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miércoles, 27 de marzo de 2024

Board games for Elementary English Language Learners

 Find a themed game board in each unit for teaching elementary English language learners. This kind of games are very engaging and interactive for your students. You can adapt all the games to suit your players to encourage participation.

Is this something that you include in your lesson plan? Maybe not? Would like to? Well, read and see if you are up for it.

Use the board games as a review of the new vocabulary of the unit. It is a fun repetition of the words. The markers are also included with each board game. So, just grab the dice. Each space has a color. Players have to move along the path. When they land on a space, they have to say the name of that color and show an item in that color.

Create a motivated and positive classroom atmosphere, where students know that there will be an enjoyable learning game to wrap up the class. Players will describe the colors of the space they landed on besides the number: It’s an orange twelve.

Games help with memory skills that are crucial for English language retention. That’s another reason for printing and having the games ready to play. The objective of the game is to navigate through the various spaces on the game board, learning and practicing vocabulary related to different facial features.

Board games are a very informal way of assessing your student’s language proficiency in communicating. Are they using the language enough? Are they struggling to move along the board?

Players will navigate through the various spaces on the game board, answering questions related to family members with the cards in the game, light or dark green.

Players will move their family members game pieces by correctly identifying the rooms of the house. The first player to reach the finish line wins.

Add a twist to the pet unit board game, but it works with any other theme. Players have to describe the pet they landed on in order to take that pet into their pet shop.


Students can do more than just identifying the word but saying a phrase or complete sentence in order to get the food card. The more food cards a player has, he/she is the winner.

Players move their game pieces around the Toyland game board, by completing challenges such as miming how to play with the toys they land on.



All the board games are included in each unit and in the Bundle, right here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Starters-BUNDLE-11215540

martes, 19 de marzo de 2024

Tic Tac Toe Game for Elementary English Language Learners

 Love this simple and interactive game.  Use it to help reinforce the new vocabulary, as in my example, the school unit words. A game that total beginners or students with English form pre-school can play with no problem.

Print all the small cards from the unit and the templates for the tic tac toe, all X and O for playing noughts and crosses as some know it.

playing noughts and crosses printables

Cut all the small cards.

tic tac toe game ESL

Create your own grid. Draw a grid on a piece of cardboard of 9 spaces arranged in 3x3.

All the units from the Bundle to teach Elementary English Language Learners have the same small cards to implement the game. So, it is just preparing it once and play it throughout the teaching of any unit.

Here is the link to the bundle: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Starters-BUNDLE-11215540

 Once students know how to play, they can do it alone in groups of two or more.

Place the small cards that you have used for the unit with the vocabulary, in this case the school unit.

Explain that one student (or two) will be team X and the other team O. They will place their mark on the grid by correctly naming the school item small card or using it in a sentence, etc. that is in chosen space. If the answer is correct that student or team will place the marker on that space covering the word.

Play continues until one student or team gets three marks in a row wither horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Students can play multiple rounds by changing the small cards with the school items to new words.

Here is the same game with the numbers 1 to 20 small cards. Find more here: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/08/numbers-1-to-20-small-cards-for.html

 

The family unit tic tac toe. Check the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/09/family-unit-teaching-tips-for-small.html

So, hope you will make you own game! I would love to see it. Here’s my email: ei98srl@gmail.com

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lunes, 12 de febrero de 2024

Food unit Worksheets for Elementary English Language Starters

 This resource is part of the Food Unit for Elementary English Language Starters.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Food-unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-Starters-11035412

Use the food unit worksheets as a very cost-effective resource. If you don’t access to a lot of other active materials, just print and copy for your class. If you want to cut cost even more, place them in a clear plastic sheet and students write on them with a dry erase marker and then erase with a napkin. So, check all the worksheets included in the resource to use with the diversity of students in your class.

There is a set of vocabulary building worksheets to keep students actively engaged.The worksheets are a way into guiding your learners to learn.

vocabulary building food unit worksheet

This set will offer a hand-on way to reinforcing the new vocabulary even more for the very young learners. If the students cut them, they are cards to keep handy for writing or make them a matching game to play with classmates or at home.


These are the visual learning worksheets that involve drawing. They provide the opportunity for the students to draw the vocabulary words making a connection between them. Have the students draw the drinks as in the example, cut and paste on paper and then write sentences.

worksheets that involve drawing

Students will draw on the worksheet as they express their creativity by illustrating the food and drinks words. This will be an enjoyable activity leading to the retention of the vocabulary.

Let’s use these worksheets as recapitulation to review the previously unit taught units such as the face. Reinforce the vocabulary and enhance the retention of those concepts.

Have the students review the family members as a way to consolidate the learning of that previous theme. They will apply their knowledge of those words in a new context such as the foods unit making connections between both units to express likes or dilikes.

express likes or dilikes worksheet

These worksheets will provide your students with exposure to a variety of sentences structures to contribute to language acquisition.

These worksheets are here to improve reading comprehension. Students will understand the sentences in the context and respond appropriately, with the result of effective communication. As for Grammar there is yes/no question + be worksheet.

yes/no question + be worksheet. food unit worksheets

I love to include questionnaire worksheets in all the resources of this Serie. This is where students put in use their linguistic competence with a simple directed dialogue. They encourage the students to read a question to a classmate and have to write the answer. It is a practice for paeaking, listening and writing. You can also graph results on the board.

questionnaire worksheets food unit

Graphing the favorite food. Do this one as a simple survey by placing the options on the board, using the flashcards: pizza, hamburger, chicken, fries, hot dog, salad. Create a bar graph on the board as they will come with their worksheet and place it under their option bar. Tally the results.

Food surveys are always fun! Many options you can think of and the students will come up with even more surveying ideas.

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miércoles, 18 de octubre de 2023

Rooms of the house for Elementary English Teachers

 This resource is included in the House Unit available here: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114



Using this resource with your students they will be able to understand and produce in an oral form the parts of the house using the simple present (grammar). They will learn to ask questions and use the preposition of place with the family members.

Introduce the home vocabulary. Place the house flashcard in the middle of the board. Teach the new word of the unit creating a mind map.
Start adding the rooms of the house for your students to repeat.
Teacher: This is the bathroom!
Students: bathroom!
Students can look, point to each room of the house and say each word: bedroom!
Talk about the color of the rooms. Teacher: What color is the bathroom?
Students: blue!
Teacher: What color is the bathroom in your house?
Students: It’s gray!

home vocabulary flashcards

By now, the students should be able to identify and name the parts of the house. They can say which one is their favorite room in the house.

Teacher: What’s your favorite room in the house?
Student 1: The bathroom.
Tally the answers and draw conclusions of the results with your class.
Teacher: What was the favorite room in the house?
Student 1: the dining room.

parts of the house

Make connections with prior knowledge.The Family Members are in the house. Students will be able to state where the family members are. It is a good moment to revise the family members vocabulary. Make an emphasis to the phrase in the (room)
Stick the flashcards on the board and an arrow to a room and say a sentence: Mother is in the bathroom.
Elicit who they see and where they are. Review the pronouns he and she.
Ask questions: Where is father?
Students: He is in the living room.

Family Members are in the house flashcards

Place only the parts of the house flashcards on the board and hand in a family member to seven students. They have to listen to your sentences to where they to put them.
Teacher: Father is in the living room.
Then, ask questions: Where is grandpa?
Students: He’s in the kitchen.
Teacher: Is grandma in the bathroom?
Students: yes, she is.
Teacher: Is the baby in the garden?
Students: No, he isn’t.

parts of the house flashcards

Review the key language by Playing this guessing game.  Place a family member with an arrow that goes to a room of a house, but cover the flashcard of the family member or put in backwards. Have students ask yes/no questions: Is mother in the garden?
Teacher: NO! Guess again!
Students: Is sister in the garden?
Teacher: yes!! Uncover the family member.
Continue with more.

guessing game

Display the rooms of the house flashcards in different parts of the classroom. Select 6 students to go to one of the them: Pedro, go to the kitchen!

When all the students are at a room ask questions: Lily, where are you?
Lily: I am in the living room.

Talk about your house. Present there is and there are for this activity. Try to create a house map and place several bedrooms and bathrooms. Teacher: There are 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms in the house. There is a living room, a dining room and a kitchen.
Ask negative questions: Are there four kitchens?
Students: NO! There aren’t four kitchens. There is one.
Have several students come and place the flashcards to represent their home.

Talk about your house

I have checked several text books and I haven’t seen the parts of the house in the scope and sequence. But I will include it in the resource. Just make a simple mind map to introduce the new words: roof, door, chimney, window.

parts of the house

There is a set of several houses with different colors and with roofs, chimneys, doors and windows in different color condition. Have your students do sorting on the board or on the table. Students can sort by color the chimney.

several houses with different colors and with roofs, chimneys, doors and windows

It can also be the doors.

Try with the Windows.

Check my other blog for more resources, ideas and activities for the House Unit:

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/