task (inserting the lines in the ...
This is a 25pt. quiz based on the Season 1 Episode 1 of Modern Family. This is a great show for showing American Culture as well as family culture. It makes students laugh as well as makes them th ...
Family Worksheet with fill in the gap exercise with the British Royal family tree, contains vocabulary such as children, mother, father, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandparents, grandchildren etc. It ca ...
This is letter writing assignment intended for intermediate to advanced ESL students.The questions are prompts for writing a thank you letter aimed at parents. The prompts include: a cherished mem ...
This is a Powerpoint Presentation about Easter, with words related to Easter and spring. Students have to look at the pictures and choose the correct option. Some of the words are about Easter sym ...
This is a personal worksheet about my son, Tom. Students are asked to read a text and answer a few questions. They can practise the present simple tense. This worksheet is not suitable for young l ...
This is a complete lesson about family members. Make sure you introduce the family members before you start teaching with this worksheet. There is a word search included, and certain grammar tense ...
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