Young Learner Topics
Young learner topics: A holiday week
A listening activity to introduce and practise language for days of the week, colours and places, available at three difficulty levels with accompanying audio files.
Young learner topics: Animal game
A board game to practise animal vocabulary and numbers, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Animal guessing game
A game to help your students know the abc’s (ant, bee, chicken) of animal vocabulary by asking questions.
Young learner topics: Animal masks
Children practise following instructions and learn vocabulary for parts of the face and personality adjectives by making an animal mask.
Young learner topics: Animal wordsearch
An animal themed wordsearch and picture crossword worksheet.
Young learner topics: Beginning, middle and end
An activity about the structure of well-known stories, available at three different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Can you touch?
A card game to use language for parts of the body.
Young learner topics: Countries
An activity where students practice using the names of countries and asking questions, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Describing people
An activity with accompanying audio, available at three different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Don’t forget your toothbrush
A listening activity and chant to practise holiday vocabulary, times and family vocabulary, available at two difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Drawing houses
A comprehensive lesson plan by Hans Mol to practise descriptive vocabulary. Children finish by describing and drawing their own house.
Young learner topics: Family card game
A card game to practise using and saying names for members of the family, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Family chain
An arts and craft activity to help students use family names and understand instructions in English, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Family chants
In this song activity with accompanying audio, students read and recite a chant about a family, then write their own chant and draw a picture to accompany it.
Young learner topics: Festivals – American Independence Day
Julian L'Enfant presents two lesson plans on the 4th July celebrations – an introduction to the history of the American flag and the Declaration of Independence, with reading tasks and games, and a follow-up craft activity.
Young learner topics: Festivals - Birthday cards
A fun lesson by Hans Mol to practise festivals vocabulary and task words. Children make a birthday card with a message.
Young learner topics: Festivals – Bonfire night
These bonfire night worksheets and accompanying teacher's notes include bonfire night reading, a battleships activity and a Guy Fawkes game.
Young learner topics: Festivals – Christmas
These activities include a short reading text about Christmas in Britain with vocabulary matching exercises.
Young learner topics: Festivals – Halloween
A fun lesson by Adrian Tennant to introduce and talk about the topic Halloween.
Young learner topics: Festivals - Halloween Trick-or-treat rap
An activity with accompanying audio, available at two different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Festivals – Pancake Day
A fun-packed series of four lessons for children on the tasty subject of Pancake Day. There are language practice activities, games to play, a survey and a project: to make a pancake!
Young learner topics: Festivals—Easter
A fun-packed lesson for young learners on the subject of Easter.
Young learner topics: Festivals—May Day
A selection of four lessons for young learners to introduce and talk about the May Day festival and its traditions.
Young learner topics: Finger puppets
Activities using finger puppets, available at three different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Finish the story
A 20-30 minute story writing and illustrating activity.
Young learner topics: Fitness quiz
In this lesson, students carry out a personal fitness quiz and read about fitness.
Young learner topics: Five little speckled frogs
A song to practise animal vocabulary and numbers, available at two difficulty levels with an accompanying audio file.
Young learner topics: Flying jigsaw
A jigsaw activity to practice flying transport vocabulary, available at two difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Food and drink
A listening activity to introduce food vocabulary and talk about likes and dislikes, as well as whether food is healthy or unhealthy, available at three difficulty levels with accompanying audio files.
Young learner topics: Funny animals
An arts and craft activity to introduce/practise the vocabulary of animals, colours and body parts, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Funny fold faces
An activity with accompanying audio, available at two different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Haiku poems
An activity to practice short poems and associated language points, available at two difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Holiday fun
A board game to practise town and leisure vocabulary, following directions, the alphabet and numbers 1–10, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Holiday passport
A writing and speaking activity to practise filling in a simple form; using where, when and to in questions and would like in answers; and using months and seasons.
Young learner topics: Holiday photo album
An activity to relate general knowledge about travel and places and associated language points, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: I've got the whole world in my hands
A song activity with accompanying audio, available at two different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Jobs
An activity about occupations with accompanying audio, available at three different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Make a flip book
In this 30-35 minute lesson, learners follow instructions and make a flip book.
Young learner topics: Make a monster
A lesson where students practice using 'I've got...' to describe parts of the body and ask the question 'Have you got...?'
Young learner topics: Make a plane
In this 20-30 minute lesson, learners follow instructions and practise talking about distances.
Young learner topics: Make a puppet
An arts and craft activity to introduce/practise language for parts of the body, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Make a windmill
In this 20-30 minute lesson, learners follow instructions and discuss how a windmill works.
Young learner topics: Make an elephant
In this 15-20 minute lesson, learners listen for information and instructions, create a paper elephant and practise asking for someone’s name.
Young learner topics: My family
A listening activity to introduce vocabulary for members of close and extended families, available at three difficulty levels with accompanying audio files.
Young learner topics: My favourite person
A 30 minute lesson, in which students practise describing people, filling in a form in English and giving reasons for preferences.
Young learner topics: Parts of a car
An activity with audio where students are introduced to different parts of a car, link descriptions with vocabulary and listen for information.
Young learner topics: Parts of the body
A card game to use language for parts of the body as well as the language of games, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Round the world
An activity with accompanying audio, available at three different difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Sammy Snail's trail
A listening activity to introduce animals and natural features, available at three difficulty levels with accompanying audio files.
Young learner topics: Space monsters
An activity about body parts and planets with accompanying audio, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: The body song
A song to practise vocabulary for parts of the body, available at two difficulty levels with an accompanying audio file.
Young learner topics: The fantastic fortune teller game
This fun game for children, which includes instructions for making and playing the game, helps with the teaching of animal names and numbers.
Young learner topics: The farmer wants a wife
A simple song to help students practise singing a song in English, available at two difficulty levels with an accompanying audio file.
Young learner topics: The wheels on the bus
An activity with audio where students sing a song about a bus.
Young learner topics: This is the key of the kingdom
A traditional British rhyme with accompanying audio.
Young learner topics: Travel survey
An activity to conduct a survey and use language for transport.
Young learner topics: Treasure map
A game using directions where students have to find the treasure on a map, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Water from the well
Activities with accompanying audio to practise listening to stories and listening for information, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: What's in your suitcase?
A card game to practice clothing vocabulary and associated language points, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: What's the order?
In this 25-35 minute lesson, learners create a sequential list of actions and use a variety of verbs.
Young learner topics: When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears
A song with accompanying audio about the Goldilocks story, available at two difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Where is the house?
A game using prepositions, questions and possessive your to describe location, available at three difficulty levels.
Young learner topics: Which animal?
A reading activity to consolidate animal vocabulary, practise the alphabet and develop reading skills.