English Words for Kids: 100 Words with Pictures and Audio (Preschool and Grade 1)

Suitable age

4 to 7 years

Suggested time

10 minutes a day, 5 new words each time

After this lesson, your child can:

• recognize 100 everyday English words, with pictures and audio.
• say each word correctly after hearing it.
• point to a thing on hearing its name in English.
• use the words in a short sentence, like It’s a cat.

English Words for Kids: How to Use These Words

Tap a word to hear it, and ask your child to repeat it while looking at the picture. We suggest starting with one group a week.

1. Family

2. Greetings and Kind Words

3. School

4. Colors

5. Numbers

6. Animals

7. The Body

8. Toys

9. The House

10. Food and Nature

11. Actions and Feelings

Steps for Teaching Words at Home

1. Listen: your child hears the word and looks at its picture.
2. Repeat: they say the word after hearing it two or three times.
3. Point: you say the word, and your child points to its picture or to the thing itself at home.
4. Ask: point to the thing and ask: What’s this? They answer: It’s a cat.
5. Review: the next day, review the words before starting new ones.

Common Mistakes

• Too many words in one day: twenty words in one session are quickly forgotten. Five are enough.
• Translation instead of pictures: it’s better for the name to link to the thing’s picture, not just to the Arabic word.
• Teaching words without using them: use the word in your child’s day: Your cup, please.

An Activity: House Labels

Write the names of things in the house in English on small cards: door, window, table and bed. Stick each card on the thing it names. Whenever your child passes it, they say its name. After a week, take the cards off and ask your child to stick them back in their places.

For reading short words like cat and bed with letter sounds: How Your Child Reads Their First English Word. And for more word groups: fruit, vegetables, clothes, transportation and jobs.

🏠 Try It at Home Today

Just 3 words today from the first group: listen, repeat, and point to the picture.

🏫 For Teachers in Class

A word of the day on the classroom door with its picture: every child says it on the way in.

Summary

• The first words children learn are the names of things they see every day.
• Teach words in topic groups, not as scattered words.
• Five new words a day, with a review of earlier days’ words.
• Pictures, audio and pointing to the real thing work better than translation alone.