Elementary-Level Worksheets

Check your students' understanding of simple phrasal verbs with this festive handout.

There are eight captions which your students need to complete.

This worksheet covers:

• blow up [a balloon]
• get along / on with someone
• stand out
• throw away
• look forward to
• go around
• grow up
• take off

Depending on the ability of your class we have an easier and more difficult version of this worksheet. Check the teaching notes for more details - and be sure to hand out the right version!

This worksheet is for elementary to pre-intermediate level classes.

Help your students to become more confident with the Past Simple! This worksheet takes school-days as its theme. There is a question match game, followed by a gap fill conversation for your students to practice. The lesson continues with a substitution speaking exercise, followed by language personalisation. It's a great worksheet for lower-level students.

Movies always make a good topic for the ESL classroom! This worksheet will help your students with basic invitations (would you like) as well as review present simple 'do you' questions. There is a lead in exercise, a vocabulary builder (how many movie genres do you students know) and a gap-fill conversation. Your students will then be able to roleplay inviting classmates out to see a movie. This worksheet is written for upper-elementary to pre-intermediate level classes.

Improve your students' confidence and fluency with the Past Simple with this travel English worksheet.

'My Best Vacation' (UK version: 'My Best Holiday') looks at four different kinds of vacation - backpacking, beach, a cookery course and a cruise.

Your students can read about four people's trips - or you can divide it up and have each student read one segment and then tell a partner about the trip.

This is followed by vocabulary building and a discussion exercises, where students think of the good and bad points of each kind of trip.

The lesson rounds off with another speaking activity, with students telling a partner about their best vacation.

This worksheet is written for lower-level classes.

Students need lots of practice of comparative and superlative adjectives!

This worksheet is based around a general knowledge TV quiz show. There's a dialogue, followed by practice exercises.

Your students will have the opportunity to make their own sentences and create a mini-general knowledge quick which they can try out on their classmates - or the teacher!

This worksheet is written for lower level classes.

Likes and dislikes is a great topic for lower-level students, as it gives them the opportunity to personalize the language they are learning. This worksheet looks at some common expressions associated with likes and dislikes. This includes: * I'm a big fan of... * I'm really into * I can't stand * I don't mind There is a conversation, some practice exercises and role-play. The lesson finishes off with a class survey.

This conversation-based worksheet looks at gerund phrases. It's the kind of language elementary students need to become confident with in order to more intermediate-level structures.

Examples include: Watching TV is fun. / I enjoy playing tennis on Sundays.

This worksheet has vocabulary work, a gap-fill conversation, comprehension questions, language work, role-play and discussion.

It's written for elementary-level students. Some intermediate students would no doubt also benefit from a review of this language.

Review some elementary structures with this Christmas-themed lesson.

'Christmas Day' looks at the Present Simple, adverbs of frequency, prepositions and common verb collocations.

There's a gap-fill conversation followed by exercises and speaking practice.

You can personalise the language by having students use the questions from the dialogue with their own answers.

The lesson rounds off with simple discussion questions about Christmas Day.