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.
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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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