Unit 4 Food. Ready-to-use ESL Lesson plans for young learners.

Ready-to-use ESL lesson plans for young learners

Looking for simple, no-prep PowerPoint lessons to keep your youngest learners engaged while learning English? This unit is designed to make learning fun, interactive, and easy to follow.

This fourth unit focuses on FOOD, helping young learners build confidence with basic English through familiar and engaging content. It includes 5 lessons of 30-45 minutes each, with opportunities to extend activities depending on your class needs.

• Familiar Structure & Routine Each lesson follows a predictable format and begins with a song, helping students feel comfortable and ready to participate.
• Theme-Based Learning The food theme keeps learners interested beacuse it’s easy to relate to, while introducing new vocabulary in a way that feels natural and simple to remember.
• Vocabulary and Phonetic Connection Simple vocabulary is paired with sounds and repetition to support early language development.
• Simple Speaking Practice Learners are encouraged to use short, repeated sentence patterns to build confidence when speaking.
• Interactive & Visual Learning The PowerPoint lessons include visuals and activities that help maintain attention and support different learning styles.

Lesson 1: I like fruit

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In this lesson, students will review previous content from Unit 1, 2 and 3 like feelings, numbers and colors, then start learning some basic vocabulary related to food. There will be a focus on linking the words or verbs we already know to the new ones we are learning, for example, the verb “to like”:is it a banana? No, it’s a cow/ I like bananas and oranges…

The main key words are: banana, orange, apple and fruit.

Lesson 2: Vegetables

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In this Lesson we focus on some vegetables and the grammar point “there is/are”. Some of the target sentences are: There is a carrot, there are some potatoes.

The key words in this lesson are: carrot, potato, tomato. And we introduce a new number: fourteen.

Lesson 3: There is food

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We move on to the next lesson and we focus on the grammar structure: There is/ there are… We also work on expressing likes and dislikes: do you like chicken? Yes, I do!

The key words in this lesson are: water, chicken, rice and egg.

Lesson 4: My favorite sweet

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Got a sweet tooth? In this lesson we work on stating what are our favorite things: my favorite fruit is a banana. My favorite sweet is cake.

The key words in this lesson are: cake, coockie, and chocolate. We introduce numnber 15.

Lesson 5: Vegetables

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Last lesson of this unit is dedicated to some words related to eating, like feelings or manners. We review some of the food and fruits we learnt earlier in this lesson and work on some key sentences like: I’m hungry. Chicken please! I’m thisty, water please! Thank you!

The key words in this lesson are: hungry, thirsty, please and thank you.

Young Learners Curriculum

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