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ESL Lesson Plan: At The Campsite

At The Campsite

Lesson Overview

This ESL camping lesson plan starts with a warm up where students have to talk about their favourite holiday accommodation. Then, they learn camping vocabulary with pictures and complete a speaking exercise. 

Next, beginner students learn the theory about the grammar point and complete exercises to practice it. Later, they will focus on telling…

This ESL camping lesson plan starts with a warm up where students have to talk about their favourite holiday accommodation. Then, they learn camping vocabulary with pictures and complete a speaking exercise. 

Next, beginner students learn the theory about the grammar point and complete exercises to practice it. Later, they will focus on telling campfire stories while using connectors. This is a great exercise to get their creative juices flowing and to get them talking.

This ESL camping lesson plan continues with a reading and comprehension exercise where students have to read about the benefits of camping. The lesson ends with a listening activity, followed by a series of discussion questions where students can practice their free talk even more!

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up.
  2. New words. 
  3. Grammar: Connectors. 
  4. Campfire stories. 
  5. Reading. 
  6. Listening activity. 
  7. Discussion questions. 

Homework

As usual, this ESL Camping lesson includes a set of homework exercises. Students practice more grammar in the homework by writing campfire stories using pictures and connectors to guide them. Lastly, students do a sentence completion exercise to practice using the right connector.

Activities:

  1. Campfire stories: Writing practice. 
  2. Grammar practice. 

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