Engaging and Interactive ESL Lessons on Body Parts & Actions
This Level 2 unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces young learners to essential body parts and common actions. Through interactive games, phonics practice, structured sentence-building exercises, and real-life applications, students develop their English communication skills while talking about their bodies and what they can do.
Perfect for 1:1 online lessons, group classes, or traditional classrooms, this unit provides low-prep, engaging, and structured lessons that help students describe their body parts, answer and ask questions, and use key verbs in conversation.
Students learn about arms, shoulders, and their functions in daily activities.
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game with body part visuals.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Busy Day at the Market” – How people use arms and shoulders to carry things.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: arm, shoulder, carry, touch, smell, cut, bite.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using “I have…” and “He/She is…” to describe body parts.
✔️ Phonics: “ai” sound words (rain, tail, nail).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Chutes & Ladders game, matching exercises.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about how we use arms & shoulders every day.
Students learn about hands, fingers, and common actions like holding and touching.
✔️ Warm-up: “Which One is Different?” – Identifying objects related to hands.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Day at the Park” – How kids use their hands and fingers for activities.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: hand, fingers, hold, touch, bite.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Questions & responses – “What is she holding?” / “She is holding…”
✔️ Phonics: “ay” sound words (day, bay, say, pay).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Tic-Tac-Toe, sentence-building games.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about how we use hands in daily life (writing, eating, holding).
Students learn about legs, knees, and actions like jumping and running.
✔️ Warm-up: Sing-along with “Hey Diddle Diddle”.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Fun Day at the Mall” – How kids use their legs to jump, walk, and run.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: leg, knee, jump, run, wear.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using action verbs with “He/She/They” – “She jumps at the…”
✔️ Phonics: “ai” & “ay” blend words (wait, trail, bay, hay).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Matching activities, role-playing.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about how we use legs for movement.
Students learn about feet, toes, and actions like kicking and stepping.
✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming word match (day, rain, wait, snail).
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Busy Day at Home” – How a family uses feet & toes in daily activities.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: foot, feet, toe, kick, step, touch.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Questions & responses – “Are they kicking a ball?” / “Yes, they are.”
✔️ Phonics: Unscrambling phonics words for spelling practice.
✔️ Interactive Elements: Matching exercises, sentence formation games.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about walking, running, and kicking objects.
Students review all vocabulary, grammar structures, and phonics covered in the unit.
✔️ Warm-up: Action rhyme (1, 2, hand is blue…).
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Young ESL learners (A1-A2) in classrooms, online, or homeschool settings.
✅ 1:1 ESL tutoring or small group lessons.
✅ Teachers who want a structured, engaging, low-prep unit on body parts & actions.
📝 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Games & Interactive Activities
📚 Reading Passages & Phonics Exercises
🔊 Speaking & Sentence-Building Practice
📌 Use real-life examples to connect body part vocabulary to daily actions.
📌 Encourage role-playing activities (shopping, playing, exercising).
📌 Use songs & rhymes to reinforce phonics and pronunciation.