ESL Worksheets

Expressions of Quantity - Students insert the appropriate expression of quantity: I have a few onions, I don't have much salt.
Regular/Irregular Verbs - Sort the following verbs into regular and irregular. (Some verbs may be both.)

Expressing the Future - Explanation of Present Simple, Present Continuous, Going To and Will for the Future.
Mixed-tense Questions - Variety of questions in different tenses. Good oral drill where Teacher fires questions at group or individual and requires rapid and correct responses. Can also be used for pair work.
Question Tags - Students add the tag (You like coffee, ___ ___ ?).
Terminology - Students write a sentence for each part of speech, underlining the particular grammatical item.
Use(d) to - Students sort Used To Do, Used To Doing and Get Used To into three groups and explain the difference between each group.
Verbs & Tenses - Studenst write an example sentence for each grammatical term, underlining the particular structure.

Country, Nationality and Language - Students complete the chart - She comes from the USA, she is American, she speaks English.
Day and Night - Diagrammatical explanation of divisions of the day - daytime/night-time, AM/PM, morning, afternoon, evening...
Describing Objects - Students describe various objects by shape, colour and material.

Abbreviations - List of some of the most common abbreviations in English.
ABC - Animals - Can you find an ANIMAL for each letter of the alphabet?
ABC - Cities - Can you find a CITY for each letter of the alphabet?
ABC - Countries - Can you find a COUNTRY for each letter of the alphabet?
ABC - Jobs - Can you find a JOB for each letter of the alphabet?
Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals - Explanatory list from Zero to a Hundred and Fifty-second
Opposite Adjectives - Match the words in each column that mean the opposite or very nearly the opposite.
Size - Put the following words in order of size, with the biggest or strongest at the top.

Word stress - Teacher reads out two- and three-syllable words. Students underline the stressed syllable.

Pronunciation -ed - Students write the phonetic symbol for each verb -ed ending: [d], [t] or [Id]. Includes a reading practice text laced with -ed verbs (and adjectives).

Numbers and Letters: Bingo - Teacher calls out a number to class. Students try to find and call out corresponding letter. Or vice versa. This can also help teach the international phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta).

Getting to Know You - Ideal for first lesson. Students interview each other (and Teacher?). Watch for trick questions. Clearly no-one in the class has gone to London.
WH- Question Practice - Teacher (or a pair student) asks student to pose various WH- questions.

Reading Review - Form for completion by student reviewing book, short story, article, poem etc. Includes Overview and Commentary fields.

Desiderata - There is some controversy as to the source of this design for living prose poem. It is variously claimed to be anonymous ('found in Old St Paul’s Church, Baltimore AC 1692') and to have been written by Max Ehrmann in Terre Haute, Indiana in the early 1920's.
Futility - Sensitive First World War poem by Wilfred Owen.

Spelling: -ing - Students spell present participle of simple verbs: like>liking, stop>stopping.
General Knowledge Quiz with Key - You may wish to allow students to use a dictionary, subject to precise level, culture etc.