Online lesson plans and other resources for your class of adult ESL beginners
It’s back to school, and that means that parent-teacher interviews are coming up! Prepare your beginner ESL students with many of the common words and phrases used in these interviews.
The lesson includes warm-up discussions, skill-building and skill-using activities, video and open-ended role plays, and reflection questions.
Explore this simplified introduction to part of Canada’s citizenship guide. This lesson plan for ESL beginners focuses on the history and geography of Canada’s West Coast.
The lesson includes warm-ups, vocabulary exercises, a listening and reading passage, a short video, and reflection questions. This lesson plan is one of many new lesson plans in the Introducing Canadian Citizenship section.
Introducing Canadian citizenship:
This new webpage offers simplified and shortened citizenship lesson plans for beginner ESL students. The page will introduce your ESL students to some of the subjects covered on the citizenship test, linking to 10 new lesson plans on Canada’s history, economy, and geography (five of them including new videos).
This lesson plan teaches your beginner ESL students vocabulary related to communities. The lesson includes warm-up activities, skill-building and skill-using exercises, a short video, and reflection questions that encourage student discussions about their neighborhoods. Participants will reflect on their community experiences, fostering both language and cultural understanding.
Start the new school year with creative and engaging activities for your first day of class. This lesson plan includes lesson objectives, warm-up exercises, videos, and a range of needs assessments to tailor learning to students’ interests. Activities encourage interaction, sharing, and vocabulary development for beginner English language learners.
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