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Numbers 1-20

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Adult Beginner
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Overview

In this lesson, students will focus on learning and understanding the numbers from 1 to 20. This knowledge will enable students to build fundamental numeric literacy, form the basis for further numerical understanding, and help them in everyday tasks such as telling the time and exchanging phone numbers.

It begins with optional warmer activities that reinforce the material students have worked on throughout the course. We have included notes for suggested boardwork, providing a visual aid for teaching numbers. The lesson also consists of several classroom activities that encourage students to practice counting and sharing their phone numbers in English. There is a suggested homework task to support learning beyond the classroom. Finally, the lesson concludes with a fun, interactive classroom game that reinforces the lesson's target language.

Lesson Outline
Warm-up
1Giving personal info
2Alphabet drill
Activities
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Boardwork
1ESL counting circle
2Number dictation
3Student dictation
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Homework
Games
1ESL buzz
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Warmers

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Giving personal info

The students have to provide full-sentence answers to some interview questions.

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Alphabet drill

The students rehearse a quick drill of the alphabet and phonic alphabet.

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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

The students learn to pronounce the first twenty numbers in English.

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ESL counting circle

The students will practise numbers by counting in a circle to reach as high a number as possible without making a mistake.

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Phone number dictation

The teacher dictates phone numbers to the students who have to copy them down correctly.

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Student dictation

For this pair-work speaking activity, students will now dictate numbers to a partner.

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Suggested homework

Give the class a video suggestion to practice numbers.

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Classroom games

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ESL buzz

In this fun elimination game, students must count in a circle, omitting a number based on a given multiple.

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