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 uses the Simpsons family (which my students love) to practice various names of relatives. There is a family tree and some questions covering vocabulary from mother to father-in-law. ...
A basic reading comprehension exercise based on a famous film actor. It practises the simple tense of ' to be', personal subject pronouns, and some useful vocabulary like the family words. It can ...
It was created in order to encourage young students to write a composition about their grandparents, with five simple questions as a guide. It may also reinforce the use of, he-she, his-her, can, ...
This is a powerpoint that presents family vocabulary. It contains pictures and words about family members. The last slide is an exercise about Simpson's Family, to check your students comprehensio ...
This text contains vocabulary connected with personal information, family relationships and jobs. It`s good for a team work where two teams in turn try to guess the exact word for each g ...
The worksheet contains a board game. It is played in group of 3 and more to know each other better. A participant throws a dice, puts a counter on the proper square and answers the question provid ...
This worksheet focuses on choosing between DO / DOES and GO / GOES, and asks questions about 'my father' and 'my mother'. This is designed for 'starters' in a primary school. It helps the stud ...
Students are going to resolve a word search that includes the family member’s vocabulary.It's aimed at providing students the vocabulary with which we are going to work during the clas ...
Students will start by surfing on the net to get some information about the group. Then, listen to the song and fill it out with the appropriate lyrics. This activity deals with minimal pairs. Thi ...
This worksheet includes character analysis, plot analysis, and theme analysis questions. Questions vary from matching to ordering to direct and indirect ones. My students watched the whole movie ...
This is a test we use at the end of an unit, kids must be able to read, answer the questions, mark true or false and ask questions for the given answers. They have to complete some sentences with ...
Here is a good way to introduce the family vocabulary. If your students love watching all these series and movies, they'll recognize the characters and their family relation. After showing the fam ...
Here's a video session on the first episode of New Girl. Listening comprehension activities with pre-watching and after-watching speaking exercises. I recommend using it with ADULTS ONLY since som ...
This is a ppt with the already known game: Desert Island. It's great to learn new vocabulary and practice speaking. "You are on a desert island. There is a motor boat and you are the only one who ...
Work the film Along Came Polly in class in order to learn expressions and English words in a funny and practical way. Activities: correct the underlined mistakes, match the pictures with the actor ...
True / False sentences / Questions on the text "My family" Labeling: parts of the body and family members Who's who: family relationships Gap filling: Possessive adjectives/ Present simple of "to ...
This is a set of pictures about a family to describe them. There is also a list of words that students should use. I don't give it to them, it should be part of the pre-teaching. I use these pictu ...
This worksheet is ideal to introduce family members to elementary students, specially for children. Because they love cartoons and in my country they watch this tv program all the time. It can als ...
The worksheet is aimed to introduce and provide controlled practice of some personality adjectives; then the students are to compare their family members just to personalize the target language. T ...
This power point presentation is about friends, friendship. It contains positive, happy pictures. There is a beautiful song. Can be used for discussions, ice-breakers and studing vocabulary. It ...
This is simple PPT file. It's titled "Name the relationship". As it only conatains pictures I recommend to use it as a warm-up activity. Students are shown the pictures of celebrities and are ask ...
A worksheet about family relationships and the film "The Descendants". The students should give some opinions about concepts like "descendants", family relationships, "inheritances", then watch th ...
This worksheet is useful for young children. It is for children who started learning English as a second language. It is all about listening exercises. The first part you work with numbers by aski ...
This worksheet is good for speaking on the theme Friendship. It contains some questions about friends and friendship. Students can answer these questions in group or in pairs. Besides questions th ...
This worksheet is for elementary or pre intermediate students! It's really helpful for those teachers who want to start at the beginning with family vocabulary. The students read and try to unders ...
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