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Actions ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
Teach young ESL/EFL learners action verbs and how to answer 'Can you...?' questions using 'Yes, I can' / 'No, I can't'.
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Clothes Speaking Game – ESL Vocabulary Board
A speaking/conversation board game to build oral fluency by having students answer clothing-related discussion questions as they move around the board.
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Media | Intermediate Lesson Plan
An ESL/EFL intermediate (B1) reading and vocabulary lesson about media (TV, journalism, internet, social media) for language-development or ESL learners.
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Speaking & storytellingBingo & board games
Jobs Speaking Game – ESL Vocabulary Board
ESL speaking/board game to prompt discussion about jobs and careers.
Movement & role-play
Sizes ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
An ESL lesson plan for kids and early learners teaching size/comparison vocabulary (big, small, fat, thin, long, short, slow, fast) through games and a board game activity.
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Speaking & storytellingBingo & board games
Fairy Tales Speaking Game
An ESL/speaking-practice board game that uses fairy-tale-themed discussion questions to build conversational speaking skills.
Movement & role-play
Prepositions ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
An ESL lesson plan teaching young/early learners to identify and use prepositions of place (on, under, in, behind, next to, between, in front of) through a soft-toy demonstration, a labeling worksheet, a running-dictation game, a preposition song, and a drawing activity.
Speaking & storytellingBingo & board games
Language Quest – ESL Board Game for the Classroom
Introducing "Language Quest," the ultimate multi-level board game for ESL learners! Elevate your teaching experience by bringing fun, engagement, and friendly competition to your ESL classroom. Carefully crafted for both teachers and students, this game offers a comprehensive approach to improve grammar, vocabulary, and speaking skills.…
Speaking & storytellingBingo & board games
Let's Talk About Food – ESL Vocabulary Board Game
Let's Talk About Food is an engaging board game that builds English language skills. Ideal for both native and ESL students in grades K-2, this printable game strengthens vocabulary around food concepts. To play, students take turns rolling dice and moving spaces. They read the prompt aloud, then verbally share or write their response.…
Word puzzles
Word Games with Puzzles Anagrams Themes
Multi-theme ESL/vocabulary anagram puzzle compilation where students unscramble letters to spell vocabulary words across roughly 60 everyday-life topics, each with a self-checking answer page.
Speaking & storytellingBingo & board games
Cooking + Baking Speaking Games
ESL speaking practice game board to build conversational dialogue around cooking and baking topics.
Word puzzles
All In One Compound Word Activities
A 13-activity compound word workbook (co-created with a speech/language clinician) teaching 24 compound words through puzzles, writing, drawing, and games, for grade 2 and ESL/speech-therapy learners.
Word puzzles
Word Games with Puzzles | Crossword Wordsearch Anagram | BUNDLE
A 60-theme bundle of ESL/vocabulary puzzle packets (anagram, copy-words crossword, word matching, wheel/shape page, word search) covering everyday-life topics from air animals to zodiac signs.
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Vocabulary matching & guessingMovement & role-play
Jobs ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
An ESL lesson plan and student worksheet packet teaching 10 job/occupation vocabulary words (vet, doctor, builder, fire fighter, singer, teacher, police officer, hairdresser, farmer, chef) through flashcard, matching, miming, and sentence-building activities.
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Vocabulary matching & guessingMovement & role-play
Realia - Miniature Play for Vocabulary Development
A vocabulary-development resource using realia (miniature real-life objects) and language-rich play activities to help young/early-elementary students, including English language learners, connect vocabulary words to real objects.
Vocabulary matching & guessingMovement & role-play
Colors ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
An ESL lesson plan teaching basic color vocabulary and related question/answer forms (What color is it? / What color are they?) to kids and early learners.
Vocabulary matching & guessingMovement & role-play
Fruits ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
ESL lesson plan teaching eight fruit vocabulary words (apple, orange, banana, strawberry, pineapple, mango, cherry, lemon) to kids/early learners, including likes/dislikes discussion.
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Movement & role-play
Body ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
An ESL lesson plan teaching young beginner learners to name and describe body parts, part of a 'First 25 ESL Lesson Plans For Kids' series.
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Vocabulary matching & guessing
Flash Cards: Opposites
Provide English/ESL picture-vocabulary flash cards teaching opposites vocabulary, with a teacher page of classroom activity ideas.
Movement & role-play
Clothes ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
ESL lesson plan teaching clothing vocabulary and the target language 'What is [he/she] wearing? [He/She]'s wearing...' to young/beginner English learners.
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Free download Vocabulary matching & guessing
Flash Cards: Pets
Provide English/ESL picture-vocabulary flash cards teaching common household pet vocabulary, with a teacher page of classroom activity ideas.
Movement & role-play
Shapes ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
ESL lesson plan teaching beginner/early-level students to discuss, describe, and compare shapes to everyday items, part of a numbered ESL lesson plan series ('TEAM TEFL First 25 ESL Lesson Plans For Kids,' no. 8).
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Vocabulary matching & guessing
Flash Cards: On the Farm
Provide English/ESL picture-vocabulary flash cards teaching farm vocabulary, with a teacher page of classroom activity ideas.
Vocabulary matching & guessingMovement & role-play
Animals ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
An ESL lesson plan teaching young/early-level learners animal vocabulary and how to express likes/dislikes about animals.
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