Beginner ESL Vocabulary Activities and Worksheets Adults and Newcomers Set 1

These beginner ESL vocabulary activities, worksheets and flashcards are perfect for adult ESL students and high school ELL newcomers! Your English learners will love these 10 vocabulary lessons on daily routines, jobs, clothing, classroom items, food, money, emotions, the calendar, body parts, and family. These lessons require no prep and teach students essential vocabulary along with simple grammar structures. Empower English learners and boost language confidence with these lessons! Created by a veteran adult ESL teacher, these materials are way better than a textbook and will save you a lot of time. As an adult ESL teacher, I got frustrated trying to find quality resources for my students - so I created my own!

Beginner English learners need visual aids and scaffolded activities that progress from controlled to open-ended and communicative. These activities will introduce a manageable number of new vocabulary words and related grammar. By the end of the lessons, the students will be able to use this new language to communicate!

These activities are appropriate for adults and teens - there is no childish clip art. The lessons can be taught in no particular order.

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Included in Each Resource:

• Teacher's page with step-by-step instructions on how to go through the vocabulary lessons and activities worksheets. There are several ideas for differentiating instruction if you have a multi-level class. These are no-prep lessons that even a sub could use!
• Worksheets with engaging, scaffolded activities and images geared toward older learners. You can print the worksheets or use them as digital, fillable PDFs. See below for specific learning objectives.
• Flashcards (200 total) with images geared toward adults. The clothing and food flashcards come in two versions - color and black and white.
• Another teacher's page with ideas for flashcard activities and games

Learning Objectives for Each Lesson:

1. Daily Routine Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common daily activities.

2. Discuss daily activities that they usually do and don't do.

3. Use prepositions of time (in, on, at, from...to) in speaking and writing to describe when they do certain activities

4. Ask and answer questions about daily routines

5. Describe a woman's daily routine using prepositions of time

2. Jobs Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common jobs.

2. Discuss jobs they like and don't like.

3. Use the verbs be and work to explain what they do for a living.

3. Ask and answer the questions "What do you do?" and "Where do you work?"

4. Discuss and write about past work experience using the past tense of be and used to.

3. Food Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common types of food

2. Describe food preferences with like and don't like in speaking and writing

3. Ask questions with how many and how much with count and noncount nouns

4. Discuss what food they need and make a shopping list

4. Classroom Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common classroom vocabulary.

2. Use prepositions of location in speaking and writing to describe where items are located.

3. Use the "be" verb with singular and plural nouns.

4. Ask and answer questions about where items are located using "where."

5. Emotions Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common emotions.

2. Differentiate between positive and negative emotions.

3. Identify and describe emotions as a result of different situations.

4. Describe how people feel in speaking and writing using "be" and "feel."

6. Clothing Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce 20 common articles of clothing.

2. Choose what types of clothing to wear to different places and in different situations

3. Describe what people are wearing in speaking and writing using "wear" and "have on."

7. Money Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common vocabulary words related to money.

2. Complete sentences with correct money vocabulary words.

3. Use the verb cost to say and write the prices of items and ask questions with "How much...?"

4. Look at bills and coins and write and say the numerical value ("Twenty-five dollars and ten cents.")

5. Complete a dialogue with money vocabulary and grammar

8. Body Parts Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common vocabulary words related to the human body.

2. Complete sentences with correct human body vocabulary words.

3. Use the verbs have and hurt to describe body parts and medical conditions.

4. Use do and does to ask about medical conditions

5. Write sentences describing medical conditions.

9. Calendar Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common calendar-related vocabulary words

2. Complete sentences with correct calendar-related vocabulary words.

3. Use prepositions of time (in and on) to express when events happened or will happen.

4. Ask and answer questions about schedules.

10. Family Vocabulary Lesson Learning Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify and pronounce common family vocabulary words

2. Complete sentences with correct family vocabulary words.

3. Use the be verb, possessive nouns, and possessive adjectives to describe family relationships.

4. Draw a family tree and write sentences about their family using the grammar listed above.

Note: This resource has non-editable, secured PDFs. I do this to protect my work. The worksheets have fillable form fields if you want to use them as digital worksheets.

Related Resources:

Looking for more lessons for beginners? Check these out:

• Beginner Grammar Bundle Set 1 & Set 2
• Beginner Adult ESL Reading Passage & Comprehension Activities BUNDLE
• Save big with this English Grammar ESL Super Bundle for Beginner and Intermediate Adults and Teens

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