I Spy | School Supplies | A1-A2 ESL

An I Spy game with school supplies: find the object, name it, say where it is. Classroom vocabulary and prepositions of place for A1-A2 children.

I spy turns a picture into a listening task: the teacher names an object hidden in a busy scene and children hunt for it, which means holding the English word in their heads while their eyes do the work.

School supplies are the right vocabulary for it – pencil, rubber, ruler, glue, scissors, notebook, pencil case – because the objects are on every desk in the room, so the game can move from the screen to the classroom without a break. Ask where each one is afterwards and prepositions of place come free.