ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
Young Learners Program
Lesson One: Introduction, Alphabet, numbers, spelling. Objects: Kitchen. Questions: What is your name? Where is the salt/plate/fork? Activity: Alphabet sculptures: Students will try to form the letter with their bodies.
Lesson Two: Numbers, colors, boy, girl. Objects: classroom. (crayon, scissors) Instructions: Hello/Goodbye, Listen/Look. Questions: Is this a boy/girl? Where are the scissors? Activities: Walk in room and say ‘hello’ until they repeat, waving, then leave and say ‘goodbye’;
Lesson Three: Colors, numbers, shapes( circle, square, triangle ). Objects: Classroom (marker, eraser, board) Instructions: Open/Close Erase/Draw Questions: Can you open/close the book? Where is the eraser/desk/book? Activity: Make shape mobiles, cut out shapes and show them how to glue them together to make a train.
Lesson Four: Objects: Classroom (door, table, chair). On/under. Instructions: Touch the table/chair. Put the ball under the table/on the table. Questions: Is the ball on/under the table? Activities: Make students close their eyes and hide place ‘ball’ somewhere in room then they open their eyes and must find it; matching game with classroom objects.
Lesson Five: Body parts (eyes, nose, ears, mouth, head) Big/little. Instructions: Touch your nose/ears/etc. Show me the little/big circle. Activities: head, shoulders, knees, and toes; Hokey Pokey; make a monster.
Lesson Six: Body parts(hands, feet, fingers, toes, knees, shoulders) Throw/catch Instructions: Throw me the ball. Throw the ball in the basket. Questions: Can you throw me the ball? Activity: Cut out facial features and make a mask.
Lesson Seven: Animals. Off/on. Instructions: Turn off/on the light. Questions: What sound does an elephant/bird/lion make? Activity: Have the children demonstrate how each animal behaves.!
Lesson Eight: REVIEW.
Lesson Nine: Animals. In/out. Hungry, tired, cold, sad, happy, great, good, OK. Instructions: Jump “in” the water, jump “out” of the water. Questions: Can you put the ball in the basket? Can you take it out? How are you? Are you hungry? etc. Activity: Water/Land.
Lesson Ten: Left, right, forward, back, stop, stand up, sit down, turn around, jump. Number review. Questions: How old are you? Activity: Instruct students to turn right/left, back up, sit down, stand up, turn around, jump, stop.
Lesson Eleven: Weather: rainy, cloudy, windy, snowing, sunny, hot, a beautiful day. Questions: What's the weather like? / How's the weather? Activity:
Lesson Twelve: Good morning, good afternoon etc. Activity: I’m a superhero; I can jump, run, hide, cook, stretch, climb, swim, fly. Activity: