Teacher Articles on Young Learners

The 'Young Learners' category provides a wealth of articles designed to assist English language teachers and academics in understanding and addressing the unique challenges and opportunities presented by teaching young learners. The content offers practical strategies, pedagogical insights, and research-based advice to enhance your teaching methods and foster a more engaging, effective learning environment for your students.

The best picture books for ESL young learners, and what to do with them

The top children's books for practising typical EFL language points, with interactive classroom activities for each picture book.

How to teach transport vocabulary to young learners

Category: Young Learners Topic: Vocabulary
Lots of things to teach about transportation and how to do so

Hobbies, leisure and free time with young learners

Category: Young Learners Topic: Vocabulary
Making a popular topic useful and suitable for all classes

A well-balanced use of stand-up and sit-down activities in a kids' EFL Class

Here are some pointers to help you judge whether you have got the right balance of sit down and moving around activities in your classes, and then some tips on how to think about making changes.

Planning a kindergarten English first lesson

Factors to include and think about when planning your first pre-school English class

Preparing for your first preschool English class

This article gives some tips to make sure you are prepared and are able to go into your first preschool English class with the confidence of knowing that you are really ready.

Very Young Learner First Lesson Problems and Solutions

How to start the new school year when teaching very young learners

Combining Christmas with a Young Learners' Syllabus

Category: Young Learners Topic: General
How to combine Christmas with a Kindergarten/ Pre-school/ Very Young Learners English Syllabus

Using songs with young learners

Explore the benefits and strategies of incorporating songs into English language teaching for young learners, including enhancing memory, engagement, and classroom management.

Lesson Plan for Young Learners: What (food/colour/sport) do you like? I like (noun)

Category: Young Learners Topic: Vocabulary
A lesson plan to teach young learners: What (food/colour/sport) do you like? I like (noun)

What do you see? I see a (noun). Lesson Plan for Young Learners

Category: Young Learners Topic: Questions
A lesson plan to teach young learners how to answer "What do you see?" with "I see a (noun)"

Lesson Plan for Young Learners: What aches? My (body part) aches.

A lesson plan to teach young learners: What aches? My (body part) aches.

"Do you like (noun)?" Lesson Plan for Young Learners

Category: Young Learners Topic: Questions
A lesson plan to teach young learners how to answer "Do you like (noun)?" with either "Yes, I do" or "No, I don't".

Lesson Plan for Young Learners: Teaching numbers from 1 to 12, and How many?

Category: Young Learners Topic: Vocabulary
A lesson plan for young learners: teaching numbers from 1 to 12, and "how many?" Includes warm-up activities, introducing numbers using flashcards, interactive dialogues and group activities.

"How are you?" Lesson Plan for Young Learners

Category: Young Learners Topic: Questions
A lesson plan to teach young learners "How are you?" and "I'm (adjective)".

A reflection on lesson planning for young learners

Some colleagues had asked me for some tips on teaching elementary school children English as a Foreign Language. Here's what I said.

The best picture books for EFL young learners, and what to do with them

Category: Young Learners Topic: General
The top children's books for practising typical EFL language points, with interactive classroom activities for each picture book.

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