Printable teaching and learning materials
These resources are designed mainly for aural and oral practice, with some also suitable for writing. They are aimed at learners from lower intermediate to intermediate level and are intended to be used under the guidance of somebody who knows English well.
Teachers can choose an activity below and print the linked worksheet or handout for classroom use. Learners can also use the materials for guided practice.
Questionnaires
Speaking activities for getting to know classmates and finding out more about one another.
- for a new class of learners who have not met before (oral)
- for use by 'old' learners to find out about 'new' learners (oral)
- for use by 'new' learners to learn the ropes from 'old' learners (oral)
- for use by all learners to uncover secrets about their teacher
Written introductions
Models and prompts for writing about personal experience, places and the past.
- Examples (1) of introductions written by learners after their 3rd week in Brighton
- Examples (2) of introductions written by learners after their 3rd week in Brighton
- Examples (3) of introductions written by learners after their 3rd week in Brighton
- Local Knowledge Test - identify places in your town and in your school [ Model Page ]
- Writing about 'My Town'
- Writing about 'My Country'
- Autobiographies: talking about the past (1) My first ten years
- Ask a friend about the first ten years of his / her life - question prompts
- Examples (3) of autobiographies written by learners at the intermediate level
Grammar practice
Verb tenses, adjective comparison, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions.
- Present Simple Roland's every day habits and routines - part 1
- Present Simple Hazuki's daily routine / Juan Carlos's likes and dislikes
- Present Continuous Your future plans (PC and "going to" questions with adverbials)
- Past Simple Narrative: Class Magical Mystery Tour (with question prompts)
- Past Simple Happenings: talking about the past (2) Your favourite decade.
- Mixed Tenses Role Play: assuming the role of another person. Class conversation.
- Past Simple narrative of a journey constructed through question prompts
- Adverbs of manner and frequency practised through discussion of likes and dislikes
- Adverbs of degree and reason practised through discussion of likes and dislikes
- Connectors AND BUT OR SO BECAUSE practised through joining sentence pairs and gap fill
- Adjective comparison practised through letter-writing: gap fill | letters written by competitors
- Comparison of adjectives and adverbs through short texts with question prompts | competing neighbours
- The Past Simple and The Present Perfect - differentiated, explained and practised through adverbials
- Present Perfect accounts 1 - 3 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity
- Present Perfect accounts 4 - 6 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity
- Present Perfect accounts 7 - 9 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity
- Present Perfect accounts 10 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity; key; the balloon game
- Present Perfect v Past Simple: question making with indefinite or definite time reference. Parts 3 & 1 of verb
- Present Perfect and the prepositions 'for' and 'since'
- Present Perfect and the prepositions 'for' and 'since'
- The use of 'something', 'somebody', 'somewhere', 'nowhere', 'everybody' (rather than 'All people')
- Mixed English Verb Tense practice through gap fill suitable for the intermediate level.
- English Verb Tense practice through sentence pairs - choose the most likely tense for the adverbial
- English Verb Tense practice through sentence construction using word prompts including adverbials
Pronunciation
Targeted pronunciation practice that can be printed as an A4 worksheet.
Minimal Pairs - select the two sounds you want to compare. You can then print out the relevant worksheet onto an A4 sheet.