Engaging and Interactive ESL Lessons to Teach Vocabulary About People, Relationships, and Social Interactions
This Level 3 ESL unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces beginner students to essential vocabulary and concepts related to people, relationships, and social interactions. Students will learn about different types of people (men, women, children, teenagers, adults), describing characteristics (young, old, strong, weak), and understanding relationships (friends, enemies).
Through interactive activities, structured reading passages, and engaging discussions, students develop confidence in describing people and their actions. Ideal for 1:1 online lessons, group classes, or classroom instruction, this unit provides low-prep, high-engagement lessons with downloadable worksheets and interactive exercises for seamless teaching.
Students learn foundational vocabulary for describing men, women, boys, and girls using simple sentence structures.
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game with images of different people
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Art Class Fun – Students describe people in paintings
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: man, woman, boy, girl, handsome, beautiful
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: This/That/These/Those for identifying people
✔️ Phonics: ‘ar’ sound (march, start, dark, party)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Word chain, tic-tac-toe, discussion questions
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing people in their family or classroom
Students learn to distinguish between individuals and groups (person vs. people, child vs. children) and describe their actions.
✔️ Warm-up: Word chain game
✔️ Reading & Discussion: At the Park – Observing different types of people and their actions
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: person, people, child, children, strong, weak
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: This/That/These/Those for singular vs. plural nouns
✔️ Phonics: ‘er’ and ‘ir’ sounds (tiger, bird, stir, first)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Matching exercises, role-playing describing people
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing what people are doing in their neighborhood or at school
Students expand their ability to describe people by discussing different age groups and characteristics.
✔️ Warm-up: Discussing age-related vocabulary using past, present, and future tense
✔️ Reading & Discussion: A Trip to the Mall – Observing people of different ages at a shopping center
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: young, old, teenager, adult
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: This/That/These/Those review
✔️ Phonics: ‘or’ sound (fork, sports, north, torch)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Word recognition games, role-play shopping interactions
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about family members’ ages
Students explore social relationships and learn vocabulary related to friendships and conflicts.
✔️ Warm-up: Guessing game about words related to friendship and conflict
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Making New Friends – Learning about friendship and resolving conflicts at the park
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: friend, enemy, fight, play, share
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Asking and answering “Are they friends or enemies?”
✔️ Phonics: ‘ar’ and ‘or’ sounds (barn, park, torch, storm)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-playing conflict resolution, storytelling games
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about making friends and handling disagreements
A comprehensive review and assessment of all vocabulary, sentence structures, and phonics from the unit.
✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming words game
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Young ESL learners (A1 level) in classrooms, online, or homeschool settings
✅ 1:1 ESL tutoring or small group lessons
✅ Teachers looking for a structured, engaging, low-prep unit on people and social interactions
📝 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Games & Activities
📚 Reading Passages & Role-Playing Exercises
🔊 Phonics & Sentence-Building Exercises
📌 Use real-life pictures of students’ family or friends to personalize the lesson.
📌 Encourage role-playing conversations about making friends.
📌 Make it interactive by having students describe famous people or cartoon characters.