Basic English Conversation

Exercises, activities, worksheets and homework for ESL students learning basic level English conversation.

Week 5 English Lessons: ESL Conversation

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It is week five of the semester for my English students. Soon the students will have a quiz and mid term exam. That means it is time to review the things which we studied in class.

ESL Conversation Review

To prepare for the quiz and exam, my students will need to understand the material from the book on these pages.

  1. Change first person to third person (page 8)
  2. Adverbs of frequency (page 14)

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Week 4 English Lessons: ESL Conversation

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It is week 4 of the semester already. In a couple of week it will be time for a quiz. Two weeks after that, time for the mid-term exam.

Here is this week’s general study plan.

  1. learn and practice words about Korean housing and furniture
  2. check last week’s homework (compound words worksheet)
  3. start and finish the worksheet with pictures (that was from week 2)

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Week 3: ESL Conversation

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This week, our class will study many different things. I hope you will learn and practice speaking about:

  1. feng shui
  2. furniture
  3. Korean words related to housing
  4. prepositions of location

Here are the worksheets for my ESL students for week 3 of the university semester.

ESL Vocabulary

This ESL vocabulary worksheet helps ESL students expand and review their English vocabulary. This worksheet is about compound words.

A compound word is two words put together to make a new word. For example, look at these three
words: hand, pipes, air

To each word, we can add BAG to make three new words, like these: handbag, bagpipes, airbag.

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Week 2: ESL Conversation

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Here are some files which my ESL students need to download and print for the English class. 

ESL THINKING PUZZLE

This ESL conversation worksheet has a puzzle. My students have to solve the puzzle and then practice speaking an writing the answer.

This ESL speaking activity has several parts.

  1. Put the pictures in order (i.e. what is first, second and so on).
  2. With your partner, make a speaking story and tell the story. use the present simple tense. And, be sure to use the articles A and THE properly.
  3. Finally, write the story in your notebook.

DESCRIBE DIFFERENCES

This conversation worksheet has two pictures. You and a partner have to describe the different things in each Picture A and Picture B.

Here is an example.

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