Lesson Overview
This “back to school” ESL lesson plan is perfect for your A1-A2 beginner students. It provides all the necessary language and scaffolding to ensure students are able to participate fully and enjoy it.
The class begins with a fun warm-up exercise. Next, they are introduced to new words related to the topic, which they are then challenged to use in the next exercise.
The grammar point of the “present tense" is explained before learners are given a series of tasks related to the topic. Afterwards, there is a reading exercise in which students read about a typical day at school.
There is an awesome listening activity which enables students to practise their comprehension skills. This “back to school” ESL lesson plan finishes with two excellent speaking activities which your students will love!
- Fun recap: Colours!
- School vocabulary.
- Expand your vocabulary.
- Grammar: Present tense.
- Dialogue.
- Reading: A typical day at school.
- Listening practice.
- Describing pictures.
Homework
As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome “back to school” ESL lesson plan. Students are challenged to complete a series of past tense exercises which follows on from the lesson.
- Grammar practice.
- New words recap.
