St. Patrick’s Day Materials

St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17 in several countries, and it’s a fun holiday to celebrate in class. Encourage your young learners to dress up in green clothes, and try some of our fun St. Patrick’s Day lessons and worksheets! (more…)

Valentine’s Day Collection

Will you be doing Valentine’s Day activities with your young learners this week and next? Our Valentine’s Day vocabulary lesson has a variety of fun activities to do in class. Valentine’s Code gives students practice with vowels while they crack the secret code to solve vocabulary words. Valentine’s Day: Find the Objects lets students match vocabulary words to objects in a picture, which they can then color. (more…)

Clowning Around in the ESL Classroom

Sprout English is all about having fun in the ESL classroom. In the Spotlight this month, we have a new Word Bank lesson about Sea Life and a fun Discovery Center lesson about Acrobatics. We also have a new Adverbs of Manner lesson in our Fun Grammar Lessons section that gives kids a chance to act out what they’ve learned.

These action-packed lessons inspired us to come up with even more ideas to get your students laughing and moving while they practice English. Here are 3 silly games to play along with this month’s featured Sprout English lessons. (more…)

Acrobatics

Looking for an interesting job or sport to discuss in class? Kids will love finding out what life is like for a circus performer in our featured lesson on Acrobatics. (more…)

Sea Life

Dive into our new lesson on Sea Life!

In this eight-page Word Bank lesson, students will learn the spelling and pronunciation of common ocean creatures. They get vocabulary practice 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 vocabulary in context. (more…)

Christmas Vocabulary Lesson

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…)