ESL Beginner/Elementary Lessons - 1st Grade

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Video Lessons by Unit & Level

Level 1 Course Video Tutorials

Unit  intro – Alphabet & Phonics Resources. 

  • Aim: Teach letters of the alphabet

    • Unit   1 – Greetings - Hello

  • Aim: Teach basic greetings – Hello, Hi, Goodbye.

    • Unit   2 – What’s your name?

  • Aim: To teach kids how to say their names.

    • Unit   3 – How old are you?

  • Aim: Teach kids how to say their age and  learn numbers 1 to 5.

    • Unit   4 – Numbers – How many?

  • Aim: Teach kids how to count from 1 to 10.

    • Unit   5 A – Colours – What colour is it?

  • Aim: Teach kids how to describe things through colours.

    • Unit 5 B - Colours Vocabulary

  • Aim: Teach colours vocabulary

    • Unit 5 C - Green Monster Colours Lesson

  • Aim: Teach colours through a colours songs

    • Unit   6 – Fruits – I like apples.

  • Aim: Teach kids names of fruits and how to express likes.

    • Unit  7 – Body – I have a head.

  • Aim: Teach kids parts of the body.

    • Unit  8–  Actions  – I can, I can’t.

  • Aim: Teach kids how to express ability using simple action verbs.

    • Level 2 Course Video Tutorials

    Unit  1 – Animals – Farms Animals. 

  • Aim: Teach students how to express preference by using vocabulary related to farm animals.

    • Unit   2 – Family Members

  • Aim: Teach words and expressions used when describing family.

    • Unit  3 – School bag

  • Aim: To teach words and expressions related to classroom items.

    • Unit   4 – Actions – Can and Can’t  

  • Aim: Teach action verbs

    • Unit   5 – Shapes & Sizes

  • Aim: Teach various shapes and adjectives to describe size.

    • Unit   6 – Demonstrative Pronouns – This/That/These/Those

  • Aim: Teach  singular and plurals of nouns and demonstrative pronouns.

    • Unit   7 – Numbers – 10 to 100

  • Aim: Teach numbers 10 to 100 and pronunciation differences between long and short vowels.

    • Unit  8 – Toys – Where is it?

  • Aim: Teach  words and expressions related to toys and to ask where things are.

    • Unit  9 –  Days of the week and weekly activities

  • Aim: Teach days of the week and some things we do weekly.

    • Unit 10 -   Weather – What’s the weather like?

  • Aim: Teach students how to ask about the weather and describe it.

    • Unit 11 -   Food – What do you want to eat

  • Aim: Teach students about the things we eat and express want

    • Level 3 Course Video Tutorials

    Unit  1 – Pets : Why do you like dogs?

  • Aim: Teach  names of pets and give a brief description of pets using personality adjectives.

    • Unit   2a – Time – What time is it?

  • Aim: Teach students how to tell the time and also how to talk about daily routines.

    • Unit   2b – Time – What time is it?

  • Aim: Teach students how to tell the time using quarter to/past/ Half past etc.

    • Unit   3 – Months & birthdays – When is your birthday?

  • Aim: Teach students months of the year and how to tell dates using months and ordinal numbers.

    • Unit   4 – Jobs – What people do.

  • Aim: To teach kids how to describe jobs using action verbs.

    • Unit  5  – Actions – What are you doing?

  • Aim: Students will learn how to describe actions in progress using the present progressive.

    • Unit   6 – Transport – How do you come to school?

  • Aim: Teach students different means of transport and talk about going around.

    • Unit   7 – Clothes – What are you wearing today?

  • Aim: To learn to describe what someone is wearing.

    • Unit   8 –  Where is it? – At home

  • Aim: Teach kids prepositions of place, alongside rooms and things at home.

    • Unit  9a – Vegetables – How much are the carrots?

  • Aim: Teach kids vegetable vocabulary and how to go shopping for veggies.

    • Unit  9b – Vegetables – Extra Vegetable Vocabulary lesson - Cauliflower, broccoli etc.

  • Aim: Teach students extra vegetable vocabulary.

    • Unit  10 –  Weather  and clothes  - Put on your sunglasses.

  • Aim: Teach kids how to talk about clothes relative to the weather.

    • Unit 11 -  Zoo – What does a panda look like?

  • Aim: To teach students how to describe zoo animals by what they eat and look like.

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