Vocabulary Worksheets

Could a robot do your job - or that of your students? Automation is set to affect us all, as artificial intelligence and robots replace us in the workforce.

This worksheet looks at upcoming changes, with a gap-fill reading, mix and match exercises, idiom building and more.

Your students will learn expressions including:

• a game changer
• to pick up steam
• a fraction of the cost
• sit idly
• the Industrial Revolution

and more besides!

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions. Do your students already use AI? You could ask about Alexa, Siri, Cortana and smart devices. How well do they work?

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate levels and above.

Build your students' knowledge of idiomatic English with this worksheet!

Your students will learn expressions including:

• play it safe
• play it by ear
• play a joke on someone
• play by rules
• play second fiddle to someone

The lesson opens with a gap fill quiz, where your students can speculate on the meaning. This is followed by a caption quiz to consolidate the expressions.

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions, allowing your class to personalise the language.

This lesson is written for intermediate-level students.

Boost your students' phrasal verb knowledge with this lesson teaching expressions using 'turn'.

The worksheet looks at:

• turn away (refuse entry)
• turn up (arrive)
• turn down (decline)
• turn in (go to bed)
• turn into (become)

Following the lead-in, there is a gap-fill quiz, follow-up exercises and discussion.

This worksheet is for intermediate level students.

This worksheet is in two parts.

The first page looks at 'It's time to Go' vs 'It's time we went'. There are two short conversations, followed by a speaking practice exercise.

The worksheet also looks at other common time expressions including:

• for the time being
• it's only a matter of time
• have the time of your life
• from time to time

...and more.

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions using the target language.

This worksheet looks at the use of exaggeration in order to allow the speaker to emphasise a point.

Expressions studied include:

• I'm dying (for a coffee)
• It's freezing in here!
• Live in the middle of nowhere
• (I've told you) a million times
• (I waited) forever

...and more

The lesson begins with a gap-fill exercise, with students guessing the meaning of the expressions. This is followed by a caption quiz and a discussion using the new language.

This worksheet is written for intermediate-level classes.

Get into the Halloween spirit with our spooky Halloween Phrasal Quiz!

Your students need to match the phrasal verb on the bat-sheet with the correct caption.

The phrasal verbs covered are:

• look up
• hold on
• look forward to
• pass out
• turn up
• get up
• throw away
• come across

This worksheet is written for elementary to lower intermediate classes. It's a fun way to bring a bit of Halloween into your class - while still teaching some useful language!

This worksheet looks at some common expressions, all using 'speak'

There is an opening gap-fill quiz, followed by an exercise checking your students' understanding of the language.

This is followed by a picture caption quiz.

Language studied includes:

• speak highly of
• isn't anything to speak of
• speaking of (for a related topic)
• speak up
• speak for yourself!
• speak your mind

The lesson rounds off with a discussion on the language and themes raised in the lesson.

• sleep like a log
• catch forty winks
• sleep rough
• lose sleep over something
• a night owl
• sleep on something