School, university and education are great topics for ESL students because they spend a lot of time in classrooms and should be able to discuss these topics. There are now 190 worksheets in this section with the majority being back to school activities or exercises about the classroom. This is a fun activity for pre-intermediate learners. It is a little text heavy but you can adapt it to better suit your needs. As suggested in the worksheet description, this is a great introduction to talking about the rules at your own school. For more worksheets and activity ideas, take a look at the other worksheets in this section. There are also several back to school articles that can help you prepare for the new school year. Since school plays an important role in their everyday lives, students should be introduced to related vocabulary early on and be given the chance to talk about this topic from time to time. The majority of activities currently posted are for lower level learners but your advanced students and adults will certainly have some opinions about the education system in their country. Some topics of discussion might include the cost of university, public versus private school, and the quality of education children receive. Students may also find it useful to talk about whether or not students today receive too much homework or too many vacations. These topics will certainly lead to a lively debate.
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In this worksheet your students will find 6 sentences impossible to understand since the words are in the wrong order. First, they will have to order the words to form sentences. The sentences are ...
It is a simple worksheet that I have prepared for my pupils of 1st year in middle school and I intend it to be used by both pupils and teachers. You may use it to give pupils the main actions don ...
Reading Comprehension is about a debate on school uniform. Students read and answer the multiple-choice questions. Some people think that the debate about school uniform is just about whether ...
I've made this presentation on the text from the New Matrix 7th Grade: Student’s Book by Wildman Jayne, Styring James, Khotuntseva Elena. There is a 'true/false' task, a vocabulary task and ...
This worksheet is a great way to talk about differences between the U.S. school environment and a foreign school. The students work on their own or with a partner for the warm-up and then discuss ...
This worksheet was created to Unit 10 of the New Total English Elementary 2 course book and aims to practice school subjects, expressions in connection with learning and modal verbs (have to, don' ...
This word puzzle will help students from lower levels to remember basic items of common use inside the classroom. The aim of the activity is to combine it with other didactical activities in order ...
This worksheet comprises a listening and speaking activity for teenagers. Students watch the first 4 minutes of Logan La Plante's TEDx video presentation entitled "Hackschooling makes me happy", ...
This is a PPT on school or education related vocabulary. There are slides with 'exam' words and phrases (such as pass/fail exam, cheat, cram), some phrasal verbs (work out, hand in), and school ...
This is an excellent listening exercise for upper-intermediate. They will enjoy a 2.45 minutes talk by Sheena Lyengar on her book: The Art of Choosing. The choice of words, entertaining speech, an ...
This PowerPoint introduces some classroom items like chair, desk, blackboard, map, duster, etc. It is appropriate for both adult and teenage elementary students. The students learn the new words t ...
This is another worksheet connected to the Window on Britain series. With the help of this worksheet students listening and writing skills can be developed as well as their knowledge about British ...
A fun activity to practise vocabulary skills. The task is simple and the students can complete it on their own, without any guidance - it helped me by keeping them busy while I had to prepare the ...
This is a song with versions by Jack Johnson and The White Stripes, which can be used to talk about school life and friendship. There are some gaps to fill in with vocabulary of different kinds (v ...
Another PowerPoint presentation this time about school subjects in English. Each slide contains a picture related to the subject and the name of the subject to help kids memorize them. After the ...
A listening & speaking lesson originally designed for a teenage FCE group based on clips from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. First and foremost designed as a bit of a break from tr ...
A lesson practising vocabulary connected with education in the context of reading about school life in other countries. This then leads to the students writing a short magazine article for homewor ...
This is perfect if you would like your ss to learn some vocab that has double meanings and understand some clever plays-on-words. First watch the youtube video of 'Milton Jones - Teachers' (3 min ...
This worksheet is a fun warm-up activity for the first day of school or Knowledge Day etc. It deals with the differences between our right and left brain hemisphere. 1) Give the picture from page ...
This is a worksheet with two recent news about discrimination against kids. It's in the format of a newspaper. The objective is to discuss individuality, diversity, discrimination, school regulari ...
This is a worksheet to practice some grammar points and vocabulary of unit 2 from the book "Stepping Up Starter". In activity 1 you practise demonstrative pronouns (that - this - those - these). I ...
This is a crossword puzzle I used to revise new vocabulary for the topic education from the last lesson. It could also be used before you give your students these words, probably some of them they ...
We played this role-play in our class with Russian students, so I asked the students to imagine that you can spend a gap-year not only before your studies, but also after the first or second year ...
This is timetable for your students. It can be used for any type of students (from small students to older ones). It has got some London icons as for example the London Eye, the Big Ben, an Englis ...
This worksheet is based on an episode taken from popular cartoon series ‘Hey, Arnold’ and will be of great use at the beginning of a new school year or while studying ‘Education& ...
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