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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Flashcards: Summer

Flashcards: Summer

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This set of flashcards can be used for teaching or revising summer related vocabulary. Each flashcard has an illustration with the corresponding word. They can be cut out and used as a matching ga ...
18 Views 25,347 Elem
An American Summer

An American Summer

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I used this presentation with secondary students in Spain. The vocabulary covers summer holidays, activities, cookout food/drinks, and weather. The last slide in my PP is copied and pasted from a ...
7 Views 8,870 Pre-IntInt
On the Beach

On the Beach

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People doing different things on the beach. The worksheet is meant to help pupils practsing the past progressive using three forms. the activity can be done as a pair work: Pupil A asks a question ...
8 Views 11,339 Pre-Int
Find Someone Who... After Summer Holidays

Find Someone Who... After Summer Holidays

A class mingle in the 'Find someone who' format. Topic covers activities students may have done during the summer holidays. Each line has a picture and the topic. Students ask the question, and th ...
24 Views 75,795 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Something About the Sunshine by Anne Margaret

Song Worksheet: Something About the Sunshine by Anne Margaret

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This upload includes a worksheet of prelistening activities and a gap fill for students to complete while listening to the song. Prelistening worksheet: Section A: students discuss the 4 photos fr ...
3 Views 10,071 ElemPre-IntInt
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Our Pastime Poem

Our Pastime Poem

Group the students and task them to make their own poem about their pastime following the given sample. In this activity, they will be able to express their opinions about various pastime. They wi ...
10 Views 15,039 Int
Camping Matching Exercise

Camping Matching Exercise

With this worksheet, pupils can practice the vocabulary on camping. They simply have to match the pictures to the words. You can enlarge the pictures and hang them on the balckboard so that some p ...
10 Views 15,355 BegElemPre-IntInt
Draw the Seaside (Prepositions)

Draw the Seaside (Prepositions)

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This is a simple drawing worksheet practicing prepositions at the seaside. The students must draw a picture using the instructions given. You should introduce the following seaside vocabulary firs ...
18 Views 23,316 Elem
Summer [Fill In The Blanks]

Summer [Fill In The Blanks]

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Nice little fill in the blanks for the summer season. It will give individual students the ability to test their knowledge of vocabulary. Use it as a test and or to learn new vocabulary. Also use ...
11 Views 27,248 Pre-Int
Holiday Wordsearch

Holiday Wordsearch

A wordsearch for beginners or elementary students to learn/review summer holiday vocabulary. Can be used as a warmer to introduce the topic of summer holiday or back to school warmer to start the ...
9 Views 28,423 Elem
Summer Holiday Word Search

Summer Holiday Word Search

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I like to use wordsearches as warm-ups. You can either use it just as it is or erase the given hidden words and students will look for them on their own. In the second case, before giving the hand ...
4 Views 11,419 Elem
Listening Comprehension: Tell Me about Your Last Vacation

Listening Comprehension: Tell Me about Your Last Vacation

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This worksheet is composed of three exercises. In the first one, the students must say if the statements are true or false. In the second one, they must answer the questions and in the third one, ...
27 Views 50,726 Int
Song Worksheet: Camp Granada by Allan Sherman

Song Worksheet: Camp Granada by Allan Sherman

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A three-task song worksheet for all levels (except for complete beginners). Excellent lyrics written as a boy's letter to his parents from a summer camp. Task 1: Filling in the missing words {yo ...
3 Views 8,986 ElemPre-IntIntAdvExam
Holidays Elementary Worksheet

Holidays Elementary Worksheet

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This is a pretty simple worksheet for teaching or revising holidays related vocabulary at elementary level. There is an easy activity in which students are asked to complete different sentences wi ...
6 Views 24,631 Elem
Olympic Sports Wordsearch

Olympic Sports Wordsearch

This is a wordsearch using some olympic sports vocabulary. It can be used for a beginners / pre-intermediate level, or for children. It contains 12 words such as weight lifting, fencing, relay rac ...
7 Views 17,477 ElemPre-Int
Summer Fun Classroom Poster

Summer Fun Classroom Poster

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With this colourful classroom poster students will learn 22 new words related with summer: sun, bag, flip-flops,lifebelt, ball, hat, snorkel, mask, t-shirt, wave, sun lotion, sand, sand castle, et ...
18 Views 68,244 ElemPre-Int
Summer Decoding Activity

Summer Decoding Activity

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This is a decoding activity suitable for elementary students for teaching Summer related vocabulary. The words have been written in code. Students are asked to use the hints in the decoder at the ...
10 Views 15,112 ElemPre-Int
Language Learning Olympic Style

Language Learning Olympic Style

This activity uses Olympic training tips and traits of athletes to help students learn English. Upper intermediate or advanced students will read, write, and discuss learning skills that can moti ...
10 Views 16,771 Adv
Camping Wordsearch Puzzle

Camping Wordsearch Puzzle

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This is a wordsearch puzzle for teaching or revising camping related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to find the words in the puzzle and then match them with the pict ...
17 Views 59,179 Elem
Summer Boardgame

Summer Boardgame

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By introducing this game into your classes, students will have fun learning summer related vocabulary. Students advance on the board with dice, when they land on a square they are asked to make a ...
13 Views 20,168 BegElem
Travelling Worksheet

Travelling Worksheet

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This is a simple worksheet for teaching or revising travelling and holidays related vocabulary. There are two activities in which students are asked to write the corresponding caption in the pict ...
33 Views 112,916 Pre-IntInt
Holiday Board Game

Holiday Board Game

This colourful board game is designed to create conversation about holidays and includes a variety of question structures. It includes lots of key vocabulary for the topic and is a fun way to end ...
51 Views 129,666 Pre-IntInt
Postcards from Somewhere

Postcards from Somewhere

This is a Mad Lib-like activity I created where students must make a list of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and other words, that they then plug into a template of a postcard from a vacation. Hilarity ...
26 Views 47,039 Int
Camping Multiple Choice Activity

Camping Multiple Choice Activity

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Through this worksheet your students will learn or revise camping related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the picture and choose the correct word. The work ...
14 Views 16,130 BegElem
At the Beach: Missing Vowels Activity

At the Beach: Missing Vowels Activity

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This is a simple and easy activity for teaching summer related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the words with the missing vowels. The worksheet is availab ...
15 Views 26,262 BegElem

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