Greetings and Farewwells Resource
This resource is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language.
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This is usually the first class with your
Elementary English Language Learners. Prepare your students to use greetings and introductions.Prepare your students for cultural awareness.
Greet your students with your hand as you
wave your hand to say Hello! Or hi! Have the class greet each other.
Introduce yourself by writing your name on the
board and touching yourself and saying: My name’s _____.
Greetings Unit Flashcards
Use the downloadable Greetings flashcards for
the language functions on how to use the greetings: Hi!, Hello! And to introduce oneself.
Impulse communication skills. Put the Greetings
flashcards around the classroom. Point to one and say:
Hi, I am Tina.
Encourage your students to point to other
flashcards and read the sentence and say a similar one to introduce themselves.
Display
any of the flashcards with simple dialogues around the room and say the word or sentence. Have a
student go and point to the correct one. Perfect for language practice.
Place the flashcards on the board or a clear plastic sheet and introduce the contraction: I'm. Have the students do the same with each flashcard as a reinforcement.
There is a set small cards for easy printing or
small groups teaching. Cut the words out of the card. Place the picture part
around the classroom and hand in the written part strip to each student. Have
them walk around matching to the picture.
Then, ask questions: What's her name?
Student: Erika
Make craft
stick puppets with the small cards. Use them to ask questions:
Is she a girl?
Students: Yes, she
is.
This
one can be to greet the students and have them answer.
Make a stick puppet by cutting the person on the
flashcard or small card and adding a straw. Elicit and ask questions to your students.
Greetings Unit Worksheets
More language to practice with this set of
worksheets for guided writing practice. It is for asking and answering questions. It has trace and write the new words.
How are you? I am fine, thanks. Students can work in pairs and
perform the dialogue.
Write the vowels worksheet. Students will do a little
spelling here by filling in the blanks with the vowels.
This is
a worksheet to give information about oneself. Present student the language for asking people's name. Students should also be able to give their name.
The selfie worksheet. Students
can draw themselves in the phone screen template or cut a famous person from a magazine.
Then, complete the sentences. Have them produce the language: I’m+name. /My name’s__
Activity idea 1: Put all the selfie worksheets in a bag or box. Pull one out and show it to the class. Ask: Who is it?
Students: It's Rosa Amelia!
Have the class greet with: Hi, How are you?
Conitnue by sleecting another worksheet.
Activity idea 2: Gather all the worksheets, glue and make a poster to use as classroom decoration.
If your
students are more into writing texts on their own, these worksheets are great
for them. They will write information about themselves. Students can take turns
showing their work to small groups or to the class.
Social interaction can be done as students
can walk around with their worksheet asking the question: What’s your name? and writing down the
answer.
Practice his and her with this worksheet.
A
pocket chart is a fun collaborative activity. Keep the pocket chart accessible.
Hang it on the wall or a special place where all the students can see it as a visual
reference.
Students
can make their name card for their desks or print the ones available in this
resource. When all the name cards are on the desks, have a group of students
stand up and walk around the classroom greeting the students by their name that
are sitting down.
Another activity would be: Point to a name card and drill the questions: What is his/her name?
Class: His name is David.
A wrap
up activity to make this greetings
flap book. This kind of book will focus on cross-cultural learning into how we greet in another language.
Print both pages for each student. Have them staple on
the side and cut along the horizontal lines from the first page to make the
flaps.
Students
will answer to all to all the phrases or questions on the front flap.
Have
your students play with another student reading and answering what is written
on the other side of the flap. They can take home the flap book to ask
questions to their family members.
There's a video to see the complete activity.
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