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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It's a worksheet to help you practice British Royal Family vocabulary to the text "Royal Couple" (Solution Elementary 2 ed. Unit 1 p.10 ) The task can include: reading the text and filling the bl ...
This is a set of flash cards of the Simpson family. It includes the vocabulary of the family (family, mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandfather,grandmother) I hope this will be use ...
This is a coloring worksheet for very young learners. They can color the people and learn basic vocab about family. Also you can cut the pictures and ask them to make their own family trees, glue ...
The worksheet contains an easy text about a schoolgirl. She describes her everyday activities, school, hobbies, family. Then two exercises follow. In the first exercise children have to find inco ...
This fill-in the gap exercise provides a range of vocabulary to the topics of "Family relations", "Life stages", "Teenagers" and will be useful for those who would like to introduce these topics t ...
A very nice song with interesting and true lyrics. It's a song about a father and son relationship. The father would like to spend time with his son but he is often too busy and before he realizes ...
Taken from TV series 'Friends' episode 23 (season 4) will come in handy to those busyteachers who want to revise reported speech and have a good laugh as well. There are pre-, while- and post-watc ...
This worksheet is a big test for a slow learner. It has vocabulary (jobs, school stuff, numbers, family), subject prononuns exercises, possessive pronoun exercises, different types of sentences -s ...
Questions presented in this worksheet concern Brown’s family tree. Firstly, you present the picture of the family and ask your students to look at it for a couple of minutes and remember as ...
This informal letter presents a gap-fill exercise where the task is to complete spaces with the correct form of the simple past or present perfect. As a follow-up assignment students might be sugg ...
This worksheet is really helpful when it comes to work with kids , the scramble game help them not only to learn the vocabulary but to have fun.It can be used with elementary students as wel ...
The pair role-plays presented in this handout will provide students with six problematic situations that they will have to sort out by giving advice and recommendations. All of the role-play ...
In this lesson, students learn how to talk about the Simpsons using vocabulary for family members. The lesson assumes a basic knowledge of the verb ‘be’ and the verb "have". The exerci ...
This is a simple and easy writing activity for elementary and pre-intermediate students who are asked to write a small composition saying how many brothers or sisters they have got, how old their ...
This is a picture crossword for revising family related vocabulary at elementary level. Using the across and down clues, students are asked to write the correct word in the numbered grid give ...
With this worksheet, pupils can study the Simpsons family tree. They can create sentences using the possessive case and learn the vocabulary related to family members. They will enjoy 4 activities ...
I came across this wonderful video and decided to create this class with the clip. You might get your students to seat in an outside area and pretend they are in a ball pit so they can ask t ...
Draw and write about each of the faces. This worksheet is provided by MagicPathshala.com. It's free and ready to be printed. English composition as never seen before. Play this game of treasu ...
A simple worksheet for beginners/elementary students. Pupils are asked to match the family members with the correct letter, according to the picture. The first one is already done. It's a drill ex ...
It's a quite simple worksheet, for elementary students. It's about family. Students read the text about Cinda's family and then are asked to answer some questions about the text. The template is f ...
A PPT presentation that looks at plural forms of nouns with several most common exceptions and is designed for complete beginners. Words included: A man – men, a woman – wome ...
It is a funny and probably the most confusing song about family. At first, students listen to this song and fill in the gaps with an appropriate family member. After that, when they get completel ...
“Royal Family ” material is aimed at teaching family relations on the example of British Royal Family. Depending on skills you want to practise you might like to read the description y ...
This is a very nice activity to be done in pairs and it takes around 20 minutes. One student gets the "A" and the other one gets the "B" part. They ask each other the questions using the Simple Pa ...
A vocabulary exercise and 9 comprehension questions for this episode. They usually love it, as a break from class routine, plus the development of their listening skills and speaking , with a foll ...
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