Beginner ESL Lesson Plans (Page 1)
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Beginner/Elementary ESL Lesson Plans, Page: 1
Browse our collection of 262 Beginner/Elementary ESL Lesson Plans using the links below.
'This', 'that', 'these', 'those': Xmas drawing games
Singular and plural demonstrative pronouns and Christmas vocabulary, pick and draw card game.
Actions and adverbs of manner - make me say dice games
A personalised speaking game to practise "slowly", "loudly", etc, made challenging and fun with the use of a dice, plus an optional error correction stage.
Actions and adverbs of manner: guessing games
Three fun personalised speaking dice games to practise slowly, quickly, quietly, loudly, etc.
Adjectives and Animals- Mix and Match
Funny and sensible matches between animals and adjectives book, cards and table activities.
Adjectives and Halloween vocabulary drawing game
Basic adjectives and Halloween nouns pick and draw colloborative drawing game, including clothes and body parts.
Adverbs Dice Game: Personality and Appearance
Using adverbs of degree to describe what people are like guessing, with useful adjectives for describing people and an optional warmer.
Adverbs of frequency mastermind
A fun guessing frequency expressions personalised guessing game, good for getting students to repeat the language without getting bored.
Adverbs of Frequency- Bluffing Card Game
Lying card game to practise sometimes, usually, never, etc.
Adverbs of Frequency- Describe the Jobs Game
Using adverbs of frequency to describe what people do games.
Alphabet Dice Game- Favourites
Making personal sentences about favourites with different letters of the alphabet dice game.
Alphabet Homophones and Minimal Pairs
Words and letters which are and aren't pronounced the same as letters of the alphabet.
Are you... with prepositions mimes
Fun Present Simple of be questions and prepositions of position practice through TPR.
Basic Questions about Animals
Easy questions practice on the topic of animals, including animal vocabulary games.
Big Numbers- American and British English
How to say hundreds, thousands, millions and billions in the US and UK
Business English- Present Perfect Pronunication and Speaking
Updates and experiences controlled speaking and roleplay
Business English- Present Simple & Continuous guessing game
Practising present tenses by guessing common business English verbs
Can & Can’t Drawing Coin Game
Modals of ability practice, flipping a coin to decide what to draw, and guessing what the other person's drawings mean, including fun things to sketch like "The beetle can drive a car".
Can & Can’t- Coin Games
Fun practice of abilities modals with a coin for finding things in common, getting particular answers, bluffing, guessing and finding differences.
Can a kangaroo drink your blood? Animal Abilities Mix and Match
Students make funny and then serious questions on the abililties of animals to practise can and can't by turning flaps in a book
Can you eat your house? Abilities Mix and Match
Making funny and sensible "Can you...?" questions activities.
Christmas things possessive pronouns drawing games
My, your, his, her and their and Xmas vocabulary practice with a fun sketching game
Christmas- Present Simple & Continuous Mimes
Linking present tenses and the festive season with TPR and then personalised speaking
Classroom Instructions- Imperative Mix and Match
Classroom vocabulary and positive and negative imperatives practice through a mix and match card game or foldable storybook.
Classroom Instructions- Number & Word Recognition TPR Practice
Imperative and number words practice, including reading basic number words and understanding typical classroom instructions and classroom vocabulary.
Classroom Treasure Hunt- Prepositions
Making and solving treasure hunt puzzles with prepositions of position
Classroom Vocabulary- First Letters Games
Practising first letter phonics by slapping, sketching and remembering things in the classroom that start with letters A to Z, plus CH, SH and TH.
Clothes- Possessives Drawing Game
Picking cards and drawing clothes on people and animals to practise possessive S, including funny pictures like "That cat's socks".
Colour Word Jigsaws
Learning how to read and write colour words jigsaw activities, including easier and more difficult versions.
Colours and Numbers- Word Searching Game
Colour and number word recognition practice through word searches.
Colours and Objects- Dice Games
True and false statements about colours of objects dice games, including classroom vocab, names of clothes, names of animals,
Colours Brainstorming Games
Choosing a colour plus noun and trying to think of as many examples as they can games, including variations to make it faster and livelier.
Colours, Numbers and Classroom Objects- Pick & Draw
Students make sentences to be drawn on a picture of the classroom, including silly sentences like "Nine orange CD players if they like", with option cards to practise "an" with.
Colours, numbers and clothes drawing game
Students arrange cards to make silly or sensible drawings of clothes on boys, girls, monsters, etc, with Present Continuous or imperative verbs, plus an optional TPR warmer.
Colours- Make Me Say Yes- Personalised Speaking
Personal yes no questions about colours speaking games, with one point for positive answers, including questions with do and have.
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