Zoo animals Move Flashcards.

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Teach your learners about how the zoo animals move and review the vocabulary related to the locomotion expanding their language skills.

Perfect for introducing or reviewing the verbs. Write a verb under each flashcard to show what each zoo animal is moving. Encourage the ELLs to observe and describe how the animals move in each flashcard.

Then, place two flashcards on the board. Ask the students what the animals are doing. Write the verb and ask questions.
Teacher: Can the bear climb trees?
Students: Yes, it can.
Teacher: Can the elephant climb trees?
Students: No, it can´t.

Sort what the animals can do using the flashcards: walk. Gorilla, monkey, hippo and ostrich!

Animals have same abilities. Sort them out.
Teacher: Which animals can climb?
Students: the monkey, the bear.

Some zoo animals can fly. Write the words can fly and have the students guess which animals can do the action, as they do it themselves in a mime.

Or create a sorting table on the board and students can come up t place the flashcards to the corresponding verb.

Integrate the animal movement with the physical education activities. Have the students imitate the movement of the animals on each card. Use my movement verb table.

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Seasons and verbs for ESL

In many books it is under the label of Seasonal Activities. This is the last blog post related to the Seasons Unit. I have posted Seasons and Months, Seasons and Weather, Seasons and Clothes, Seasons and Nature. Just continue scrolling the blog posts to check them out! Everything is under one product:
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 There are many verbs related to each Season. First, here are the flashcards.

Sort the Flashcards into Seasons on the blackboard.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Winter.

Teacher: What is he doing?

Students: He is building a snowman.

Place each Season Flashcard on the blackboard. Have the students look into all the flashcards and find the Activities(Verbs) that can be done in each Season.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Fall.

Teacher: What do we do in the Fall?

Students: Play with the leaves, sit on the pumpkins, rake the leaves, and walk.

                                    Do the same with the other Seasons.

You can use many Verb Tenses with the flashcards. Start with CAN. Use the flashcards to model questions and sentences on the board.

                                        Or model Present Continuous.

                 Or you can introduce the simple past tense questions.

                                     Maybe you can review the future.

As in all the Seasons Units, there is a Sorting Worksheet.

And just two worksheets.

Students complete the worksheet. Then have them cut each picture and glue next to the sentences on their notebooks.

The other worksheet will be used as a BINGO template as well. Using either the colored flashcards placed on the board or the small cards used for the sorting, students write the activities that can be done and the ones that can’t be done in each Season, completing the worksheet in an allotted amount of time, maybe 5 minutes. Some students will have more verbs than others, but that is the idea. Then, announce the BINGO! Use the colored flashcards to call the Verbs. The students will cross out the verb word if they have it written down. The winner is the first one to cross out all the words.

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Birthday Unit Worksheets- part 3

Almost done with the birthday unit. I had some worksheets from previous years and made extra ones. I added them them to the same product from the previous blog post about the Birthday Unit Vocabulary. 

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Worksheet 1. A simple worksheet to review a basic grammar point. Then, students cut the pictures and sentence and write more sentences on their notebooks.

Worksheet 2. This is a reading and coloring the picture worksheet.

I used a finger eye to read. I don’t remember where I got them. Watch the video.

Worksheet 3. Instead of color by number , it is a color by word. After the worksheet is done the children cut it up and have the student next to him/her glue the puzzle worksheet on the notebook.

Worksheet 4. This worksheet is useful for lower level students.

When the students have to do a matching word to picture I ask them to use a different color for each word.

For the numbered cupcakes, dictate  the color for each one.

Teacher:  Cupcake number one is red.

Worksheet 5. Dictate the color of each cake. When you do this it helps with listening.

Teacher:  Cake number one is purple.

Have the students color the number as you dictate.

Teacher:  Number one is blue.

Students cut and paste the numbers where they belong.

Once the worksheet is completed, make a mobile by hanging the cakes in the correct number sequence.

Worksheet 6. After the worksheet is colored, students can cut all the cakes and write a sentence describing each one on their notebooks.

Worksheet 7. Decorating a cupcake should be fun! Have the students add anything they want such as real sprinkles to decorate their personal cupcake.

Worksheet 8. I made two versions for this worksheet. It is an already colored worksheet that you can place into a clear plastic sheet and students can write using a dry erase marker.

                                   The other version is a normal worksheet.

Worksheet 9. Another read and color worksheet. Thinking that the cake can be turned into a puppet for reading.

Worksheet 10 and 11. I included easier to complete worksheets for the lower level students that you might have.

Worksheet 12. For more advanced students this worksheet is great. After the worksheet is done, cut it all and make a match game.

Worksheet 13. After the students complete the worksheets do a little listening as you dictate the colors of all the vocabulary words. 

Teacher: Color the lemonade yellow.

Have the students cut the sentences and pictures and glue on their notebooks as they match them.

Worksheet 14. The questionnaire. Have the students walk around asking questions to their classmates and completing the questionnaire. Students can write the results on their notebooks.

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Birthday Unit for ESL

        Birthday Unit Resource for Elementary English Language Learners

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Let’s start by introducing: Happy Birthday! And the response: Thank You. Have the students sit in a circle and  say Happy Birthday ! to the student next to him/her and that student responds Thank you and does the same to the one next to him/her.

I made  the  ‘s wand  out of fun foam using the template in this product and glued it onto a thick craft stick. Use it to introduce: It’s Ann’s birthday.

Birthday Vocabulary Flashcards. Great for introducing the new party vocabulary and food .

Activity 1. Write the three words on the board: food, drinks and things. Have the students look through the flashcards and sort them out and place them where they belong.

Teacher:  name the flashcards under things.

Students: flower, candle, balloon, hat, present, lollipop.

Activity 2. Play the birthday game. Place 10 flashcards on the board and assign a number for each one. You can use the ten numbers as well. Say something about the flashcard and have the students say which one it is.

Teacher:  It’s round. You can eat it. It has pepperoni. It is big.

Students: Pizza!

Teacher:  What number is the pizza?

Students: Number 2!

Teacher:  What is number 1?

Students: It is a gift!

Teacher:  What color is the gift?

Students: It is pink and blue! 

For extra practice students can write sentence with a white board marker on the flashcards placed inside a clear plastic sheet.

Introduce the plurals of the nouns using the S,es,ies puppet. I made mine out of fun foam. You can make a puppet for each case and use it for any unit. 

Use the puppets and the flashcards to explain each plural case.

Teacher:  What is it?

Students: It is a hot dog!

Contrast!

Teacher:  What are they?

Students: They are hot dogs!

              Plurals lead to counting Birthday objects and food.

Teacher:  What are these?

Students: They are cookies!

Teacher:  How many cookies are there?

Students: There are six!

Have the students use the adjective noun word order: six brown cookies

And introduce the uncountable nouns using the flashcards. I would place the drinks which are usually uncountable unless in comes in a glass of juice, for example. I did those flashcards as well.

Finally, brainstorm Birthday party nouns with your students. Place the Birthday party flashcard on the board and make a mind map by asking them what should be at the party. Write down the words that you don’t have a flashcard for it. Then students can create their own mind map on their notebooks.

Teacher:  There are streamers.

Students: There are invitations.

Teacher:  There is a cake.

Ask students:

Teacher:  Peter, What do you want?

Peter: a cupcake.

Take the cupcake from the board and give it to Peter. Continue with more examples.

And done with the nouns, let’s move on to the verbs. Children do things at the party. Here are the flashcards.

Teacher:  Point to a flashcard. What is he doing?

Students: He is taking a picture.

Continue with more.

Use the verb flashcards for making collocations.Place the verb eat on the board and have the students find the flashcards to create the collocations.

Teacher: eat ice cream!

Student 1: eat corn dog !

                  

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