The purpose of this study was to address the necessity of syllabus design applicable to the elementary English classroom. This study explained the characteristics, merits, and demerits of grammatical syllabus, topic-based syllabus, task-based syllabus, and communicative syllabus. The grammatical syllabus needs the ordering of simplicity, regularity, frequency, contrastive difficulty when elementary English teachers design the syllabus. When it comes to the topic-based syllabus, teachers need to utilize a lot of topics designing the topic-based syllabus. The task-based syllabus needs the procedure of pre-task stage, task stage, post-task stage. All the teachers should choose the appropriate tasks according to the level. Finally, the communicative syllabus is made up of a lot of components of communicative competence. So all the teachers should design the communicate syllabus using many components of communicative competence appropriately. It can be concluded that all the teachers need to design the concrete syllabus appropriately regarding grammatical syllabus, topic-based syllabus, task-based syllabus, and communicative syllabus. It is suggested that these kinds of syllabuses should be applicable to the elementary English classroom.