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Sizes ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners

ESL lesson plan on size words such as big, small, long, short, slow and fast. Children complete sentences from a word box, play a picture board game in groups of four and practice each word with a gesture.
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
ELA, Language Development, ESL
Topic
esl, esl kids
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Kids ESL lesson plan about Sizes. In this unit we learn to describe and compare the different sizes of certain objects and animals. Your beginner and early level students will love this creative and fun resource.

This lesson plan is no.18 of the TEAM TEFL First 25 ESL Lesson Plans For Kids.

This lesson plan is available in PDF. The PDF is separated into two parts - teachers notes and worksheets. Your students only require a copy of the worksheets. The teachers notes include the answers.

This lesson plan is suitable for ESL students from 3 to 14 years and should take around 1 hour.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Describe animals, people and objects with size and speed adjectives
  • Choose the correct adjective from a word box to complete a sentence
  • Write simple descriptive sentences about pictures

Teaching tips

  • Each group of four needs one die; the notes describe a spinner method for classes without dice.

Skills covered

  • Using adjectives in sentences — students land on a board-game picture and say a true sentence about it, such as 'A tortoise is slow'
  • Vocabulary recall — students pair each size word with a matching gesture in a call-and-response round

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Core concepts

  • Size adjectives
  • Speed words
  • Descriptive sentences

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