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ESL Unit for Online ESL Teachers: Farms – Level 2 (Beginner)

Engaging ESL Lessons About Farms, Farm Animals, and Daily Farm Life

About This ESL Unit

This unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces Level 2 students to farm-related vocabulary, sentence structures, and daily farm life. Through interactive activities, reading passages, phonics practice, and real-world applications, students will develop their English communication skills while exploring the world of farms.

Perfect for 1:1 online lessons, group classes, or classroom instruction, this unit helps ESL teachers deliver structured, engaging, and low-prep lessons. By the end of this unit, students will confidently describe farm animals, farmers’ daily activities, and farm settings using key grammar structures.


Lesson Overviews

ESL Lesson Plan 1: Where Do Animals Live?

Students learn about farm settings, different farm animals, and where they live.

Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Memory game with animal images
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Short passages about farmers and their homes
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: farm, farmer, live, cow, pig, horse, chicken, sheep
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “Where does it live?” “It lives on a farm.”
✔️ Phonics: Long “I” sound (light, night, fight)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Question-and-answer games, sentence formation exercises
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about different places where animals live


ESL Lesson Plan 2: Farm Animals and Their Sounds

Students expand their vocabulary by learning about farm animals, their sounds, and their habits.

Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Odd-one-out game with animals and objects
✔️ Reading & Discussion: A story about students visiting a farm
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: cow, pig, horse, chicken, duck, farmer
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “What does a cow say?” “It says moo.”
✔️ Phonics: Long “I” sound (pie, tie, lie, die)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Matching animal sounds with pictures, tic-tac-toe vocabulary game
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing animals they have seen


ESL Lesson Plan 3: Riding on the Farm

Students learn about farm transportation and what animals and people ride.

Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Spot-the-difference activity with farm images
✔️ Reading & Discussion: A story about a farmer riding his horse around the farm
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: horse, goat, ride, bicycle, barn
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “What is he riding?” “He is riding a horse.”
✔️ Phonics: “-y” words (spy, cry, fly, sky)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-playing, question-and-answer exercises
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about things they ride (bike, scooter, horse)


ESL Lesson Plan 4: Feeding Farm Animals

This lesson covers food that farm animals eat and introduces verbs related to feeding.

Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming word matching game
✔️ Reading & Discussion: A day on the farm—feeding different animals
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: feed, grass, grain, water, hay
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “What does she feed?” “She feeds the chickens.”
✔️ Phonics: “-ie” and “-igh” words (tight, tied, fry, my)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Sorting activities, question-and-answer practice
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Discussing how we feed pets or animals


ESL Lesson Plan 5: Farms Review & Assessment

A comprehensive review of farm vocabulary, sentence structures, and phonics.

Lesson Features: ✔️ Warm-up: Farm-themed maze and drawing activity
✔️ Assessment Tasks:

  • Identifying different farm animals and their sounds
  • Completing sentences using correct vocabulary
  • Listening and comprehension exercises
    ✔️ Interactive Elements: Tic-tac-toe, matching games, and sentence formation tasks
    ✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing farms and farm animals in sentences

Who is This Unit For?

Young ESL learners (A1-A2) in classrooms, online, or homeschool settings
1:1 ESL tutoring or small group lessons
Teachers looking for structured, engaging, and low-prep farm-themed lessons


Downloadable Materials:

📝 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Games & Activities
📚 Reading Passages & Phonics Practice
🔊 Speaking & Listening Exercises


Teacher Tips:

📌 Use real-life farm images or online videos to engage students.
📌 Encourage role-playing (students pretending to be farm animals or farmers).
📌 Play listening games where students identify farm animals by their sounds.