Introduction to the terms for Mom and Dad in Mandarin. Students use finger puppets to practice Bàba and Māma while associating the words with parental figures.
A foundational lesson for Level 1 English Learners to practice constructing simple Subject-Verb and Subject-Verb-Adjective sentences using visual scaffolds and word banks.
An immersive culinary language lesson for adult learners focusing on food vocabulary, restaurant interactions, and cultural dining customs.
A comprehensive toolkit for foreign language teachers to bridge the gap between rote memorization and spontaneous oral communication through interactive activities and low-stakes scaffolding.
A fun, movement-based lesson for early elementary ESL students to learn directional opposites (Up/Down, High/Low) using playground equipment and a catchy song. Students will engage in pronunciation practice, video analysis, and a partner dictation activity using character cut-outs.
A vibrant, high-energy vocabulary reinforcement lesson for 1st-grade ESL/ELL students focused on identifying and labeling body parts through song, movement, and a creative monster-building activity.
A foundational ESL lesson focused on numbers 1-10, connecting spoken words, written forms, and quantities through music, video, and movement. Students engage in choral counting, video-based handwriting practice, and a classroom-wide labeling activity.
A Kindergarten/1st Grade ESL lesson focusing on oral language development through comparative and superlative adjectives (long, longer, longest, short, shorter, shortest) using zoo animal comparisons.
A foundational grammar lesson for ESL/ELL students focusing on the four most common irregular verbs (be, have, do, say) and their past tense forms through video analysis and scaffolded storytelling.
A lesson for English Language Learners to identify and practice common American idioms using visual aids and video-based instruction. Students will explore literal vs. figurative meanings and practice using idioms in spoken sentences.
A high-energy Kindergarten ESL lesson teaching the sight word 'come' through rhythm, song, and physical movement. Students link the word to movement actions like walking, running, skipping, and hopping.
A dynamic lesson for ESL/ELL students to master subject and object pronouns through physical movement and visual examples from Khan Academy. Students practice the 'switcheroo' by tossing a ball and transforming sentences in real-time.
A beginner ESL lesson focused on prepositions of movement through song, character interaction, and physical role play. Students will learn to describe direction using words like into, out of, through, around, toward, past, up, and down.
A high-energy Kindergarten lesson where students connect letter names to visual symbols through music and movement. Students use pointers to track letters on a classroom chart in time with a reggae-style alphabet song.
A 1st-grade phonics and sight word lesson focused on the word 'cut' and the 'ut' word family, featuring a catchy song and a hands-on sentence scramble activity.
This lesson focuses on helping intermediate ELL students choose the correct relative pronouns (who, that, which) based on whether the antecedent is a person or a thing, using the 'Cranky Witch' mnemonic from Khan Academy.
An introductory lesson using a visual 'tale of two elephants' to distinguish between specific (the) and general (a/an) nouns.
A Kindergarten lesson focused on identifying the sight word 'by' and understanding its positional meaning through a 'Word Detective' theme. Includes a scavenger hunt, video analysis, and hands-on proximity practice.
This culminating lesson applies the four tones to the syllable 'ma' to demonstrate how meaning changes (mother, hemp, horse, scold). Students participate in a listening game where they identify the correct image based on the tone they hear.
Students practice the sharp, falling pitch of the fourth tone, associating it with a firm 'No!' or a karate chop. The lesson focuses on energy and assertive vocalization to differentiate it from the other tones.
Students engage with the dipping pitch of the third tone, visualizing it as a roller coaster that goes down and up. Through physical bouncing movements, students practice the lower register dip required for this tone.
Learners practice the rising pitch of the second tone, associating it with the English questioning sound 'Huh?'. Students use upward arm movements to trace the sound as they practice rising vocal inflections.
A mastery-based lesson using 'Lǎoshī shuō' (Simon Says) to integrate all previous commands into complex sequences.