Lesson plan generator

👋 Arrive & warm up0–3 min

Camera on, a wave, their name, the same hello song as every week. The routine says "the lesson has started" so you never have to.

• · Wave into the camera and sing your fixed hello song — same tune, same words, every single lesson.
• · Thirty seconds of movement on today's topic: "Show me a cat! Now be a dog!" — bodies first, words after.
• · Ask one question they can answer with a nod. The first English of the day should cost nothing.

🧠 Teach the words3–9 min

6 new words from the animals pack, one at a time: show it, say it, let them echo it in a silly voice, tap the card to hear it again.

• · Open the animals word wall and walk through the 6 words: picture, word, your voice, their echo.
• · Share your screen with the flip cards: picture first, the child names it, flip to check. cat, dog, fox — then shuffle.
• · Add the letter: "cat starts with C" — draw it in the air, then look at the C page together.
• · Stop at 6. The rest of the pack waits for the next lesson — greed here costs recall there.

🎲 Play9–17 min

The heart of the lesson: the words stop being homework and start being the game. One game played twice beats two games played once.

• · Memory in picture↔word mode, screen shared — every card that flips gets said out loud.
• · If the energy dips, switch to bingo: you call the animals words, they hunt. Listening practice with a winner's shout at the end.
• · Play the same game twice. The second round is where the words actually move into memory.
• · Put the 10-minute timer where everyone can see it. A visible countdown ends a game without an argument.

💬 Speak17–22 min

Now the words leave the game and turn into the child's own sentence — the one block that can never be dropped for time.

• · Personal questions with today's words: "Do YOU like cat? Which one is big? Which one is your favourite?"
• · Draw Warm-up cards — one question each, and nobody has to invent a topic.
• · Model the sentence first, then let them copy it. At five, copying is speaking.
• · Keep your face big on the screen — children read your mouth far more than you think.

🫶 Land softly22–25 min

A few quiet minutes so the lesson ends instead of stopping. Same closing, same order, every time.

• · The suitcase: "What are you taking home today?" — each child packs one word. cat counts.
• · A star on the chart, the fixed goodbye song, a wave. The same three things every week.
• · Send the topic home: the practice page replays today's animals words as a listen-and-tap game, about five minutes long.