ESL teaching resources for Australia
Pirate Flashcards for Vocabulary Practice
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Pirate-themed vocabulary flash cards cover ship, crew, and treasure-hunting terms such as treasure map, Jolly Roger, spyglass, and cannon balls, along with a set of weapon and cardinal-direction terms.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Pirates, Sea, Island, Vocabulary, Flash Cards
Give-One-Get-One: Instructional Strategy Card & Template
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Give-One-Get-One idea collecting is structured by a fill-in template where students write their own idea, then gather four peers' ideas in labelled boxes.
Author Sheltered Language Resources
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Tags Strategy Cards, ESL Cards, ESL Printables, Strategy Template, Interactive Activity, Get Strategy, One Template, Give One, Instructional Template, Give It One, Give One Get One Protocol
HOTEL: Word Games with Puzzles Crossword Wordsearch
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Seventeen hotel vocabulary words — room, reception, porter, check in/out, room attendant — are practised through an anagram puzzle, a labelled crossword, a matching page, a spiral word arrangement, and a word-search grid.
Author WORDS ASIDE
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Tags Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, Literacy Center, Flash Cards, Anagram, Word Search, Wordwall, Community, Travel, Words Aside
One and More Than One: Noun Picture Cards
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Use paired pictures to name one item and more than one. Regular and irregular plural examples and blank templates support teacher-led practice.
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Let's Talk About Health – Class Board Game
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Twenty-six spoken health questions — from "What helps against a sore throat?" to "Do you know any diseases that are very contagious?" — fill the spaces of a Start-to-Finish board students answer as they move along it.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Board Game, Dice Game, Partner Activities, Health, Nutrition, Writing Prompts, ESL Activities, Small Group, Speaking Skills, Literacy
Let's Talk About Music – ESL Board Game
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Music talk fuels an ESL conversation board game whose path from Start to Finish is paved with around thirty discussion squares - favourite bands, instruments, concerts, genres, and challenges like humming a song for others to guess.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Board Game, Speaking Games, Speaking Skills, Writing Prompts, ESL Activity, Partner Activity, Literacy Center, Dice Game, Small Group
Let's Talk About Sports – ESL Speaking Board Game
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Sport-themed discussion questions fill a printable board game that students move around by rolling a die, answering a new question at each stop.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Sports, Literacy Station, Whole Group, ESL Activity, Speaking Game
Let's Talk About Spring Board Game
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About two dozen spring-themed conversation prompts line a winding path from START to FINISH, giving ESL and ENGLISH students a speaking game about weather, food, and seasonal traditions.
Author Better Teaching Resources
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Tags Board Game, Dice Small, Partner Work, Small Group, Literacy Center, Assessing Mastery, Writing Prompts, Spring, April, May
Let's Talk About the Weather – ESL Board Game
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Over twenty weather-themed conversation questions line a path from Start to Finish, turning small talk about rain, snow, and storms into a speaking-practice board game for English learners.
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Tags Weather, Board Game, Literacy Center, Game Board, Dice Game, Writing Skills, Writing Prompts, Environment, ESL Activity, Partner Work, Weather Games For Middle School
Meet My Pen Pal Role Play Activity
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A six-slide 'Meet My Pen Pal' project has students imagine planning a trip to visit a pen pal in China, then present a five-slide travel story and defend it against a public-speaking rubric.
Author Golden Promise
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Tags Pen Pals, Role Play, ELA, World Languages, ESL
My Summer Plans Worksheet - End of Year Writing
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Two versions of a 'My Summer Plans' sentence-completion worksheet, one with a drawing space and one with more stems and a colouring activity, ask students to write about their summer plans.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags End Of Year, End Of Year Activities, Summer, Summer Activities, Literacy, Last Week Of School, Last Day Of School, Summer Writing Prompts, Plan
OREO Opinion Writing – 10 Graphic Organisers
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Opinion writing is scaffolded through five organiser types, each repeated in a second visual version. The OREO page separates opinion, reason, evidence or example, and restated opinion. Additional sheets compare pros with cons, sort facts from opinions, map an introduction with two supported reasons, and frame a concluding paragraph. Together, the sequence moves from idea evaluation to organised persuasive composition.
Author Cutie worksheets986
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Tags Opinion Writing, Persuasive Writing, OREO Writing Strategy, Writing Graphic Organizer, Paragraph Writing, Fact And Opinion, Pros And Cons, Writing Frames, Literacy Centers, Writing Activities
Past Simple Tense Test – ESL Worksheet
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Past simple tense test for English learners in six sections, from filling gaps and turning negatives into positives to writing past forms of 20 verbs and forming questions.
Author The Laughing Linguist
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Tags Past Simple Tense, English Grammar, ESL Worksheet, Comprehension Activities, Verb Tenses
English-Arabic Sports Flashcards – 68 Vocabulary
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Sixty-eight sports words, from archery to yoga, are printed as bilingual English-Arabic flashcards, three to a row across five pages.
Author Homeschoolingprints
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Tags Sports List, English Vocabulary, Arabic Vocabulary, English To Arabic, Flashcards, Word Walls, Sight Word
Summer Solstice Reading Activities
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Summer solstice traditions — Finland's midsummer bonfires, dragon-boat races, protective bracelets in East Asia — anchor an intermediate ESL reading packet with prediction, gap-fill, first-conditional grammar, and discussion tasks.
Author TEAM TEFL
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Tags Reading Worksheets, Summer, Solstice, ESL, Language Arts
The Letter " E" Dot Marker Activity
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A single letter-E page pairs "E is for Eggplant" with a dot-marker outline for practising the letter shape and fine-motor dabbing.
Author Ponder Palette Plazza
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Tags Dot Painting, Dot Marketer, Coloring, Coloring Pages, Letters, Alphabet, Coloring Letters, Back To School, Back To School Activities
Vocabulary with Flash Cards | Crossword Wordsearch Anagram AIRPORT
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Nineteen airport-travel words, from gate and passport to customs and landing, are practised across anagram, picture multiple-choice, word search, and crossword puzzles plus a set of flash cards.
Author WORDS ASIDE
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Tags Flash Cards, Esl, Thematic Vocabulary, Word Wall, Independent Work, Centers, Writing Expository, Community, Airport, Words Aside
Vocabulary with Flash Cards | Crossword Wordsearch Anagram COMPUTER
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Fifteen computer vocabulary words are practised across nine game formats — anagrams, matching, multiple choice, word search, a shaped puzzle, and a crossword — plus flash card word labels, with no answer key included.
Author WORDS ASIDE
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Tags Flash Cards, Esl, Thematic Vocabulary, Word Wall, Independent Work, Centers, Writing Expository, Occupational Therapy, Computer, Words Aside
Who What When Where Why How Activity
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Six question words - who, what, where, when, why, and how - drive a card-matching task in which students pair statement cards about a sample story with the question each one answers, then apply the same questions to any informational text.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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Tags Speaking And Listening, Independent And Guided Reading, Reading Comprehension
Work and Jobs | Beginner Lesson Plan
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A beginner English lesson introduces jobs through occupation vocabulary and a workplace dialogue. Learners read about two people’s responsibilities and answer true-or-false questions, with flashcards and an audio file included.
Author TEAM TEFL
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Tags Vocabulary, ESL Lesson, Lesson, Jobs, Esl
Writing Partners: Feedback and Revision
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Discuss a piece of writing with a partner, record a revision and note something each writer did well.
Author Have Fun Teaching
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