LLFE-YL03 · Red, Blue, Green! — Colours and Shapes
🎨 Red, Blue, Green!
⏱ 5 minutes · 📚 CELTA-informed · 🎯 A1 Cambridge level
📖 From the teacher’s desk: La Réunion is one of the most colourful places I’ve ever lived — turquoise lagoons, orange cliffs called “Piton de la Fournaise,” and deep green sugar-cane fields everywhere. I often use photos of the island to teach colours to my youngest learners, and it never fails to spark excitement.
🎯 By the end of this lesson, you can: name 8 colours and 4 shapes in English, and describe simple objects.
🔥 Warm Up (1 min)
Look around you right now. Find something red. Now something blue. Now something green!
📖 Learn It (2 min)
🌈 Colours:
🔷 Shapes:
square
rectangle
circle
triangle
Pattern: colour + shape → “a red circle” / “a blue square”
✏️ Try It (2 min)
Match the description to the emoji:
- a yellow circle ☀️ 🍎 🍇
- a red square 🟥 🟦 🟩
- a purple triangle 🔺 🔻 💜
🎨 Draw & say: Draw 3 shapes in different colours and say each one aloud: “a green triangle!”
🗝️ Answer Key
- ☀️ (a yellow circle)
- 🟥 (a red square)
- 💜 (the triangle shape described is purple)
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✉️ Questions? sourovdeb.com
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