School Language
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Level: A1/A2−
Time: 60 minutes +
This lesson comes with:
Fillable Fields – This digital worksheet can be completed online or printed.
Teacher’s Copy – Includes detailed teacher’s notes and an answer key.
Student Version – Ideal for sharing via email for online lessons.
Education Vocabulary ESL Lesson Overview
1. School Subjects
Students begin by matching images to common school subjects before discussing the subjects they like and dislike and brainstorming additional subjects.
2. Education Vocabulary
Students build an education vocabulary word bank by sorting useful words into actions/verbs, people, places and adjectives. These education vocabulary exercises introduce and consolidate language including principal, pupil, classroom, canteen, schoolyard, strict, patient, study and teach.
3. Reading Comprehension
Students complete a short text about a student’s school experience using the target vocabulary, answer true or false questions and discuss comprehension questions in pairs.
4. Pronunciation
Students practise the number of syllables and word stress in key vocabulary. British and American phonetic transcriptions are provided as a pronunciation guide.
5. Speaking Practice
Students ask and answer questions about their own school experiences, using present or past forms as appropriate.
6. Vocabulary Race
Teams race to complete school and education vocabulary from definitions, providing a fun review of language from the lesson.
7. Writing
Students finish by writing a short text about their own school experience, using the reading text as a model.
Skills Developed
Vocabulary, reading comprehension, pronunciation, speaking and writing.
Lesson Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to understand and use common education vocabulary in English, talk about school subjects and experiences, recognise word stress and use the target language in speaking and writing.
Try this school vocabulary ESL lesson in class today!
Note: This lesson includes printable and fillable field worksheets. For best results, we recommend using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for digital use.
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