Engaging and Interactive ESL Lessons to Teach Head, Face, and Sensory Vocabulary
This Level 2 unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces young ESL learners to essential vocabulary and concepts related to the head, face, and senses. With interactive activities, phonics exercises, structured reading passages, and engaging speaking tasks, students will develop their English communication skills while learning about different parts of the head and their functions.
Designed for online and classroom ESL teachers, this unit provides structured, low-prep lessons with downloadable worksheets and interactive speaking exercises. By the end of this unit, students will confidently describe their head and face, answer and ask questions about senses, and use key grammar structures effectively.
Students learn fundamental vocabulary related to the head and practice using touch-related verbs.
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game with images of actions (touching, wearing, giving).
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Identifying and describing what people touch.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: head, face, touch, wear.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “What is he touching?” – “He is touching his head.”
✔️ Phonics: Long u sound (cube, tube, mute).
✔️ Interactive Elements: “Touch and Tell” game, tic-tac-toe, and sentence-building exercises.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing what they are touching in daily life.
Students expand their vocabulary by learning about the mouth, teeth, and actions like biting and chewing.
✔️ Warm-up: “Which one is different?” game (sorting objects by category).
✔️ Reading & Discussion: A trip to the petting zoo, where students identify how animals use their mouths.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: mouth, teeth, bite, chew.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “What is he biting?” – “He is biting an apple.”
✔️ Phonics: Long u words (June, tune, puke).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-playing a visit to the petting zoo, matching games, and speaking tasks.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about foods they eat and describing their eating habits.
This lesson focuses on describing hair, ears, and their functions, along with actions like brushing and cutting hair.
✔️ Warm-up: Singing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” to introduce listening skills.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: A day at home, where characters cut their hair and wash their faces.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: hair, ear, cut, brush, listen.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “She is cutting her hair.” / “He listens with his ears.”
✔️ Phonics: Long u words (mule, huge, luge).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Haircut role-play, tic-tac-toe, and rhyming activities.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Discussing hair care and listening activities in daily routines.
Students practice vocabulary related to the eyes and nose, focusing on sensory verbs like see and smell.
✔️ Warm-up: Matching rhyming words with fun vocabulary puzzles.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: A shopping trip where characters use their senses (seeing, smelling, listening).
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: eyes, nose, smell, see.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “What is she smelling?” – “She is smelling a flower.”
✔️ Phonics: Long u words (dude, lure, cure).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Sensory guessing game, role-playing shopping trips.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing things they see and smell in their environment.
A comprehensive review of vocabulary, sentence structures, and phonics from the unit.
✔️ Warm-up: Fun counting rhyme incorporating vocabulary words.
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Young ESL learners (A1-A2) in classrooms, online lessons, or homeschool settings.
✅ 1:1 ESL tutoring or group lessons where structured learning is needed.
✅ ESL teachers looking for engaging, low-prep lessons to enhance student participation.
📝 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Games & Activities
📚 Reading Passages & Rhymes
🔊 Phonics & Sentence-Building Exercises
📌 Use real-life examples – Encourage students to point to and describe their own head features.
📌 Incorporate sensory experiences – Ask students to touch, see, or smell things around them to practice vocabulary.
📌 Engage with fun activities – Songs, rhymes, and role-playing make learning more memorable.