ESOL Materials Ireland Resources

A collection of worksheets that focus on common words associated with school, learning and the classroom. Includes a reading text with some follow up tasks, along with an opportunity for literacy learners to become more familiar with common school-related words. In addition, a worksheet where the teacher can cut up worlds and pictures for the learners to connect

Asking questions is such a fundamental part of language learning. Here, through a collection of worksheets, the learner can aim to develop their use of question words and questions in general through a variety of tasks and activities, which engage with topics such as personal information, free time, likes and places.

Combing a focus on question works and key questions to enquire about personal information. Also includes a short reading text where learners can consider questions and responses and also have the opportunity to practice for themselves

With a focus on the three prepositions – in, at, on – learners engage with expressions of time and consider how they are linked with these three prepositions. These worksheets allow for differentiation in the classroom

An opportunity for learners to practice the use of prepositions of place with a cloze test, jumbled up sentences and an interactive question sheet

A single page worksheet focusing on the use of subject pronouns and possessive adjectives

Group activity where learners must ask questions to each other to find how people carried out different activities in the recent past

A collection of worksheets with a focus on the use of regular verbs in the past simple. Includes a pronunciation exercise

An opportunity for learners to ask each other questions using the past simple and to offer responses and short answers. Included an Error Correction exercise

The learner has the occasion to practice the use of verb ‘to be’ and verb ‘to do’ in the past to ask questions and construct the negative meaning. There is also a chance for the learner to report their actions in the past, and engage with irregular verbs in the past simple

Bingo using the Past Simple with cards to be cut up by teacher and passed out to learners. Teacher reads from the master card

A short collection of activities and tasks to assist the learner in their understanding of can in the present and could in the past for ability; also examining how we use (be) able to as an alternative and for all tenses