Explore reflections, teaching ideas, and practical insights from the ELT classroom.
Categories for teaching ideas include: Pre-Primary, Primary, Teens/Adults, and Exam Preparation.
Here's Part 2 of my first class ideas, this time focused on the primary EFL class. If you're looking for ideas to use with teens or adults, please check out my previous post Hello! Nice to Meet you Part 1 in which you'll find plenty of ideas to start your English course off on the right foot! What's the 'perfect' first primary class activity? No such thing exists! First classes, especially for younger primary learners, should be dynamic and you ought to alternate short activ
This science-focused EFL lesson plan is designed to help young learners review known fruits and vegetables and to consider which parts of the plants they are. This lesson would work very well after previous lessons on either food or the natural world. Learning about these different parts of the plants is then consolidated with a fun activity of planting their own fruit/vegetable seed in class and writing instructions on how to take care of it at home. For the seed-planting ac