Teach ESL to Kids

Proper lesson planning is incredibly important. If you walk into the classroom without a plan, then you’re probably not gong to have all of the materials to teach ESL that you need.

I’ll admit that there have been times when I didn’t have a very specific plan. I was either too busy before class or just wanted to see what kind of mood the class was in, but without having any materials to teach ESL, I would have been lost.

Here are a few of the essential materials to teach ESL I often tried to have on hand:

• Flash cards. An absolute necessity, no matter what vocabulary I was trying to teach.
• Puppet. Great for younger students to help get them in the mood to speak English.
• Small toys for vocabulary. Plastic foods and animals in particular, but generally just things that the kids can touch.
• Things I might need for ESL games. I’d usually bring a couple of different game props so that I could measure what the kids were up to.