Download Autumn Worksheets
Ten free sets for the autumn term – picture vocabulary, a song and movement cards for young learners, speaking cards and idioms for older students, and lessons on Bonfire Night and Black Friday at B1–B2. Eight of the ten come with MP3 audio, and most worksheets download in both PDF and Word.
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What is in the autumn worksheets
Young learners
Autumn Fall – picture vocabulary for things children do in autumn: raking leaves, jumping into a pile of leaves, putting on a sweater, going for a walk. Children listen and circle the right picture, complete a short text about falling leaves, answer seven questions and then correct the mistakes in the “Pretty Leaves” song while they listen to it.
Autumn Pack – the longest set, enough for several lessons. It starts with picture vocabulary (pumpkin, squirrel, picking apples, flying a kite), goes on to a crossword and a listen-and-number task with five short recordings, and ends with a story about Ben’s weekend on his grandparents’ farm, a true-or-false video task, questions for discussion and a short essay on why people like autumn.
Autumn Movement Cards – twelve action cards for a warmer or a brain break: roll like a pumpkin, float like a leaf, curl up like a hedgehog, jump in muddy puddles. One PDF, nothing to prepare.
Older students
Autumn Speaking Cards – 30 question cards, from “What are the three best things about fall?” to corn mazes, pumpkin spice and sweater weather. Cut them up for pair work or pick a few for a warm-up.
Autumn Idioms (B1) – eight idioms: turn over a new leaf, drive somebody nuts, be nuts about somebody, shake like a leaf, save for a rainy day, be under the weather, the autumn years and get wind of something. Students listen and match each idiom to its meaning, label the pictures and complete eight sentences. A separate set of flashcards gives every idiom with its meaning and two examples, and the article 8 Autumn Idioms with Meanings and Examples explains the same eight.
November: Bonfire Night and Black Friday
Two B1 sets for 5 November. Bonfire Night tells the story of the Gunpowder Plot through a listening gap-fill, true or false and questions, and finishes with the “Remember, remember the fifth of November” rhyme. Bonfire Night: Guy Fawkes starts with a vocabulary video, then students hear an account of the plot with ten mistakes in it and correct them. A reading with headings and an answer key are included.
Three sets for the end of November. Black Friday (B1) is about where the name came from, with true or false, listen-and-write and opinions to discuss. Black Friday New (B1) is a gap-fill text on shopping traditions and the phrase “in the black”, with a key. Black Friday 2020 (B2) is a news story about how Walmart changed Black Friday during the pandemic, with listening questions.
More for autumn lessons
- Picture descriptions to do online: Autumn Bike Ride (B1, also as a printable worksheet), Autumn by the Lake, A Walk Down an Autumn Street and Cycling Through Autumn Woods (B2).
- Videos for young learners: What Can You Do in Autumn?, What Happens in Autumn?, Autumn Riddles, Autumn Poems for Kids and Autumn Trivia Quiz.
- Videos for teens and adults: Autumn and Fall Vocabulary, Autumn Conversation Questions and a Present Simple or Present Continuous game.
- Later in the term: Halloween worksheets and Thanksgiving worksheets.
- All in one zip: the Autumn & Thanksgiving ESL Worksheet Pack – 14 printable lessons with audio and a teacher’s guide.