🏙️ Explore Your Town with English – Fun, Real-Life Language for Young Learners!
This engaging ESL unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces beginner-level students to the everyday places and people in a city or town. From fire stations to movie theaters, kids learn essential vocabulary, sentence structures, and directions while developing speaking, reading, and listening skills.
Perfect for online lessons, classroom settings, or 1:1 tutoring, this unit helps young ELL (English Language Learner) students talk confidently about places in their community. It also includes map-based activities, grammar practice, and phonics work—making it a well-rounded teaching resource for ESL educators.
Students learn how to follow and give directions using key vocabulary like turn left, turn right, and go straight. They read about Anna’s trip to the bakery and practice using past tense verbs for movement and activity.
Lesson Features:
✅ Warm-up: Memory game with months and directions
📖 Reading & Discussion: “Anna Finds the Bakery”
✨ Vocabulary: Turn left, go straight, directions, bakery, park, zoo
📚 Grammar: Simple past tense – “Where did you go?” / “I played outside.”
🔤 Phonics: ‘ture’ sound – picture, nature, future
🎲 Interactive Activities: Directional games, dialogue role-play
🌍 Real-Life Use: Asking and giving directions in a city
This lesson introduces key public places (hospital, police station, gas station) and jobs associated with them. Students explore where people go when they are sick or need help.
Lesson Features:
✅ Warm-up: Talk about where you went yesterday
📖 Reading: “Ben and Max’s City Walk” – a walk around town seeing local places
✨ Vocabulary: Station, hospital, firefighter, police, follow
📚 Grammar: Past tense of go, see, eat
🔤 Phonics: ‘sure’ sound – measure, treasure, pressure
🎲 Interactive Elements: Map-following directions, WH-question practice
🌍 Real-Life Use: Talking about trips to the hospital, gas station, and zoo
Students learn about restaurants, libraries, and jobs in the city. They practice ordering food and talking about places they visited recently.
Lesson Features:
✅ Warm-up: Giving directions to local spots
📖 Reading: “Working in the City” – learn about jobs and where people work
✨ Vocabulary: Restaurant, library, order, book, gas station, police officer
📚 Grammar: Simple past tense Q&A – “Where did she go?”
🔤 Phonics: Blends and long sounds – lecture, culture, mixture
🎲 Interactive Elements: Dialogue and role-play (ordering food, finding books)
🌍 Real-Life Use: Ordering in restaurants, finding a library
Kids learn about city attractions like movie theaters and airports. They practice buying tickets, asking for directions, and learning about travel.
Lesson Features:
✅ Warm-up: Practicing direction phrases
📖 Reading: “Fun in the City” – animal characters enjoy different places
✨ Vocabulary: Airport, movie theater, ticket, plane, cinema
📚 Grammar: Past tense verbs in context – “What did she see yesterday?”
🔤 Phonics: Ticket-related blends and city vocabulary
🎲 Interactive Elements: Travel dialogue practice, “Name 3” category game
🌍 Real-Life Use: Buying tickets, talking about where you want to go
This lesson wraps up the unit with a full review of city places, jobs, directions, and vocabulary through engaging assessments and games.
Assessment Features:
✅ Warm-up: Rhyming game
📖 Reading: “Places in the City” – a non-fiction review of town locations
✨ Assessment Areas:
Matching jobs to places (e.g., hospital – nurse)
Giving directions
Reading comprehension questions
Asking and answering WH-questions
🔤 Phonics Review: Final review of ‘ture’ and ‘sure’ sounds
🎲 Interactive Elements: Pictionary, Word Chain, Boggle
🌍 Real-Life Use: Describing where to go and what to do in town
✔️ Young ELL and ESL learners at the A1 (Beginner) level
✔️ Ideal for students aged 6–10 years
✔️ Great for online teaching, in-class group work, or 1:1 tutoring
✔️ Perfect for teachers looking to teach real-life vocabulary in a fun and practical way
Printable lesson worksheets & assessments
Phonics & grammar practice activities
Speaking games & role-play scripts
Reading passages with comprehension questions
ESL city vocabulary lessons for kids
Beginner ESL directions and places worksheets
Teaching community jobs and buildings ESL
ELL speaking practice about town and city
Fun ESL activities about restaurants, hospitals, and libraries
With its balance of interactive speaking tasks, relatable city topics, and beginner grammar, this unit makes learning English both practical and fun—helping young learners confidently describe the world around them! 🏙️📚🚦