You have reached the Dictations section of Busy Teacher. Here you can see 47 free worksheets to use in your classes. When you find one that is appropriate for your students, simply download and print these ready to use activities. This dictation worksheet, for example, has a gap fill exercise and the teaching materials for an activity that will help students practice listening and writing. It also can be used as a review of letter structure. Due to its content, you can use this worksheet when you discuss politely accepting and declining invitations too. For additional practice, just have students check the answers aloud as a class. You may be covering a different topic but there are other worksheets to check out and you can save this one for an appropriate time.
Dictation is being used less frequently in ESL classrooms but it can be an excellent way for students to practice listening and writing. You can use these exercises to test spelling of specific vocabulary words and the punctuation of target structures. When combined with reading and speaking exercises, you will have a lesson that appeals to all different types of learners.
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This is a whole lesson plan to get the students involved in an interactive and funny activity where they will develop not only listening, but also speaking. It's an alternative to traditional tex ...
This is a worksheet that focuses on the use of past simple and continuous combined. The first exercise is a gapfill where the students have to write the verb in brackets in past simple or continou ...
An alternative way to check vocabulary and derivatives through exercises. It is divided into different types of tasks. A derivatives chart, a fill in the blanks exercise and an exercise where they ...
Use these five dictations after covering such topics as Famous People, Traveling, Health and Fitness. Make sure that you pre-teach unknown vocabulary in class before your students put their pencil ...
It's a worksheet for practicing dictation, it contains five activities: put a tick based on the teacher's dictation, put a tick or check (√) to the right pictures based on the best mea ...
This is a simple wordsearch for elementary students including basic animal names. It aims to test students' receptive knowledge of these names by testing spelling at the same time. Problem so ...
This worksheet is to identify the difference between the long /ai/ sound and the short /i/ sounds that are otften confused by learners. It can be used to find patterns (e.g. the magic 'e' which tr ...
This is a useful tool to help with any writing assignment. Planning writing explained. I have used it with my Literacy and with my ESOL learmers with excellent results. It has helped to provide s ...
This worksheet requires that students use their dictionaries to complete the meaning of the words is their ESL learners. It could be assigned for homework or used as a small test. In the first exe ...
This is a simple (and fun) practice for subject pronouns and their corresponding object pronouns. As a secondary goal it is a listening practice for singular/plural nouns. I've also added several ...
Did he say $.15 or $.50? Numbers can sound very similar. This dictation exercise requires students to listen carefully and circle the price that was dictated. The second part gives students pra ...
This handout can be used after the students have been previously taught about some graphemes and simple words (e.g. "oo" / "ee"/ "th" / "all" / "ow" / "sh" / "ch"/ "ea" / "ing" / "ink" / "ame"/ "a ...
This handout can be used after the students have been previously taught about some graphemes and simple words (e.g. "oo" / "ee"/ "th" / "all" / "ow" / "sh" / "ch"/ "ea" / "ing" / "in ...
A wonderful and funny group work game. Very interesting and suitable for different levels... Objectives: This activity focuses on several skills development: - Vocabulary - Grammar - Spelling - ...
This is a very useful worksheet to practice shapes through listening and speaking.
Teacher's words: Listen to the teacher's instructions and blacken the circle needed. e.g. TASK 1: BLACKEN the va ...
Dictogloss is a classroom dictation activity where students are required to reconstruct a short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then used as a base for reconstruction. It ...
This 32 item multiple choice diagnostic mechanics assessment includes commas, capitalization, ending punctuation, parentheses, and quotation marks. In other words, everything in the K-6 Common Cor ...
Extracted from Merriam Webster's Dictionary (2000). This is a list of Words that begin with ANTI, AUTO, BI, DIS, EX, IM, IN, IR, MICRO, MIS, MONO, etc. There is also a list or words that ends ...
A very steady study about the differences between It and There with explanations, examples and exercises helping students with CAE and CPE levels. You have to crack a book sometimes in o ...
It is a good ppts about topic sentence.You can use it in your writing sessions. It is easy for your students to understand how to write a topic sentence. Thus,your students can overcome their prej ...
The lesson is suitable for elementary to low-intermediate learners. It's basically a reading lesson with some vocabulary, speaking and writing integrated into it. It pre-teaches some key voca ...
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