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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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Writing Practice: Has Got/Hasn't Got

Writing Practice: Has Got/Hasn't Got

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This is the worksheet I made while working on has got/hasn't got grammar. We have already learnt have got/haven't got, so I thought it would be smart to put some revision here too (see ex.6). Also ...
9 Views 30,549 Beg
Members of the Family Powerpoint Presentation

Members of the Family Powerpoint Presentation

Family/Friends,
Simple family members powerpoint presentation for very young beginners. The pictures are colourful and bright and it goes through the names in a simple way. Only 5 slides long with mum, dad, broth ...
28 Views 65,320 Beg
A Family [Oral Comprehension]

A Family [Oral Comprehension]

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A simple oral comprehension quiz to use with students after learning some basics about countries, jobs, and family members. I use it after doing a similar, more difficult one before and grade the ...
3 Views 7,480 Pre-IntInt
Family Wordsearch

Family Wordsearch

Family/Friends,
Vocabulary wordsearch connected with family- up to 21 words! The vocabulary comes from Junior High School's student's book preparing ss for an exam. If your students love wordsearch, this is for t ...
9 Views 25,658 Pre-IntInt
Fun Family Tree

Fun Family Tree

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This is a fun and colourful worksheet for beginners to practise their vocabulary about family. After studying some vacabulary students will fill in the spaces for each member of the family. They ...
11 Views 26,329 Elem
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Family Flashcards

Family Flashcards

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This is a set of cards for teaching or revising family related vocabulary. They are excellent for vocabulary building and discussion practice! Challenge your students to build / say one sentence ...
22 Views 31,797 Elem
Video Worksheet: The Story of Thanksgiving

Video Worksheet: The Story of Thanksgiving

This is worksheet about the Story of the First Thanksgiving based on the youtube video of Ellen Degeneres Show. It is really funny and I recommend to use it with older learners. There are eleven m ...
30 Views 53,936 ElemPre-IntInt
Who Is Who?

Who Is Who?

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This worksheet contains a family tree with names and ages. There are two exercises that help practising the relations within a family. It uses both possessive adjectives and possessive 's. The fam ...
23 Views 60,145 BegElem
Elementary Practice

Elementary Practice

This complete worksheet is for practising BE and HAVE, basic sentence structures, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns, a/an with the help of a basic vocabulary. The worksheet contains ga ...
11 Views 9,801 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Homecoming by Kanye West

Song Worksheet: Homecoming by Kanye West

Hip Hop and Rap songs are something I miss a bit at Busy Teacher's. Here are the lyrics to the song "Homecoming" by Kanye West as a gap-filling exercise, My students loved it. There are line numbe ...
5 Views 17,663 IntAdvExam
Cartoon Worksheet: Ben and Holly (The Royal Fairy Picnic)

Cartoon Worksheet: Ben and Holly (The Royal Fairy Picnic)

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This simple worksheet's made for my 8-10 year-olds. The language in the cartoon is very clear and British. My Ss like it. And the tasks are easy and transparent. So they look forward for some new ...
7 Views 12,361 ElemPre-Int
Family Picture Crossword

Family Picture Crossword

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This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising family related vocabulary at elementary level. There's a study sheet which can also be used as a classroom poster followed by a picture crosswo ...
7 Views 13,363 Elem
Movie Worksheet: Brave (2012)

Movie Worksheet: Brave (2012)

Worksheet suggests activities for after watching the Disney movie "Brave". It includes matching pictures with characters' names, questions on the contents of the movie and a picture for coloring a ...
16 Views 40,962 ElemPre-IntInt
Toys Word Search

Toys Word Search

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I made this worksheet to use it with HS1 (OUP) book. It's a wordsearch for fast students to do as a follow-up activity. The words are toys in the park and on the playroom floor. My students are a ...
4 Views 8,438 Elem
Movie Worksheet: The Joneses [Secrets]

Movie Worksheet: The Joneses [Secrets]

This is a .doc file to work with young adults about secrets and appearances. It is to be used progressively throughout the movie as they discover the secret of this typical American family that ar ...
5 Views 16,339 Adv
Video Lesson: My Family

Video Lesson: My Family

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In this video lesson students watch an episode of the BBC series "My family". Although subtitles to the episode might be helpful for weak students, this episode has actually been chosen since, eve ...
10 Views 21,196 Int
Snowball Fight Activity - Introduce a Friend

Snowball Fight Activity - Introduce a Friend

Students should fill out this sheet with information about him/herself. Then they can crumple up the paper into a ball. Students toss the ball around the room until the teacher says stop. Each ...
12 Views 17,692 Pre-IntIntAdv
The Simpsons [Family Members]

The Simpsons [Family Members]

This worksheet has The Simpsons family tree which is helpful to create sentences using possessive nouns. This worksheet is really easy to undestand and for sudents to practice simple present and v ...
57 Views 268,611 ElemPre-IntInt
My Family Gap Fill

My Family Gap Fill

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A simple worksheet for beginners to identify members of the family. Great gap-fill activity for a lesson or as homework. I use this as a model for students to create their own family trees and to ...
15 Views 18,895 BegElem
Adjectives - Describing People

Adjectives - Describing People

This is a usefull worksheet that helps busy teachers review some adjectives with their children and using these adjectives they can review and describe their family members. The adjectives are abo ...
15 Views 32,963 BegElem
Family Tree Worksheet

Family Tree Worksheet

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This worksheet was created by myself. It basically consists of a family tree. It has different exercises each of which aim to teach students, mostly at elementary level, the names of different mem ...
18 Views 16,988 Elem
Happy Families Card Game

Happy Families Card Game

Happy families This is a card game for 3 or more players. Shuffle and deal the cards as equally as possible. The player on the dealer´s left starts asking for a certain card. The player must ...
16 Views 72,302 Elem
Find The Words

Find The Words

It's a word-finder for beginners. It contains basic vocabulary of family, toys, and rooms at house. The words to be found are placed beneath the task, so we can cut the list out and hand it after ...
7 Views 11,435 BegElem
Bio-data

Bio-data

This worksheet requires the students to provide personal information. This is useful for lessons on getting to know each other, completing forms or job application. This will test students' abilit ...
3 Views 12,452 Int
Family Tree Using 'The Rugrats'

Family Tree Using 'The Rugrats'

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I made this powerpoint to get the students used to some simple family related vocabulary. I used the Pickles family tree from the show 'The Rugrats' as my model for the family tree. I would recomm ...
8 Views 13,943 BegElemPre-Int

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