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LESSON DESCRIPTION
Family Tree: Talking About Family Members is a practical and engaging ESL lesson designed to introduce beginner-level students to essential family-related vocabulary and everyday language use. Students explore a family tree, learn key terms, and practice speaking and writing about their own families.
LEVEL: A0 – A1
LESSON TIME: 45 MIN
Why Choose This Lesson?
- Engaging Visual Warm-Up
The lesson opens with a family tree activity where students match roles (like father, aunt, granddaughter) with characters in a diagram. This activates prior knowledge and visually introduces the topic. - Vocabulary and Contextual Practice
Students learn and practice family vocabulary through matching definitions and completing sentences with the correct terms. The vocabulary is reinforced in context for deeper retention. - Listening and Speaking Development
A short story about Lucas’s family helps students improve their listening skills and understand how family words are used in real-life situations. They then use similar structures to talk about their own families in pairs. - Personalized Writing Activity
To wrap up, students write a short paragraph about their own family, using vocabulary and structures from earlier in the lesson—bringing language learning into their own world.
Ideal For:
- ESL teachers who want to connect language learning to real-life and relatable topics.
- General English courses focused on foundational vocabulary and sentence structure.
- Young learners or beginners building confidence in speaking and writing about familiar topics.
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