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Reading about Bonfire Night

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UNIT: Reading

TASK: Multiple choice

PURPOSE: Develop reading comprehension

LEVEL: Upper Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This free worksheet is designed for ESL/EFL classrooms and provides information on the origin and customs of Bonfire Night festival, also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The text is rater long but written at accessible language. The second page of the worksheet provides twelve multiple choice questions in order to check students’ reading comprehension. The answers are provided on a separate page.

The same text and set of questions can be used as a listening activity:

Bonfire Night: Listening

To support these activities, you might consider pre-teaching or recapping target vocabulary, using a corresponding worksheet:

Bonfire Night: Vocabulary

Another supporting activity offered by ESOL Worksheets deals with using irregular verbs:

Bonfire Night: Irregular Verbs

Working on all the activities, mentioned above, students would benefit from having a set of picture prompts available:

Bonfire Night Images

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Bonfire Night: Irregular Verbs

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UNIT: Reading / Writing

TASK: Gap filling

PURPOSE: Practice using forms of irregular verbs

LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This ESL / EFL worksheet helps develop and improve reading and writing skills by offering learners of English to practice using two forms (Infinitive or Present Simple Tense form and Past Participle or Past Simple Form) of ten commonly used irregular verbs. Each of the verbs is to be used appropriately in a set of three sentences written in Present and Past tenses. The sentences are based around information on Bonfire Night celebration also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The answers are provided on a separate page.

This activity can be used alongside other activities on the same topic.

Consider using irregular verbs cut up cards to pre-teach the target words or to check your learners knowledge in the end of the same lesson or during one of the following lessons as a follow up activity:

Irregular Verbs: Cut Up Cards

Would like to offer your learners more practice on using irregular verbs? Have a look at other similar activities and worksheets on the Irregular Verbs page under Grammar menu: there are many to match ESL / EFL lessons on other topics:

Grammar / Irregular Verbs (page)

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Irregular Verbs: Cut Up Cards

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UNIT: Any

TASK: Matching

PURPOSE: Learn two forms of some irregular verbs

LEVEL: Lower intermediate and any above

DESCRIPTION:

This particular set of cut up cards offers two forms (Infinitive and Past Participle) of thirty most commonly used irregular verbs. The cut up cards are designed to support any ESL / EFL activity based around learning and practicing using irregular verbs. The cards can be used as a full set or by chosen groups to pre-teach or reinforce target irregular verbs needed for a listening, speaking, reading or writing task in the beginning of a lesson or check the material in the end of a lesson.

To teach groups of irregular verbs which your students are unfamiliar with, you might want to use coloured copies of the cards, explaining that the verbs of each category are colour-coded: Infinitives or Present Tense forms on green cards and Past Participle or Past Simple Tense forms on orange cards. To recap groups of familiar irregular verbs, consider making the task more complicated by using black-and-white or grayscale copies of the cut up cards, so that the learners could rely on their knowledge to recognise which category, Infinitive or past Participle, each of the verbs belongs to.

Use these irregular verbs cut up cards together with the following worksheets:

My Journey to Manchester (writing)

A Sightseeing Holiday In Paris (writing)

We Go In For sport Every Day (writing)

or any other worksheets and activities based around using irregular verbs and posted on the following page under Grammar menu:

Irregular Verbs (page)

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A Letter to a City Council

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UNIT: Writing

TASK: Matching / Planning / Ordering / Proofreading

PURPOSE: Practice planning, drafting, proofreading and editing a formal letter

LEVEL: Intermediate / Upper intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

This worksheet can be used in an EFL / ESL / ESOL classroom for developing or improving students’ skills in writing a formal letter in English. The activities particularly aim at building up formal and informal vocabulary, recognising a letter layout, planning a letter and proofreading a draft text for errors in spelling, punctuation and use of capital letters. The answers for all the tasks are provided on a separate sheet.

Starting with a simple matching activity will help to reinforce or pre-teach 11 pairs of formal and informal phrases commonly used in letters. These pairs can be used during the final activity for editing the letter by replacing informal phrases by their formal equivalents for producing a letter with a level of formality suitable for the purpose of the text. The second activity aims at recapping or introducing a letter layout and helps develop learners’ independent thinking and decision making: the task is to look at 16 suggested ideas and decide on which 10 would be appropriate for the letter – this is an important stage of planning a text. The next activity offers the students to read 10 parts of a draft letter and match them to the plan, completed in the second task. This basic ordering activity aims at reminding the student of importance of following the points of the plan. The paragrahps of the draft letter contain 20 errors, including those in spelling, end-of-sentence punctuation and use of capital letters for proper names as well as for punctuating sentences. This task combined with replacing informal phrases with the appropriate formal equivalents will highlight the importance of proofreading and editing a draft before writing a final version of a text.

This resource might be more relevant to teachers and students of English based in the UK as far as the procedure of dealing with noise nuisance through contacting local authorities, such as a City Council, is a point specific for this country. Yet, this worksheet can be used in any English classroom if the teacher is willing to introduce or refer to cultural features of an English-speaking country. This is particularly important in situations when the students are looking into sitting examinations in English by the UK standards, seeking further education or employment in the UK, traveling or moving to the countries of the UK. A great follow-up activity might be a group discussion of the ways of dealing with a similar problem in other countries.

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Shopping On Holiday

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This free printable ESL / EFL worksheet aims at developing reading comprehension together with basic skills in writing / spelling.

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UNIT: Reading / Writing

TASK: Close (gap-filling)

PURPOSE: Practice using homophones

LEVEL: Intermediate

Identifying and using appropriately some widely used homophones (words that have the same or similar pronunciation, but different meaning and sometimes different spelling) is a difficult task not only for elementary level students, but also for intermediate level learners of English as a second or as a foreign language.

The more practice you offer your students, the better.

This particular handout can be used to support lessons build around either traveling / holiday or shopping topics. The exercise offers to read a story about going on holiday to Turkey and buying souvenirs. The text contains 17 sentences with missing words.

While filling the gaps, the learners will practice recognising and using correctly  up to 10 pairs of homophones, such as read – red, see – sea, were -where, two – to, buy – by, etc. The lay-out of the exercise allows for easy group-discussion of the answers, as every sentence is positioned on a separate line and numbered.

This also provides a teacher with an opportunity to set up a class discussion on appropriate layouts for written texts: if your learners would like to write their own story about a recent holiday, they must not start each sentence from a new line, but write the text as a whole paragraph. To make the exercise even more engaging for your learners, brain-storm what countries they have visited and what souvenirs are commonly brought from those countries.

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Pet Crossword Worksheet – Practice Spelling Words for Pets

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This ESOL worksheet offers an engaging, entertaining and fun activity, supporting teaching and learning vocabulary for animals / pets and allowing for practicing spelling the target words.

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UNIT: Writing / Spelling

TASK: Crossword

PURPOSE: Practice spelling words for pets

LEVEL: Elementary / Lower Intermediate

Though the options for the crossword are not given on the task page, this provides for wider variation and differentiation in the use of the resource. Depending on the level of challenge you want to set up for your students working on this task, you could choose to either write up the options (stated on the answer sheet) on the board, offer the learners to use dictionaries to check the spelling of the words or let the students to try and write the words from memory.

As a follow up for this activity, the learners might be asked to exchange sentences related to possessions and / or likes and dislikes. Another option could be using adjectives to describe each pet.

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