ESL Kids Beginner (A1) Unit: My Garden
🌱 Grow English Naturally with Fun Lessons About Gardens, Plants, and Outdoor Tools!
About This ESL Unit
In this nature-themed unit from SuperEnglishESL.com, beginner ESL students explore gardens, plants, and the tools we use outdoors. Through fun stories, interactive vocabulary, real-life verbs like plant, dig, bury, and pull, and strong grammar and phonics practice, young ELLs develop a practical and meaningful connection to English.
Perfect for online teachers, classroom instructors, or homeschoolers, these five lessons combine phonics, simple past tense grammar, vocabulary about gardening and nature, and lots of engaging practice. Students not only learn to name garden tools—they learn to use language for action and storytelling.
🌻 Unit Overview: Lesson by Lesson
Lesson 1: Raking and Loosening Dirt
Students learn how to use a rake to loosen dirt and explore the ideas of “loose” vs. “tight.” They read about children using rakes and making piles of leaves.
Lesson Highlights:
✅ Warm-up: Visual memory game
📖 Reading: “Rake Day” – kids use rakes, play in leaves, and help in the garden
✨ Vocabulary: Rake, dirt, loose, tight, garden
📚 Grammar: Simple past tense verbs (ran, played, used)
🔤 Phonics: SCR blends (scrub, scrap, scruffy)
🎲 Interactive Elements: Role-play raking and loosening dirt
🌍 Real-Life Application: Talking about tools and playing outside
Lesson 2: Shovels, Holes, and Burying Treasure
Learners explore digging holes with shovels and the idea of burying something underground. They follow a pirate story and act out actions with tools and dirt.
Lesson Highlights:
✅ Warm-up: This or That? (Would you rather eat a worm or a cricket?)
📖 Reading: “Pirates and the Treasure” – pirates dig, bury treasure, and draw a map
✨ Vocabulary: Shovel, hole, bury, dirt, treasure
📚 Grammar: Past tense of “have” and “use” in conversation
🔤 Phonics: STR blends (stretch, strong, stroll)
🎲 Interactive Elements: Pirate-themed digging dialogue and practice
🌍 Real-Life Application: Talking about digging and garden tools
Lesson 3: Planting Seeds and Watering
Students learn how to plant seeds and care for a garden. They follow a step-by-step story and use key action verbs to describe the planting process.
Lesson Highlights:
✅ Warm-up: Rhyming game
📖 Reading: “The Vegetable Garden” – two kids plant vegetables and label them
✨ Vocabulary: Seed, plant, water, watering can, dirt
📚 Grammar: Simple past tense + future (planted, will plant)
🔤 Phonics: STR blends & SCR review
🎲 Interactive Elements: Planting role-play using WH-questions
🌍 Real-Life Application: Describing how to grow vegetables
Lesson 4: Pulling Weeds and Carrying Buckets
This lesson covers weeds, buckets, pushing, and pulling. Students learn about the work done on a busy farm and the effort needed to keep a garden healthy.
Lesson Highlights:
✅ Warm-up: “Name Five” game (e.g., foods, places)
📖 Reading: “Farmer Kim’s Busy Farm” – everyone helps on the farm using tools
✨ Vocabulary: Bucket, weed, pull, push, carry
📚 Grammar: Past tense Q&A (“What did she pull yesterday?”)
🔤 Phonics: SCR and STR blend practice through rhyme
🎲 Interactive Elements: Role-play garden chores (pulling weeds, carrying tools)
🌍 Real-Life Application: Talking about chores and how to help outside
Lesson 5: Garden Review & Assessment
The final lesson reviews all vocabulary, grammar, and phonics learned in the unit. Students complete reading comprehension, matching, and grammar drills through visual and speaking activities.
Assessment Features:
✅ Warm-up: Rhyming game
📖 Reading: “Working in the Garden” – non-fiction text with vocabulary focus
🧠 Assessment Tasks:
Vocabulary matching (tools, verbs, garden items)
Past tense fill-ins and WH-question answers
Picture-based comprehension and Q&A
🔤 Phonics Review: STR/SCR blends and action rhymes
🎲 Interactive Elements: Word chain, Boggle, speaking prompts
🌍 Real-Life Application: Retelling garden steps and describing tools
👩🏫 Who Is This Unit For?
✔️ ESL and ELL learners at the A1 (Beginner) level
✔️ Ideal for children ages 6–10
✔️ Great for 1:1 online classes, group classrooms, or homeschool
✔️ Teachers seeking practical vocabulary tied to nature, action, and responsibility
📥 Downloadable Materials
📝 Printable ESL worksheets and lesson previews
📚 Reading passages, role-play dialogues, and comprehension exercises
🎲 Games: Tic-tac-toe, Word Chain, Boggle, Pictionary
🔤 Phonics with STR/SCR blend practice and engaging rhymes
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“My Garden” helps students grow both plants and their English confidence. With real-world themes, colorful visuals, and interactive grammar and phonics practice, this unit brings English to life—one seed at a time. 🌻🪣🌿