A1 General Lesson Flow (Part 1)

What is a Lesson Flow?

Lesson Flow is a sequence of lessons, designed to take your student on a particular learning journey. A flow contains 15-20 lessons covering the four skills as well as vocabulary, grammar and functional language. The additional follow-up lesson suggestions offer extra opportunities for reading and speaking practice, as well as targeted grammar exercises related to the topic. Lesson Flows are compilations of pre-existing ESL Brains lessons, but with a new purpose of helping teachers navigate learning in a more structured way. They serve as guidelines that you can and should customize by adding or removing lessons based on your students’ needs.

What’s inside part 1 of A1 General Lesson Flow?

Part 1 of this Lesson Flow is perfect for beginner students and can also be used with false beginners. It features 15 engaging lessons which will allow students to start communicating in English.

You can see part 2 of the A1 General Lesson Flow here.

Last updated (June 2025)

Since we first published the flow, we have added a lesson on body parts, a lesson on travelling, as well as a follow-up lesson idea.

Developing language skills

With part 1 of A1 General Lesson Flow, your students will work on:

• speaking skills while talking about people and possessions, describing objects, talking about daily routine and healthy habits, workspaces, clothes, weather and travelling
• listening skills with videos: a street interview, an excerpt from Family Feud, short cartoons, as well as videos about a dress, a collection of cups, morning and daily routine, times people do certain things, workspaces, weather, clothes and travelling;
• and recordings: introductions, describing morning routine, picture descriptions
• reading skills with texts about people’s favourite days of the week
• writing skills while creating sentences about people they know, people in their country, people’s daily routines.

Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language

Part 1 of the Flow also makes your students learn and practise:

• vocabulary: people around us, countries and nationalities, numbers 1-99, daily activities, verbs, objects, colours, body parts, clothes, weather and holiday activities
• grammar: Present Simple affirmative, negative and questions (including verbs ‘be’ and ‘have got’), adverbs of frequency, there is/there are, possessives, ‘like’/’love’/’hate’ + gerund
• functional language: introductions, at a clothes shop, telling the time.

Want to learn more?

If you’re not sure how to use our Lesson Flows or need more guidance, you can read more about them here or message us via chat or the contact form. Let us help you save some prep time and make your teaching life easier!