Welcome to tesol tasks

tesol tasks (formerly known as Frankie's ESOL Worksheets) is a collection of resources for Middle School ESOL, IGCSE in ESL and International Baccalaureate (IB) English A2/B classes. In every case I have written the materials for my own students in an international school in Singapore. When something works well, I add it to the site in the hope that somebody else will find it useful too.

Just click on the tabs above to access the worksheets.

PLEASE NOTE that I am still reformatting the resources after moving them from Geocities. For the time being, you will find that the layout of many pages does not match the design of the new site.  

Terms of Use

Other teachers are welcome to copy, or even adapt, my materials for classroom use, provided that they acknowledge the source. Similarly, students may use the materials for private study. Any other use is strictly forbidden.

How to save and print the worksheets

The worksheets are not in a printer-friendly format. However, almost without exception, my originals were simple MS-Word documents so it should be easy enough to reformat them for printing:

• Highlight the portion you want (i.e. omit the header, sidebar etc).
• Right-click and select COPY.
• Paste the selected text into MS Word, Writer or a similar program and save.
• If the resulting layout appears odd, you may find it helpful to use "Paste Special > Unformatted Text" on the EDIT menu in MS-Word instead.

You may modify the worksheets to suit your classes, but the normal copyright restrictions still apply.

Sorry, I don't have the key!

I receive frequent emails and guestbook messages (often from students pretending to be teachers!) urgently requesting the "key" to a particular worksheet. Call me disorganised, but the truth is: I don't have any keys! 

Rather than stand with an Answer Sheet in my hand, I find that it's more interesting to approach each task with fresh eyes and just figure it out along with my students. I even reckon it's a positive form of modelling to treat reading tasks as "real world" challenges that need to be grappled with.