Vroom vroom! How many methods of transportation can your young learners name? Our newly revised lesson on Transportation includes popular words such as bicycle, subway, and airplane.

In this lesson, students will learn and practice the names of 12 common methods of transportation. The lesson includes a picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. Discussion questions at the end allow your students to practice the new vocabulary in context.

Find this lesson in the Word Bank – Buildings & Transportation.

Related

• Smart Cars
• Bicycles
• Cars
• Where’s the Puppy?
  (Exercise B: Transportation Prepositions)

Drawing is a great creative outlet. Kids love our drawing activities, and you will too—they combine drawing and coloring with speaking, listening, vocabulary, reading, or writing skills.

Our School project has two activities to try. Choose either the Listen & Draw or Read & Draw activity depending on which skill you want to focus on. Or try them both on different days (but be aware that the instructions to follow are the same for both activities). If you want to focus on pronunciation, pair up students and have one student read out the instructions while the other draws, then switch roles.

This activity is great as a warm-up, filler, cool-down, or homework task. Follow up by having students color in the image and by trying related activities like Back to School – Find the Objects and A Day at School – Writing Activity.

Find this lesson in the Project Depot – Drawing.

Sprout English has 40 fun drawing, writing, and photography activities on popular topics in the Project Depot. Try them all!

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Technology plays a big role in our daily lives and learning. We’ve developed a NEW vocabulary lesson on Computers to help your young learners talk tech!

In this Word Bank lesson, students will learn the names of common tech gadgets as well as the main parts of a computer. They will practice this vocabulary through several fun, colorful activities, including a picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. This lesson finishes up with discussion questions so that your students can practice using the vocab in context.

The images in this lesson are also available as flashcards at the end of the lesson. Try these 9 ways to use cards and flashcards in class.

Related

• The Essential List for Using Technology with Young Learners This Year
• 7 Ways Learners Can Improve Their English with Technology
• The Classroom: Vocabulary Lesson
• School Subjects: Vocabulary Lesson
• Jobs: 4 Vocabulary Lessons
• Talking to Kids about Jobs

Find this lesson in the Word Bank - School & Jobs.

The simple past is a fundamental building block of English grammar that young learners should learn early on. We’ve recently developed a third version of our popular Simple Past lesson with more explanations, illustrations, and engaging exercises!

This revised 16-page lesson starts off with a clear, easy-to-follow grammar explanation and is followed by a variety of activities such as verb formation, sentence formation, group and pair speaking activities, a writing task, a quiz, and an optional present/past comparison activity.

You can choose whether to do the entire lesson in one day or break it up over a few days and/or assign some of it for homework.

Find this lesson in the Grammar School – Fun Grammar Lessons.

Related

• Teaching the Simple Past
• Pronunciation of Past Tense Endings
• Simple Past Vs. Past Progressive
• Zero Prep Simple Past Warm-Up – Remembering Yesterday
• 3 Fun Ways to Use Irregular Verb Cards
• Yesterday – Simple Past Story

Are students already back to school in your area, or will they soon be? We’ve got a fun way to go over basic classroom vocabulary with your young English learners!

Our Back to School – Find the Objects vocabulary worksheet features 10 common classroom items. Kids can find the words in the picture and then color it in. Follow up by getting students to find each object in your classroom, and teach them the names of any other objects that aren’t on the worksheet.

Find this lesson in the Games Room – Paper Games.

Related Resources

• Are You Going to Set Back-to-School Goals with Your Kids?
• We Aren’t a Class, We Are a Community! 8 Ways to Get Children Excited about Learning with You
• Let’s Learn Each Other’s Names
• How to Introduce Yourself in English
• The Essential Checklist for Using Technology with Young Learners This Year
• Back-to-School Lost & Found Challenge
• Sprout English Lessons: Suggested Teaching Order
• Classroom Vocabulary Lesson
• School Subjects Vocabulary Lesson

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Writing improves many aspects of English such as grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. With four questions to get them started, our updated lesson on My Favorite Animal is a great way to get kids writing!

Assign this worksheet in class or for homework. You may want to review the structure of a paragraph before you begin.

To incorporate other skills, you could put students into small groups after they’re done and have them read their paragraphs aloud. They can practice pronunciation while the others practice listening. Have the listeners each come up with one related question to encourage discussion!

For correction, try using our correction key to help students better understand their mistakes. Also, if you teach in Canada or a country that uses British English, point out the spelling difference (favorite > favourite).

Swimming is a popular activity for kids, especially in the summertime! Last week we featured a NEW vocabulary lesson called Swimming, which focuses on the actions that kids need to know when learning to swim or playing in the pool. It also includes the names of different swimming strokes. This week we’re featuring our NEW vocabulary lesson called Swimming Pool, which focuses on the objects kids will see at the pool such as lifeguard, slide, diving board, shallow end, etc.

Swimming Pool includes a picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. There are also discussion questions so that your students can practice using the new vocabulary in context.

You’ll also find a set of flashcards at the end of this lesson that you can use for preview or review. Try 9 Ways to Use Cards & Flashcards in Class for activity ideas.

Find this lesson in the Word Bank – Sports & Leisure.

Are your students learning to swim this summer? Our NEW lesson on Swimming introduces kids to vocabulary they will hear at the pool.

This fun and colorful lesson includes a picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. There are also discussion questions so that your students can practice using the new vocabulary in context.

Many of our Word Bank lessons include handy flashcards at the end of the lesson. Check out 9 Ways to Use Cards & Flashcards in Class for some fun ideas.

Find this lesson in the Word Bank – Sports & Leisure.

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs—English sentences are formed from various parts of speech. It might help young learners to think of parts of speech as building blocks for sentences. Our NEW Parts of Speech lesson breaks down each part of speech, describing the function and giving examples in a way that is easy to understand.

This comprehensive 14-page lesson has a variety of practice exercises and fun activities to help your young learners grasp the basic parts of speech. Depending on the level of your students, you may choose to do the entire lesson at once or introduce each part of speech on a different day. We’ve included a fun card activity, a board race, and a speaking task to keep your students engaged. A quiz at the end of the lesson will let you know if they need to follow up with related lessons in our Fun Grammar Lessons section.

Related Resources

• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Verbs – Simple Present
• Articles
• Adjectives
• Adverbs of Frequency
• Adverbs of Manner
• Prepositions of Time
• Prepositions of Place

Find this lesson in the Grammar School – Fun Grammar Lessons section.

Why have so many boats and planes disappeared in a certain part of the Atlantic Ocean over the years? Was it a UFO? A giant sea creature? A hurricane? Your young learners will read all about the mysterious disappearances in our updated lesson on the Bermuda Triangle!

This Discovery Center lesson includes warm-up questions, a vocabulary preview, a short reading full of interesting facts, comprehension questions, and word puzzles for vocabulary review. There is even an optional black-and-white image for your young learners to color.

Find this lesson in the Discovery Center – Famous Places.

Sprout English’s Discovery Center has many other interesting facts for kids to discover! Discover 36 lessons about animals, food, transportation, famous places, interesting jobs, and sports.