Lesson Overview

This A1 ESL lesson explores the topic “Where are you from?”, helping students talk about countries, nationalities, continents, and languages using very basic, natural English.

Learners learn vocabulary about countries, continents, nationalities, and languages. They also learn functional language to ask there people are from, and talk about their country.

Through various fun and engaging ESL exercises, students build confidence talking about their country and different nationalities and sharing their opinions in short, simple sentences.

This lesson is ideal for A1 learners who are developing basic speaking skills on familiar topics such as basic geography, nationalities, and where people are from.

1. Warm Up: Picture Round.
2. Countries: Identify. 
3. Nationalities: Matching.
4. Nationalities: Sentences.
5. Grammar: To Be.
6. Dialogue: Where are you from?
7. Dialogues: Where are you from?
8. Countries & Nationalities: True or False?
9. My Country: Facts.

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A1 ESL lesson plan. Students are challenged to write detailed answers to topic-based questions. Activity layout:

1. Questions: Writing task