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Lesson 3
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General:
Level: 3 – PANDAS (ages 7-9)
Time: 1 hour – 1 hour 20 mins
Objectives: Identify and say 5 different objects in the classroom, counting classroom
objects.
Structures: What’s this?”, “Where is ...?”, “How many … are there?”.
New vocab: table, chair, bookcase, door, window, numbers 1-10.
Review vocab: bag, pen, pencil, eraser, crayon, ruler, stapler, glue, marker, scissors, book,
paper, pencil sharpener, tape, pencil case, calculator.

You will need to download:

Flashcards: Classroom objects (table, chair, bookcase, door, window) – one set per
student
Printables: • Reader worksheet - Find me in the classroom
• Classroom objects count 1-10 worksheet
• 1 to 10 write worksheet
Readers: • Find me in the classroom
These can be downloaded at https://www.eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-plans.html

You will also need:

• name tags for each student
• a small ball
• Blu-Tack
• 10 sheets of origami colored paper (red, green, blue, yellow, purple, pink, orange, brown,
black, white)
• classroom stationery: pen, pencil, eraser, crayon, ruler, stapler, glue, marker, scissors,
book, paper, pencil sharpener, tape, pencil case, calculator.
• board with markers / chalk

Notes:
In this lesson students learn words for classroom objects and practice counting to 10. There
is also a fun story to read.

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Lesson Overview:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
1. Greetings and ball pass
2. Name tags
3. Homework check
4. Review colors and stationery
5. Play “What’s missing?”

New Learning and Practice:

1. Introduce the classroom objects vocabulary
2. Play "Stick flashcards onto classroom objects"
3. Play "Fetch the flashcards from the classroom objects"
4. Play "Knock-knock"
5. Play "Hide and find"
6. Read classroom reader "Find me in the classroom"
7. Read and write time
8. Teach numbers 1-10 and play “Classroom objects touch”
9. Do “Classroom objects count 1-10” worksheet

Wrap Up:
1. Assign Homework: “1 to 10 write”
2. Do "Quick check" and say goodbye

Lesson procedure:
Warm up and maintenance:
1. Greetings
Greet the students as they enter the classroom and gesture for
them to sit down.

When everyone has arrived and is ready for class have everyone
stand up. If there is room, have everyone form a circle. Take a
ball and hold it and say, “My name is (you name)”. Then throw

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the ball to one student and say, “What’s your name?”.

Students throw the ball around randomly, saying their name each time they catch the ball
and asking for the name of the next student as they throw it.

2. Name tags
Before class prepare some blank name tags (stickers or pin-on tags).
Give these out and have everyone write their names and put their
tags on. If you use pin-on tags, you can keep and give out every class.

For students who use a non-roman alphabet (e.g. Japanese), they

should write they name in English letters - if they have never done this
before you may have to help (possibly prepare their names on paper to copy).

3. Homework check
Check each student's homework that you set in the last lesson. Ask each
student some questions about their homework worksheet (e.g. “What
is this?, Is this a book?”), give lots of praise, and then put some kind of
mark on the homework sheet (e.g. a sticker, a stamp or draw a smiley
face).

Finally, tell your students to put their homework back into their bags.

4. Review colors and stationery

You will need 16 colored origami papers and the 16 stationery items from the
last lesson. Put everyone in teams of 2 or 3 students. Hold up the first
colored paper and ask what it is. The fist person to slap their desk can answer
– a correct answer wins a point for the team. Then hold up a stationery item
– again students race to slap their desk can answer and win a point. Then
place the stationery item on top of the colored paper.

Continue with all of the 16 colors and stationery items until you have all 16
colored papers and stationery items laid out in front of the class.

5. Play “What’s missing?”

At this poiint you will have 16 colored papers with
different stationery items on top of each color. We’ll now
play a memory game - students will have to try to
remember where the objects and colors are. Allow the
students a minute to memorize the positions and of items
and colors and then tell everyone to cover their eyes.
Remove a color and the item on top and hold it behind
your back. Say “Open your eyes!” - the first student who

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can shout out the missing color and stationery item wins a point for his/her team. Play for
all of the colors / items.

Finally, calculate which team has won the most points and give them a round of applause.

New Learning and Practice:

1. Introduce the classroom objects vocabulary
Today your students are going to learn the words: table, chair,
bookcase, door, window. Before class, print off enough
flashcard pictures of each of these items for each student in
your class as well as yourself (so if you have 8 students you
will need 9 table flashcards, 9 chair flashcards, etc.).

Start off by holding up the table flashcard. Proceed as follows:

Teacher: What's this? It's a table. Repeat "table".

Students: "Table" (repeat 3 times)
Teacher: Can you see a table in the classroom? Point to the table.
Students: (Point to tables)
Teacher: Yes! Good job!

Lay the flashcard down. Then do the same for the other 4 flashcards.

Next give each student the same 5 flashcards and have them lay the cards out in front of
them. Touch one of your cards (e.g. door) whilst saying the word and have your students
touch and repeat on their cards. Go through all the cards.

2. Play "Stick flashcards onto classroom objects"

Give each student a ball of Blu-Tack and demonstrate the activity: hold up the door
flashcard, pull off a bit of Blu-Tack and stick it to the back of the card. Then walk over to a
door in the classroom and stick the card to the door.

Say “door" as you do so.

Hold up the next flashcard and encourage students to point to the object (act as if you have
no idea where it is) then walk over and stick the card to the object, again saying the name.
Do this for all 5 flashcards.

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Now your students can do the same thing. Teacher says an object (e.g. "table") and all the
students have to stick their flashcards onto the
object, whilst saying the word.

3. Play "Fetch the flashcards from the

classroom objects"
Now that all the flashcards are on objects in the classroom, we can bring them back - give
instructions to individual students to go and get different flashcards and place it in front of
them. Get everyone up and retrieving different cards at the same
time, e.g.

Teacher: Miki, bring back the door card, please

(Miki stands up and goes to get the door card)
Teacher: Jose, bring back the bookcase flashcard, please
(Jose stands up and goes to get the bookcase card)
etc.

This should be fun and a little hectic. When everyone has collected the items and sat down
with the flashcards in front of them the activity is over.

4. Play "Knock-knock”
Collect up the flashcards. Now tell everyone to close their eyes. Walk up to one of the
objects (e.g. the window) and knock twice on it. Encourage the students to shout out what
they think you are knocking on. Each time they can open their eyes to check.

Then pair up your students and get them to play "Knock-knock" together.

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5. Play "Hide and find”

This is a really fun game. First demonstrate: take a small object (I always use a small koala
toy) and tell everyone to close their eyes. Hide it in or near one of the classroom objects (e.g.
under a table, behind a door, next to a window, in a bookcase, on a chair).

Tell everyone to open their eyes. Show that the koala is now gone and is hiding somewhere.

Ask for a volunteer to stand up and find the koala - if help is needed say it is hiding
somewhere near one of the 5 classroom objects.

When the student finds the koala give a big round of applause and elicit the classroom
object the koala was hidden in or near.

Now that everyone understands the game, pair up all the students and give each pair a
small object to hide. Student A of each pair will hide the object while Student B closes their
eyes. Let students change roles a few times.

6. Read classroom reader "Find Me in the Classroom"

By this point your students will have had a good amount of
practice identifying the key vocab so let's have some fun with
a story which incorporates the classroom vocab. Before class,
download and print off the reader "Find Me in the
Classroom" from our website. As you go through each page,
point to the key vocab in each picture and elicit the words.
Then get your students to have fun searching for and finding
the ladybug hiding in the classroom, for example:

Teacher: (reading from page 1) "Hello, I'm Liana Ladybug." ... Look, she's in a classroom.
What's this (points at the door)?
Students: Door!
Teacher: Yes, that's right. And what color is it?
Students: Red!
Teacher: Yes, it's red!

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(teacher elicits the other classroom objects)

Teacher: (reading from page 1) “I'm going to hide” ... Let's look ... (turns to page 2) ... Where
is Liana Ladybug?
Students: (pointing) Chair!
Teacher: Oh yes, there she is - under the chair! Repeat "Under the chair".
Students: Under the chair.
etc.

Continue through the story, asking where the ladybug is hiding. Get the students really
involved in the story by asking lots of questions (e.g. the colors and where the other insects
are) and even ask yes/no questions about where the ladybug is hiding (making mistakes, of
course), for example:

Teacher: (reading from page 4) "Where am I? Can you find me?” ... Let's see, is this Liana
Ladybug? (points at the caterpillar).
Students: No!
Teacher: No? Well, is she here, on the table? (pointing at the beetle)
Students: No!
Teacher: Well, where is she?
Students: Bookcase! (pointing)
Teacher: (Looking more closely). Oh, yes! Well done! She's on the bookcase! Repeat "On
the bookcase"
etc.

After reading the story, give out a reader worksheet to each student and read through the
story one more time (without stopping for questions, etc.) as students mark on their sheets
the different places the ladybug hides. Then go through the answers as a class.
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Alternatively, watch our video version of the reader on our website.

7. Read and write time

This segment can be part of all your lessons. Spend 10 to 15 minutes
building up your students’ writing and reading skills. You’ll need to assess
your students’ reading/writing level and then choose to start at one of
the following stages:

1. Beginners: students cannot read or write the alphabet.

Each lesson introduce 3 lower-case letters of the alphabet (first lesson will be a, b, c). Use
flashcards to do this. Play alphabet games and do printing worksheets. See our ‘Alphabet
a-z (lowercase)’ mini-lesson plan for full details.

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2. Early starters: students have experience with the alphabet but need phonics practice.
Each lesson introduce 5 lower-case letters of the alphabet (first lesson will be a, b, c, d, e).
Use flashcards to do this. Start by working on the sounds of the letters and then move onto
letter clusters (e.g. sh, ee, etc). See our ‘Alphabet’ and ‘Letter clusters’ mini-lesson plan for
full details.

3. Early readers.
Work on reading and writing simple sentences with lots of practice activities. See our ‘Early
reading’ mini-lesson plan for full details.

4. Elementary readers: students can read and write simple sentences well.
Work on reading and writing short texts and stories. See our ‘Reading short texts’ mini-
lessons for full details.

8. Teach numbers 1-10 and play “Classroom objects touch”

Write the numbers 1-10, in order, across the top of the board. Point to each number and
elicit/teach each one. Then chorus the numbers a few times, touching each number as you
go.

Next, sit everyone in a circle. Start a slow hand clap, everyone clapping in time together.
Start chanting the numbers as you clap, 1 to 10. Each round, speed up the clapping until
everyone is clapping and chanting the numbers at a frantic pace.

Go back to the board, erase the numbers at the top and then write the numbers randomly
around the board. Quickly point to different numbers and elicit them.

When everyone is comfortable with the numbers we can play the game: touching and
counting classroom objects and stationery. Start by demonstrating: say “Touch 7 tables” and
walk around the classroom touching and counting 7 desks. Do the same for a couple more
items (stationery as well – e.g. 4 pencils).

Now that everyone understands you can play the game – tell your class to
touch different numbers of objects. Students should count as they
go. Do a lot of rounds and keep it fast paced. It will be frantic
but a lot of fun!

You can also put students in pairs to play this game.

9. Do “Classroom objects count 1-10” worksheet

Hold up the worksheet and model counting and writing the numbers. Have
your students take out their pens/pencils and complete their
worksheets. Spend time with each student, helping, asking
questions and praising.

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Finally, have each student hold up their completed worksheet and ask them a question
about it.

Tell your students to put their worksheets into their bags.

Wrap Up:
1. Assign Homework: “1 to 10 write”
Hold up the homework worksheet and model what to do.
Then give out the worksheets and say, "Put your homework in
your bags".

2. Do "Quick Check" and say goodbye

Time to leave the class. Make sure everything is put away and
the students have gathered their belongings. Have them line up
at the door and place yourself between the door and the
students. For each student check one new word by holding up a
classroom object flashcard and asking, "What's this?". Then ask,
“How many are there in this classroom?” – only choose items with 10 or less.

When they give you the correct answer say goodbye and let them leave. If their answer is
wrong, have them go back to the end of the line - they will have to try again once they reach
the front!

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