Preschool Lesson Themes and ESL Activities: 1. Greetings

Preschool Lesson Themes and ESL
Activities
1. Greetings
Hello! Good morning! Good afternoon! Good evening! Good night! Goodbye!
• You can practise saying hello and goodbye by knocking on wood and saying:
''Hello! Is there anybody home?'' and by waving your hand on saying
''Goodbye!''
• Play the "day and night" game (you can use this game to teaching them
opposite words like morning/evening, summer/winter, big/small etc).
Always explain why you are playing the game and introduce game rules.
For example: "we sit down when we say evening because we are tired
after a long day and we stand up when we say morning because then we
get up from bed ready to live the day", etc.
Be careful that your intonation is musical because the words are then easier to
remember!
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Use hundreds of drawings to teach your preschoolers basic English vocabulary
2. Colours
Teach your early language learners 11 different colours: yellow, red, blue,
green, orange, pink, black, white, grey, pink, purple. To teach colours you can
use flashcards or simply different objects with different colours.
• Take coloured pencils and say the names of the colours. Then ask the
children to repeat after you. (Remember there is lot of repetition in
teaching English to small children).
• Take out the pencils and ask the children to speak out the names of colours,
or take any other object, or colour flashcards for this ESL activity.
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3. Numbers
Numbers 1 – 20. First teach your early language learners to say the numbers up
to 10, and once they've acquired them in the foreign language, teach them
numbers from 10 to 20.
Use flashcards, write down the numbers on the board or find games with
numbers on the Internet. If you use the cards with numbers turn them face
down, ask the children to pull out the cards and then to guess the number on the
card.
You can combine the numbers and colours by drawing on small pieces of paper
or a big piece of paper (where you put all the numbers); perform an activity in
which you call the children to come and colour the number by saying, for
example: ''One is yellow. Two is red. Three is blue…etc.''
Remember to always demonstrate the ESL activities yourself before asking the
children to repeat or continue.
4. Family Members
Mother – Mum, Father – Dad, brother, sister, grandfather – grandpa,
grandmother – grandma. Introduce the words baby and family into this word
class.
• Use drawings/flashcards, talk about family, ask children the names of their
parents, brothers, and sisters, ask them to draw their family on a piece of
paper.
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5. Body Parts
Introduce the word body.
• Stand up, point to the parts of the body that you are speaking out loud: hair,
head, face, eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, ears, cheeks, nose, mouth/lips,
teeth, chin, neck, shoulders, arms/hands, fingers, belly, legs, knees, toes,
back.
• Use TPR: Show me your head/shoulders…etc., or phrases followed by
demonstration: I wash my hair/face/teeth…I brush my hair.
• Ask them to draw certain body parts that are easy to draw, use flashcards or
draw on the board.
• Teach them to sing the popular English song ''Head, Shoulders, Knees and
Toes.'' Make them sit down and point to these body parts while singing.
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6. Animals
Teach your early language learners the names of domestic and wild animals
using the usual materials and ESL activities. If you have animal figures or toys
give them to your young learners and ask them to imitate animals sounds
( sounds made by animals the figure of which they hold in their hands). Make a
list of animal sounds for yourself to decide which sounds (English verbs) you
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would like to introduce for play.
Use nursery rhymes on this topic and teach them children's animal songs such
as "Old McDonald had a Farm." The song is about an old farmer who keeps
different animals on his farm.
7. Home: House and Furniture

Roof, chimney, wall, window, door.
Bedroom, bathroom, living-room, kitchen.
• You can each them words like: bed, chair, table, curtains, basin, towel…etc.
First teach them basic words and then expand the vocabulary by making
associations with another word class.
• Remember: you shouldn't teach one unit per hour but always repeat
previously taught vocabulary and you don't have to introduce all the
words in one class at the same time.
• Introduce new words slowly and do a lot of repetition. Follow their rhythm
and decide on your own when to move on, how long to repeat – you will
sense this by playing games with them in which you can verify their
memory status.
8. In the Kitchen: Food—Fruits and

Vegetables
Teach these words slowly (it's a big word class). Use colouring pages,
drawings, flashcards. Talk about specific topics – start a conversation to
introduce any theme, for example, ask them what they like and don't like to eat
and similar things. Of course, to introduce a theme using this very important
method – conversation – you may use mother tongue, but always ask children
to remember how we say "things" in English. In this word class you can also
introduce the words: breakfast, lunch, dinner and verbs eat and drink.
9. Clothes
Pick the words you would like to teach and combine them with the four
seasons. Use the usual materials and/or the clothes that you and the kids are
wearing at the time of lesson.
10. Weather and Celestial Bodies, Four
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Seasons
Sun, moon, cloud, rain, thunder, snow, snowflakes, stars.
Repeat the words night/day and parts of the day: morning, afternoon, evening.
Autumn, winter, spring, summer.
If the children don't know any of the words you teach them, teach them in their
mother tongue first, then in English.
Use the usual material and activities (drawings, cards; drawing and colouring).
Teach them nursery rhymes such as "Rain, rain, go away, come again
another day!"
With the word rain, introduce the word umbrella.
11. Nature
Give a blank piece of paper to the kids and ask them to draw these: sun, cloud,
bird, tree, flower, ladybug, butterfly and similar.
Tell a simple riddle and ask for feedback:
''What's in the sky;
it's not a cloud,
it's not a bird,
but in winter and summertime, it keeps us warm?''
(The sun), or
''What is it that flies in
the air and
we know it's not a bird or a plane?''
(Butterfly)

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