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domingo, 12 de mayo de 2019

School Subjects and the nouns

Link: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/05/school-subjects-for-elementary-esl.html
It is available here:   https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/school-subjects-for-esl?variant=32016863395978
                               Watch the video with the complete resource:

More flashcards are here to relate the school subjects from last blog post to the nouns.Place the subject flashcard on the board and then have the students find the noun flashcards related to that subject. This is the MATH example as in a mind map.There are also classroom objects flashcards that go with the subjects.
classroom objects flashcards
Here is the English subject presentation. Link to all the resources:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Subjects-for-ESL-4548123
Here is the History subject presentation.

Here is the P.E. subject presentation.
Here is the Religion subject presentation.

Here is the Physics subject presentation.
Here is the Music subject presentation.
Here is the Chemistry subject presentation.
Here is the Geograhy subject presentation.

Here is the Biology subject presentation.
Here is the Art subject presentation.

Place a school subject flashcard on the board and start adding all the nouns that relate to that specific subject. Do the same with all the subjects.
Play Guess the subject. Place several noun flashcards on the board. Have the students guess to which subject the flashcards correspond.
Play Bingo with all the flashcards. Place them on the board. Have the students select only six of them and write them down on their notebook. Start calling the words and remove them and place them on the wall or door to show students which one you have called so they can cross the word out. The winner is the first to cross out all the words.

I made small cards Subject/Noun to match.
There will  be more resources for  the school subjects unit .
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jueves, 10 de enero de 2019

Can as an ability Flashcards and more for ESL students

The flashcards and more are here for the topic on how to express ability (CAN) or the lack of the ability (CAN´T):   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Can-as-an-Ability-Flashcards-and-more-for-ESL-4299251

                            Watch the video of the complete resource:


Introduce can and can’t using flashcards for no translation. I got carried away making flashcards that I came up with 120 Verb flashcards and more than 70 nouns flashcards to do lots of speaking activities.
A video of all the flashcards:

Show the students the flashcards and have them do the action.
Give each student a flashcard and at their turn, they have to say the verb, make the action and say the sentence.
Place the flashcards on the board and write a name under each one.  Have students say similar sentences.
Teacher:  Look at Zoe! She can fish.
Students: Look at Erick! He can bake.


Have several students come to the front and perform one of the actions. 
Students guess what he/she can do.
Students: Gustavo can fly a kite.
Use the flashcards to ask yes/No questions. Use as many flashcards to elicit answers. Have students ask each other questions.


Place all the flashcards on the board and have the students use their printable worksheet to write on either side of the column 8 things He/She can do and 8 things He/she can’t do. Then play BINGO!


Place several flashcards on the board and ask questions. Students raise their hand and say I can. Write their names under each flashcard.
Teacher: Who can play the trumpet?
Zoe: I can.
Then ask questions.
Teacher: Who can make their beds?
Students: Vicky, Carol, Ximena, Peter, Oriana and Ian.
Teacher: What can Erick do?
Students: Erick can play soccer.

Review numbers and introduce a new structure. Place some numbers flashcards on the board and a Can flashcard under each. Model a sentence.
Teacher: Number 40 can scuba dive.
Students: Number eight can ski.
Teacher: What can Number 20 do?
Students: Number twenty can snorkel.

Place a flashcard on the board. I chose cook. Tell students that you can make longer sentences by adding more words and create a mind map.
Teacher: I can cook Italian food.
Students can add more examples and write them down.
Then, have the students ask you questions as you prompt the same or another flashcard.
Students: Can you cook eggs?
Give a point to each student that makes you answer with a yes!
They can also play by saying a sentence and then the next student says another without repeating the word and so on.
Student 1: I can cook lunch. Student 2: I can cook fish. Student 3: I can cook Spanish food.  The sequence ends when a student cannot add a word or phrase to cook.


Use the flashcards to show students how to add the words that they know to make compete sentences. Bake was my example and used the noun flashcards. They can make more examples on their notebooks.
Teacher: He can bake a cake. He can bake bread and a pie. He can bake cookies and cupcakes.
You can contrast two different verb flashcards and have students find Noun flashcards to make more phrases or sentences.

                                                I made 78 noun flashcards.

Use the flashcards to sort verbs and nouns. Divide the board in two and write the word: noun and verb. Give them the flashcards and students have to sort them.

An easy review using the fly swatter!

This is just the first part. Check the second part:
https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/01/can-as-ability-for-esl-students-part-2.html
There will be more. 

                                      
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martes, 7 de agosto de 2018

Recycle old ESL Elementary Textbooks


As a teacher, I have had so many teacher´s book, student´s book, workbook and from different grade, levels and so on. I saw how the children threw them away at the end of the school year. I used to give them away for paper recycling but those places are not around anymore. Old textbooks are not good for donations, since the Publishing Companies come out with different series every year.
I still have several from my teaching days and decided to invent something. This is how it went with my Early Childhood and Elementary Series Textbooks.


Sorting. For the family theme there lots of pictures of family members, I just cut them out .I made a word card for each family member and had the students sort out all the pictures.



The pocket chart is another way to sort out all the pictures.



I found this old pocket folder. I grabbed clear pocket sheets, one for each family member. Students glued the word and the corresponding pictures. I used butterfly clips and made a book. Students can write each word using whiteboard markers and then erase it.

Sorting spoons in nouns, verbs, adjectives. Another sorting activity involving cups and spoons. I wrote Verbs, Adjectives and Nouns on each cup. Give the students the plastic spoons and sharpie markers. Have them write a word from the text on each spoon and have the group partners place it where it belongs.

Make a book. Many textbooks come with short stories that are  read like once in the classroom. Have the students make an accordion book.

Play Spelling Bingo. Give each child the short reading recycled page. After reading the story  using your preferred technique. Have the students select 15 words from the reading and write them down. Make your own list and cut out each word, place them in a bag. Start calling the words and the students tick them if they have that word written on their paper. The first student to tick them all off calls out BINGO!



Sort Noun and Verbs. Give the reading recycled page to each student and have them sort the words in two columns, one for verbs and another for nouns.

Write sentences. After reading the recycled story, students can write sentences in a grammar structure that you want to practice.

Match paragraph. I cut the story in pictures and paragraphs and placed them in a Cd sleeve. Students had to match each paragraph with the corresponding picture.



Sentence Association. There was this review page. I cut the picture and sentence and make a sentence association game. I glued all the cutouts onto fun foam.


Egg carton Alphabet Sort. I placed a small craft stick behind each cutout. I also glued a fun foam letter to each egg hole. Students sort all the pictures by the beginning letter of each picture.


Make a crown for each letter. With so many pictures from the book. I made a crown for each letter. Students have to find pictures that begin with the letter in the crown given and glue them accordingly.  Have the students show their crown to the class and the words that they found.

Write vocabulary words. Have the students glue each picture and write as many vocabulary words they know. The winner is the student that writes more words.



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jueves, 12 de abril de 2018

Circus Unit for the Elementary ELL

This is the next level to my last post at my other blog, more for the students in the Elementary grades.

 Get everything here:
 Let´s start with the flashcards

Distribute a Circus flashcard to each student. Have the students name each Circus animal ,Circus character or food. Say the category. Student:  It´s the acrobat.  Person.
Student:  It´s the elephant.  Animal
                                                   
Have the students  sort the flashcards into people and animals on the board.

Have the students  sort the Circus Flashcards as in Person, place or things and introduce the concept of noun in English.

Students can do their own sorting using the printables. Print as many as you need for Person, place or thing. The templates can be used as cards. Have the students sort them into person, place or thing.
Circus Verbs Flashcards. I had these lovely clown clip art and thought of Flashcards to play some games.
Circus verbs Book. To review what the students learned with the flashcards. There are 28 pictures of the clown and the sentence, it can be used as a game, but the students can have fun matching and pasting the sentences to the pictures. Put them together and make a class book to take home by turns and read to the parents.
Worksheet . I did this one for preschoolers but I like to do labeling with the worksheets, it is a way to extend the activity a little bit more.

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