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Free Worksheet #1
 
Title: Your Last Vacation (Theme Lesson)
Target Structure: Past Simple
Level: Elementary
Vocabulary: General
Time: 30 minutes or longer

Description: This worksheet has conversation, role-play, vocabulary and discussion questions. It's great for both reviewing the Past Simple, and improving your students' fluency skills.


Alternative British English Version
  British English Your Last Holiday

 
'Your Last Vacation' is just one of many 'Theme Lessons' we have. We have built a number of worksheets with some common situations / topics that your students need. Lessons include: ordering at a restaurant, going to a doctor, asking questions at a bank ... and more!
All of these resources, and more, are available to Handouts Online members.
 
       
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Free Worksheet #2
 
Title: A Day in the Life
Target Structure: Present Simple for Routines
Level: Elementary and above
Vocabulary: General
Time: 40 minutes

Description:

This worksheet is great for practicing the Present Simple tense. There are lots of different activities, including reading, writing and plenty of speaking.

There's also lots of useful vocabulary and collocations for your students to learn. It's ideal for building your students' confidence and fluency.



 
Our members have access to a huge library of grammar-based worksheets. If your students are having difficulty with a particular topic, you can print out instant extra practice sheets here.

We have handouts on tenses, conditionals, adjectives and much more! Check our main index for more info. Remember that you are allowed to make photocopies of these materials.

In addition, you can find a specific grammar point using our instant lookup system. Try it today!
 
       
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Free Worksheet #3
 
Title: Crime and Punishment
Target Structure: Reading, Vocabulary, Discussion
Level: Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
Vocabulary: Crime / Legal English
Time: 90 minutes

Description: This worksheet looks at some common expressions used when reading and talking about crime.

There are four different crime stories in a newspaper format, with a gap-fill exercise.

There are extended exercises, recycling the vocabulary and collocations. There are also discussion questions about crime.

The lesson rounds off with a crossword, which can also be set as homework.




 
Handouts Online has stacks of reading-based worksheets.

These reading-based lessons have proved a big hit with our members! They're all based around a short article on a topic which is bound to go down well in your lessons! Topics include email/spam, lotteries, the environment and more.

We've designed these lessons so that there are lots of opportunities for your students to express their opinions on the topic. They're great as instant lessons.
 
       
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Free Worksheet #4
 
Title: Talking about Movies
Target Structure: Conversation / fluency builder
Level: Elementary and above
Vocabulary: Movies / Entertainment
Time: 30 minutes

Description: Movies make a great discussion topic. However, many lower-level students lack the language skills to talk about it effectively. This two-page worksheet teaches some useful phrases and has info-gap exercises and speaking practice. Recommended for elementary and pre-intermediate level students.

We have both a US-English and a British-English version of this worksheet.



Alternative British English Version
  British English Talking about Films


 
Our worksheets have lots of speaking practice - whether it's discussion questions, information-gap exercises or pairwork.

Most worksheets have exercises which start off controlled, and then progress to 'production' with students personalising the target language. It's great for improving learners' accuracy and confidence with English.
 
       
The Cell Phone Age
Free Worksheet #5
 
Title: The Cell Phone Age
Target Structure: N/A - Reading, vocabulary and discussion
Level: Advanced
Vocabulary: Telephones / Communication
Time:
1 hour, depending on discussion

Description: Everyone has an opinion on cell-phones, making this a great topic for advanced level students. This worksheet has vocabulary exercises, a brief reading plus lots of discussion questions. There is also practice of scanning and summarizing text.

Alternative British English Version
  British English The Mobile Phone Age


 
The great thing about these reading worksheets is that they are based around topics that won't date - you can use them again and again.

The readings aren't too long. This means that there is time for your students to do exercises to build their knowledge and confidence of more advanced vocabulary and phrases.

Our reading lessons always have lots of discussion questions in them. That way, your students will be able to build their fluency skills by giving their opinions on the issues raised.
 

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