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Foods and Beverages
Learners practice ordering food in a new language. In this food vocabulary lesson, students utilize the information from their previous lesson to create entire conversations about going to get food, as opposed to just the...
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Reading Comprehension 9-- First Day in Class
For this reading worksheet, learners practice comprehension skills by reading a passage describing a young Portuguese woman's first lesson in her new English class. Students answer 20 questions about the story. This is intended for ESL...
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Greetings
Students participate in greeting new people. In this greetings instructional activity, students greet people after modeling by the teacher. Sample rituals include, "Hello, how are you?; My name is...What is your name?"....
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Day Two: Greeting and dialogues
Students practice greetings and dialogues in English. For this ELL lesson, students watch a silent video with people greeting one another and make predictions about what they are saying. They write dialogues and share them with a...
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The alphabet
Students write words that the teacher spells out orally. In this alphabet lesson plan, the teacher signs the words to music and the students write them down.
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Days of the Week
Students write important days and dates that are important in their family. In this dates lesson plan, students share these dates in small groups and use the calendar if needed in their language.
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Favorite Activities
Students discuss which activities they like and which they don't like. In this lesson about favorite activities, students discuss their favorite activities and which activities they dislike. The class conducts a survey to determine the...
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Other People's Likes and Dislikes
Young scholars read short texts and discover people's likes and dislikes. For this likes and dislikes lesson plan, after reading the texts, students sort these people according to their interests.
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Day Five: Classroom Presentation
Young scholars participate in classroom presentations. In this ELL lesson, students present a poster, collage, or PowerPoint to their partners. The teacher evaluates each presentation.
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Speed Dating
Students describe their personalities and characteristics to a partner using short sentences or short oral paragraphs. In this short sentences lesson plan, students use a speed dating format.
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Day One: Talking about food items
Students discover new English vocabulary words for food items. In this ELL lesson, students look at grocery store ads and menus to find new vocabulary words for food. They work with the teacher to create a story about a situation in...
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Talking about Food, Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Students explore foods. In this nutrition activity, students chorally respond to questions about a kitchen PowerPoint, complete a Venn diagram about breakfast and lunch foods, and play a food Bingo game.
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Day Three: Reading menus; writing letters
Students practice English vocabulary in menus and food items. In this ELL instructional activity, students look at pictures of people eating and describe what they are doing. They talk about the food that they like and dislike and...
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Day One: Dinner foods and beverages
Students learn English vocabulary for dinner foods and beverages. In this ELL lesson, students create a list of healthy foods and discuss good food habits. They discuss healthy activities and exercises.
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Food Preferences and Healthful Eating
Students discuss healthy eating habits. In this food preferences lesson, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant. Students role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.
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Discussing One's Health
Students explore common health issues. In this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations. Students prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are the...
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Advice, Encouragement, Discouragement
Students create a fitness schedule for a famous person. In this advice, encourage, discourage instructional activity, students ask questions to determine the best fitness schedule for a person. Students relate this...
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Day Four: Surveys and results
Pupils use expressions of frequency in the English language. In this ELL lesson, student survey their classmates and turn the information into a class bar graph.
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Location, Frequency, Likes, and Dislikes
Students identify and write short sentences with likes and dislikes, frequency, and location. For this short sentences lesson plan, students read the sentences, identify what is asked, orally practice saying sentences, and then write...
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Describing Family Members
Fourth graders examine the use of possessives when describing family members. In this ESL family description lesson plan, 4th graders examine the role of family in their native language before looking at pictures of families assigning...
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Planning a Class Party
Students investigate event planning. In this literacy and communications lesson, students brainstorm food, activity, and guest ideas for a monthly classroom celebration of student birthdays.
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Home Tour
In this exchange student lesson, students create a story about an exchange student. Students draw a map to show the location of community buildings and practice providing directions from location to location.
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Day Three: Dear Diary
Students contrast an exchange student's house with their original home. In this home activity, students listen to a diary entry written by an exchange student. They create a triptych miniature book and draw the differences between the...
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A Look at Geography
Students discover geographical places and terms in another language. For this geographical identification lesson, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go or where...