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Big Picture lessons

The fun, ready-made way to teach English to kids aged 3–6!

2 full lessons free · no card needed

Big Picture: a busy park with a family picnic, children playing and a dog
Tap the picture!Find the words hiding in the park.
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one picture. lots of english.

Most programs teach kids to label things. Big Picture teaches them to describe the world.

LabellingIt's a ball.
DescribingThey are playing ball.

Every unit is one busy scene, like a park, a farm or a beach, with the nouns and verbs together. That's how native kids learn at home.

Go on, tap the picture.


Look. Find. Colour. worksheet for the park scene, with a word box of nouns and verbs Coloured in! The same park scene, coloured

look. find. colour.

Students find each word in the picture, tick it off, then colour it in.

It works as a worksheet and as a gentle test, so you can see what every child knows without making them sit an exam.


a new place every unit.

Ten Big Picture units for ages 4–5, each one a whole place to explore. Ages 5–6 are on the way.

1At the Park
2At the Zoo
3My House
4At the Beach
5At School
6On the Farm
7At the Restaurant
8In the City
9Telling Time

Dog flashcard Fly a Kite flashcard Run flashcard
Big PictureLook · Find · ColourFlashcardsWorksheetsLesson planSlides

one click. whole lesson.

Pick a unit. Out comes the Big Picture, the Look·Find·Colour page, a flashcard for every word, worksheets, a lesson plan and slides.

For ages 3–4 there's also phonics A–Z, colours, shapes and numbers. That's 174 lessons, a full school year.

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Find the kite!
Tap a picture!

games kids ask for.

Every lesson turns into a vocabulary game using the same pictures. Send students one link. They type their name and play, with no student accounts, on any phone or tablet.

Go on, try this one.

Play free games →

Sunflowers · Ages 4–5 Unit 1 · Park
M
Minh
★★★
A
An
★★☆
L
Linh
★★★
K
Khoa
★☆☆

every child, on track.

Make a class, add students, and record test scores and speaking checks. You can see how each child is doing all year, with no spreadsheets.

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story time, sorted.

50 favourite picture books, each turned into a lesson with slides, flashcards and a class project, matched to your students' age.

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"I spent 9 years watching young students struggle because the right materials didn't exist. So I built them — and tested every lesson with real kids."

Chris Simpson · ESL teacher, founder

made by a real teacher.

Your students get about an hour and a half of English a week, while native kids hear it all day at home. SimpsonESL is built to close that gap, one big picture at a time.

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