English for Beginners

Lessons, Videos, Games, and Tests for English Learners

If you're teaching English, here is a list of lessons (basic and advanced) and teaching resources that you might find helpful. The advanced lessons are designed for tutors. They offer a deeper understanding of each topic, providing tutors with the knowledge and confidence to field challenging questions. These lessons will also be useful for those planning to become the tutors of tomorrow's tutors. The remaining pages are basic lessons or teaching resources that tutors can use to interact with their students. These include:

• basic grammar lessons for kids or learners
• vocabulary lessons with games and e-flashcards
• role-play scenarios
• interactive grammar games and tests
• videos

These lessons and teaching resources have been structured under two top-level headings: "Vocabulary and Speaking Practice" and "Essential Grammar." Most of the lessons make use of the speech synthesizer on your browser to help with pronunciation.

Vocabulary and Speaking Practice

Greetings and Introductions

• Saying hello and goodbye
• [under construction]
• Introducing yourself and others
• introducing yourself (role-play scenarios with audio)
• Talking about yourself and others
• talking about yourself (role-play scenarios with audio)
• daily routine (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• hobbies (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• talking about your family (role-play scenarios with audio)
• family members (vocabulary games and flash cards)

Numbers and Counting

• Cardinal numbers (1, 2, 3…)
This interactive lesson teaches how to count in English. It starts with 0-99, but it can be used for all numbers up to 100,000.
• counting in English for beginners (interactive lesson with audio)
• Ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
This lesson has games and flashcards that teach cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, and fractions:
• cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, and fractions (vocabulary games and flash cards)

Basic Vocabulary

• Common words
These lessons teach the most common words of each word type. They have tests that can be shown as slide shows and example sentences.
• 50 most common nouns (lesson with test)
• 50 most common adjectives (lesson with test)
• 3 most common conjunctions (lesson with test)
• 30 most common adverbs (lesson with test)
• 10 most common prepositions (lesson with test)
Here is a list of vocabulary lessons by theme:
• 83 themed vocabulary lists
• The top 3 verbs (to be, to have, to do)
• to be (advanced lesson with test)
• to do (advanced lesson with test)
• to have (advanced lesson with test)
• to be (advanced video lesson)

Colours and Shapes

• Names of basic colours
• colours (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• Basic geometric shapes
• shapes (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• shapes (video lesson) lesson)

Days of the Week and Months of the Year

• Names of the days, months, and seasons
• days of the week (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• months and seasons (vocabulary games and flash cards)

Time and Daily Routines

• Telling the time
• telling the time (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• Daily Routine
• describing daily routine (vocabulary games and flash cards)

Simple Sentence Structure

• Subject-verb-object order
• [under construction]
• Basic question formation
• interrogative sentences (advanced lesson with test)

Food and Drink

• Common food items
• vocabulary for vegetables (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• vocabulary for fruit (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• vocabulary for meat (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• vocabulary for drinks (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• vocabulary for bread (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• vocabulary for nuts (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• Ordering food
• ordering a pizza (role-play scenarios with audio)
• ordering in a restaurant (role-play scenarios with audio)

Basic Directions and Locations

• Giving and understanding directions
• directions (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• asking for directions (role-play scenarios with audio)
• Naming places in a town
• places in town (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• places in town (video lesson)

Weather and Seasons

• Describing weather
• talking about the weather (role-play scenarios with audio)
• weather (vocabulary games and flash cards)

Essential Grammar

These topics provide a strong starting point for beginners to build their English language skills.

Nouns

• teaching resources for nouns (slide show, PDFs, tests using classic texts)
• nouns for kids or beginners (basic lesson with tests)
• nouns for kids (video lesson)
• nouns (video lesson)
• possessive nouns (video lesson)
• nouns game (whack-a-mole game) (see all games and tests)

Pronouns

• pronouns for kids or beginners (basic lesson with tests)
• pronouns (video lesson)
• pronouns game (fish game) (see all games and tests)
• personal pronouns
• personal pronouns (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• possessive pronouns
• demonstrative pronouns
• demonstrative pronouns test (see all games and tests)

Articles

• definite article (the)
• indefinite articles (a, an)

Verbs and Verb Tenses

verbs for kids or beginners (basic lesson with tests)

• present tense
• past tense
• future tense
• auxiliary verbs (be, have, do)

Adjectives

• adjectives for kids or beginners (basic lesson with tests)
• possessive adjectives (video lesson)
• adjectives game (bubble pop) (see all games and tests)

Adverbs

• adverbs for kids or beginners (basic lesson with tests)

Sentence Structure

• simple sentences
• compound sentences

Prepositions

• prepositions for kids or beginners (basic lesson with tests)
• prepositions (video lesson)
• prepositions (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• top 10 prepositions (lesson with test)
• prepositions of place (lesson with test)
• prepositions of time (lesson with test)

Conjunctions

• conjunctions for kids or beginners (basic lesson with tests)
• conjunctions (video lesson)
• coordinating conjunctions (e.g., "and," "but," "or")
• subordinating conjunctions (e.g., "because," "if," "when")
• conjunctions game (whack a mole) (see all games and tests)

Question Formation

• interrogative sentences (advanced lesson with tests)
• interrogative pronouns (advanced lesson with tests)
• interrogative adverbs (advanced lesson with tests)
• interrogative sentence (video lesson)

Possessives

• possessive adjectives (e.g., "my," "your," "his") (advanced lesson with test)
• possessive adjectives (video lesson)
• Possessive nouns (advanced lesson with tests)
• possessive nouns (video lesson)

Plurals

• list of awkward plurals (vocabulary games and flash cards)
• the plural forms of words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, determiners) (advanced lesson with tests)
• forming plurals (advanced lesson with test)
• common irregular plurals (e.g., "child/children," "man/men") (vocabulary games and flash cards)

This page was written by Craig Shrives.

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