46 FREE General Worksheets

FREE General Worksheets

This is a subsection of the holidays and celebrations category so all the worksheets that did not fit neatly into another subsection are posted here. This includes worksheets on Kwanzaa, summer vacation, and holidays in general. There are now 46 worksheets posted on this page so take your time going through them. This worksheet for pre-intermediate learners is a short review activity that focuses on five important holidays. Ask students to put the holidays in chronological order, match the holidays with associated activities, and write short passages about their favorite holiday. Since the worksheet can be done individually, be sure to include some whole class activities or pair work in the same lesson. This is just one of many worksheets in this section. Be sure to look at some of the others and check back soon to see newly added worksheets. If you have a particular holiday in mind, choose the appropriate subcategory to find the related worksheets.

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How Good Is Your Vocabulary?

How Good Is Your Vocabulary?

Arlindo Marco Fialho
  This ESL activity consists of 20 multiple-choice questions designed for students planning to take ESL exams such as FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC. It's a productive exercise to help ...
1 Views 4,663 AdvExam
An ESL Lesson Plan On Articles: General vs. Specific

An ESL Lesson Plan On Articles: General vs. Specific

Nathan Martin
  This lesson is for students at a pre-Intermediate level, who have mastered the basic language skills and are familiar with plural nouns, a/an, frequency, and time. Before starting thi ...
1 Views 10,447 Pre-Int
Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought

Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought

CrisBS
  This PowerPoint shows pictures made by people in the early 1950s and 1940s portraying how they thought the future might be. It's good to practice "They thought that we would be able to f ...
1 Views 13,332 IntAdvExam
ESL Pals – In the Ocean

ESL Pals – In the Ocean

ESL Pals
    The subject of this ESL lesson is animals in the ocean. It covers the grammar topic of comparatives and superlatives. It teaches new words and how to form superlatives. It includ ...
1 Views 7,088 BegElem
BUILDING STABILITY Gapfill-Answers

BUILDING STABILITY Gapfill-Answers

Eva MULLAGHY
  This comprehension worksheet is particularly suited to Engineer or Architect students. It is a challenging listening exercise as some of the engineers speak rapidly. The gap-fill focuses ...
1 Views 5,214 IntAdv
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Boxing Day

Boxing Day

Jeff Genet
  Learn about the holiday Boxing Day. This lesson is linked to a fun, animated YouTube video that explains the origins and customs of the holiday. It's a great way for teaching cross-cultu ...
1 Views 7,302 All
Members of the community – Who am I?

Members of the community – Who am I?

  Which member of the community is being described? This short multiple choice English worksheet asks students to read through each description and identify different members of a communit ...
1 Views 9,831 Elem
Personal Information

Personal Information

BusyTeacher Contributor
  This worksheet contains texts for when new students get to know each other. There are four texts relating to people introducing themselves: for example, name, surname, age, homeplace, fa ...
1 Views 8,851 Beg
Face Masks and French Fashion

Face Masks and French Fashion

Anastasiia
  The worksheet is based on the adapted article from the Economist describing how face masks can become fashionable items in France. The tasks are aimed at developing reading comprehension ...
1 Views 6,927 Pre-IntInt
Going around

Going around

Mariyam
  This worksheet is suitable for Grade Is to learn about different kinds of transport. Children read the hints given in the bubbles and guess the name of the vehicle, then circle the odd o ...
1 Views 3,660 Elem
Making Fall Plans

Making Fall Plans

Jeff Genet
An incredibly fun lesson to build vocabulary and expressions to talk about the fall. There is an animated video that is linked to this lesson plan made especially for ESL/EFL learners. A powerful ...
1 Views 6,536 All
I Love Fall

I Love Fall

Pocket Master
An fun, animated, awesome lesson plan for teaching students about fall. The YouTube video that is linked with this lesson was made for ESL learners and is an animated monologue explaining how some ...
1 Views 9,603 All
Nationalities - Dialogue Practice

Nationalities - Dialogue Practice

Cristiane Fabocci
Here you can find different nationalities and names. For each nationality, you have two different names. How to use it: 1. if you have a big group you can give them different cards and they have ...
1 Views 27,880 BegElemPre-Int
Using For and Since (Including Exceptions)

Using For and Since (Including Exceptions)

Bonny Buckley
Do you cringe when you hear students misuse "for" and "since" when they are speaking? This is one page of examples and exceptions with a description of how to use these important everyday words. Y ...
7 Views 21,648 IntAdv
Birthday Vocabulary

Birthday Vocabulary

, , General
I have designed this PDF for reviewing some vocabulary items about birthday, including a present, birthday cake, candle, balloon, etc. Have your students write complete statements for each picture ...
4 Views 11,120 Elem
Celebrations

Celebrations

General,
This power-point presentation is related to wedding celebration and different kinds of celebrations and how people celebrate them. It's appropriate for young learners.
6 Views 12,627 Elem
Reading for Business English: The City of London

Reading for Business English: The City of London

maki
I work in the secondary school of economics so these are great texts for reading and vocabulary, you can use it for reading or introduction activity for further vocabulary work: accounting, econom ...
7 Views 28,236 Pre-IntInt
Communication Dialogs

Communication Dialogs

There are 7 dialogs which you can use in class. You can have your students memorize them so they can learn which expressions are used while buying food, ordering breakfast, seeing a doctor, bookin ...
9 Views 51,085 All
Holiday Vocabulary

Holiday Vocabulary

This worksheet includes general vocabulary about holidays and celebration. You can find out important dates for USA and CR. At the same time you can find specific clothes and other types of activi ...
5 Views 27,994 Pre-Int
It's a Date- PowerPoint

It's a Date- PowerPoint

This PowerPoint introduces four festivals of light; Loi Krathong, Saint Lucia, Diwali, and the Lantern Festival. In the first slides, there are some questions to encourage the language learners to ...
5 Views 7,643 ElemPre-Int
Argentinian Flag Day Poem

Argentinian Flag Day Poem

This is a very simple poem I wrote to celebrate Flag Day in Argentina. In this worksheet (specially designed for beginners at elementary school), students have to complete the poem with the missin ...
7 Views 14,820 Beg
Birthday 2

Birthday 2

This PPT can be used for teaching or revising vocabulary related to the topic of birtday. Students are asked to look at the pictures and choose the correct option. This PPT can help students to sp ...
14 Views 11,900 ElemPre-Int
Birthday

Birthday

This worksheet contains vocabulary related to birthday. In exercise 1 students have to match the words and the pictures, in exercise 2 they have to find some other words in the wordsearch, and in ...
6 Views 12,143 ElemPre-Int
Would Rather

Would Rather

, General
It covers the grammar subject  'would rather'. It firstly explains the use of it as a preference ' I'd rather do' but later give other structures which are used with would rather such as I'd ...
5 Views 14,578 Int
Important Events in Thailand

Important Events in Thailand

This worksheet can be used in English Social. I have used this in teaching grade 2 Thai students but you can change some events and make them international events. This is a good practice in speak ...
3 Views 8,070 Elem

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