Activities for Young Learners
Below are some handy, easy to use, free activities for the classroom.
Activity Name and Description
Type
Provider
Advertisement Awareness for ESOL Learners – Drawing
on key media literacy concepts and strategies, these five
media literacy lesson plans are designed for ESOL
students and show how media literacy can enrich the
ESOL curriculum. The lessons are appropriate for
different levels of student competence in English and can
be adapted to suit different student groups
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Plans
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Analyzing Commercials for ESOL Learners – Drawing on
key media literacy concepts and strategies, these five
media literacy lesson plans are designed for ESOL
students and show how media literacy can enrich the
ESOL curriculum. The lessons are appropriate for
different levels of student competence in English and can
be adapted to suit different student groups.
Lesson
Plans
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Basic English Pronunciation - This module helps English Interactive
language learners match basic written words with their
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spoken equivalents. Drag and drop the written word onto
the spoken word, or vice-versa.
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Colours – Practice colour words with a few sentence Interactive
completion exercises.
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Colours: Portuguese and English - Practice English- Interactive
Portuguese colour vocabulary.
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Colour Phrases in English – English has a number of Interactive
idioms and phrases which use colour words such as
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“green”, “blue” and “red”. Test your knowledge.
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Countable and Uncountable Nouns - Practice countable Interactive
and uncountable nouns. This is a very small but useful
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quiz with matching and categorising exercises.
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Elementary English Grammar and Vocabulary Practice – Interactive
A grammar and vocabulary practice module for students
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of English as a Second Language.
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English Evaluation - Originally intended for German Interactive
audiences, the author has ensured that this elementary
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level English test can be used by non-German audiences
as well.
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English Exercises for Kids – English Exercises for Kids Interactive
and foreign speakers. It follows the Green Line series
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from Klett Verlag, 6th Grade
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English Grammar: Articles – This quiz comprises of 25 Interactive
popular Aesop’s fables in interactive exercises.
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English Grammar: Prepositions - This quiz comprises 11 Interactive
of Aesop’s fables in interactive exercises.
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English: Nouns – This module contains a few very large Interactive
questions which test noun morphology, opposites and
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definitions.
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English Practice Course I – The modules comprise a Interactive
number of exercises and tests on English grammar for
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beginners.
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English Practice Course II – Verbs and articles. Gapfill Interactive
exercises. The instructions are given in both English and
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Russian – the module can be used by international ESL
learners, but also especially by Russian-speakers.
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English Practice Course III – Questions and negatives Interactive
with to be and to have; adjectives; the impersonal
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pronoun.
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English Practice Course IV – English Practice Course: Interactive
modal verbs can, may, must and infinitive.
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English Practice Course V – English Practice Course: Interactive
Present Simple Tense and there is / there are.
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English Practice Course VI – English Practice Course: Interactive
Possessive and quantitative pronouns, possessive, much –
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little, many – few, a lot of.
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English Practice Course VII – English Practice Course: Interactive
noun qualifier, names of professions and tools.
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English Practice Course VIII – English Practice Course: Interactive
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comparative degrees with -er, -est and comparative
degrees with more and the most.
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English Reading and Writing Exercises – Based on the Interactive
Washington State ESL Reading and Writing Basic
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Competencies (September 29, 2000).
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English Sentence Completion Exercises – his is a set of 12 Interactive
short passages which use gapfill techniques to practice
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sentence completion. The quiz was originally designed for
primary school English classes in Singapore.
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English Sentence Reordering Exercises – This module Interactive
contains 20 English sentences for reordering by dragging
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and dropping the words into the correct position. The quiz
was originally designed for primary school English
classes in Singapore.
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ESL: At the Seaside – Some simple gap-fill sentences for Interactive
elementary English language learning. Interactive Game
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ESL: English Adjectives – Learners of English as a Interactive
second or foreign language can test their knowledge of
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adjectives using 36 pictures.
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ESL: English Verbs – Learners of English as a second or Interactive
foreign language can practice their verbs using multiple
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choice questions based on a bank of 78 pictures of
actions.
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ESL: English Vocabulary Exercises – Different exercises Interactive
to get familiar with various words.
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ESL: English Vocabulary Exercises II – Different Interactive
exercises to get familiar with various words.
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ESL: English Words for Colours – Match colours and Interactive
colour words.
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ESL: English Words for Numbers – Multiple choice Interactive
exercises with number words and digits.
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ESL: Friendship – This quiz covers the vocabulary of Interactive
friendship and acquaintance. It also contains a few
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exercises on question tags.
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ESL: Grammar – Causatives – Simple Grammar exercise
Interactive
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ESL: Health – Healthcare-related practice for learner of Interactive
English. An ESL/Literacy quiz, on health issues for
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parents.
ESL: Irregular Verbs 1 – The 30 most frequent irregular Interactive
verbs in English.
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ESL: Irregular Verbs 2 – The second set in a series of Interactive
modules testing English irregular verbs by frequency.
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ESL: Names for Food and Drink – Quiz with names of Interactive
food and drinks.
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ESL: Placement Test – he following test consists of six Interactive
general questions and will help me understand how good
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your English is. It will take you about half an hour.
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ESL: Put the Sentences in Order 1 – Students put jumbled Interactive
sentences in order. Present simple and continuous, mostly
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questions with some affirmative and negative sentences.
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ESL: Simple Past Exercises – Some short exercises with Interactive
the past tenses of some English verbs. Includes memory
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games and sentence completion.
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ESL: Small Verbs – Insert small verbs into sentences. Interactive
Suitable for ESL beginners.
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ESL: some irregular verbs – Quickly tests the past forms Interactive
of: lay, lie, rise, wear, feel, hold, dig, fall.
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ESL: Sports Party 1 – 40 vocabulary items presented in Interactive
two flashcard sets, one of which uses multiple choice, the
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other of which uses short answer questions. The
vocabulary comes from the field of sports and is suitable
for lower intermediate students. Images are included with
many items.
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ESL Sports Party 2 – This module is for learners of Interactive
English as a Second Language. 39 vocabulary items are
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presented in two flashcard sets, one of which uses multiple
choice, the other of which uses short answer questions.
The vocabulary comes from the field of sports and is
suitable for lower intermediate students. Images are
included with many items.
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ESL: Style- English Check Level 6 Exercise 1 Adjectives
Interactive
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Lesson
Plan
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Formulating Questions to Meet Information Needs of ESL
Students - A multi-activity lesson plan to teach the concept
of asking engaging, researchable questions prior to
reading which leads to effective inquiries during project
work.
From Theory to Practice – Welcome! I have created this
E-Portfolio as a guide for Elementary and Middle School
ESL teachers (as well as myself), with the intention of
utilizing any and all resources available to foster the
development of my students, specifically in two areas:
Culture and Language Literacy. My hope is that
educators, parents, and students add to this website,
thereby creating a professional development tool for all to
use.
Lesson
Plan
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IF and WHEN – In this quiz you’re going to practice the Interactive
use of ‘if’ and ‘when’ in English sentences. Click a
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radiobutton to form a correct English sentence.
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Indirect Speech – A short exercise on the use of indirect Interactive
speech in English.
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs – Adapted from Rachael Eddy, Interactive
“Irregular Verbs in English by Frequency”. This version
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does past tenses only – the perfect form is omitted.
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Irregular Verbs in English by Frequency – This module Interactive
practices knowledge of 152 irregular English verbs. The
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verbs are divided into 5 levels according to frequency in
everyday language, with an extra level for verbs with both
regular and irregular forms.
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Learning Styles – The aim of this lesson is to help students
identify their personal learning styles so they can study
and learn more effectively. It is the ninth lesson in the
study skills series and it introduces adult learners to the
concept of learning styles. Students will have an
opportunity to reflect on different ways of learning and to
validate different abilities and capabilities, both their own
and those of others. The lessons are designed as a
package with key skills reinforced in each subsequent
lesson so that a study culture is developed over time. They
can be delivered sequentially or used individually, as a
whole or in part, to support other programs of study.
Lesson
Plans
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listen-and-write.com – Help students to improve their
listening skills and hear about the news. Listen-andwrite.com is free listening practice.
Dictation
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Narrative vs. Expository Texts – Many students,
especially students with limited English language skills,
have difficulties determining the difference between
narrative and expository texts. This unit will use vignettes
written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Lesotho and
Madagascar to compare these types of texts. As final
products, students will write both a narrative essay and an
expository essay. This unit was piloted with high school
second language learners.
Lesson
Plan
Peace
Corps
Oral Presentation Skills using Family Stories – The fourth
lesson in the Family, History and Memory module focuses
on developing students’ presentation skills. It offers
students detailed guidelines on how to deliver a good
presentation and invites them to practice the skills using
their family stories. Peer group evaluation is included in
this class. The lessons can be delivered as a module or as
individual units.
Lesson
Plans
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Romeo and Juliet: The Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2) –
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Lesson
will help struggling readers to comprehend figurative
language and overall meaning in the famous balcony
scene. It will also compare text to two media depictions.
This lesson has been created with exceptional children
and limited English proficient (novice low) students in
mind.
Lesson
Plan
Learn NC
Sonnet 130—rude or reality? – This lesson focuses on
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130.” It contains a copy of the
sonnet, questions to use when discussing and analyzing
the sonnet, and a creative component. This lesson has
modifications for Novice Low Limited English Proficient
students.
Lesson
Plan
Learn NC
Time Management – The aim of this lesson is to develop
students’ understanding of the importance of managing
time. It is the first lesson in the study skills series and is
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Plan
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intended to support adult learners who are embarking on
a course of study and need to acquire skills which will
help them to be successful. The lessons are designed as a
package with key skills reinforced in each subsequent
lesson so that a study culture is developed over time. They
can be delivered sequentially or used individually, as a
whole or in part, to support other programs of study.
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You Sank my Battleship – Students will learn how to plot
ordered pairs using the coordinate plane and determine in
which quadrant these ordered pairs lie. Students will show
mastery of plotting ordered pairs by playing Battleship.
Modifications have been added for Intermediate Low
English Language Learners.
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