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
- Local Knowledge Test - identify places in your town and in your school
Written introductions
Models and prompts for writing about personal experience, places and the past.
- Eva (from Spain) | Loli (from Mexico) | Stefan (from Switzerland)
- Interactive True or False quiz about Eva, Loli and Stefan.
- Writing about 'My Town'
- 'London' Interactive Gap Fill
- 'Paris' Interactive Gap Fill
- Writing about 'My Country'
- 'Spain' Interactive Gap Fill
- 'Saudi Arabia' Interactive Gap Fill
- Autobiographies: talking about the past (1) My first ten years
- Ask a friend about the first ten years of his / her life - question prompts
- 'John Lennon' interactive gap fill
- 'Marilyn Monroe' interactive gap fill
- Autobiographies of Diletta (Italy), Hsiu-feng (Taiwan) and Sara (Italy)
- Interactive True or False quiz on Diletta, Hsiu-feng, and Sara
Grammar practice
Verb tenses, adjective comparison, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions.
Present and past
- Present Simple – Roland's everyday habits and routines
- Present Simple – interactive gap fill as above
- Present Simple – Hazuki's daily routine / Juan Carlos's likes and dislikes
- Interactive True or False quiz about Hazuki and Juan Carlos.
- Present Continuous – your future plans (PC and "going to" questions with adverbials)
- Past Simple – narrative: Class Magical Mystery Tour (with question prompts)
- Past Simple – narrative: interactive gap fill as above
- Past Simple – happenings: talking about the past (2) Your favourite decade
- Past Simple – narrative: Anita's European Trip (with question prompts)
- Past Simple - narrative interactive gap fill as above.
Conjunctions and Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs
- Connectors: 'and', 'but', 'or', 'so', 'because' – joining sentence pairs and gap fill
- Connectors: 'and', 'but', 'or', 'so', 'because' - interactive gap fill quiz.
- Adjective comparison – practised through letter-writing: gap fill | letters written by competitors
- Adjective comparison – interactive gap fill as above
- Comparison of adjectives and adverbs – short texts with question prompts | competing neighbours
- Comparison of adjectives and adverbs – interactive True or False quiz as above
- Adverbs of manner and frequency – practised through discussion of likes and dislikes
- Adverbs of degree and reason – practised through discussion of likes and dislikes
Present Perfect
- The Past Simple and The Present Perfect – differentiated, explained and practised through adverbials
- The Past Simple and The Present Perfect – interactive gap fill as above
- Listing achievements 1-3 using the Present Perfect for up until now. Guess the people.
- Listing achievements 4-6 using the Present Perfect for up until now. Guess the people.
- Listing achievements 7 Answer Key. The balloon game.
- Present Perfect v Past Simple – question making with indefinite or definite time reference
- Present Perfect and the prepositions 'for' and 'since'
- Present Perfect with 'recently', 'before', 'ever', 'lately', 'since', 'yet' and 'so far'
- Present Perfect - interactive gap fill as above.
Mixed tense practice
- Mixed Tenses – role play: assuming the role of another person; class conversation
- Mixed English Verb Tense practice – gap fill suitable for the intermediate level
- Mixed English Verb Tense practice - interactive gap fill as above
- English Verb Tense practice – sentence pairs: choose the most likely tense for the adverbial
- English Verb Tense practice – sentence construction using word prompts including adverbials
Other grammar
- Short course in the use of prepositions: Place Time in/on/at Mixed practice
- Prepositions 'in', 'on', and 'at': Time and Place. Interactive multiple choice
- Prepositions of Location and Movement: Interactive multiple choice
- Prepositions of Time and Place - The Great Storm of 1987. Interactive gap fill.
- The use of 'something', 'somebody', 'somewhere', 'nowhere', 'everybody' (rather than 'All people')
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.