Unit 2 Family. Ready-to-use ESL Lesson plans for young learners.

Looking for simple, no-prep PowerPoint lessons to warmly welcome your youngest online learners into English? I’ve got you covered.

This second Unit (My Family) will help younger learners to be familiar with simple English structures while they learn English in a fun and interactive way. Unit 2 also includes 5 lessons os 25-30 minutes each, with the possibility of expanding with some extra content included in the lesson.

Highlights of this Unit

• Consistency & Repetition: Each lesson begins with a familiar song and uses the same template, helping early learners feel comfortable and ready to participate.
• Thematic Progression: The lessons build on the family theme from parents to grandparents to siblings, creating a sense of coherence across the unit and being a familiar topic for the young students.
• Phonics & Vocabulary Integration: Pairing vocabulary with corresponding initial letters (M, D, G, B) supports early phonics awareness.
• Simple Sentence Frames: Repeated structures like “This is my …” make it easier for learners to grasp grammar patterns early on.
• Rich, Multi-sensory Learning: PowerPoint format with visuals, songs, and interactive practice helps keep young children engaged and supports varying learning styles.

Lesson 1: Mom and Dad

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In this lesson, students will review previous content from Unit 1, like feelings and start learning some basic vocabulary related to family. There will be a focus on linking the words we already know to the new ones we are learning.

So the main two key words of this lesson is mom and dad, but the students will revisit some words like happy, good, sleepy, angry or sad. There is also a focus on chanting the ABCs and starting to recognize the letters of the alphabet.

Lesson 2: Grandma and Grandpa

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Student continue learning about the family members, review the colors and practice asking questions or saying some sentences structures like: “What color do you like?” “I like red”.

The key words they will be working on this lesson are: pink, purple, grandpa, grandma.

Lesson 3: My brother and sister

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In this lesson, the students will review all the family members they have been working on up to this lesson and then will work a bit on the colors and the numbers with different activities and drilling.

Key words: baby, sister and brother.

Lesson 4: I have a big family

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In this lesson we go over the numbers again, and we also introduce the idea of opposite adjectives. We worked on some structures like: I have a (size) family and do some counting. We also introduce the grammar structure “there are”.

Key words we worked on: big, small, family, eleven.

Lesson 5: I love my house

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In this lesson we try to get students connecting more sentences together and talking about things in their life: teachers, friends, family, house…

Key words and sentences: house, teacher, love, friend; this is my house, I love my house. This is my family. I love my family.

Young Learners Curriculum

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