TeachingEnglish has lots of different lesson plans for teachers who are teaching English around the world to children aged 5-12. To help you find suitable lesson plans, we have three levels on our site. These lesson plans for level 1 are most suitable for children who can understand and use some words and short phrases, and can follow simple stories, songs and texts. Teachers can use the levels as a guide. For example, if they start to find level 1 lessons too easy, you can try more level 2 lessons. However, all children learn differently, so try lessons from different levels at any time, especially if it is a topic they enjoy.

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Halloween

Halloween

This lesson looks at Halloween with games, a song or story and a craft project.

Food

Food

This lesson practises language for food through a song, story and mini project.

Alphabet

This lesson gives learners the opportunity to practise different aspects of the alphabet.

Parts of the body

This is a vocabulary lesson with speaking and listening for very young learners.

Clothes

Clothes

This lesson reviews language related to clothes.

Diverse group of primary learners raising hands in classroom

School subjects

This lesson for primary learners introduces vocabulary related to school subjects and reviews days of the week.

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