103 FREE Summer Activities, Worksheets and Creative Lesson Ideas

FREE Summer Activities

The weather’s hot, the sun is out, and the flowers are blooming - isn’t summer a wonderful season? Your students are probably just as excited about it as you are - and some of them are probably reluctant to sit attentively in a classroom when they’d rather be kicking back with a cold drink. Keeping students engaged during the summer months can be a tough proposition for ESL teachers - and not all of them are up to the challenge. If you want to keep your class interested, you’ll need to get them talking about topics that grab their attention.

And there’s no better way to grab their attention than to focus on what they’re all thinking about: summer! BusyTeacher.org offers 103 summer-themed worksheets that’ll get students of all levels speaking, reading, listening, and writing about the season. From simple grammar and vocabulary exercises to advanced composition and speaking activities, we’ve got it all. With these worksheets at the ready, you can turn even the laziest summer classroom into a place filled with fun in the sun.

Many of the 103 summer-themed worksheets you’ll find here on BusyTeacher.org include brightly-colored pictures that’ll catch students’ eyes. But that’s just the beginning of what makes these worksheets so engaging for ESL students around the world. Every worksheet takes a cue from the summer activities that are already on your students’ minds, and invites them to fill in blanks, match summery words with their definitions, solve puzzles about summer fun, and even speak and write about their exciting summer plans.

Not only do these worksheets cover a wide range of grammar and vocabulary topics - they also address all four of the ESL categories of reading, speaking, writing, and listening. And the wide variety of worksheets available on BusyTeacher.org means that you’ll always be able to find a worksheet that’s the right level for the class you’re teaching - whether they’re just beginning at level one or approaching fluency at level five. Quite a few of these worksheets can easily be adapted for several different ESL levels, too.

When you download a worksheet from BusyTeacher.org, you never have to wonder whether it’s useful - because every worksheet on this site was created, tested, approved, and uploaded by a real ESL teacher like you. In fact, if you’ve got a worksheet that’s been especially helpful in your classroom, we’d love for you to share it with our community! Just click the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page.

As you browse through the 103 summer worksheets here on BusyTeacher.org, you’ll notice our convenient thumbnail view, which makes it easy to preview every worksheet before you download it. And although we stand by the quality of every community-contributed worksheet on our site, some worksheets may be more useful to you than others - which is why it’s handy to be able to check through lots of them at a glance.

All our summer worksheets are free to download, use, and share - so what are you waiting for? Grab some that look right for your class, and see how BusyTeacher.org makes it easy to bring some summer fun into your classroom!

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The Yucky Weather Machine

The Yucky Weather Machine

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This is an original script I made for the children I teach in South Korea. I used it to practice their reading and also as a performance piece. The lessons surrounding this script were related to ...
2 Views 11,417 Elem
Free Time

Free Time

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The aim of this worksheet is to improve students' speaking skills. A teacher can print and cut the topic cards, then give it to students and let them ask and answer the questions in pairs. It take ...
8 Views 28,011 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam
How to Talk about Free Time and Activities

How to Talk about Free Time and Activities

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This power-point presentation has 2 parts: speaking and flashcards. The speaking part contains different types of questions about free-time and free-time activities, while the second part contains ...
7 Views 24,466 Elem
Summer Holidays Reading Worksheet

Summer Holidays Reading Worksheet

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This is a reading comprehension worksheet on the topic summer holidays. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to read the text, say if the statements are true or false and c ...
12 Views 83,622 Pre-Int
Summer Holidays

Summer Holidays

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This PPT is suitable for teaching or revising vocabulary related to summer holidays. There are 16 slides in the PPT. Students are asked to look at the pictures and choose the correct word. If they ...
26 Views 38,710 Elem
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Summer Missing Letters Activity

Summer Missing Letters Activity

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This is a very simple missing letters activity for revising summer related vocabulary at elementary level. Students are asked to look at the pictures and complete the words with the missing letter ...
9 Views 19,793 Elem
Song Worksheet: In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry

Song Worksheet: In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry

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Another well-known happy song for the summer :) There are several exercises: choose the right word, fill the gaps with the words you hear (the first letter is given first time), fill the gaps with ...
5 Views 16,305 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday by Boney M

Song Worksheet: Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday by Boney M

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A song activity, perfect now that the summer holiday is here. A happy summer song, a classic by Boney M. There are 5 exercises: fill the gaps with the rhyming words (you can match the rhymes befor ...
5 Views 16,235 ElemPre-IntInt
Summer Memory Game

Summer Memory Game

It´s summer time. You can revise some words related to summer and train your students´ concentration skills and memories with this PPT. Students have to find the matching pairs: they h ...
26 Views 22,858 ElemPre-Int
Summer

Summer

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It is summer time! I hope this worksheet will help you to introduce the topic Summer Holidays. Students are asked to match the pictures with the words, find some other summer words in the word sea ...
30 Views 38,853 ElemPre-Int
I Can/ I Can't

I Can/ I Can't

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This is a presentation with free time activities and sports. Can be used as presentation of using modal verb can/can't for expressing ability. Include sports, outdoor activities, sport games, play ...
7 Views 18,672 BegElem
Free Time Activities and Sports

Free Time Activities and Sports

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This is a poster with free time activities and sports. Based on the presentation of using modal verb can/can't for expressing ability. Include sports, outdoor activities, sport games, playing musi ...
15 Views 78,151 BegElem
Hobbies and Free Time Activities

Hobbies and Free Time Activities

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This PPT is about free time activities and hobbies. Students have to look at the pictures and complete the sentences with the correct verb (the options are given). They can practice present simple ...
27 Views 70,419 ElemPre-Int
Travel Agent/Customer Gap-fill Exercise/ Role-play

Travel Agent/Customer Gap-fill Exercise/ Role-play

In this worksheet, students have to pick the appropriate word to fill the gap in this conversation between a travel agent and customer. Can also be used as a role-play activity. Target language/mi ...
17 Views 75,964 Pre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet:Talking about Photographs

Movie Worksheet:Talking about Photographs

This worksheet is based on a dialogue I found on Youtube. A man and a woman talk about their photographs. There is a gap-filling exercise in connection with the dialogue and some warm up activitie ...
4 Views 10,198 ElemPre-Int
Hobbies and Free Time Activities

Hobbies and Free Time Activities

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Students have to complete the sentences with the correct verbs: play, paint, go, listen, go snorkelling, dance, go rollerblading and ride. Then they have to match the sentences with the pictures. ...
26 Views 83,369 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet:Summer Nights (from Grease)

Song Worksheet:Summer Nights (from Grease)

This worksheet was designed to practice simple past and to have fun. There are pre-teaching exercises, such as vocabulary revision and introducing new vocabulary and revision of past forms. There ...
5 Views 28,335 ElemPre-Int
A Wonderful Summer

A Wonderful Summer

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This is a simple text + fill in the gaps with verbs in past simple + comprehension questions. May be used with students of pre-intermediate level after summer discussing holidays. May also ask the ...
16 Views 23,541 Pre-Int
A Day by the Sea

A Day by the Sea

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This is a text about a day by the sea for children who can't go on holidays. There are some comprehension exercices with their key.Then you can teach simple past with regular and irregular verbs. ...
13 Views 11,900 Int
Song Worksheet: Hooray! Hooray!

Song Worksheet: Hooray! Hooray!

Let the children have a fun time before the holidays, the song for this worksheet is a peppy sixties’ number called ‘Hooray Hooray’ by Boney M. It’s meant for probably up t ...
4 Views 12,161 BegElem
Rebus Story 2

Rebus Story 2

My summer: this is a rebus story, that is to say, a story which combines words and pictures. Here, pictures represent entire words. There is a colour version, a B&W one and the key. This type ...
9 Views 16,848 ElemPre-Int
Fun at the Beach - Story Picture

Fun at the Beach - Story Picture

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The title of this worksheet is 'Fun at the beach'. Students look at the picture and think of an interesting, creative story to go with it. They could maybe write about their own fun day at the bea ...
9 Views 22,416 Elem
Picnicking with Garfield and Friends

Picnicking with Garfield and Friends

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For upper-elementary/intermediate, writing prompts with cartoons. Reviews a little picnic vocabulary and language used at barbecues. Fun worksheet to use for talking about summer outside parties a ...
7 Views 12,739 Pre-IntIntAdv
An Amazing Vacation!

An Amazing Vacation!

Create your dream vacation place! Fun little project for upper elementary/ intermediate tweens and teens. Students start by filling in names on a vacation island map. They then fill in the blanks ...
24 Views 62,049 Pre-IntInt
Let's Go to the Beach with Our Friends!

Let's Go to the Beach with Our Friends!

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How many words can you write with these letters? With the letters that appear in "Let's go to the beach with our friends" students create new words. There are six columns so that students can writ ...
11 Views 11,286 ElemPre-IntInt

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