Are your young English learners familiar with the vocabulary for objects in a home? We’re continuing to add to the Transportation & Housing section of our Word Bank. This week, we’re focusing on The Living Room! (more…)

Are your young learners learning to count? The Numbers lesson in our Phonics Cafe section gives students fun, engaging practice with both the numerical and spelled-out forms of the letters one to ten.

This seven-page phonics lesson begins by presenting the numerical and written forms of the numbers one to ten. This is followed by a variety of activities that will get your students reading, counting, and coloring. (more…)

Have you ever studied the present perfect tense? We’re excited to promote our NEW lesson on the Present Perfect! We included grammar tips and charts to make this tense easy to teach and learn. We also included both functions of the present perfect along with exercises that compare it to the simple past. The Travel theme makes this lesson fun and relevant! (more…)

Many countries will celebrate Mother’s Day this Sunday, May 10. In honor of this special day, you may want to try our reformatted Family vocabulary lesson in class this week!

In this eight-page Word Bank lesson, students will learn the names of immediate family members as well as some extended family. (more…)

What did you do yesterday? The simple past is a fundamental building block of English grammar that young learners should learn early on. Our revamped Simple Past lesson makes it easy and fun to teach this common verb tense! (more…)

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The next best time is today.”
—Chinese proverb

Earth Day is on April 22, and it’s a great day to learn idioms about the environment! Visuals like this poster can really help students remember new vocabulary and idioms. For other ways to practice idioms, see Tara’s suggestions in 8 Fun and Interactive Ways to Review Idioms. Try our blank idioms poster as an idiom quiz or vocabulary review. Related vocabulary for this poster could include overfishing, pollution, waste, consumerism, overspending, recycling, composting, deforestation, and global warming.

• View and download a printable 8.5″ × 11″ PDF
• View and download the full-sized PDF
• View and download a printable PDF without text (for a quiz) (more…)

The 2015 Major League Baseball season runs from April 5 to October 4 in the US. Our Spotlight lesson, Baseball: Simple Present Reading, introduces young learners to a boy who loves playing baseball.
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See our updated worksheet for 2016: http://blog.sproutenglish.com/spring-find-the-objects-2/

Find our updated Easter vocabulary lesson for 2017 here: http://bit.ly/VocabEaster

We are adding to the Transportation & Housing section of our Word Bank section this week with our new, beautifully illustrated lesson on The Kitchen!

The Kitchen vocabulary lesson includes a colorful picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. Students can also practice the new vocabulary in context with questions that you can use for discussion or writing. (more…)