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Lesson 2
Colors and fruit 1

General:
Level: 1 – BEAR CUBS (ages 3-5)
Time: 40 mins - 1 hour
Objectives: Identify and recognize 5 colors and 3 fruit.
Structures: “What color is it?“, "What fruit is it?"
New vocab: purple, yellow, apple, banana, grapes.
Review vocab: red, blue, green.

You will need to download:

Flashcards: apple, banana, grapes
Printables: • Wall Circle sheet (x5)
• Color the fruit worksheet
• Color the cute fish worksheet
Songs: • Hello Song
• Goodbye Song
These can be downloaded at https://www.eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-plans.html

You will also need:

• name tags for each student
• name tracing sheets (one for each student with their name in dots)
• a glove puppet
• colored crayons / pencils
• 5 sheets of origami colored paper (red, green, blue, purple, yellow)
• plastic fruit (in a small box)
• cushions (1 per student)
• CD / Tape player or something to play the song on

Notes:
This is a nice, easy fun lesson - parts of it can be reused in later lessons as your students
continue to learn the color words.

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Lesson overview:
Warm up and maintenance:
1. Greetings
2. Name tags
3. Glove puppet greetings
4. Sing “The Hello Song”
5. Name writing
6. Homework check
7. Do “Exercise routine” activity
8. Review colors red, blue, green
9. Play “Color pass”, “Color touch” and “Color hold up”

New learning and practice:

1. Teach colors: purple, yellow
2. Play "Color stand up and jump"
3. Play "Touch the colors on the walls"
4. Do "Color the circles" activity
5. 5-minute play time
6. Teach fruit vocab: apple, banana, grapes
7. Play "Fruit fetch"
8. Do the "Color the fruit" worksheet

Wrap up:
1. Assign homework: "Color the cute fish"
2. Say goodbye to glove puppet
3. Sing “The Goodbye Song"
4. Do "Quick check" and say goodbye

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Lesson procedure:
Warm up and maintenance:
1. Greetings
Greet the students by name as they enter the classroom and
gesture for them to sit down (on cushions if you have them) in a
fan-shape around you.

2. Name tags
Before class prepare some name tags (stickers or pin-on tags) with
each student's name written on in lower case letters. Sit down
with your students and lay out the name tags in front of you. Pick
up each tag and call out the name. Try and encourage each
student to put their hand up and say "yes". Hand over the tags
and help to pin / stick on. In later lessons, once your students can
recognize their written name, you can have them pick out their
own name tags.

3. Glove puppet greetings

Bring out the bag, open it enough to see in and shout into the
bag "Hello!". Then move your ear to the opening to listen -
nothing. Go to each student and encourage them to shout
"Hello" into the bag - each time nothing happens. Finally, get all
the students together to shout "Hello!" at the same time. This
time the puppet wakes up and jumps out of the bag! Then
model the role play with the puppet:

Teacher: "Hello", What's your name?"

Puppet: "My name is...".

Then move onto the first student and say "Hello". Encourage him/her to say hello back. Let
the students touch, cuddle and stroke the puppet. My puppet also likes to nibble their feet
and arms. Next, the puppet asks each student: "What's your name?". If they are old enough,
try and encourage "My name is..." but for the really little ones (3 and under) just saying their
name is fine. Finally, go around saying "Goodbye" and "See you" before going back into the
bag and back to sleep.

4. Sing “The Hello Song“

Sit in a circle and sing the song (clap along or pat knees).

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Lyrics for "The Hello Song" Gestures for "The Hello Song"

Hello, hello, These are quite straight forward. First time you play the song
How are you today? do the gestures and encourage everyone to do them with you.
Hello, hello,
How are you today? • Wave as you sing the "Hello, hello" parts.
• Gesture to others as you
I’m fine, thank you, sing "How are you
I’m fine, thank you, today?"
I’m fine, thank you, • Point to yourself as you
And how about you? sing "I’m fine, thank you"
• Hand gesture towards
Hello, hello, another student as you
How are you today? sing "And how about
I’m fine, thank you, you?".
And how about you?

5. Name writing
Before class prepare a writing sheet for each student with their name written in dots for
them to practice tracing.

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Everyone sits at a table with you. Take the sheets of paper and read the names - encourage
each student to put their hand up and say "Yes". Give out the sheets to each student.

Next, say, "Take out your crayons" and have everyone trace their name using different
colors. As the students trace their names, circulate, help and give lots of praise. Be sure to
elicit red, blue and green colors as a review from last class.

Finally, praise and reward students for doing a good job!

6. Homework check
Check each student's homework that you set in the last lesson.
Ask each student some questions about their homework
worksheet (e.g. "what color is this balloon?"), give lots of praise,
and then put some kind of mark on the homework sheet (e.g. a
sticker, a stamp or draw a smiley face).

Finally, tell your students to put their homework back into their
bags.

7. Do "Exercise routine" activity

Time for some action. Say the following and have the students follow your lead:

"Stand up (T stands and so does everyone else)

"Hands up / hands down" (do 4 or 5 times)
"Jump" (4 or 5 times)
"Run! / Stop!" (4 or 5 times)
"Turn around! / Stop!" (4 or 5 times)
finally "Sit down".

8. Review colors: red, blue, green

Use the colored origami paper / paper / card from the
previous lesson.

Sit everyone in a circle and hold up the first colored paper

and elicit the color (e.g. red). Chorus and practice saying the
color. Do this for the rest of the colors.

9. Play "Color pass", "Color touch" and "Color hold up"

Play "Color pass": Take each color card and pass it to your
nearest student. Say "red" as you pass red, etc. The
students pass the colors round the circle.

Play "Color touch": Next, lay the 3 colors in the middle of

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the circle. Say "Hands up". Students raise their hands. Then say "Touch.....red!" and the
students should all try and touch the red colored paper. Do for all of the colors.

Play "Color hold up": Finally, give each student one of the colored papers. Say "Hold
up....blue!" - the students holding the blue papers raise them into the air.

New learning and practice:

1. Teach colors: purple, yellow
Sit everyone in a circle and hold the 2 new colored papers in
each hand (purple and yellow) and ask, “What color is it?” for
each one.

Elicit / Teach each color and chorus 3 times.

2. Play "Color stand up and jump"

Give out all 5 colored papers, 1 color per student (if you have
more than 5 students, you will need more colored papers).

Have everyone sit on the floor. Say a color (e.g. "red") and the
students holding that color have to quickly stand up, jump and
then sit down. Start off slowly and get faster and faster.

3. Play "Touch the Colors on Posters"

This is a great activity to do, especially if your classroom has lots
of colorful posters on the walls. If not, before class pin lots of
red, blue, green, purple and yellow origami papers around
the classroom walls (at touching height).

Demonstrate by shouting out a color (e.g. "Red").

Run and touch red on any poster / red origami. Do the
same for another color (e.g. "Blue"). Each time run to a new poster/origami. Now have the
students do the activity – shout out a color and have them all run around the classroom
touching the colors on the walls.

4. Do "Color the circles" activity

Before class, prepare 5 large sheets of white paper (or if you are
teaching less colors that day, enough sheets of paper for the
colors you are teaching). On each sheet draw a large circle which
fills up the sheet (or download and print our wall circle sheet).
Then stick the sheets on the walls of the classroom, at a height

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your students can reach.

At this point of your lesson, take out your colored pencils/crayons and demonstrate the
activity. Walk around the class and color a small part of each circle with one color (always
say the color as you are coloring). So there will be one circle with some red color in it, one
with yellow, and so on.

Next, tell your students to take out their colored pencils/crayons. Have them walk around
the classroom, coloring in a bit of each circle with the same colors you used. Make sure they
say the color as they do each coloring.

5. 5-minute play time

This is an optional segment that can be part of all your lessons at this level. Allow your
students to play with any games or toys you have. If possible, use large tubs or boxes to
hold the toys and bring them out for a few minutes each lesson. Tubs filled with animals,
plastic fruit, building blocks, kitchen sets, plastic food, cars & vehicles, Mr. Potato Head dolls
and so on.

Encourage your students to ask you for the toy they want to play with, circulate during the
play time and ask students about their toys.

It’s also a good opportunity for a quick rest room break!

6. Teach fruit vocab: apple, banana, grapes

If you can, get small plastic fruit (they can be bought quite cheaply
from children’s stores, such as Toys ‘R’ Us). Put the 3 fruit into a
small box before the class.

Now take out the box and shake it – the rattling sound will instantly
alert your students. Open the box and pull out a fruit. Ask "What’s
this?" Elicit / Teach the word and chorus x3. Next, mime biting the
fruit and chewing, and then say "Yummy!". Then hold the fruit in
front of each student to let them take an imaginary bite.

Encourage them to say "yummy!" or even "yuk!". Repeat with the other fruit.

7. Play "Fruit Fetch"

You’ll need enough plastic fruit pieces for each student (e.g. if you
have 6 students, you’ll need two of each plastic fruit – if you don’t
have enough plastic fruit use our fruit flashcards instead).

Have your students sit on the floor. Throw the fruit around the
classroom. Model the activity: say "(Your name) give me a/an

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(apple)". Get up, find the fruit and put it into the box. Now hold the box and instruct a
student to pick up a fruit, bring it back to you and put it in the box. Do for each student in
the class so that all of the fruit has been collected. Repeat for fun.

8. Do the "Color the fruit" worksheet

Hold up worksheet and model coloring in the 3 fruit pictures
(with red, yellow and purple crayons). Elicit each fruit and color
as you go. Then get the class to do the same. Circulate and check
and ask questions (What fruit is this?, What color is it?).

Finally, hold up each student’s work in turn and show to the class.
Ask a question (e.g. What fruit is this?) and give lots of praise.

Tell your students to put their worksheets into their bags.

Wrap up:
1. Assign Homework: "Color the cute fish"
Hold up the homework worksheet and model coloring in the 5
fish pictures. Elicit each color as you go. Give out the
worksheets and say, "Put your homework in your bags" and
help them to do so - this is important as they will probably
want to start coloring them right away.

2. Say goodbye to glove puppet

Take out the bag again and get everyone to wake up the glove
puppet by shouting its name into the bag (e.g. "Cookie Monster!").
Bring out the puppet and go through the same routine - go to each
student and say hello, ask their name and the say goodbye / see
you.

Then put the puppet back in the bag (back to sleep).

3. Sing "The Goodbye Song"

Sit together in a circle and sing and clap along.

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Lyrics for "The Goodbye Song" Gestures for "The Goodbye Song"
The first time you play the song do the
Goodbye, goodbye, gestures and encourage everyone to do
See you again. them with you.
Goodbye, goodbye, • Wave as you sing the "Goodbye,
See you again. goodbye" parts.
• Hold your hand above your eyes (as you
It’s time to go, would when you are looking into the
It’s time to go, distance and keeping the sun out of
It’s time to go, your eyes) and look at another student
See you next time. as you sing "See you again".
• Tap watch (or imaginary watch) and
Goodbye, goodbye, then point to the door as you sing "It’s
See you again. time to go".
It’s time to go, • Point towards another student as you
See you next time. sing "See you next time".

4. Do "Quick check" and say goodbye

Time to leave the class. Make sure everything is put away
and the students have gathered their belongings. Have
them line up at the door and place yourself between the
door and the students. For each student hold up a color
or fruit and elicit what it is. When they give you the
correct answer say goodbye and let them leave. If their
answer is wrong, have them go back to the end of the line - they will have to try again once
they reach the front!

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