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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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Thanksgiving Flashcards

Thanksgiving Flashcards

Jeff Genet
A beautifully illustrated set of flashcards for Thanksgiving. Powerful tools for creative writing, storytelling, brainstorming, conversation starters, vocabulary building and pretty much anything! ...
1 Views 25,391 All
Halloween Storytelling Flashcard Prompts

Halloween Storytelling Flashcard Prompts

Jeff Genet
High quality beautifully illustrated flashcards that can be used for icebreakers, vocabulary building, storytelling, creating writing, presentations, cultural awareness and a variety of other thin ...
1 Views 27,262 All
Find Someone Who Movies/Films

Find Someone Who Movies/Films

Cut the handout out to use as a warmer or one of activities on topic of movies/film genres, etc. Each student gets a card and starts asking other students questions to find a person who does somet ...
2 Views 38,477 Pre-IntIntAdv
ESL Conversation Questions

ESL Conversation Questions

50 sets of conversation questions on 50 different topics. Each topic contains six questions. This resource is suitable for ESL teachers who have classes of pre-intermediate or intermediate level w ...
1 Views 44,700 Pre-IntInt
2018 Winter Olympics Flashcards

2018 Winter Olympics Flashcards

Jeff Genet
Beautifully illustrated flashcards teach an Olympics-themed lesson. This Olympics-themed set will brighten up the classroom, increase retention and provide an awesome visual learning aid. The flas ...
1 Views 16,660 All
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Guess the Movie Based on the Plot

Guess the Movie Based on the Plot

If you are talking about movies and it seems that you've done everything, let your students do this task. They have to guess what the movie is by reading a summary about it. The keys are included ...
4 Views 81,693 IntAdvExam
Cat Idioms

Cat Idioms

A worksheet for this video about cat idioms in the English language. Idioms included: cat got your tongue?, a fat cat, to purr like a cat, when the cat's away, to be the cat's whiskers, the cat is ...
8 Views 66,016 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet - Star Wars - The Last Jedi

Movie Worksheet - Star Wars - The Last Jedi

Yulia Zueva
This worksheet is based around the teaser trailer of one of the films of the Star Wars trilogy - "Episode VIII: The Last Jedi". The first task refreshes in the students' memory the names of the ma ...
3 Views 33,099 ElemPre-Int
Flashcards of Daily Activities

Flashcards of Daily Activities

LenaK
This worksheet contains 20 colorful flashcards of daily routines and activities: get up, wash face, have breakfast, go to school, etc. It will help ESL students master the phrases in English. Pare ...
12 Views 116,385 BegElemPre-Int
Aviation Sentences

Aviation Sentences

Maiara
In this exercise, the sentences are scrambled and the students must put the words in the correct order. You can use it as a simple exercise or you can turn it into a game with the winner being th ...
3 Views 47,329 All
Brag Tags for the EFL classroom

Brag Tags for the EFL classroom

This document consists of brag tags for the EFL classroom! It has its colored and black and white version. -I am speaking English -I am following directions -I am a good friend -I am using magic ...
6 Views 29,223 BegElemPre-Int
Useful Cooking Verbs

Useful Cooking Verbs

S.I.
This table is a reference guide for students learning about food/cooking/baking/the kitchen. The table contains common cooking verbs with images for easy understanding. I usually print the table a ...
5 Views 84,148 BegElem
Coloring for Complete Beginners to Teach Spelling Skills

Coloring for Complete Beginners to Teach Spelling Skills

Marina Talvir
This worksheet enables young children to demonstrate their knowledge of consonants and encourages them to read words with letter "Aa". Looking a the pictures children should guess what consonants ...
4 Views 19,678 Beg
Touchstone 2 Jeopardy (Units 1,2,3)

Touchstone 2 Jeopardy (Units 1,2,3)

Karina
A power point presentation to review units 1,2 and 3 of the book Touchstone 2, a Jeopardy game to play. Divide the class in 2 teams and start asking the questions. There are 5 categories: units 1, ...
7 Views 42,676 Int
Review ( Backpack 1; Unit 1-3)

Review ( Backpack 1; Unit 1-3)

This power-point presentation is appropriate for elementary students. This is helpful for reviewing numbers, school objects, family and body parts related vocabulary items. Hope you find it useful.
2 Views 19,472 Elem
40 Flashcard of Clothing

40 Flashcard of Clothing

Elena Kol
The worksheet contains 40 flashcards of clothes, shoes and accessories. You may print and use the cards to educate kids at ESL lessons or at home. The flashcards are colorful, made with http://fla ...
15 Views 82,788 BegElemPre-Int
First Semester YLE Level Exam (Cambride Flyers Level)

First Semester YLE Level Exam (Cambride Flyers Level)

Extensive exercises with comparatives and superlatives. It also contins "some" and "any" with questions, negatives and positives. There is some vocabulary related to autumn and places around town. ...
3 Views 22,469 Exam
Second Semester A2 Level Exam

Second Semester A2 Level Exam

This is an exam which includes exercises on sense verbs, countable and uncountable nouns, expressions with "have got", when to use "how much / many / a lot of / lots of / too and enough". It also ...
4 Views 21,414 Exam
Vocabulary

Vocabulary

chosoon
This worksheet is designed for pre-intermediate learners, who are preparing for the first exam of  thesecond term. It contains vocabulary work. Hope it will be useful for the teens at your sc ...
4 Views 15,185 Pre-IntInt
All English Phonetic Symbols (Flashcards in PDF)

All English Phonetic Symbols (Flashcards in PDF)

Elena
The worksheet contains 46 symbols of the English phonetics - consonants, vowels and stress symbol. The sounds are given with the examples of words. The flashcards can be easily printable and used ...
5 Views 88,567 BegElemPre-Int
Farm Animals Flashcards

Farm Animals Flashcards

Elena K
16 flashcards of domestic animals: pig, cow, horse, cat, dog, rabbit, goat, sheep, and others. Ideal to show to little learners or use at primary school. The cards can be used at English lessons a ...
9 Views 48,924 BegElemPre-Int
Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 11

Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 11

Valentine's Day worksheet: colouring page. Make February 14th a special day with our fun printables and activities. This colouring page can be used as an extra resource when teaching students abou ...
3 Views 16,021 Elem
Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 11

Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 11

Valentine's Day worksheet: colouring page. Make February 14th a special day with our fun printables and activities. This colouring page can be used as an extra resource when teaching students abou ...
3 Views 11,624 Elem
Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 10

Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 10

Valentine's Day worksheet: colouring page. Make February 14th a special day with our fun printables and activities. This colouring page can be used as an extra resource when teaching students abou ...
3 Views 9,701 Elem
Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 9

Valentine's Day Worksheet: Colouring Page 9

Valentine's Day worksheet: colouring page. Make February 14th a special day with our fun printables and activities. This colouring page can be used as an extra resource when teaching students abou ...
3 Views 9,965 Elem

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