With Christmas right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to try our Christmas Vocabulary Lesson!

This eight-page lesson is in the Holidays section of our Word Bank. It starts off with a fun, colorful picture dictionary and is followed by a variety of activities that will help your young learners stay engaged while they review the new words. Activities include a matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. This lesson ends with discussion questions so that your students can try using the new vocabulary in context. (more…)

It’s a fun, festive time of year when spirits are high in and out of class! Teachers can maximize on students’ enthusiasm by doing Christmas activities that are both fun and educational. We’ve created three Christmas puzzles for you to try in class this season: Christmas Code, Pronunciation Path, and The Snowman’s Nose. And don’t forget about last year’s vocabulary/coloring worksheet: Christmas – Find the Objects! (more…)

Are your young learners familiar with vocabulary on furniture and rooms in a house? Our Buildings & Transportation section of our Word Bank has lessons on the house, the kitchen, and the living room. This week, we’re adding a NEW lesson on The Bedroom! (more…)

Our simple future reading lesson, Marcie’s Dream, features a story that uses the simple present, simple past, past progressive, and simple future tenses in context. Students can see examples of the future with both “will” and “be going to.” This lesson also includes a separate dialogue that focuses on how to express the future with “will.” (more…)

What are you grateful for? Many people will be celebrating Thanksgiving this week, so it’s a great time to review Thanksgiving vocabulary! Kids will love our colorful Thanksgiving lesson. (more…)

There are three ways to express the future tense in English: will, be going to, and the present progressive. We’ve got a NEW grammar lesson on the Simple Future that covers when and how to use the three future forms! (more…)

On November 11, many countries will pause to remember the bravery and sacrifice of their servicemen and women. To help your young learners understand the importance of this day (also known as Armistice Day or Poppy Day), try our Veterans Day or Remembrance Day vocabulary lessons. (more…)

The goal of our Phonics Cafe section is to improve the literacy of young English language learners. This week’s Spotlight lesson, Silent ‘e’ Words 2, focuses on words that end in the unpronounced final ‘e.’ This little letter affects the pronunciation of a word in a big way!  (more…)

It’s almost that spooky time of year again! Kids in many countries are getting excited for Halloween on October 31. To get your class into the eerie spirit, try our Halloween vocabulary lesson!

This eight-page Word Bank lesson includes a colorful picture dictionary with Halloween images including pumpkin, jack-o’-lantern, ghost, skeleton, witch, etc. Activities such as a matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee help make this lesson engaging and fun. Finish up with the discussion questions so that your students can try using the new vocabulary in context! (more…)

In, on, between, across from—many English language learners struggle with prepositions. Help is here! Our brand-new grammar lesson focuses on Prepositions of Place, and we’ve included fun illustrations of a living room and a kitchen to help students visualize each preposition.

This 13-page lesson starts off with a helpful Picture Dictionary so that students can easily understand what each preposition means. The Grammar Notes also provide helpful tips. A variety of exercises gives your learners plenty of practice, including matchup, drawing, multiple-choice, pair work, speaking, and writing tasks. By the end of this lesson, your students will have a solid understanding of the most common prepositions of place and related sentence patterns. (more…)