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Here at Busy Teacher you can find a lot of teaching ideas that have worked for other ESL instructors. There are currently 1,378 available worksheets in this section alone! You can also sort worksheets by ranking to see ones that received positive feedback and read what other teachers have said in the comments section. These tools can help you decide what worksheets to use in your classroom. This worksheet contains great color flashcards for different types of food and includes instructions for a card game. It is just one of the free, printable worksheets you can find. If you need further resources, look at some related articles; they contain a lot of lesson ideas too.
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Instructions To Teachers (1872)

Instructions To Teachers (1872)

Still complaining about your language school? Check out what teachers in 1872 were expected to do! Here's a high quality print-friendly Teacher's room poster - you're most welcome to print it ...
9 Views 28,743 All
Irregular Verbs: Elementary Flashcards

Irregular Verbs: Elementary Flashcards

Young students will love this adorable set of Flashcards. They can be used for teaching the most common irregular verbs, play games such as memory games or to decorate or classroom as posters.
25 Views 29,605 BegElem
Free Time Activities 2 (30 Slides With Extra Activities)

Free Time Activities 2 (30 Slides With Extra Activities)

The 2nd ppt to revise vocabulary on hobbies. This time you've got 26 animated slides + 4 slides with extra activities to be done after watching both ppt. They're supposed to encourage students to ...
22 Views 38,750 ElemPre-IntInt
Free Time Activities 1 (26 Slides)

Free Time Activities 1 (26 Slides)

This is the 1st ppt with vocabulary about free time activites and hobbies. There are 26 animated slides with attractive clipart thanks to Philip Martin. There are extra activities to revise the vo ...
19 Views 35,588 ElemPre-IntInt
Sports Vocabulary PowerPoint

Sports Vocabulary PowerPoint

I found this .ppt & edited it by adding more sports to it so you'll find more than 25 different type of sport. It will help your students recognize a wide range of sports with some questions a ...
16 Views 31,662 Elem
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Sound Flashcards

Sound Flashcards

Useful cards with phonetic symbols. Just print on colourful paper and use to teach sounds. Vowels and consonants are grouped according to their characteristics and can be easily printed. Have fu ...
32 Views 71,717 All
Daily Routines Flashcards

Daily Routines Flashcards

This is a lovely and colourful set of cards for teaching daily routines and the present simple tense. Suitable for elementary students, these cards can also be used as conversation cards or to pl ...
82 Views 357,562 BegElem
Personality Adjectives Flashcards

Personality Adjectives Flashcards

This is a set of cards for teaching personality adjectives: generous, outgoing,attentive, calm, intelligent, aggressive,rude, shy, etc These cards can also be used to play games or as conversatio ...
30 Views 96,395 ElemPre-Int
Safety and Hazards Word Search Puzzle

Safety and Hazards Word Search Puzzle

A crossword to increase your students' vocabulary concerning safety and hazards. Addressed to technical English students. List of words used in this word search: INJURE, SHOCK, RULES, HOOK, DANGE ...
7 Views 45,520 Elem
Object Pronouns

Object Pronouns

This exercise is used to help students memorize the object pronouns. This will also help those who have difficulty in understanding them. 1. Cut each slip and give one card to each student. They ...
21 Views 54,785 BegElemPre-IntInt
Natural Disasters Worksheet

Natural Disasters Worksheet

Get to know more about natural disasters. Enlarge your vocabulary about this topic. Teachers can even give their students the chance to interview partners in order to fill in the chart that f ...
14 Views 37,093 IntAdv
Months Of The Year

Months Of The Year

A set of 12 months of the year in black and white. Prepared for beginners to let them learn names of months easily. A teacher can colour them or let his pupils do so. Can be used as flashcards. Ne ...
26 Views 42,692 Elem
Fruit Flashcards

Fruit Flashcards

This is a very simple activity for beginners: there are 8 fruits: cherry, lemon, kiwi, orange, pear, apple, banana and grapes. You colour them with your children, cut the cards out and play. You ...
22 Views 37,953 Beg
24 HI-RES Halloween Flashcards & How To Use Them

24 HI-RES Halloween Flashcards & How To Use Them

Remember how some weeks ago we launched a HUGE flashcard collection with 670 ESL flashcards? Today we have decided to share 24 high resolution print-friendly Halloween flashcards for FREE so that ...
30 Views 41,720 All
Flashcards: Months Train

Flashcards: Months Train

This is a classroom display of months,that can be colored and posted on the bulletin board.It can also be used when practising birthdays and posting the students' birthdays. For more worksheets vi ...
13 Views 15,386 Elem
Natural Disasters with Present Perfect

Natural Disasters with Present Perfect

This activity will help your students practice the present perfect and vocabulary related to natural disasters. This worsheet contains exercises where your students will choose the best answer, d ...
12 Views 29,131 Pre-Int
Thank You For Being A Teacher: Poster

Thank You For Being A Teacher: Poster

On behalf of our huge community let me THANK YOU for becoming a teacher and for trying to be better with every passing day. These lines below are for you! Yes, personally for you. Click the ima ...
14 Views 36,655 All
Occupations: Professions and Jobs

Occupations: Professions and Jobs

This is a power point activity that I used with my beginner students when they were learning the vocabulary about occupations. Before anything we talked about professions and the characteristics n ...
39 Views 60,399 BegElem
Beginner Word Formation Worksheet

Beginner Word Formation Worksheet

This is a game for your little learners of English. They see the name of the girl (Elizabeth). Lower there are boxes with words. Children should colour those boxes, which contain words that could ...
13 Views 15,890 Beg
Irregulars in Past Simple: Flashcards

Irregulars in Past Simple: Flashcards

Here is the first set of flashcards created with the focus on grammar (irregular verbs in Past Simple). You can cut and mix them up, then your SS get one of the cards and read the whole sentence, ...
23 Views 24,587 Pre-Int
Icebreakers

Icebreakers

These are five plans for ice breaking activities which you may use during the first lessons with your students or at any time you feel you should make your students know each other better/ know yo ...
51 Views 19,094 All
Classroom Rules Chant

Classroom Rules Chant

This is a poem-chant written by me to use during the transitions times especially when the class gets noisy,usually the numbers are said by the teacher and the rules by the students.It can be also ...
23 Views 42,990 Elem
Top 20 Tongue Twisters: Poster

Top 20 Tongue Twisters: Poster

Want to have some fun with your class today? Start with one (or more) of these top 20 tongue twisters! But first make sure you can pronounce them properly yourself! :) Click the image below to v ...
87 Views 440,823 All
True Teacher's ABC: Poster

True Teacher's ABC: Poster

Did you know that there is a special alphabet for teachers? Well, kind of! :)Now you can print it out and put it up anywhere you want - in your Teacher's Room or even on your classroom wall! Here' ...
23 Views 43,483 All
English Is A Crazy Language: Poster

English Is A Crazy Language: Poster

Do you think English is easy to learn? Well, here's a short example of how complicated it in fact is! Check out this high quality print-friendly poster below - you're most welcome to print it out ...
144 Views 502,387 All

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