Summary
This A1-level ESL lesson plan helps beginner English students learn how to ask for help in an emergency. This class material provides essential vocabulary and phrases for urgent situations, making it a highly practical and useful PDF for any English class. This practical lesson guides A1 students through essential emergency language. Activities include matching vocabulary to pictures and definitions, a listening gap-fill exercise, and simple grammar practice. Students learn to give instructions and make polite requests for help. The lesson culminates in a guided role-play activity where students can practice the new language by acting out common emergency scenarios, such as being lost or feeling sick, reinforcing their learning in a communicative way.
Activities
- Students begin by matching key problems like "lost" or "dead phone" to images, immediately contextualizing the lesson. They then match core emergency vocabulary, such as "hospital" and "police", to their definitions to build a solid foundation for the topic.
- A teacher-led listening exercise has students fill in the gaps in common emergency sentences. This activity is designed to improve listening comprehension and familiarize students with the natural pronunciation of key phrases needed in urgent situations.
- The lesson includes a simple grammar focus on forming instructions with imperatives and making polite requests with "Can you...?". Students complete fill-in-the-gap exercises to practice and solidify their understanding of these essential grammatical structures.
- To finish, students engage in a communicative role-play exercise. Working in pairs, they act out realistic scenarios, such as asking for directions when lost or seeking help when feeling sick, allowing them to use all the learned vocabulary and grammar.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson focuses on fundamental vocabulary for emergencies. Students will learn and practice essential words and phrases such as: emergency, police, hospital, help, lost, dead phone, and "I need help". These terms are crucial for A1 learners to communicate basic needs in urgent or difficult situations and are reinforced through matching and gap-fill exercises.
Grammar focus
The grammar section is tailored for A1 learners, focusing on two key structures. First, students learn to use the imperative form to give clear and direct instructions (e.g., "Call the police."). Second, they practice making polite requests for assistance using the modal verb structure "Can you...?" (e.g., "Can you help me?"). This dual focus equips students with both direct and polite ways to ask for help.
