The Simpsons Family
Updated: Aug 29
This ESL Lesson Plan The Simpsons Family helps A1 learners get familiar with names, roles, and simple adjectives while talking about The Simpsons characters. The lesson features colourful pictures, a family tree, true/false activities, and interactive tasks such as “Look and Describe” and “Read and Retell.”
📄A1 ⏱️50 min 📁15 slides
Outcomes and skills:
Name family members and relationships.
Describe age, hobbies, and personality.
Talk about their own family.
Vocabulary
son
daughter
mother
father
grandmother
grandfather
aunt
children
parents
grandparents
Lesson plan
Lead-in
Students look at a picture and identify who has blue hair, is putting on sunscreen, is learning to dive, is drinking beer, and is jumping.
Family Members
Students look at a family tree, discuss the family members, then answer six questions about family size and relationships.
Reading
Students read five short texts about the family members and fill in a table with each person's name, role, age, personality, and hobby.
True or False
Students read five sentences and mark them true or false, explaining why the false ones are wrong.
Practice: Who Likes Doing What?
Students match each family member to their hobby and practise using he likes / she likes.
The Odd Words
Students find eight words in a word cloud that don't belong to the family vocabulary group.
Retell
Students look at pictures of each character and describe their personality using the adjectives learned.
Speaking
Students answer six questions about their own family, covering family size, relationships, ages, personalities, and hobbies.
Speaking: Describe the Pictures
Students describe two pictures of a family day off and answer the teacher's follow-up questions.
