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 is an inspirational story. It teaches young generations to appreciate older ones. It deals with family relationships , emotions and the necessity to support and to love elderly people .The p ...
This was an excellent topic to practise social skills using everyday English. After showing the relevant clips from 'Twilight' I presented the worksheet. You can easily set 'gist' questions and ...
The test is for the 4th graders. It contains basic questions using structures such as can/have/do and wh-questions. The grammar areas are: possesive 's, adjectives describing people, present ...
You can use simple words with ss complete beginners, I also deal with some vocabulary about feelings and family and friends. You can use the video to explain the subject. _________________________ ...
With this song you can reinforce personal pronouns and present simple auxiliaries. First discuss with them some warming up questions related to family, then introduce some verbs, listen to the so ...
The task sheet is based on the movie 'The Descendants' with George Clooney as the main character. It perfectly suits one of the usual exam topics - social ties. After watching the movie and comple ...
This worksheet is about the British Royal Family from Elizabeth II to Prince George. Pupils have to read and answer questions about the members of the Royal Family. There's also a guessing game. T ...
This worksheet is about the British Riyal Family from Elizabeth II to Prince George, William and Kate's son. The family tree can be used to practise the words for family members, the possessive ca ...
This can be used for the topic of family/ friends. It's a simple worksheet that could be useful to talk about the British Royal family (names, ages, dates of birth) and revise family members in En ...
This power point contains family tree of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. And also some slides about possessive 's. It's very helpful because most of the students know the celebrities. You can use it ...
I use this worksheet to work with family vocabulary and questions type "What's your mummy's name?" as well as the possessive pronoums her, his. Very useful with level 2 of primary education. ...
This is a handout, designed for pre-junior or junior students, aged 6-8. It can be used for practising, revising or even testing the vocabulary of 'Family Members'. Words included are t ...
This is a song worksheet to practice family words. Students listen to the song and then they have to fill in the missing words for the lyrics. It also deals with the possesive case.Here is the m ...
A worksheet about the topic: penfriend and friendship. Students read the letter from Susan to Ian. Then are asked to complete the gaps with two verbs: be and have got. It could be used to revise t ...
It is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching or revising family related vocabulary at elementary level(or pre-intermediate). It contains a text in which the family is described. After read ...
This is a song with versions by Jack Johnson and The White Stripes, which can be used to talk about school life and friendship. There are some gaps to fill in with vocabulary of different kinds (v ...
Funny and inetresting ppt about family members and friends. I included information about a friend and about my mom Queen Elizabeth and my dad Barack Obama. My students find it amusing. I've put vo ...
This activity was prepared for elementary pupils. It is about a boy and his family. I tried to use many words from the family members topic to give them a chance to practise and understand them. I ...
It is a brief revision test for 10 year-old pupils who study Project 1 coursebooks in Slovakia. They write a test after each finished unit. I try to create a new test for each group, because ...
This is a nice song worksheet to work with the subject of friendship. In this activity there are 5 types of exercises: putting the sentences in order; putting the words in order; completing the se ...
In this lesson, pupils learn how to talk about family members using the Simpsons. The lesson assumes a basic knowledge of the verb "be", the verb "have" and English phonetic transcription. The act ...
This song by Sister Sledge can be used after practicing family members and it also focuses on some basic verbs. It is a fill-in-blank activity. The video with lyrics from YouTube is also here. Hop ...
Basic family members for elementary including mother, father, both grandparents, the children and aunt and uncle. Cousin is not included. Very useful as children will often have watched the show a ...
Students will enjoy watching and listening to the story in order: -to complete the different comprehension tasks ,-provide missing expressions to complete the summary. The link to watch the ...
The story about a picnic when two friends plan to meet at a nearby place and get surprised to find out that what one loses is found by the other. It can be used as a reading comprehensi ...
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