Engaging and Interactive ESL Lessons to Teach Nature Vocabulary & Concepts
This unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces Level 2 students to essential nature-related vocabulary and concepts. Through interactive games, phonics exercises, sentence-building activities, and real-world applications, students will develop their English communication skills while exploring topics such as natural elements, plants, and outdoor activities. This unit is perfect for 1:1 online lessons, group classes, or classroom instruction.
Teachers will benefit from structured, engaging, and low-prep lessons that include downloadable worksheets, reading passages, and interactive exercises. By the end of this unit, students will be able to describe nature-related items, identify key natural features, and use new vocabulary in simple conversations.
Students learn to describe objects in nature as hard or soft while engaging in sentence formation and phonics activities.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game with nature-related images
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Describing textures of natural objects
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: hard, soft, sky, ground
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Asking and answering “Is it hard or soft?”
✔️ Phonics: SM blends (smash, smoke, smile)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Tic-Tac-Toe, fill-in-the-blank exercises
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Identifying textures in everyday objects
This lesson focuses on movement in nature, particularly falling objects like leaves, with a special focus on falling and jumping.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Odd-one-out activity
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Why do leaves fall?
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: fall, tree, leaf, ground
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using “fall” in different contexts (e.g., “The leaves fall.”)
✔️ Phonics: SN blends (snake, snap, snore)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Matching games, classroom discussions
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing seasonal changes
Students expand their vocabulary with action words related to movement, like throw and skip, while discussing objects found in nature.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Spot-the-difference game
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Throwing, skipping, and moving objects in nature
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: throw, rock, stick, skip
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using verbs in the present tense (e.g., “She throws a rock.”)
✔️ Phonics: SP blends (speak, spider, spill)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-playing and storytelling
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about outdoor activities
Students learn plant-related vocabulary with a focus on picking flowers and grass, along with descriptions of plants.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Sing-along rhyme about nature
✔️ Reading & Discussion: What do people pick in nature?
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: flower, grass, pick, smell
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using “pick” in different contexts (e.g., “He picks a flower.”)
✔️ Phonics: ST blends (star, stool, story)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Nature scavenger hunt (virtual or real-life)
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about gardening and plant life
A comprehensive review of all vocabulary, sentence structures, and phonics from the unit.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Phonics and vocabulary match
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Young ESL learners (A1-A2) in classrooms, online, or homeschool settings
✅ 1:1 ESL tutoring or group lessons
✅ Teachers who want a structured, engaging, low-prep nature unit
📝 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Games & Activities
📚 Reading Passages & Rhymes
🔊 Phonics & Sentence-Building Exercises
📌 Use real-world nature visuals to make lessons interactive and engaging
📌 Encourage students to describe their environment daily
📌 Incorporate outdoor activities where possible for hands-on learning